61) Hodge-Podge

Random observation of the day.

In every well-rounded kitchen you have your cup cabinet, your stacks of dishes, your pots and pans storage, your drawer of utensils in one of those plastic organizers. Everything has its place with its brethren. But in every kitchen there is also one drawer for the odd objects out. The measuring cups, the whisk, the can and bottle opener, the peeler. Sometimes toothpicks, skewers, muffin tin liner cups, a meat thermometer. All thrown together because of their incongruous shapes and categorical ambiguity. These tools, while entirely necessary and important in the kitchen, become their own miscellaneous hodge-podge category.

That's all today.