Too many cooks, grrrrrrr

I love to cook, and watch people enjoying my food.    But please keep your (&)&(*&( mitts off of my pots or pans.  I know what I'm doing,  I can ask to have someone else stir something if I can't get to it.  But please don't pull the lid off and stir it unless I ask you to.

And that's another thing.   Please don't second guess me.   Really, I do want the carrots cut that way, and yes I do know how to roast the meat, and season it well.  

And if you call yourself a chef, act like it.   I recently had a negative experience with someone who called himself a 'chef', and proceeded to whip the daylights out of a batter that I'd asked him to fold flour into.   He made a roux that had lumps, then proceeded to whip the lumps out of the sauce.   There are some basic rules in cooking, and whisking something that needs to be folded, are contradictions.    And if you look the words up in a dictionary, they will even give different definitions.   Amazing, huh?   

Just had to get that one off my chest, now maybe it won't stew around in there as much.

Venting....

Sometimes you just gotta vent.    And I have a great place to do so, here.    Latest list of pet peeves.   

In the grocery store;   if you change your mind about the ice cream you just put in your cart, walk back to the freezer and return it.   Don't put in on the shelf by the cereal, or hide it behind something, that is just so freaking ignorant.  Or as they used to say in UT, ignernt.        Same goes for any refrigerated or frozen product.    PUT IT BACK!!!!   How hard is that?     And if you change your mind about something you put in your cart, walk it back a couple of aisles and put it in place.    Do you have any idea how many hours/dollars it costs the grocery store to either discard or replace items?   And I have to pay for it.    And why do you let your kids open something, take a drink out of it and then put it back on the shelf?   PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR KIDS!!!!!!!!  

And that's another thing, if your kid isn't big enough to see over the cart, don't let him/her push it.   I'm tired of getting rammed by carts when a child is pushing it.   And don't get me started on kids racing carts down the aisle.   Actually it hasn't happened here lately, but when I used to live in UT it was a common thing.    Why should I have to jump out of the way when some preteen is pretending they're racing a car?   This is a store, and they should not be playing in there.  

Well, I feel a lot better now, and since it's Monday, I can start the week of nice and calm.