{"id":2042,"date":"2025-09-01T00:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2025-09-01T00:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:50:15","slug":"cooking-my-breakfast-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/cooking-my-breakfast-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"[Cooking] My Breakfast Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"
\ufeffI have many rituals in the boat. Some are associated with safety. For example, I never leave the cockpit while the boat is moving unless I am wearing my harness and clipped into the jack lines. This is a ritual \u2026 no exceptions. Another ritual is breakfast. Breakfast always starts with tea and unless waves are breaking over the cowling and filling the cockpit with water, I always enjoy my tea outside. I can count on one hand the number of times I did not brew tea in the morning. However, even making something as simple as tea is not without danger when underway, especially when the boat is pitching and rolling. As a general rule, when moving around a boat, you always have three points of contact \u2026 two feet and a hand or two hands and a foot. If the boat is bouncing around and you don\u2019t have three points of contact, you\u2019re almost certain to topple. So, making tea is largely a one-handed operation. If you need two hands, you need to time your actions to coincide with the motion of the boat. Take for example getting boiling water into your teacup, in my case an insulated Yeti mug with a lid. First you need to boil the water in a pot in the stove. The stove is gimbaled, which helps with the rocking from port to starboard, but not pitching from bow to stern. You have to learn exactly how much liquid you can put in a given pot, which depends on how viscous the liquid is (water vs. oatmeal) but also how the boat is moving (rolling vs. pitching). How long the liquid is in the pot can make a difference as well because as it sloshes back and forth, it builds momentum \u2026 creeping ever higher to the lip of the pot. Pouring boiling water into a cup becomes a sort of dance. Your hips sway back and forth with the motion of the boat so as to keep your torso relatively still. If the boat is rolling, you would face fore or aft and your hips would sway port to starboard. Once you have the beat, it\u2019s time to coordinate the movement of your arms. One hand holds the cup, firmly planted on the countertop to give you the illusion of three points of contact, the other firmly grips the handle of the pot of boiling water. The boiling water is held in my dominant right hand, and my arm takes the place of the gimbal stove, swaying back and forth to the motion of the boat. Pouring is not a continuous operation, but one that is done in small measures, carefully coordinated with the rolling of the water to the lip of the pot. As practiced as I am with this dance, I have never once managed to pour a cupful of boiling water into my teacup without splashing some on my hand. Once brewed, I move myself and my cup of tea to the cockpit to enjoy the sunrise. How I manage to get both there while maintaining three points of contact is another story.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ufeffI have many rituals in the boat. Some are associated with safety. For example, I never leave the cockpit while the boat is moving unless I am wearing my harness and clipped into the jack lines. This is a ritual \u2026 no exceptions. Another ritual is breakfast. Breakfast always starts with tea and unless waves … <\/p>\n

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