“I’m brilliant at cooking my stepmother’s scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.”
– Ian McKellen
If imagining Gandalf whipping up a dish of scrambled eggs, armed with not a staff but a wooden spoon, doesn’t make you want to jump into the kitchen, then I don’t know what will.