It’s Saturday which is my dad’s birthday.

I love to help my mom to bake cake in

the kitchen. Itwas one of my hobbies too. So my mom and I decided to bake a cake for

my lovely dad. Before we started to bake the cake, we took all the equipment from the

drawer and got ourselves prepared. For my task was cracking all the eggs and put it

into a bowl with the flour and stir it with an egg beater. Egg beater was my favourite

kitchen tool. I’m interested in this egg beater since I was young because of the attractive

design. That moment when u stir it was wonderful and enjoy.Instinctively, I started to

explore this element.

An egg beater is basically a round beater cover many sticks of the steel, which is

mostly made in stainless-steel. For my own lovely egg beater holder, it was made in

wood and it’s approximately the length of a normal men’s hand. The whole height was

about half of our hand. It was very comfortable for me to hold and stir the ingredients

such as flour, eggs and etc. For the egg beater, it’s only nail thick so it is almost same

weight with a cup. The egg beater holder provides convenience while bringing around

because on top of the holder there is a hole which allow us hang on the wall or etc.

Other than that, it’s silver color just like the color of my mother’s necklace which

was also made of stainless-steel. It’s very shinning. Egg beater basically produces ‘ding’

sound when I hit on the bowl. It also will vibrate real hard because of the fiction between

the sticks.The stick can be bent easily because the stick is too thin like a normal coin. It

was made of stainless-steel, no doubts that the body of egg beater was a heat

conductor. So normally its temperature varies when I put some different ingredient on it.
 Moreover, if I put my nose to the egg beater I can often sense a very slight fishy

smell. Maybe it was not clean but I don’t know. It also can be cleaned easy. The

corrosion of metal fillings in my mouth creates currents that cause a metallic taste for

me. This type of taste in my mouth is sometimes the heavy metal toxicity. Particularly,

mercury from silver amalgam fillings in the teeth, but it could be some other source of

metal like lead, copper etc.

After all these observations and explorations towards the egg beater, I can

confidentially tell that the egg beater is used as a tool to stir the ingredients by mixing

around. Without this egg beater we have to use our own bare hands to mix the

ingredients. It will not harm ourselves and damage when accidentally drop from high

ground. Because of its characteristic but it causes the egg beater out of shape.

While I am digging out what it is, I sincerely found out that this is a prefect utensil

for baking cakes in term of its function and also design. I observe the egg beater first,

whether in close or far and look into details. Then, I move further on testing what it is by

carrying out certain experiments such as applying force on it, hitting on it, licking it, feel

it with bare hands and so on, trying to find out more about it. I got little bit frustrated

when I don’t know what smell and taste it was until now. The information I got from my

experiments are recorded in a piece of paper and arranged accordingly as pre-writing.

Last but not least I wrote a narrative essay with the information I have. In the end it is a

smooth process for me as I had stated out what I should find out before I started my

experiments hence everything worked in a smooth manner.

 SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

NAME: Sean Chua JiuXin

STUDENT ID NO: 0314025

TOOL SELECTED: Egg beater

WORD COUNT: 654

ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: NARRATIVE ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 14th NOVEMBER 2013