Cooking

Just made one of our favorite dinners - a melange of hamburger, bacon, beans, and sauces. It cooks for about an hour.

Along the way, there were some unaccustomed bumps.

The large burner where the bacon was cooking was abnormally reluctant to heat. Switched it to another burner, let the first cool, banged on it to see if it just needed reseating, put the bacon back on it, turned it up, and damn near burned the bacon.
The container of mustard which appeared a quarter full, wasn't. Got out the spare.
The container of barbecue sauce which appeared a quarter full, wasn't. Got out the spare. Peeled off the protective plastic (don't we normally do that when we get it home from the store?) and then the inner protective plastic, which had a tab of, oh, about a sixteenth of an inch.
The cans of beans were reluctant to yield their contents, with some needing to be scooped out. No! You can't make me go!

When you cook something you like, and have made many times before, and it fights back -- it's a weird feeling.