Not long ago, I walked into my kitchen and noticed that there was a used frying pan on the hob.

“Ah… The wife must’ve cooked something earlier and will clean that up after her shower,” I thought.

Thinking nothing of it, I headed out to the living room, sank into the sofa and decided to check out Seedly’s Q&A on my phone (Shameless plug here. But seriously, check it out. There’re plenty of interesting questions and pretty good answers to all things personal finance related. Especially since we’re all too paiseh to ask for help in real life).

A couple of minutes later, I smelt something burning.

Instinctively, I ran to the kitchen, noticed that the pan was smoking, picked it up and started dousing it with water in the sink. Looking at the hob, I quickly put together what happened.

When we cook our eggs,