Sometimes when cooking rice I heat the pot first without any water in it, I like how the first drips of water I eventually add instantly become steam. I use to fail at making tofu steaks, they would stick to the pan and tear then learned to leave it until water inside them evaporated, then they perfectly flip. Too many additives in the non-dairy milk substitutes so I make my own out of oats. Just oats, water, blender, sieve POW – 50 cents a litre. Too bad in grade 10 they didn’t get us to cook food in chemistry class. It would have been so much more understandable not to mention tasty. A couple piano teachers tried to teach me when I was a kid, I don’t know what the hell they wanted from me. I could play whatever I heard on the radio, wished I could develop it further but they were all about a vertical representation of dots and stems and everything else was wrong. In teaching anyone the good teacher tries to appreciate what they want to play, what they like and sort out how to bridge that for the student. It’s crucial the person be engaged and their experience be honoured.