ChatGPT has gotten funnier and wittier lately, is it just me?
It keeps making me laugh unexpectedly. Is it just me? Am I easily amused?
I asked for a recipe involving eggplant, and this is what it slipped into the instructions
>Heat a large covered skillet over medium-high heat. Add the oil and eggplant with a good pinch of salt. Cook 8–10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until browned and starting to soften. Eggplant will initially attempt to drink all the oil. Don't indulge it by continually adding more.
Then I mentioned that I had never seen that in a recipe instruction, so it doubled down
>Eggplant needs boundaries. Left unsupervised, it will absorb half a bottle of olive oil and stare at you as though you are the one who has failed to provide adequate lubrication.
>The recipe writers who say “add 1 tablespoon oil and sauté the eggplant until golden” are concealing what happens during minutes 2–6, when the pan is bone dry and the eggplant is sitting there looking thirsty and accusatory.
>Hold the line. It eventually softens and gives some of it back.
So I asked if I should instead use the oven to roast them. It agreed.
>Eggplant in a crowded skillet tends to steam while simultaneously demanding increasingly absurd quantities of oil. The oven gives you browned edges and a creamy interior without the negotiation.
