Restless Knitter

Am I the only one in the world who hates cooking with gas? I’ve read that once you cook with gas, you’ll never go back to electric. This has proved to be not true with me. Someone has to give me reasons why gas is better. Reasons other than but gas is cheaper than electric. With electric, you have a solid burner of hot surface. Okay, maybe not solid, but it reaches farther than a ring of fire. The ring of fire only hits the bottom of the pan where fire actually is. So, you have a ring of fire that goes around 6 inches, but it doesn’t touch anything inside that 6 inches. With an electric burner that is 6 inches, everything inside that 6 inches touches the pot. In my eye, you have a more even cooking surface. With electric, you can turn the burner off but leave the pan on there to keep warm. With gas, you turn off the fire and you’re done. If you want to be done with electric, you can move the pot off the burner but if you want to keep it warm with gas, you have to leave the fire on. And it just takes a helluva lot longer to bring a big pot of water to a boil with gas. (How much cheaper is it if takes twice as long?) That’s because of that ring of fire thing. I’ve heard people say it’s easy to touch a hot burner because you don’t see it’s on. Hello, have you ever touched the grill over the fire even though the fire was off? That’s not exactly cold. And I’ve never once said omg I hate the way electric smells when you turn on the oven. Tell me where my thinking is flawed.

Something else that I seem to be different than everyone else. I hate leather. Oh, it’s fine for purses and knitting bags and shoes. But car seats and office chairs and sofas? I hate it. It’s either freezing or you stick to it from sweat. Or both. It can start out freezing, then your ass warms it up and you start sweating. This is all really fine with me. Leather seating is more expensive so I’m more than happy to have a car with cloth seats and a cloth sofa. My husband, however, loves leather. I don’t get it. Well, I get it but I don’t like what I get. Leather does tend to be more expensive, therefore if you have leather you appear more.. status quo? He says he likes the feel of it better. And I do get the part where the cat hair doesn’t get stuck on the back of the seat as easily, meaning he doesn’t sneeze so much. (He is SO allergic to the cats. They were part of the package so he deals but I won’t be able to get any more in the future.) But how can a man who can never get cool enough like to sit on something that makes you hot, where I can never get warm enough and I hate to sit on that crap. I let him talk me into a leather office chair because it’s nicer and I’ve hated this damn chair ever since. We now have leather seating, and I have a sheet over it so I don’t stick to it while he seems surprised that it feels warm to me.

Things I love include my Dyson (mine is purple and red!), many different flowers, and Cool Whip. Oh, and yarn. Can’t forget the yarn.