Edward Piercy

A Little Bit Crazy, But It Just Might Work

Thursday, 6. November 2008, 23:34:08

The paper skillet (concept sketch).

My mom has been in and out of the hospital a few times this past week.
So I have been left to my own devices as far as getting things done
around the apartment. Talking on the phone with my sister Tass this
afternoon I told her how backed up on dishes I was. "Sounds like you
need to get in some paper plates and bowls" she said.

"Paper bowls?" I said. I had seen paper bowls in cafeterias and delis,
but I never imagined that you could buy them. "Sure" she said. "You can
have the paper plates and bowls and the disposable plastic knives and
forks and spoons. That way you won't have to wash dishes."

I told her that as it stood only about half the backlog of dirty dishes
to be done were plates and silverware and bowls. The other half were
pots and skillets. "What I really need is a paper skillet, then" I told
her.

Which got me to thinking. Hell, why not? I'm sure the guy that invented
the zipper a hundred years ago or so got ribbed about his new "zipper
idea" before he got the concept worked out.

A paper skillet. Sounds a little crazy. But they already have cardboard
that you can stick in the oven -- the stuff they use for TV dinners and
such. And those don't melt or catch fire. So it seems to me only a short
hop from that idea to the paper skillet.

In the meantime, I can start the whole concept as a business and get tax
write-offs for the money I put into the idea. Which might be a little more
lucrative if I paid any taxes, but it's really the principal of the thing.

First fire. Then the wheel. Then the paper skillet. Isn't civilization
amazing?

I think I had better have a couple of these
around until I get the idea perfected.

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Comments

PainterWoman # 7. November 2008, 00:10

I'm sure someone will come up with something like that someday. It probably wouldn't be a skillet you could use on a gas range though.

Not having a dishwasher for the last ten plus years has made me learn to like a lot of sandwiches. When I do cook, it's soup and grilled cheese or eggs.

Once in a blue moon I'll make a big pot of spaghetti sauce. It's a good thing blue moons don't come very often because everything in the kitchen gets used. In the sauce I put cooked ground beef, then add cooked Italian sausage, and cooked chicken. So right there that's four different pots or pans. Then there's the pot for cooking the spaghetti.
Then there's my plate because paper plates don't do well with spaghetti.

Other than a few times, I pretty much stick to paper plates and sandwiches.

edwardpiercy # 7. November 2008, 00:19

Cooking/Cleaning is a lot of work. When I was in college a few years back I used to keep that kind of thing to a minumum!

I understand totally about the whole sandwich thing. But I find I get tired of sandwiches pretty quickly. Then I have to make something hot.

TV dinners are pretty easy on the cleaning thing. Usually just one fork.

PainterWoman # 7. November 2008, 01:42

There are a few TV dinners I like. Some of them are a little weird tasting so I'm down to 3 or 4 that I'll eat. Lean Cuisine had a good Asian chicken one with peanut sauce. Then, for some reason, they added more of a peanut taste and it was gross. I had to toss it out. I'll have to go back to the Swansons or Banquets.

How's your mom doing? Is she ok?

ellinidata # 7. November 2008, 01:49

listening to a man in his mid fifties getting frustrated by dirty dishes it is amusing ....

imagine having two teenagers,no other family members,
waiting til 2am for them to come back,
wake up at 5:30am every day,
have to work and support your family,
do the bills,
the appointments,
the homework check in the afternoons,
the cleaning,
the parent teacher conferences,
the game attendance,
the cooking,
the talking about drugs,
the talking about alcohol ,
or the unprotected sex ,
to search for colleges,
worry about tuition,
worry about drafting
and lets not forget the dirty dishes

yes, paper skillet will be nice to be used in the kitchen ,
that will leave more time to support a friends in a bad mood too!

I hope you mom gets well soon,
please give her a big hug

edwardpiercy # 7. November 2008, 01:56

@ Pam. I like the cheap Swanson, which I can get on sale for 10 for $11.00. The mexicans are good, and the BBQ pork and chicken.

@ Angeliki. Hey, I do a lot of talking about alcohol! And not just talking!

My mom doesn't like for me to discuss her business much, but what I can say is that she's doing okay so far, just kind of a rough period that will hopefully be over very soon.

Thank you both for your good wishes.

