An AuDHD woman has still not learned her lesson about getting distracted and letting her masala chai explode all over the cooker, according to her ancestors.

Sabeen Bhatt, 38, has been making her own chai ever since her grandmother got weirdly gatekeepy about the recipe and forced her to turn to a benevolent aunty’s HTML recipe blog. Despite being a 20-year chai veteran, Bhatt still operates on the hubristic assumption that she can turn away from boiling milk in a small pan without it erupting violently all over the hob.

Bhatt commented: “I only ever turn away for a moment, but then that moment becomes inspecting the back of the biscuit packet because why’s everything got glucose syrup and palm oil in it, and then I hear that tell-tale splashy hissing sound and I can feel my late mother-in-law calling me… er, how do I translate this… a trollop.”

“Every time I have to mop up the spillage and restart, there’s less tea in the pan. Half of it’s ended up in the bin. Smells lovely though.”

Bhatt was eventually seen taking her chai off the heat, at which point it was just about sufficient to fill a bottlecap.

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