Lesson Learned

I wanted to share a small, yet very important lesson that I learned this morning while making breakfast.

First, do NOT ever, EVER forget that you put an egg to boil and then let it sit in boiling water for over 40 minutes. The water eventually evaporates and the egg will be sitting in nothing but a dry and very, very hot pan.

Second, do NOT take said boiling hot pan with incredibly hot egg and run freezing cold water over it. The egg will explode like a bomb...literally and you will get egg chunks all over yourself (after you have gotten dressed for work) and your entire kitchen.

Third, the smell of a burnt/exploded boiled egg is very hard to get rid of. In fact, the smell haunts you and it's like it's stuck in your nose hair or something. Also, the image of the egg exploding is one that gets forever burned (pun intended) into your memory. It is quite disturbing actually...especially if you were starving and just saw your breakfast explode.

And last but certainly not least, say goodbye to the trusty pan you were using to boil the egg in. No matter how many times you wash it, the taste of burnt is forever embedded in the coating of the pan. Everything you cook in it will taste like shit.