I came home from school today wondering what to eat. There wasn't much. I saw an unopened box of porridge mix up on the shelf. I wasn't feeling so virtuous and healthy so I decided to keep scouting for something a tad yummier. But I found nothing else. So porridge it was.
I read the back of it. Mix 3 heaped tablespoons of the powder in 1and1/2 cups of warm milk. Boil for 2-4minutes. Stir continuously without any lumps. Add sugar to taste. Okay; simple enough. So I get the milk from the fridge and pour in the required amount into a deep pan and start heating it. I left it there for a minute to check a couple of messages on my phone and when I got back it had begun to boil. "Great!", I thought. my warm milk is now boiling hot. So I added a little cold milk to it and then put in 3, heaped spoons of the ash-coloured mix. It landed into the milk as 3 stubborn dollops. 'No lumps' was my ultimate goal. I began my 2-4 mins of continuous stirring. I started breaking into the islands of powder. They fragmented and soon I had a pool of lumps. These lumps began soaking in the milk and got bigger. I was now looking down at an extremely unappetizing gooey mess with more blobs than milk. So I added some more milk hoping the excess would provide more scope for dissolving and started mixing vigorously. This wasn't such an easy task considering that I needed one hand free to keep pushing Juno (my cat) away from the stove; who was eager to taste this scalding concoction of mine. Poor guy, if only he knew what a disaster it was turning out to be....
So my 4 minutes was long finished and I was still trying to get it to look more liquid than solid. I was making slow progress. I turned off the gas and transferred the contents into a bowl. I now used a spoon to smash whatever was left of the powder. No luck- whatsoever. The lumps merely stuck to the back of the spoon making it look even more revolting. Ugh! This was exasperating. I was seriously beginning to doubt the solubility of this powder. I decided to taste it. I began with the parts that were fully dissolved and it was really yummy! This raised my spirits. So I took a spoonful with some lumps in them; It was disgusting. I tasted like mud. Really coarse, wet mud. (not that I have ever tasted coarse, wet mud- but if I did, I'd bet it'd taste just like that.) So I gave up. There weren't any more 'good' parts left and each spoonful had at least five lumps.
All I could think of was-- Yuck.
Moral of the story- if you can't get the lumps out, don't taste it.
I read the back of it. Mix 3 heaped tablespoons of the powder in 1and1/2 cups of warm milk. Boil for 2-4minutes. Stir continuously without any lumps. Add sugar to taste. Okay; simple enough. So I get the milk from the fridge and pour in the required amount into a deep pan and start heating it. I left it there for a minute to check a couple of messages on my phone and when I got back it had begun to boil. "Great!", I thought. my warm milk is now boiling hot. So I added a little cold milk to it and then put in 3, heaped spoons of the ash-coloured mix. It landed into the milk as 3 stubborn dollops. 'No lumps' was my ultimate goal. I began my 2-4 mins of continuous stirring. I started breaking into the islands of powder. They fragmented and soon I had a pool of lumps. These lumps began soaking in the milk and got bigger. I was now looking down at an extremely unappetizing gooey mess with more blobs than milk. So I added some more milk hoping the excess would provide more scope for dissolving and started mixing vigorously. This wasn't such an easy task considering that I needed one hand free to keep pushing Juno (my cat) away from the stove; who was eager to taste this scalding concoction of mine. Poor guy, if only he knew what a disaster it was turning out to be....
So my 4 minutes was long finished and I was still trying to get it to look more liquid than solid. I was making slow progress. I turned off the gas and transferred the contents into a bowl. I now used a spoon to smash whatever was left of the powder. No luck- whatsoever. The lumps merely stuck to the back of the spoon making it look even more revolting. Ugh! This was exasperating. I was seriously beginning to doubt the solubility of this powder. I decided to taste it. I began with the parts that were fully dissolved and it was really yummy! This raised my spirits. So I took a spoonful with some lumps in them; It was disgusting. I tasted like mud. Really coarse, wet mud. (not that I have ever tasted coarse, wet mud- but if I did, I'd bet it'd taste just like that.) So I gave up. There weren't any more 'good' parts left and each spoonful had at least five lumps.
All I could think of was-- Yuck.
Moral of the story- if you can't get the lumps out, don't taste it.
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