Cooking Disasters

I have burned many pans in my life, but never one beyond repair. Usually a little soak with baking soda and a good scrubbing will take care of the problem. However, this pan was way beyond repair. Steel wool didn't even touch it! I left the rice on way too long and went to do something--probably computer related. Did you ever notice how the computer sucks up your time? You sit down for 5 minutes and 2 years later you look up to find that you've missed your child's graduation. Anyway, after 3 days of soaking and 10 minutes of massive scrubbing, this is what the pan looked like.

Shortly after I killed the pan, this marvelous contraption caught my eye at Costco. A rice cooker. I always believed they were a waste of money. Why did anyone need a whole separate appliance just to cook rice? But this one could steam veggies AND cook the ever difficult brown rice. With visions of healthiness, I bought it. I have yet to steam veggies or cook brown rice, but we no longer live in fear of the aroma of burned white rice permeating through the house. I love that I can turn the thing on and the food cooks without any more help from me. If only someone could invent a garden that grew that way. Just plant the seeds, walk away, come back and eat.

This just proves my theory that all problems can be solved at Costco.