Liam the chef

I came downstairs this morning to find that Liam had already made his breakfast. My first clue into this observation was the smell of something burning horribly. My second was him sitting at his chair with a bitter-beer face on nibbling at his oatmeal.

I asked him what had happened. He told me that he burned his oatmeal. How? I asked. He didn't have a good answer for that. He thought he had done everything right.

Looking at the bowl provided no clues. There was oatmeal swimming in milk with bits of black everywhere. Curious.

So I dumped that bowl out and asked him to show me what he did. He went into the cupboard, got a packet of oatmeal, opened it, put it into the bowl, then moved off to the microwave.

Anyone paying attention? Did you see the missing step?

Yup - he put powdered oatmeal into the microwave completely dry! That doesn't work so well. I asked him "What about the milk?" He immediately slapped his head (Hey - it saved me from doing it!)

Duh.

I think he'll get it right from now on.