I returned home after being made redundant. It's like being 16 again
Apparently, I'm not boiling my eggs correctly. My mistake, you see, is putting the eggs in water and then boiling for three minutes; I should be reducing the heat to a gentle, rolling boil, not leaving the eggs to their own devices in a wild, bubbling maelstrom. It doesn't matter that my method has served me perfectly well in all my years of egg-boiling. I'm doing it wrong. I know this because my mum tells me more or less every time I boil eggs, in the kitchen I share with her and my dad since I moved back in with them recently, at the age of 40.
That's not all I do wrong. Sometimes, I leave the saucepan boiling with the handle over another gas ring. This is also wrong dangerous, in fact because what if the other gas ring should accidentally ignite? The metal handle would become hazardously hot! Quite how the gas ring would do that of its own accord I don't know. It's just something my mum worries about when she's not monitoring my toast for potential burning. Because, oh yeah, my mum doesn't trust me to make toast properly, either. At 40.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.
Apparently, I'm not boiling my eggs correctly. My mistake, you see, is putting the eggs in water and then boiling for three minutes; I should be reducing the heat to a gentle, rolling boil, not leaving the eggs to their own devices in a wild, bubbling maelstrom. It doesn't matter that my method has served me perfectly well in all my years of egg-boiling. I'm doing it wrong. I know this because my mum tells me more or less every time I boil eggs, in the kitchen I share with her and my dad since I moved back in with them recently, at the age of 40.
That's not all I do wrong. Sometimes, I leave the saucepan boiling with the handle over another gas ring. This is also wrong dangerous, in fact because what if the other gas ring should accidentally ignite? The metal handle would become hazardously hot! Quite how the gas ring would do that of its own accord I don't know. It's just something my mum worries about when she's not monitoring my toast for potential burning. Because, oh yeah, my mum doesn't trust me to make toast properly, either. At 40.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.