capacity testing

Minor redecoration and minor leak-fixing aside it still looks like the kitchen will be the first item on which any sort of remodelling will be performed. It feels small when there's more than one person in it and despite being the only person in it it exhibited a noticeable lack of spare surfaces (especially for items requiring washing-up, ideally belonging to the right of the sink whereas to the immediate right of the sink is the window) this afternoon when I attempted to prepare 2¾ dishes for 4½ people to eat (and for the ½ to scatter around a bit as if attempting to grow pre-cooked rice and diced peppers) despite my tendency to do the classic start-with-far-too-small-a-saucepan thing and make things up as I go with the result that when cooking two different types of thing there are never enough things to cook them in and they end up tasting vaguely similar due to the tenacity of the tastes of popular ingredients like garlic and chopped chilli in sticking to the chopping-board. I've also just realised that I completely forgot to add cumin, though this will at least mean that the item it was supposed to be added to will at least have tasted slightly different from how something of that general type usually tastes when I make something vaguely like it. It turned out that I had made enough for at least 9¼ people which should mean that the chopping-board has at least three days for the taste to wear off before being used again.