fumbling over dim sum

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I didn't know that I could suck this bad at cooking Ó⁠╭⁠╮⁠Ò

I can't even prepare a simple steamed bao properly. All I had to do was fill the rice cooker with sufficient water, put the baos on the steaming platform, turn it on and wait for my food to be cooked. Easy! But my water wasn't enough, causing the rice cooker to get burnt and producing a pungent smell. Also, I cooked my baos 3 times and the insides were still cold. Ridiculous, really.

I have resorted to using the traditional rice cooker instead of my mom's new digital one. She was always complaining about how the old rice cooker was too bulky, too big and the like. But I liked it that way. Sometimes old technology is the one you can rely on the most. Because sometimes the new technology gets burnt too easily and can't even steam bao properly.

Maybe it's my problem and not the rice cooker's. Perhaps the culinary singeing disaster was brought on by my blatant carelessness. After all, I just dumped my dim sum into the contraption and up and left to do my work. I didn't bother to watch it or check up on it until it was much too late (cue acrid-dry smoke buffeting my nostrils). 

But isn't the point of modern cooking devices to allow you to not supervise them? To allow you to do something more productive whilst your food was being cooked automatically, with no need for a pair of stern eyes overlooking their work? People always call me lazy, but the very reason I have these gadgets is to help me be lazy. Gosh, even my products don't want to be an enabler. 

Anyways, I'm crossing my fingers that this time my bao isn't melted or cold inside (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠) 

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