The Oven in the Kitchen

Hi everyone, back again after introducing this blog in the last post Kitchen Cooks, its time to get the oil hot and see what's cooking!

If you're wondering just what the oven in the kitchen has got to do with anything, its that I have this oven and it needs replacing, but that's something I'll get around to eventually. Why does it need replacing? Because its got a mind of its own and has a nasty mean streak to boot!

What's this? Well, being an electric oven and supposed to be a good one, you can set it to the temperature you want and then once it's pre-heated itself for several minutes, a cake should be able to bake consistently and come out pretty much perfect every time, right?

Wrong!

This damn oven has other ideas. Same cake, same recipe, same measures every time, but every time a different result, from being under-done to over-done to under-risen to over-risen and collapsed. You name it, that oven does not do it!

So it will have to be replaced with one that does what its supposed to as I'm getting tired of guessing how the next cake will turn out! That also goes with roasts and just about all the other things you need a good, stable, reliable oven for! You need to cook with ingredients that cost money, such as spices, herbs, condiments etc never mind the main ingredients that are likely to end up being thrown in the bin if the resulting dish is ruined because the oven didn't work properly!

So there, I just had a nice little rant about the bane of my current kitchen and really didn't say anything of much value - but them who said this blog was going to be a cookery lesson?

Catch you later!

Terry

Kitchen Cooks

Welcome to Kitchen Cooks, a nifty new blog that is set to be a culinary masterpiece of kitchen tales and snippets of cookery jiggery pokery. In short a collection of short narratives of my and friends' escapades in the kitchen or in a similar cooking situation.

So cooking is the main theme of the blog along with kitchens, being the traditional home of the cook and their edible and sometimes not so edible creations, as well as any other variation on the theme, such as barbecue escapades, campfire chaos and even the odd fondue frolicks! Well, maybe...

So what there will be none of is any recipes or cookery classes, no manuals or tutorials on how to cook or otherwise. Just a pure and simple collection of silly kitchen stories that I hope will entertain and intrigue, just for the hell of it!

Terry