Cooking With Gas

Guess what, ladies and gents?

We are on a domestication roll!!!!

Last week, as you know, we finally pulled our poor dishwasher out of its unemployment slump and let him start fulfilling his life purpose - saving us from handwashing. We couldn't believe it took us so long, with him sitting there unconnected taunting us for over a year.

This week?

That's a working gas stove, people! After over a year of using my grandmother's retro electric frying pan (and a few other appliances) for virtually all cooking, we have finally got our stove working!!!

Unfortunately it isn't a permanent solution, since we've actually just connected it up to a gas bottle that's now sitting in a corner of the kitchen, with this complicated looking connection device.

But it's definitely an improvement! Look at that butter sizzling away!

And just because we can - two frying pans at once!!! Are you astounded at the wonder of it all?!

I honestly don't know how I've survived this long without a stove top, although Mr Electric Frying Pan has done incredibly well. Although he doesn't have a non-stick surface, so everything sticks to it unless we use a protective layer of baking paper, which then slows down the cooking process to a snail's pace. It's not been much fun. I tried to make crepes in it once, and it took me almost an hour, they cooked so slowly!

Now with the gas, I practically just click my fingers and the food is done. Ahh the luxury!

We'll definitely have to work on a more long-term solution for supplying gas to our kitchen now. I don't think I can go back to Mr Frying Pan. We've been kind of dreading dealing with the gas connection ever since we moved in, because it might involve digging up part of our street in order to run a connection from the main gas line on the other side of the road. Sounds expensive.

Or we could just go ordinary gas bottles stored outside the house...

Decisions decisions! More research is in order, so no doubt more gasbagging (haha get it?) to come on the subject later! Oh and for any non-Australians, here's an article that explains what that means.