Stirring the Pot

[Barb Bouldrey]

Maybe I should make this a poll. LOL

How many of you stop and stir whatever is on the stove as you walk by or as you walk in the door?

Whenever I am making soup, chili or stew, John stops and stirs it when he comes home.

I asked him today, "Why do you always stop and stir whatever is on the stove?" And he said, "I don't know."

LOL

Barb

[Ian Gentles]

i do as well!

[Mark Metcalfe]

Maybe I should make this a poll. LOL

How many of you stop and stir whatever is on the stove as you walk by or as you walk in the door?

Whenever I am making soup, chili or stew, John stops and stirs it when he comes home.

I asked him today, "Why do you always stop and stir whatever is on the stove?" And he said, "I don't know."

LOL

Barb

Because contents heat more evenly when stirred. As for why he does it, I'd say that he was (perhaps compulsively) helping out. That's a good thing!

Mark

[Andrea Larabee]

He stops to stir it so he can get a better whiff of that yummy cooking. Stirring helps whet the appetite. I'm sure his mouth waters as he stirs.:basic03

[Doris Grant]

Dan doesn't stir unless I ask him too. He is our of his element in the kitchen unless it is the sitting down and eating part.

Doris

[Dana Grant]

Dan doesn't stir unless I ask him too. He is our of his element in the kitchen unless it is the sitting down and eating part.

Doris


That runs in the family, Doris. Bert is the same way!!!

Does he know where the milk is kept????????


LOL

[Joel Merrill]

If my wife is cooking, I leave it alone unless she asks me to help. It is the same way if I'm cooking. The only exception would be if the one cooking was out of the room and it was boiling over or burning. You all know the old saying about too many cooks spoiling the stew.

Joel

[Jon Twitchell]

I work two days a week in a "General Store." I often have several pots on at once...often in separate sections of the store. In that environment, I often count on my co-workers to stir the pot every time they walk by one--to help it heat evenly and make sure that nothing is sticking.

Consequently, I always stir a pot that I walk by as well...

[Bob Evans]

Do you have to stir stuff on the stove?:basic05

[LoraineStanton]

Stove? What's a stove?

[Cathy Boulos]

soup is cooking and I am make sure it doesn't stick:)

[Joel Merrill]

Stove? What's a stove?
LOL, My wife cooks everything in the micro wave. I'm the only one that uses the stove.

Joel

[Marsha Lynn]

How many of you stop and stir whatever is on the stove as you walk by or as you walk in the door?


The rare pot of cooking stuff on the stove at our house has as much of a chance of boiling over or dry as getting stirred. Not only are there no compulsive stirrers, there's a noticeable lack of cooking enthusiasm. When I cook, dinner almost always starts and ends in the microwave. When my husband cooks I gladly step aside and let him handle it. Tonight it was up to the cooks at Taco Bell. Love those Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes!

Mrasha

[Gina Stevenson]

Speaking of TACO BELL, hadn't stopped in there for "eons" [years?], and when I did last month or so, I noticed they'd changed from those rather bright turquoise trays to a nice deep/bright PURPLE! 'Would like to get my hands on a couple of those; have seen none in the store anywhere similar. 'Maybe I should just ask if I could buy a couple of them off them sometime when I'm there?

After all, with the trouble they've had recently {lettuce/onions/whatever}, they might want to try to keep customers happy enough these days that they'd part with a couple of them, tho' they're not normally for sale? :cool:

The rare pot of cooking stuff on the stove at our house has as much of a chance of boiling over or dry as getting stirred. Not only are there no compulsive stirrers, there's a noticeable lack of cooking enthusiasm. When I cook, dinner almost always starts and ends in the microwave. When my husband cooks I gladly step aside and let him handle it. Tonight it was up to the cooks at Taco Bell. Love those Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes!

Mrasha

[Barb Bouldrey]

Our Taco Bell burned to the ground in December and they are just now tearing it down. The sign out sign still says, "Come on in!"

LOL

[Gina Stevenson]

Strange what a post title can do ... before reading that you were talking about actual pots, from the heading, I was wondering who it was that was supposed to be "stirring that {proverbial} pot," as the old cliche' goes. ;)

Our Taco Bell burned to the ground in December and they are just now tearing it down. The sign out sign still says, "Come on in!"

LOL

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

Dwayne stirs, and either turns the stove up, down or off, and later I come to check "the pot', and it irks me that he has changed the setting I had put the burner on, or else has turned it off. In the last few yearshe has cokked far more than I do. He has so many kitchen gadgets, that i get at a loss for a place to put them.
But, I wonder-How many of you have ever made or eaten "stone soup?"
Have you read the story?