3 cooks is a lot

Like I’ve said before, I love cooking and I have trouble sharing control during cooking. Over the summer, my two friends and I decided to cook dinner in my apartment. We each got a course to make. One of my friends was in charge of appetizers, the other was in charge of the main, and I was in charge of the dessert.

We were all squeezed into my small kitchen, sharing the limited pots and pans I had. We were washing dishes in between and falling over each other. It was chaos. A good chaos. 

My one friend was cooking the main in a cast iron skillet and making a lot of smoke/steam. My other friend and I were making jokes that he was burning it and was going to set off the smoke alarms.

He did in fact set off the smoke alarms.

We were all laughing and opening windows and teasing him as he fanned the smoke down the hall. Causing more smoke alarms to go off.

The food was good. The laughs were better. It is memories like these to why I like food. It brings us together.


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  1. Jacob MorrellMarch 5, 2024 at 3:23 PM

    A friend of mine once set off the smoke alarm while boiling water. One of his roommates left a dirty pan on the stove and he went to put a kettle on for some tea. He accidently turned on the wrong burner and then walked away. He didn't check on it for around 20 minutes, figuring that he would hear the kettle. Eventually the apartment filled with smoke and the alarms went off from charring the burnt bits and oil left in the dirty pan.

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