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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Serial, concurrent, parallel
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:22:23 -0700
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On 1/14/2025 2:12 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

>> Imagine, instead, someone (sous chef?) running out to BUY some potatoes
>> for the meal and:
>> - coming home empty handed ("they ran out of potatoes")
> 
> I have had a similar scenario when cooking for two of us in my van for
> 12 days.  My companion was in the early stages of dementia and things
> kept going 'missing', only to turn up next day in the most unexpected
> places.  That included items of food, so changes to a planned meal had
> to be improvised as I went along and I had to always bear in mind what
> to do if something we had bought for supper just wasn't there when I
> needed it.

I've learned to double-check the ACTUAL availability of ingredients
when baking.  Here, "extracts" tend to be packaged in the same little
1 oz bottles.  So, spying such a bottle in the cupboard SUGGESTS that
I have said extract on hand.  Unfortunately, I have taken to saving
the empty (glass) bottles as convenient containers in which to mix
extracts from concentrates (e.g., just add grain alcohol).

So, there are times when I go to reach for a bottle and find it awfully
*light* -- i.e., empty!  And, manage the panic by reaching for ANOTHER...
only to find it, also, empty!

Yes, I can mix up some extract on-the-fly, but, usually, I am at a point
where I need it *now*, not 3 minutes hence.  <frown>

Utensils *tend* to be better behaved -- unless SWMBO has taken it upon
herself to make something.  As I tend to (safely) assume *I* was the last
person to use the kitchen, if something isn't where it SHOULD be, I
will run through my most recent activities to recall when I last used it
and what might have become of it.  If, OTOH, *she* has intervened, then
all bets are off!

And, of course, rarely used items stress the memory:  where the hell did I
put the canoli forms?  When did I last use them?  (particularly difficult
to recall as I don't eat the things)

But, that makes it more of an adventure than a chore!  :-/

> Although cooking on a one-burner diesel stove in the back of the van is
> a serial affair, it mimics a parallel one when several different items
> have to be heated up or kept hot at once.  I sometimes found I was
> literally operating my hands in parallel, getting ready to take
> something off the stove with one hand whilst preparing the next item to
> go on it with the other - then a quick swap-over.

I'm that way when making pancakes (w/sausage links).  Keeping the
sausage links from burning (and/or splattering grease), the skillet
greased (butter), the pancakes from burning all WHILE eating my
share of them (while cooking SWMBO's) is a juggling act.  And, like
the mashed potatoes example, not something you want to let get cold
as the appeal quickly fades with temperature.

[But, as mentioned before, I will eat the pancakes, THEN the sausage
links, then the second stack of pancakes, etc. while standing at the
stove instead of sitting down to a regular "meal".  I suspect trying
to make pancakes for MANY people seated at the same time would be a
bigger effort.]