Very entertaining!
The secret of pouring large batches of liquids from a bowl to a container with a smaller opening is to commit.
I just hate to be a smart arse but wouldn't a funnel do the job?...or am I missing something?
Very entertaining!
The secret of pouring large batches of liquids from a bowl to a container with a smaller opening is to commit.
I just hate to be a smart arse but wouldn't a funnel do the job?...or am I missing something?
That is so funny I just responded to someone else about this. Perhaps, although I find funnels unreliable. If you don't commit, even with a funnel, the greasy stuff slips down the side of the bowl you are pouring from, and makes the very same mess. AND, you have one more dish to wash. Why make more work for yourself, when you can use a little elementary mechanics, hold the bowl high enough that the narrow part of the stream is plenty small to fit through the opening, and take pleasure in the ease and beauty of the flow? Use physics to your advantage! I still do this. It's easier with thicker liquids. Milk, for instance, will slosh out the other side of the vessel you're pouring into. The speed at which you pour matters!
No need to teach a child physics if you teach them to always think about how to make fewer dirty dishes and to keep their work space very clean instead.
Hmm, I'll take your word for it since you're the expert and my maths skills, other than mental arithmetic, are for the birds.
About kids and learning, I agree entirely. All subjects from english to physics could easily be learned by allowing a child to explore his surroundings rather than forcing him to sit behind a desk. But perhaps producing bright, imaginative children is not the agenda.
YES!! That line leaped out at me, too. It's so true. The more careful (hesitant) about pouring we are, the more likely we are to spill. The big, brave JUST DO IT, and do it quickly, wins the day.
This, @owasco, I wouldn't have guessed was you at any time in your life:
I'm glad you evolved into the outspoken version of the free thinker you've always been. :)
Your dad, a chemistry teacher - you, with advanced degrees in math and science - and yet it's the most rudimentary, fundamental fact of living, FOOD, food prep, cooking, feeding people, something "anyone" could do, but you did it - better than anyone!
Have you read or even heard of the insanely best-selling memoir, "The Glass Castle," by Jeanette Walls? Her mother thought cooking was a waste of time... for weeks now I have been seething, indignant, angry on behalf of that woman's four children, waiting until I simmer down before I write a review (it's an old book, but still selling well, to my amazement).
Now, if you ever write and publish a bio on your Aunt Jane - I'll 5-star that one!
Carol!!!
I was into higher math for a few years, that was so esoteric almost NO ONE was able to share it with me. Then I got into modern dance. More people liked it, but still fairly few. Food though. Food. I could find common ground with everyone when it came to food.
I started reading in college. All my friends were avid readers, so I forced myself to do it until it became another thing I couldn't live without. One of my earliest voluntarily read books was The Secret Life Of Plants.
I think I read the Glass Castle, the title and author both ring bells, but I don't remember the story.
It would be fun to write about Aunt Jane.
I have to apologize for not responding to your emails. I'm in play that opens tonight, have begun studying to be a homeopath (enrolled in an academy - so much work!), and the garden is killing me, small as it is. Too much! Next week I'm traveling, then hopefully I'll only have the academy to do.