God help them if they have to separate eggs. I can just picture them putting each whole egg in a separate place.
I've always noticed, among the cooking and baking primitives, their inability to grasp the concept that one thing can have more than one use.
Multi-purpose cookery, such as pots and pans.
It just never seems to occur to the primitives, that one can use a pot or a pan for more than one thing.
When boasting of their cookery, or whining about their lack of space for cookery, the cooking and baking primitives have a habit of itemizing their utensils.
The primitives apparently keep one 2-quart pot for boiling beans, a second 2-quart pot for boiling corn, a third 2-quart pot for boiling peas, a fourth 2-quart pot for boiling rice, a fifth 2-quart pot for boiling carrots, a sixth 2-quart pot for boiling yams, a seventh 2-quart pot for boiling noodles, and so on.
It just never occurs to the primitives that an item can have more than one use--for example, a cookie sheet works for pizza just as well as for cookies, or a pie spatula works for cake just as well as for pie, or a butcher knife works for unsliced bread just as well as for meat.
The primitives just
can't grab that concept, that things can have more than one use.