Stardancer # 7. November 2008, 02:15

Hope your mom gets better really fast, Edward.

ellinidata # 7. November 2008, 03:41

Ed,
I had a bad moment when I added the comment and I just vented,
I apologize,

I am glad your mom is getting better,
I wish I knew all the actors she liked to make a post for her...since I don't (and I am sure Johhny Depp won;t do here),
this is for her with my best wishes...

gdare # 7. November 2008, 05:53

What is a skillet? I don`t have it in my dictionary

When I was living alone, usually half of the year when my grandparents were in a village, I needed to prepare my own food. Well, not exactly, because my parents live close so I could have cooked lunch but breakfast and dinner were up to me.
I learnt to appreciate a good restaurant or good friends who invited me to dinner

ricewood # 7. November 2008, 08:02

I cook one hot meal (rather two, for me and She Who Must Be Obeyed) every day - and you know what? I love it! Cooking is creativity. Never using a recipe - sometimes just turning the fridge over and watch what's falling out and then make a tasty meal out of it is a process much similar to making a photo, or a painting, or decorating your house.

What I'm really looking forward to, and Eward might be clever enough to help the process, I mean he is by all standards ingenious, is the room cleaning robot. Some clever, silent machine who'd clean up after us, put things back on shelves and see to it that the house looks gorgeous when we get up in the morning is what I need.

And I do have a dish washing machine, thank you.

gdare # 7. November 2008, 08:14

With a things falling out of a fridge you certainly need a cleaning robot

PainterWoman # 7. November 2008, 08:33

Allan, I never met, dated, or married a man who cooked! They must be scarce here in Arizona.

You are delightful! I must remember these quotes:D :

"...turning the fridge over and watch what's falling out and then make a tasty meal out of it..."

" the room cleaning robot. Some clever, silent machine who'd clean up after us..."

ricewood # 7. November 2008, 09:23

Yeah, Darko. That's the point exactly!

Dear Painter. I do not know any man my age who doesn't cook. They all do - occasionally or all the time.

edwardpiercy # 7. November 2008, 09:54

@ Everybody.

Thanks! Next time I talk to her, if she's not cloudy on painkillers, I'll tell her about all the nice opera people who wished her the best.

@ Darko. A skillet is also called a frying pan. Those are the only two names that I can think of. Anyway, it's the thing that you would normally fry a hamburger of cook eggs in.

@ Allan. A dishwashing machine. And a cleaning robot. Maybe I was looking at this whole thing at the wrong end.

I don't know of any cleaning robots, perhaps there are. Or I was thinking about maybe just one of these...

Good for cooking, cleaning, etc. etc. etc.

ricewood # 7. November 2008, 10:02

I'd ask for cleaning and etcetera

edwardpiercy # 7. November 2008, 10:03

@ Everybody (Opera members).

Because of everything over the past week I have fallen a little behind in my normal blog rounds. I apologize. And hopefully I will do a catch up in the next few days.

ellinidata # 7. November 2008, 14:11

Ed's secret helper

edwardpiercy # 7. November 2008, 18:30

Etcetera is very good.

Looks like I have two maids. Well, that might be just as much work as actually doing the dishes myself!

gdare # 7. November 2008, 18:46

I may take one... just to ease your burden, of course

edwardpiercy # 7. November 2008, 19:19

Okay! Just to ease my heavy burden!

gdare # 7. November 2008, 19:24

Yes

Stardancer # 7. November 2008, 19:29

Oh, come on! Nobody can cook and clean in those heels.

Oh, wait.

Did I just miss the point again?

Nevermind.

gdare # 7. November 2008, 19:33

She can

ellinidata # 7. November 2008, 19:35

I am sure she can have wine in high heels!
guys never forget that
ladies cook better when they have wine and a good company,
and men appreciate the meal more when they have plenty of wine too!

gdare # 7. November 2008, 19:38

There are no secrets for you

ellinidata # 7. November 2008, 19:59

nope!

edwardpiercy # 7. November 2008, 20:19

I think the whole cleaning issue is just part of the wider being a stupid guy thing.

She seems to be doing a pretty good job (ahem) in those heels.

ricewood # 7. November 2008, 22:08

Wine makes women beautiful.

The more I drink, the more beautiful they get.

edwardpiercy # 7. November 2008, 22:13

Stardancer # 7. November 2008, 23:54

There's a song about that: "The Girls All Get Prettier At Closin' Time"

ricewood # 7. November 2008, 23:59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1975AYEC2s

ellinidata # 8. November 2008, 00:11

A guy walks into a bar and orders a shot of whiskey.
He gulps it down and peeks into his shirt pocket.
He then orders another shot of whiskey, gulps it down and peeks into his short pocket.
He orders a third shot and does the same thing. After the sixth shot, he asks the bartender for the bill, pays and starts to walk out.
Curiosity gets the better of the bartender and he says to the guy :
"Excuse me, but I noticed that every time you drank a shot, you kept looking into your pocket. I was wondering what's in your pocket.
" The guy slurs, "Well, I have a picture of my wife in my pocket. I keep drinking until she starts to look good."

Stardancer # 8. November 2008, 02:14

gdare # 8. November 2008, 07:55