Cooking Tip

When cracking eggs and you suddenly realize that your brain has been somewhere else and you are a fraction of a second from dumping the contents down the garbage disposal....

Just write the dang egg off. Do NOT try to change course in mid-dump and swing the egg around to over the mixing bowl which is on the opposite side of the kitchen. Is a bad, bad idea.

The heck???

My new microwave oven has a number of pre-sets. I've never liked these, since I never had any trouble figuring out that "This needs to be cooked about 1 minute on high, and if it ain't quite done give it another 20 seconds." But apparently there's some demand for this feature, 'cause pretty much every model has them now. "popcorn" and "slice of pizza" and "hard-boiled egg" and so on. But this one really caught my eye.

"Ice cream"

Ummm.... who the heck puts ice cream in the microwave. And then trusts a pre-programmed setting to soften it just enough without meliting the shnoggers out of it????!?