Darn it! I was betting that you were just going to laugh at me :)

But i _can_ do simple basic food! I put it in a fry pan, and i put the heat on it, and it gets hot! ;)

Works for steaks, works for hamburgers, works for veggies, works for tofu, works for omelets, works for scrambled eggs, works for everything! ;)

I'm just going to fawn over the Alton icon, don't mind me.

Do you not eat pasta? Frying pans don't work so well for the boiling water thing :)

Yeah, I always thought of frying pans as being one step up from pots of boiling water in terms of cooking skill, since it's hard to burn things in water.

My dad managed that a few times - we stopped letting him near the stove then :)

I used to eat pasta, i'm not sure why i don't anymore. I can't actually remember a specific instance of cooking pasta (aside from cup-of-noodles and ramen, which doesn't really count =) since i lived in Pomona.

I cook everything in the oven. I'm surprised that you don't at least use a microwave -- I'd use that too, if I had one :-)

I do use my microwave, but i don't usually consider that to be cooking :) Same with boiling water in a kettle to pour it in a cup-of-noodles :)

I have one if you want it.