The Trumpeting Moon has had a bit of a slump recently when it comes to their brain teasers. It’s usually the part of the day I look forward to the most, sitting on the train (or mostly standing on the train) and thinking about all sorts of wonderful things. But I opened the paper this morning and it just said ‘if you were a cooking utensil, which one would you be?’ I thought for a few minutes and concluded that I’d like to be a bottle opener because it’s the least messy job and I basically never have to be cleaned, and that was it. I had to actually read the rest of the paper. And all the other questions have been in the same dull vein.
‘If you woke up one morning with a commercial fryer in your kitchen, how many chips would you make?’ I don’t suppose I’d make any chips. A commercial fryer is good for much more than just making one thing. Now…a commercial oven is something I could use. One thing I’ve always wanted to do was host Christmas dinner, and I’ve never had the space. So in addition to all the commercial kitchen equipment I’d have to get some extra lounge space, maybe another bathroom and an actual driveway that can accommodate a few cars. Also, a bigger kitchen. If a commercial oven suddenly appeared there overnight, I wouldn’t be able to get round to put anything in it because it’d be pressed against the wall. And therein would lie the main problem.
So that little thought exercise kept me entertained for a few more minutes, but it eventually collapsed under the weight of impracticality. No commercial steamer or any other equipment fits in the average kitchen, so it was a bad question, and the person who wrote it should feel bad for not thinking it through. They should hire someone new to make up brain teasers. I could be that person!
-Percy