Bachelor Meals

Is there any truth to the old bachelor’s saw, “The higher the heat, the sooner we’ll eat”?

———- from Dean F. Cully of Bethel, AK

Bachelors are an impatient bunch, too antsy to put up with the demands of wife or children. They do most of their cooking on a hot plate, warming up cans of beans or soup and making plenty of coffee, while they pace their furnished rooms, mumbling to themselves about what’s wrong with government, and women. The Underwriter’s Laboratories makes sure that hot plates can only get so hot, otherwise the number of rooming house fires would be even greater than it is now. Oxy-acetylene would, of course, heat things up even faster and a clean hydrogen flame could charr a can of beans in seconds.