Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Covered Oven


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If you ever wondered what it was like to attend Boarding school; feel free to ask me all about it. Yes, I attended Maur Hill Mount Academy, in Atchison Kansas, for both my sophomore and junior year of high school, and no, we did not wear blazers, penny loafers or plaid ties. We did however live at the school in a dorm, where we were only allowed to walk across town to the girl's dorm, or across the street to Wal-Mart.
            Much like prison cigarettes and food became currency. The favorite bartered item, after cigarettes, among borders was Tostinos pizza rolls. The only issue we ever had with the pizza rolls was, that we didn't have an oven in the dorm. We only had a microwave. Anyone who understands "pizza roll-ology" knows, that if they are cooked in a microwave they become soggy. They become soggy because a microwave works, by heating up the natural moisture within the food. This is why one would not be able to dry their clothes in a microwave. On the other hand, an oven simply heats the food. An oven cooks much slower, but the simple heat dries out the pizza rolls; creating a crispy pizza substance filled shell, instead of a soggy mess.
            My roommate, Ryan, found soggy pizza rolls to be completely unacceptable, so he searched for a way of creating that crispy, hot, and delicious pizza roll shell we all pined for. Well, Ryan found a way. I have no idea how he came up with this, but Ryan was a quite the pothead, so his mind was always working differently. His love of marijuana probably also explained his obsession with pizza rolls.
            Ryan taught me to first, turn the heater in our dorm room up to full blast. Next, He would place the pizza rolls on the heater, no more then twenty. Then, He would place a towel, preferably one you did not just use to shower, or something else high school boys like to do. Finally, leave the pizza rolls there for about ten minutes. I could not tell the difference between my heater, and a real oven.

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