This is a Sunday comic, so it comes with added identification. I see steps. I see a chef. I see a chicken. I don’t see a joke I understand.
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One phase of the recipe is to have the chicken walk downstairs and jump into the pot. Too many steps. Meh.
One phase of the recipe is to have the chicken walk downstairs and jump into the pot. Too many steps. Meh.
I think it’s just a dual use of “steps” – parts of a staircase, instructions in a recipe. I don’t know why he’s hiding under the stairs, though.
“I don’t know why he’s hiding under the stairs, though.”
Either (a) he doesn’t want the chicken to see him so it doesn’t just run away; (b) he doesn’t want the chicken to see him and know whom to haunt in its afterlife;¹ or (c) there was already a box to sit on right there.
¹ I think it’s well-established that a brutally murdered chicken will become a poultrygeist and he’s apparently planning to kill it with a spoon, so caution is warranted.
“Put chicken in pot”. Which both assumes the chicken is dead, and the pot and chicken are next to each other. Sometimes, recipes do not have enough steps.
I often wish for two sets of instructions: for novices and pros. The pro version would say things like “Mix in x, y, and z” rather than “Add x, y, and z, mixing until well combined”. That’s a minor example, but I often copy recipes and eliminate about half the instruction text because it’s redundant to an experienced cook. And I’m not even talking about the repetitive mention of ingredients ,which I know is there because of SEO (but could be missing from the “pro” instructions).
That video is hilarious! Thanks!
I have no natural affinity for cooking so I appreciate recipes that assume I’ve lived under a rock.
That PB&J video is an absolute classic, and well illustrates the problem of writing instructions for those who are less familiar with the process than you are (which, if you are writing the instructions, is basically everybody).
Andrew Millar (4): LOL for “poultrygeist”.
Keera Ann Fox (5): “Sometimes, recipes do not have enough steps.” Amen to that!
phsiii (6): That’s hilarious.
When I was (decades ago) in high school an English teacher had us write how to do “something”. We had to list it step by step.
Others wrote about how to have a nose job (heavily Jewish school), how to cook something, etc.
I wrote about how to keep a baby from falling out of bed. (I was sharing my bedroom with my (literally) baby sister, while the sister between us had her own room at the time.)
By the time I was done writing steps to keep the baby from falling of bed the baby could not move an inch in its crib – there were bumper pads, covers over the sides of the crib …
(This is something which was out of my head until I read this comic.)
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One phase of the recipe is to have the chicken walk downstairs and jump into the pot. Too many steps. Meh.
One phase of the recipe is to have the chicken walk downstairs and jump into the pot. Too many steps. Meh.
I think it’s just a dual use of “steps” – parts of a staircase, instructions in a recipe. I don’t know why he’s hiding under the stairs, though.
“I don’t know why he’s hiding under the stairs, though.”
Either (a) he doesn’t want the chicken to see him so it doesn’t just run away; (b) he doesn’t want the chicken to see him and know whom to haunt in its afterlife;¹ or (c) there was already a box to sit on right there.
¹ I think it’s well-established that a brutally murdered chicken will become a poultrygeist and he’s apparently planning to kill it with a spoon, so caution is warranted.
“Put chicken in pot”. Which both assumes the chicken is dead, and the pot and chicken are next to each other. Sometimes, recipes do not have enough steps.
Indeed–if you’ve never seen this video of a man following his kid’s instructions on how to make a PB&J, checkitout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-6N3bLgYyQ
I often wish for two sets of instructions: for novices and pros. The pro version would say things like “Mix in x, y, and z” rather than “Add x, y, and z, mixing until well combined”. That’s a minor example, but I often copy recipes and eliminate about half the instruction text because it’s redundant to an experienced cook. And I’m not even talking about the repetitive mention of ingredients ,which I know is there because of SEO (but could be missing from the “pro” instructions).
That video is hilarious! Thanks!
I have no natural affinity for cooking so I appreciate recipes that assume I’ve lived under a rock.
That PB&J video is an absolute classic, and well illustrates the problem of writing instructions for those who are less familiar with the process than you are (which, if you are writing the instructions, is basically everybody).
Andrew Millar (4): LOL for “poultrygeist”.
Keera Ann Fox (5): “Sometimes, recipes do not have enough steps.” Amen to that!
phsiii (6): That’s hilarious.
When I was (decades ago) in high school an English teacher had us write how to do “something”. We had to list it step by step.
Others wrote about how to have a nose job (heavily Jewish school), how to cook something, etc.
I wrote about how to keep a baby from falling out of bed. (I was sharing my bedroom with my (literally) baby sister, while the sister between us had her own room at the time.)
By the time I was done writing steps to keep the baby from falling of bed the baby could not move an inch in its crib – there were bumper pads, covers over the sides of the crib …
(This is something which was out of my head until I read this comic.)