Jack´s blog [Time Out Columnist]

IT\´S WAR IN the kitchen. Eric discovered that you can apply STEM thinking to cooking, and Ern got a blowtorch for Christmas: if we\´re still alive by Easter it will be a miracle. "A blowtorch? What was Santa thinking?" asked Nikola, who shares our floor in the halls of residence. We were watching Ern incinerate a cr??me brulee he\´d just whipped out of the oven. "I think Santa thought that, as one of my ambitions is to design a retractable bike rack moulded into the bodywork of a car, a blowtorch would come in handy." "Yes, but not on the seventh floor of a high-rise tower block containing 200 drunk students, surely," said Nikola, cracking open the perfectly-charred top of her pudding.