Cooking Class and Be Prepared
One day during cooking class, our teacher, Mrs. Jones, was
extolling her secrets for preparing perfect sauces.
When she ordered us to the stoves to prepare our
assignments, she said, "Don't forget to use wooden spoons."
As I stirred my sauce, I contemplated the physics behind the
mystery of the wooden spoon and decided it must have
something to do with heat conduction. I approached Mrs.
Jones to test my theory. "Why wooden spoons?" I asked.
"Because," she replied, "if I have to sit here listening to
all your metal spoons banging against metal pots, I'd go
nuts."
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A scoutmaster and his wife were driving along a rural
highway when they found the road blocked by a herd of cows
that had escaped through a broken fence.
The scoutmaster tried beeping his horn to scare the cattle
from the pavement, but to no avail. For some reason, no
sound was heard. He got out of the car, lifted the hood, and
saw the problem: a loose wire, which he quickly fixed.
As he got back into the car, his wife asked him if he'd had
any luck.
"Yep," he replied, "beep repaired!"
~ Received from Thomas Ellsworth ~
extolling her secrets for preparing perfect sauces.
When she ordered us to the stoves to prepare our
assignments, she said, "Don't forget to use wooden spoons."
As I stirred my sauce, I contemplated the physics behind the
mystery of the wooden spoon and decided it must have
something to do with heat conduction. I approached Mrs.
Jones to test my theory. "Why wooden spoons?" I asked.
"Because," she replied, "if I have to sit here listening to
all your metal spoons banging against metal pots, I'd go
nuts."
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A scoutmaster and his wife were driving along a rural
highway when they found the road blocked by a herd of cows
that had escaped through a broken fence.
The scoutmaster tried beeping his horn to scare the cattle
from the pavement, but to no avail. For some reason, no
sound was heard. He got out of the car, lifted the hood, and
saw the problem: a loose wire, which he quickly fixed.
As he got back into the car, his wife asked him if he'd had
any luck.
"Yep," he replied, "beep repaired!"
~ Received from Thomas Ellsworth ~
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