Dear Kid,
New ideas can be tricky.
Sometimes a new idea seems great from the very beginning.
Sometimes an idea starts out seeming like a bad idea but then turn out to be great once we get used to it.
Sometimes an idea starts out seeming to be a bad idea but then gets sufficiently refined to be a good idea.
So it’s important to give new ideas a chance, to give them a chance to become more familiar, to give them time to grow on you.
But sometimes new ideas are just not good ideas, and if they grow on you at all it’s more like mold than anything you’d want to cut and put in a vase.
Case in point: the Curling Iron Scrambled Egg.
I like eggs. I like scrambled eggs (as long as they’re made with real eggs and don’t have weird stuff cooked into them). But there is really nothing good about scrambled eggs made with a curling iron except being able to say you did it. (Besides, it looks a little obscene.)
Making eggs with a curling iron doesn’t save time, money, or the all-important number of things to be washed. You still have to buy eggs, you still have to have a dish to mix the eggs in, you still have to open a drawer to find something to mix with, you still have to find a plate to eat on, AND you ruin your curling iron.
Seriously.
Why would someone think this is a good idea?
Cosmopolitan seemed to think it was a good enough idea to film it (here’s the link if you want to watch it yourself). I’m not sure why; I had the sound off for most of the video. But there’s a reason professional chefs don’t include “curling iron” among their kitchen must-haves: it’s dumb.
The only dumber idea I can think of at the moment is using curling iron to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Ick.
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