#120 Spoons In Pots

Food preparation is a bit of an art form. More importantly, it takes coordination and planning. If you're not able to properly coordinate and plan a meal, you end up with warm foods that are cold and cooked foods that are overdone.

You really don't have to be a good cook to be able to coordinate a meal (of course it does help), but there are little things you can do to keep foods warm so that they can be eaten at an optimal temperature and not irritate people in the process. One of those things is to keep the lid on the pot instead of putting the serving spoon in the pot AND THEN putting the lid on it.

Someone I know recently went to the trouble of preparing an entire meal for us, and they even went as far as to turn off the ceiling fan above the table so that the food wouldn’t get cold. The problem with this theory, however, was that the food was already getting cold because they put the fucking spoon in the pot AND THEN PUT THE LID ON IT, so the heat was escaping from the pot the whole time it was sitting there prior to being served.

It shouldn't be too difficult to understand: if the lid is not on the pot correctly, the heat from inside the pot will escape and then the food will get cold. Easy enough, right? Apparently not. This person repeatedly does this, even after countless attempts (from me) to correct this behavior.