The water is teeming at the edge of the steel and just about to boil over the rim. There is nothing to be done. The heat needs to be turned up, but it’s on its last leg. Transfer the water to a bigger pot and let the fire roar under the steel bottom. The buffer is there but still not enough to be left unattended. The pressure is mounting but it’s exciting to watch. To be in the moment and you realize this is the hard part, a balancing game of not enough or way too much.
Close the lid build up the pressure and steam. The water roars with excitement under the stress of the burners. Full throttle ahead to be just in time or was it always in the right time? The water bubbles under great stress, filling the largest pot you can find, the pressure too much and needing a release and point of exit. You take it off and now it’s too cold and far too little water.
I should stop adjusting everything, or should I start anew. New recipe to fit the pot, all the water and heat you could need. Maybe if you had everything to begin with it would be easy. Of course it would, but you wouldn’t have learned to adjust.
Adjust the heat, adjust the recipe, find a new recipe because that didn’t work, maybe the new recipe isn’t any better than the old and you still haven’t gotten it right yet.
The little things are adding up, you don’t need a recipe for success, you made your own. The heat is just at six and a quarter, the water is a little over a half gallon to fill the pot and not bubble over under a roaring fire. And you put the lid on after ten minutes and turn the heat off not long after.
The point is you don’t need a recipe book for everything; just do it wrong a whole lot and keeping being a little less wrong than last time.
Only then you can leave it unattended.
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