el crispito

It's a Mexican professional stove brand, Coriat. It takes gas, but they don't seem to use natural gas much in Mexico, and . Instead, we use propane from the huge tank on top of our apartment building that they fill every once in a while.

The bummer is that the supply of gas coming through the stove depends on who else is using gas in our building at any given moment. I have found that this can seriously increase the time between when something is done and when it should be done, but at least it works enough to allow us to eat at home. And when it gets enough gas, boy does that thing cook!

The thing sticks out about a foot from the rest of the counter around it, but it's in a corner, so that isn't too bad. The problem is that our kitchen is lilliputian, and with the stainless kitchen rack that I bought at Costco to hold all our various plates, glasses, cooking tools and so forth, there's barely room in there for a human being.

Next will be our Internet access and cable, that is to be installed sometime in the future. We have an installation "date," although we do not yet know what the date will be. They are supposed to call us the day before, but we'll see if that happens. We're still waiting for the drapes that we were told would be ready mañana, and that was on last Tuesday.