...takes exactly 13 minutes to boil. I found this out this afternoon as I was boiling the water for my daily 3PM tea.
There are exactly 4 kitchens in my building, only 2 of which have working burners for cooking food. One of these 2 kitchens is also closes this week because the students here seem to be incapable of cleaning up after themselves.
Unfortunately this means that for the next few days the kitchen on my floor will be crowded as everyone in the building attempts to cook their meals at approximately the same time. This also means having to share my normally quiet kitchen with the same people who dirtied the other working kitchen.
Like today. At exactly 15h00 I walked into the kitchen to prepare my tea and lo and behold, the counters were riddled with eggshells, coffee grounds, and what I can only assume to be raw egg white - some of which had also been burned onto 2 of the 4 working burners in the kitchen. At one of the tables sat 3 men, all of whom had grown quiet upon my entrance.
Rather than say anything, I just sighed and set my water to boil. After a few minutes I felt eyes upon me and their conversation resumed. I looked out the window and started looking regularly at the time on my iPod as if constantly checking it might somehow make the water boil faster.
I recognized the low sound that my pot makes just before the water boils steadily 13 minutes later and rushed to fill my tea mug and leave the kitchen with its eggshells and horrid mess.
Tomorrow I will likely have to use a different kitchen, hopefully one with working burners.
There are exactly 4 kitchens in my building, only 2 of which have working burners for cooking food. One of these 2 kitchens is also closes this week because the students here seem to be incapable of cleaning up after themselves.
Unfortunately this means that for the next few days the kitchen on my floor will be crowded as everyone in the building attempts to cook their meals at approximately the same time. This also means having to share my normally quiet kitchen with the same people who dirtied the other working kitchen.
Like today. At exactly 15h00 I walked into the kitchen to prepare my tea and lo and behold, the counters were riddled with eggshells, coffee grounds, and what I can only assume to be raw egg white - some of which had also been burned onto 2 of the 4 working burners in the kitchen. At one of the tables sat 3 men, all of whom had grown quiet upon my entrance.
Rather than say anything, I just sighed and set my water to boil. After a few minutes I felt eyes upon me and their conversation resumed. I looked out the window and started looking regularly at the time on my iPod as if constantly checking it might somehow make the water boil faster.
I recognized the low sound that my pot makes just before the water boils steadily 13 minutes later and rushed to fill my tea mug and leave the kitchen with its eggshells and horrid mess.
Tomorrow I will likely have to use a different kitchen, hopefully one with working burners.
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