Inspector Poirot and the Pressure Cooker

I like to watch the Inspector Poirot series because he manages to solve cases so easily and always comes to the rescue when needed. This character inspired me to imagine a brand new episode:

Nobody could say that either Pan or Mama don’t run their restaurant well. Pan is the chef and Mama works front of house and they both own a small family restaurant in London. Their cooking is always in demand because of its unique flavours, blending different cultures.

The only problems they face are the ones caused by Mr. ET, their business partner.  When he takes an order from the Daslam family, ET passes on the wrong order to Pan or Mama.

Inspector Poirot is hired to investigate the reasons of Mr. ET’s behaviour. What he finds out stuns everyone: the Daslam family children annoy him greatly. If it is because they make funny loud noises, speak foreign languages and wear different clothes, the real reason is unknown. The rest of the Daslam children generally agree with Mr. ET’s perspective.

Poirot finds Mr. ET's behaviour odd, as he would not acknowledge his non-communication with some of the Daslam. Therefore, Poirot had to write in this report that Mr. ET ignores this noisy group, sometimes even going as far as antagonising them.

Investigating further, Inspector Poirot finds out that Mr. ET slowly but steadily changed the recipe for Pan or Mama’s famous Spaghetti sauce. What was a homogenous mixture, cooking well in the pressure cooker, turned into the “bin lid in growing deadly salsa”. ET tightened the lid so badly on the pressure cooker, not allowing for the steam to vent off.

All this wasn’t known to Pan or Mama, so one day, as Pan was in the kitchen and Mama was serving the clients, ET let the “bin lid in growing deadly salsa” to over boil in the pressure cooker.

Poirot comes in quickly to the kitchen to release the pressure, jumps high to courageously rescue Pan or Mama and their clients from the explosion and saves the day.

My conclusion to such an episode would be that a business partner such as ET should be impartial, neutral, substantial, innovative and accommodating of all the customers’ opinions to enable the kitchen to produce the best quality in the industry.