Sorry, no daring baker post. I had every intention of doing this this month, but then didn’t have an oven. I just moved to Seoul. See, I thought I’d have at least a toaster oven, but when the school said they’d provide us with electric toasters, they really meant a toaster that plugs in. Not a toaster oven. Silly assumption on my part.
The good news is I got an oven today. Not soon enough for daring baker goodness, but soon enough for next month’s! I still have to get it hooked up to the gas, but I’ll be able to do next month’s challenge.
Turns out my old oven was just sitting there at my old school. Now it’s mine again. It was sitting there over a year, and no foreign teachers claimed it, the guy who bought it from me never picked it up, nobody threw it out, it just sat there. for MORE THAN A YEAR! Sometimes things are just crazy like that, I guess.
It cost me 50,000 won, but I gave the guy a 10,000 won tip. Even though it’s not customary to tip here, you should have seen the guy.. he didn’t want to trust me to help him carry it down the stairs at my old place, I guess, so he just took it on his back down the stairs “Korean style”, as he said. 2 or 3 flights of stairs. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t like to carry a full size oven on my back. Also, did I mention he’s old? He’s a grandfather… He did let me help him carry it from the truck to the elevator, though, in my new building. He was also really nice and told me all these stories about his grandson who is in first grade. He said he was a landscaper, but he’s doing extra work so he can buy stuff for his grandson.
Anyway, I have an oven! Yay!
