In the Discord I’m in, we were talking about breakfast sandwiches, specifically sausage egg cheese on a biscuit. That was my fave when I was able to eat wheat and dairy–or more to the point, when I ate it. McDonald’s breakfast sandwiches, to be precise. So fucknig good. I would eat one in a heartbeat if I could. It didn’t seem like it would be that hard to make a simplified version so I bought eggs and bagels. I already had fake cheese. I was optimistic that I could scramble a few eggs. I’ve done it before. It’s really one of the easiest things to cook. For me, anyway. Oh, and I bought some cooked sausage patties as well.
I tried tonight. I cracked towo eggs into the skillet (oil first!) and…forgot that I should have whisked the eggs first. I put in a few slices of fake cheese and basically broke up the egg with the spatula. So it was more like chopped sunny side up egg. Which, fine, I guess (I’m pretty sure I cooked it thoroughly), but I was disappointed in the result. I put a thin layer of cream cheese on the bagel halves, then the heated up sausage patties, then the egg/cheese mess. It was…fine. I had one half bagel and that was enough. ‘Coz I was full, I mean, not that it tasted awful. It was, as I said, fine.
Would I try it again? Maybe. It wasn’t really worth the effort, but I do actually know to whisk eggs before scrambling them. I just forgot because I hadn’t done it in quite some time. Made eggs, I mean. It really wasn’t worth it, though. If I’m going to be honest.
Yesterday, I went on a rant about why I don’t like to cook and that I found it might be a neurospicy thing. When I read into it, it makes sense. People who like to cook and who are good at it like to say how easy it is. As I said, when I complained to my brother after I bought an intapot because the only thing it saves is cooking time (I still had to do all the prep–which is the part I hate), he said dismissively, “Well, yes. Of course you still have to do that” as if I were stupid for thinking otherwise.
Which in retrospect, yeah, it was silly of me to think that, but as someone who doesn’t cook, how the fuck was I to know? This thing had been touted as a game changer, a miracle, and from the descriptions I read, it implied that it involved no effort whatsoever. Pardon me if I did not have the experience to know the difference between it’s a miracle* and it’ll save a bit of time.
Again, as I mentioned in my last post, it’s hard for people who are good at something to realize what they consider basic may not be so basic to other people.
Also, I hate cooking. Like, I loathe it. I hate every single thing about it–which people who like to cook can’t understand, either. It’s the same with anything someone is really into–they cannot fathom why anyone would not like it, too. And the more you demur that you don’t like it, no, really, there is nothing you can tell me that will make me like it–the harder they will push. Be it CrossFit, cars, or knitting.
I’ve never been like that, probably because I am very aware of how weird I am and so are my tastes. I don’t expect anyone to like what I like, and I don’t take it personally when they don’t. As long as they aren’t completely trashing what I like (as an ex-boyfriend did. Jerk). I had a friend try Dark Souls because I raved about it, and she just could not get on it. She told me that she was quitting (after attacking the Crestfallen Warrior because there was a note saying to do so in front of him.
This is a bad idea because in that game, if you hit an NPC once, you permanently aggro them.** And at that level, he would be really hard to defeat. And if you don’t kill him, you can’t use the bonfire there. Which that early in the game (it’s literally the second place you go to after a brief stay in the Northern Undead Asylum) is a big deal.
In other words, I did not blame her at all for quitting. I told her to go ahead and quit if she wasn’t enjoying herself. I would have loved it if she had liked the game, but I did not take it personally that she didn’t.
In fact, I find it weird when people get huffy about other people not liking what they like. Well, not weird exactly, but odd. Wwhen I was on Twitter back when it was Twitter and not whatever the hell it is now, there was this woman who got upset and hurt (and disbelieving) whenever I tweeted about not liking something she liked. I specifically remember The Big Lebowski and The Beatles being two of them.
I also get the feeling that the Discord I’m in is like that, too. I don’t like most of the games that other people like. I feel that when I express my feeling, there’s a slight “we don’t do that here” vibe in the air.
Back to cooking. People talk about how soothing it is to cook, but for me, it’s stressful, tedious, and frustrating. And, as I said, I find that for the amount of work it takes to make a dish, the outcome is not worth it. I’m a pedestrian cook, and taking twenty minutes to make a breakfast sandwich that is at best ok? Yeah, no. Not something I’m going to do on the regular. I’m going to try to use up the eggs, but past that, I don’t think I would do it again.
*In that it’ll cut your cooking time significantly, but nothing else. What the fuck else did your dumb ass think it would do?
**You can fix it, but that comes later in the game and takes quite a bit of coinage. Souls as money is called in the game (yes, money is souls. So is XP. They are one and the same).