From: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund)
Subject: Re: Still more cooking disasters...
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:27:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.001115.29925@news.duc.auburn.edu> morrison@eng.auburn.edu (Kelly Morrison) writes:
>
>I've never had any cooking disasters, but the girls I've dated
>have more than made up for me! Here're some examples:
>
>#1:
>   I bought some steaks and marinade and left them with my
>girlfriend to cook while I was in lab. She didn't have the heart
>to tell me that she didn't have a clue what to do with the
>marinade! I came back to her apartment to find her happily
>boiling the marinade in a saucepan on her stove... it smelled
>horrible... :)
>

this is a great example of lack of communication

>#2:
>   This girl had never used a microwave before. When reheating
>some leftover pizza she found in my fridge, she saw that the
>instructions said to "warm in an oven for 10-13 minutes." So
>she put a slice of pizza in my MICROWAVE oven and set it for 13
>minutes. The smoke detector alerted me, and I ran into the
>kitchen to find her pulling a solid black lump out of my
>microwave. I didn't know what it had been until she told me. :)
>

well, at least she could read....B-)

>#3:
>   Running out of time before a party, this girlfriend decided
>that she could cook her hamburgers a lot faster by turning the
>burner up as high as it could go. (She'd never cooked anything on
>a stove before: this girl was a microwave junkie). The burgers 
>looked great on the outside, but they were a little... bloody... 
>when the people at the party bit into them. Ruined our appetites 
>fairly fast! :)
>

if she was such a microwave junkie, I'm surprised she didn't put a
finishing 'zap' on the hamburgers before serving....B-)

>#4:
>   I was in the middle of stir-frying when I got a phone call,
>so I hollered for this girlfriend to come watch it for me while
>I took the message. That's all she did: watch. When I came back
>into the kitchen, all of the liquid had boiled away and the food
>had burned all over the bottom of my wok. I *still* haven't been
>able to clean it all off! :(
>

well....you did tell her to _watch_ them....

>   There are many more, but my head hurts thinking about them.
>
>   Come to think of it, I've NEVER dated a girl who could cook!
>Is this a growing trend, or have I just been unlucky? 

it sounds like you've been unlucky - there are some girls out there
that can cook - but, there are a lot out there who were never allowed
in the kitchen when they were growing up - just think of the fun
you can have teaching them how to cook ...???    B-)

>(Not that
>I'm complaining -- being a good cook can get you dates easily in
>a college town where microwaves are king! :)  )


-- 
________________       __        ________________   "They that can give up
\_________      \     /_ \      /      _________/  essential liberty to 
 \_________      \_____/  \____/      _________/  obtain temporary safety
  \___________________      __________________/  deserve neither liberty 
                     /______\                   nor safety."  
ALL disclaimers apply ....                           --Benjamin Franklin
	  
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking