Tuesday, October 02, 2007
ZY's Cooking Adventures!
man i've been dying to blog something but never found the time to do so... feeling sick of preparation for SATs, i'd like to share with you some of my recent exploits in the kitchen!
it was last tues, and having no morning lesson i felt like cooking something up... a warm stomach makes a happy student! ...unfortunately while i have a flair for eating food i lack a similar talent in preparing it. one can always tell when i'm trying to cook by 1.the smell of charred matter wafting through the house and 2. the trail of destruction that lies in my wake.
anyhow. after boiling some instant noodles (see how noob i am) i decided to spice it up by frying some ikan bilis! just add some oil and fry right? nothing can go wrong right? sadly it *somehow* crumbled into a black mass of carcinogenic evil. do not ask me how it happened.
darn. the pot's stained with... carbon i think. what am i to do? this is a chance for me to use my theoretical chemistry knowledge!
premise 1: that black charred stuff *should* be just non-polar carbon.
premise 2: non-polar things dissolve in non-polar oil
conclusion: add a layer of oil and the black stuff should disappear in no time!
adding oil, however, did not seem to work. maybe more theory is required?
premise: heat increases solubility of solutes
conclusion: heating oil increases solubility of black stuff
so i turned up the heat. hmm nothing happened! rather let down by my theory, i sadly placed the pot of hot oil under the sink and turned on the tap.
ha. i guess u guys know wad happens next...
there was an extremely loud sizzling noise and a column of water vapour shot up to the roof. it was pretty spectacular. (if u want the scientific explanation the water displaced the oil due to density, came in contact with pot bottom, vaporised and shot back up through the oil layer...) of course, the stain still remained, as defiant as ever.
well the ruckus attracted my grandma's attention and we eventually got the pot cleaned. (well *I* got it scrubbed clean... took a while too) i guess this just adds on to my brilliant mis-adventures in making one decent meal. moral of the story: scientific theories are only approximations of reality! more importantly, we're not really sure whether good scientists make decent cooks...
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