Culinary tips for the budding engineer

If something new and semi-innovative seems possibly disastrous to you, then you should probably follow your engineer-spidey-senses and not do it.

Let's say, for example, you see your good ole trusty rice cooker from college and some chili you bought from the grocery store. "Hmm," you think to yourself, "While it is possible to use the rice cooker to cook ramen and other wacky soups, won't the chili just burn onto the bottom of the bowl and make a wonderfully shitty mess to clean up later?"

Yeah, you know those nagging thoughts? Those are a gift from The Big Man Himself. Ignore those nagging thoughts which have been evolving inside your brain? Your chili's gonna taste funny and now you're soaking your rice cooker to get the burned crap off of it. Nice job, Cochise.

And don't think that God isn't laughing at your dumb ass right now. He told you pretty plainly, and what'd you say? "Pffft, God! I'm gonna use the rice cooker so I can listen to more Don and Mike archives. Thanks for the suggestion though..."

You poor stupid engineer.