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- I add my chopped onions to the pan, and lo! They are translucent, about to turn golden.

- All the bins empty themselves at a clap of my hand.

- I always start cooking dinner at exactly the right time for it to be ready when I want and not 40 minutes later.

- Partway through cooking the one ingredient that I haven't got magically appears on the kitchen counter.

Crossposts: https://nineveh-uk.livejournal.com/450294.html

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From:

serriadh

I would dearly love to be able to estimate quantities of food. Even if I bother to weigh things I'm hopeless at remembering if e.g. the serving suggestion of 70g of pasta is Just Right, Too Much, or Healthy-but-Skimpy portions). I can just about manage 'two cups of pasta' but then my OH goes and buys different shaped pasta and it fits the mug differently.

(Otherwise, I am actually quite a decent cook, so this particularly annoys me.)

(Don't know how I managed to post this anonymously on your LJ. Please ignore.)

From:

antisoppist

I always have half a saucepan of rice left over no matter how small a saucepan or measuring receptacle I use. I used to leave it out all night and eat it the next day but now people keep telling me I will die if I do that.

I also have a household that includes teenagers with varying appetites that are impossible to predict and all my attempts to avoid pasta waste lead to people starving To Death and making porridge all over the stove two hours later.

From:

nineveh_uk

Pasta I can usually get about right. Rice, OTOH, is always over. Sweet potato mash always under.

From:

antisoppist

How much stuff do you have in your bins?

Cooking tea always takes 15 minutes longer than I think it will though. Fortunately Small Daughter was able to pause David Attenborough as we had agreed on early tea on laps in front of log fire and kangaroos ~~being eaten by dingoes~~.

From:

nineveh_uk

Normal quantities. I just hate emptying them and going out in the cold.

I had at least already accepted I would tape David Attenborough and watch afterwards, but not that much afterwards. Being able to pause live TV is a huge bonus in such scenarios.

From:

carbonel

When I make a complete dinner, I would like the ability to have everything hot to the table at the same time. Which, when the instructions say to let the meat rest for a few minutes, is apparently never going to happen.

From:

nineveh_uk

That's another good one. I always forget about meat needing to rest, though sometimes that works well with boiling veg, it works less with roast veg...

From:

azdak

My dream superpower is to always arrive at the station/bus stop just before the train/bus is due to leave, no matter what time I get there. If I'm late, the universe will magically rearrange things with a delay so that I can still catch my train. But if it has to be a culinary superpower then I will take cooking perfect rice (and by "perfect" I mean neither burned nor sloppy without having to resort to boil-in-a-bag).

From:

nineveh_uk

That actually happened to me this morning! Arrived at bus stop and there was the limited stop bus 25 yards up the road and rolling peacably towards me. Though unfortunately that was coincidence rather than a superpower. It would certainly make life a lot stressful if I could always rely on it.

I have to admit that I positively avoid cooking rice because it always seems awkward.

From:

joyeuce

I would like to have the superpower to keep my evening meal in its perfectly ready to eat state when my daughter shouts for help at precisely the wrong moment, which she invariably does when I am the only adult in the house.