Pots Bad Investment

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Investing in pots is a bad idea because we don't buy them as often as shoes for kids. 
This one left the factory as a milk pot many years ago. It adjusted to chef's needs. Now it boils water, vegetables and works as a steamer.

I want to invest in pots. I have some money to burn so I must either fly to Germany, the country that makes pots and pans or get a broker that will find a German company for me. Why pots? Because I get hungry and cook.

Is it wise to invest in pots, bearing in mind we don’t cook anymore? Good question. That is something to think about. Take the COVID-19 pandemic for instance. It crystallized two kinds of eaters: those that cook and those that have the pizza joint on speed dial. How can I forget hamburger, fish and chips, curry, pasta and sushi joints?

Pandemic aside, you’re probably right. Pots are lonely. Eating is no longer in vogue because of mathematics. We are told to count food on a plate: calories, fat, sodium and other non-human colorless things detrimental to our health. Failure to do so will make us overweight and society doesn’t like fat people. ‘What happened to you?” People who haven’t seen you for a long time can be so insensitive, shouting as if you have a rhino’s horn in your forehead. You are no longer size 10. You’ve upgraded to size 14. Is that why she’s screaming?

Investing in pots is a bad idea because food has names, like designer clothes. It is organic, vegan or chemically engineered. It’s difficult to keep up with acronyms such as GMO. I should not worry about it because I’m broke. Designer food is expensive because it is a specialty, and is found on the other side of town. Who has the time and patience to drive in the snow to go and buy a vegan cabbage? No. I won’t invest in pots. Cooking is a dying craft.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang. 

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