Science Geek Domesticated
Senario: Mother fussing over ginger tea making in kitchen
Question: Why are you putting in salt so early!!
Geek Answer: Salt reduces the boling temperature of water and it'll boil quicker as compared to just boiling plain water
Problem: Lunch and a bottle of new chilli sauce, Geek banging furiously on base of bottle upon receiving chilli sauce
Kind Soul: Want me to help you with that?
Geek Answer: I know what's the problem! You see, it's new so the sauce is packed all the way to the top. All you need to do is to make a small hole like this (Puts knife in and presses one side down), to create an air passage. Now air molecules will rush in a take the place of the sauce, hence pushing the sauce out.
Senario: Potato peeling video
Statement: Come have a look at this! The Japanese are so smart!
Geek Answer: See, you boil the potato with the skin on, once its cook, put it in a basin of ice water. As the potato is subjected to rapid cooling, it contracts alot faster and pulls away from the skin. See! That's when they make lacerations in the skin and the skin will just fall off!
No points for coolness earned, and most times, strange stares of "You fucken Geek!" but useful nonetheless. I wonder if they have a book on the science of domestic chores.
Senario: Mother fussing over ginger tea making in kitchen
Question: Why are you putting in salt so early!!
Geek Answer: Salt reduces the boling temperature of water and it'll boil quicker as compared to just boiling plain water
Problem: Lunch and a bottle of new chilli sauce, Geek banging furiously on base of bottle upon receiving chilli sauce
Kind Soul: Want me to help you with that?
Geek Answer: I know what's the problem! You see, it's new so the sauce is packed all the way to the top. All you need to do is to make a small hole like this (Puts knife in and presses one side down), to create an air passage. Now air molecules will rush in a take the place of the sauce, hence pushing the sauce out.
Senario: Potato peeling video
Statement: Come have a look at this! The Japanese are so smart!
Geek Answer: See, you boil the potato with the skin on, once its cook, put it in a basin of ice water. As the potato is subjected to rapid cooling, it contracts alot faster and pulls away from the skin. See! That's when they make lacerations in the skin and the skin will just fall off!
No points for coolness earned, and most times, strange stares of "You fucken Geek!" but useful nonetheless. I wonder if they have a book on the science of domestic chores.