still can't cook

[lauradi7dw]

I am living dis-proof of the practice makes perfect concept. I've been sewing for more than forty years and still stink at it. I did some cooking over campfires and stuff when I was in Girl Scouts, but really started trying to learn to cook when I became a vegetarian. That was in late 1974. I still am pretty close to incompetent at cooking. I've started using a pressure cooker in an attempt to save electricity by shortening the cooking time. A little while ago the p.c. was peacefully making its pressure cooking noise and then became instantly silent. Not the usual way with such devices. I went to check and decided that the little hole had become clogged. Without thinking clearly, I took off the weight, presuming to clear it out. Well, that did it. Steam like crazy, and now there are lentils stuck to the kitchen ceiling. How whole lentils got through the little hole beats me. They were jet propelled, I guess.

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[calygrey.livejournal.com]

...now there are lentils stuck to the kitchen ceiling

I'm sorry for how much that made me laugh. (Perhaps I should be sorry for you - what with needing to scrape lentils off the ceiling.)

It's really best to take it off the heat for awhile before taking the cock off...

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Only two lentils are actually stuck to the ceiling, plus a light-colored streak of dried-on soup mist. It won't be too hard to clean, except that I will need
to set up the step ladder to reach high enough to effectively scrub and it's in the garage. I haven't bothered to haul it in yet.
The other thing learned from this is that if one manages to put the weight back on and carry on cooking, the amount of water lost hasn't been replaced, and the resulting soup will actually be sludge (which can be diluted without much trouble, but it wasn't pretty).