
What’s the most absentminded thing you’ve ever done? The thing that you yourself did that make you want to /facepalm your own damn self? I can’t really recall such an instance… until just now.
You see, I was hungry, and as always, the only food I had handy was some instant ramen. After opening and dropping in the packages of probably-really-bad-for-your-health-but-it-tastes-so-good prepackaged flavor bags, I proceeded to do the most “zomg what was I thinking” thing of my life by placing the ramen in the microwave and set it to cook for 3 minutes.
When I went to go retrieve it, I started to notice a weird smell. Then, when I opened the microwave, I noticed that it was smoking a lot. As noodles do “steam”, I still failed to recognize both of these otherwise obvious “signs” until I looked in the bowl.
Yeop. That’s right. I had forgotten to add water.
I had stuck the bowl in the microwave, completely skipping over a step, taking the “instant” in instant ramen almost too literally. Needless to say, the noodles were completely fried, except it was fried in a completely inedible way.
For further amusement, I then decided that, “Hey, maybe if I add water, I can save it!”
So I added water.
It was actually kind of cool. The noodles were so hot that, for awhile, the water that was being added instantly vaporized into steam, nearly burning my fingers. After the water was added, I stuck it back in the microwave and cooked it. Again.
Needless to say, it didn’t help. The noodles didn’t “unfry” itself (Basically they melted and got stuck together, along with burning burnt to a crisp), and the god-awful smell didn’t go away. Fortunately, I wasn’t hungry enough to decide to eat it anyways (Believe me, I would have!), and I dumped the noodles.
I’m still hungry, because that was my last bowl of ramen.
Tags: Ramen