I'd never seen anyone approach certain kitchen tasks with such ferocity.
Most of us hated starting a job knowing nothing, and without our training we would be doing the most menial kitchen tasks.
Now that my four children are in school all day, I always make extra eye candy to put on my kitchen shelves so I have something to talk to as I go about my kitchen tasks.
Besides the pots, the rental's "fully stocked kitchen" had no spatula or mixing bowl, which made simple kitchen tasks from flipping a pancake to tossing a salad more difficult than they needed to be.
While frying the eggplant, one of those leisurely kitchen tasks that takes a while but is nevertheless a pleasure, I was reminded of a variety of eggplant dishes I've eaten and made and savored over the years.
This is one of those kitchen tasks where you can genuinely get the kids involved, too – in exchange, they get a faintly farty smell lingering on their fingers with which they can terrorise each other for hours.
Apart from the simple pleasure of eating them in all their righteous glory, eggs cannot be beat (ha-ha) for certain kitchen tasks: among other things, they act as leaven in cakes, they clarify broth that has boiled, and they hold meatloaf together.
