for the typical bachelor, the kitchen elicits mixed feelings and is best avoided unless there is a hunger crisis and the alternatives are not within reach. experience being the best teacher, i have developed some tips to make the kitchen experience sweeter for the typical bachelor. as for me, though i have implemented a greater number of these tips, its yet to be fun but i try my best, under pressure of course!

1. invest in skill enhancing and energy saving gadgets; microwave, blender, toaster, fridge, hotpots, coffeemaker, dishwasher, that kathing that beats eggs senseless et cetera. for the typical bachelor, a few of these would do wonders!
2. buy cooking pans that have handles and well fitting lids, sweet talk a sister on such a mission, it helps
3. owning the bare minimal two sufurias? always start with tea, ugali then beef or tea, beef then ugali. any other order can be disastrous
4. just because food is usually served mixed does not mean that all ingredients are stuffed in the cooking pan at a go, there is a procedure called a recipe!
5. learn and practice at least two recipes for those critical image building moments
6. on moving to a new neighbourhood, make sure you survey for quickly reachable joints for those desperate moments
7. have the patience to have greens in the diet. beef and eggs are not substitutable vitamins. while at it, burned meat is not nyama choma, it can be toxic!
8. be friendly to mama mboga, lest you become her saviour on those near-expiring, slow-moving goodies
9. shift your eyes towards the fruit stand more often, and a banana is not the best fruit there is. don’t forget that water is a wonderful fruit cleanser. your salvation is much more nearer with those edible uncooked stuff.
   
10. if you invest in a cooker with an oven, leave the oven compartment for her to test her cookery skills, if she exists that is. don’t even attempt a sponge cake. keep off cooking wheat stuff except for pancakes; biscuits are not made that way!