You need to pay attention to their kitchen rule: if you have the fire on, you have to stand there where you can see the fire, the whole time. I was boiling my instant ramen once. It was required to be boiled for 3 minutes, and I needed to go to my car, which was parked on their driveway, to grab something. I turned the fire pretty small, and I came back before the 3 minutes was over, but Norbert was not happy. Except that, they were super nice.