Chapter 1: The Journey Begins

Foreword:
You, dear reader, are about to follow our hero as he embarks on a fantastic voyage of self-discovery, through the most foreign and mysterious of places...the kitchen. Along the way, you will gain perspective into the inner workings of the mind of a man completely inept in all facets of cooking. You will bear witness to his triumphs and his failures as he struggles to learn things the rest of humanity thinks of as common sense. You'll laugh, you'll cry(from laughter, likely), you'll cheer, and you'll probably laugh some more. Now, let's join him on his quest to recreate the scrambled eggs he saw in a Google Image search...


Our hero enters a terrifying place...filled with things designed to cut, grind, boil, and fry all manner of objects. Has he entered some sort of medieval torture chamber..? No, no, something far scarier...THE KITCHEN!!! He has no sword, no shield, no armor; he is armed only with a skillet, a cookbook, and his own fierce determination. After taking a brief moment to survey the area and mentally prepare, Adam opens the cookbook to a page held by a makeshift bookmark(the receipt), and reads over the instructions on how to make scrambled eggs. One deep breath later, 2 eggs lay floating in a bowl, ready to be mixed with a whisk. "A whisk..what the F?" he asks himself out loud, in reference to the utensil mentioned in the instructions. It takes a second, but our hero quickly recalls that a "whisk" is a wiry device used for mixing things together. Huzzah! After procuring said device, he proceeds to beat the eggs into submission, whilst adding small amounts of water(as was instructed by his lovely companion...who FORCED HIM TO COOK ON HIS OWN...*ahem*), and salt for taste. By this point, the skillet has been sufficiently heated and sprayed with Pam, and Adam stares with grim resolve as he pours the concoction into it.

His trusty cookbook having been designed to make eggs for four people, our hero has accurately whittled down the ingredients to suffice for just himself and has assumed that cooking time should be cut down as well. Whether or not this is an accurate assumption remains to be seen. Tense moments follow as Adam moves his eventual breakfast around the pan with a spatula...will he emerge victorious, or will he suffer a crushing defeat?? Upon first glance, it seems he is successful...the meal he has poured on his plate looks quite similar to the Google Image on his laptop screen. He takes a bite...not bad, not bad at all. A little dry, but that's what he wanted, after all. His unsophisticated palette is unsure what to think, but his taste buds tell him these eggs are assuredly something he could eat on a regular basis! Success!!! A small victory, no doubt, but a victory nonetheless. Now that our hero knows the kitchen can be defeated, his mind races at the thought of what else he can eventually accomplish...who knows, he might even be able to impress the young nurse who is the object of his affection! The same young nurse, it should be noted again, who left the hero to fend for himself in this jungle of appliances and ingredients in the first place...but I digress!

Where will he go from here? Only time(and his Cooking Basics for Dummies book) will tell! To be continued....