How did harris' attempt to make scrambled eggs?

 Harris proposes to prepare scrambled eggs for breakfast. He says it is impossible for anyone to eat anything else after having the scrambled eggs prepared by him as he is quite famous for them. Eventually, he messes up everything. He has trouble breaking the eggs, getting them into the frying-pan; he even burns himself while he is near the stove. The result is altogether a dismal and burnt mess.

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Harris says he's a very good cook and offers to scramble eggs for breakfast. He actually says he's famous for his eggs. The men were hungry, and they gave him eggs (some smashed), the stove and the frying pan...... he had a bit of trouble breaking them, and in getting them into the pan. The process of making the eggs left him with multiple burns and numerous dropped utensils.

In the end, everything was a complete mess. A tablesppon of burnt eggs was all that remained of the original six, and Harris, of course, blamed everything but himself for the fiasco.

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Harris proposed that they should have scrambled eggs for breakfast. He boasted of being very good at preparing scrambled eggs. He said he often did them at picnics and when out on yachts and was quite famous for them. J. and George were thus tempted to have them and gladly handed him out the stove and the frying-pan and all the eggs that had not smashed.

Harris was in total mess with the dish. He faced trouble in breaking the eggs, getting them into the frying-pan, and keeping them off his trousers and sleeve. After a lot of effort, he could fix some half-a-dozen into the pan. He was harassed even while cooking them. Whenever he went near the pan, he burned himself, and then he would drop everything and dance round the stove, flicking his fingers and cursing the things. It was quite a show and the two friends enjoyed it immensely.

The end result of Harris's efforts was quite disappointing. Six eggs went into the frying-pan, and all that came out was a teaspoonful of burnt and unappetizing looking mess. Harris blamed the frying-pan for the disaster
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Harris offer that he will cook scrambled eggs for all of them for breakfast .the narrator remarks that harris excude such
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Harris offers that he will cook scrambled eggs for all of them for breakfast.the narrator remarks that Harris exudes such confidence that one can be certain that he is quite skilled at such cooking and has often made scrambled eggs for picnics and trips . it appears that he is famous for this speciality and people crave for his dish both george and jim show knee ness for scrambled egg cooked by harris
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When Harris volunteers to make scrambled eggs, he promises that they will be delicious. Of course, He doesn't know how to make scrambled eggs, but intends to give in a try, and George and J. are more than willing to sit back and laugh.

"He had some trouble in breaking the eggs—or rather not so much trouble in breaking them exactly as in getting them into the frying-pan when broken, and keeping them off his trousers, and preventing them from running up his sleeve; but he fixed some half-a-dozen into the pan at last, and then squatted down by the side of the stove and chivied them about with a fork."

In the end, Harris ended up with about a tablespoon of burnt eggs for breakfast..... the other two men would be left hungry but amused.
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This incident happens in Chapter XI ofThree Men in a Boat. Harris is the kind of person who makes the simplest acts more complex than they need to be. He’s also stubborn enough to think that he knows quite well how to do many things. The reality is that he doesn’t know how to do these things at all. He does such a terrible job that eventually someone else must intervene, if the task is to be completed at all. Here on the boat, Harris sets out to make scrambled eggs for breakfast. But whatever can go wrong, does. He has trouble breaking the eggs so that they land in the frying pan and not on his trousers. He burns his fingers every time he touches the pan. In the end: There seemed so little to show for the business. Six eggs had gone into the frying-pan, and all that came out was a teaspoonful of burnt and unappetizing looking mess. Harris covers his lack of culinary talent by blaming the frying pan and saying that the process would have gone better if they had better equipment. The narrator is enough of a friend that he says they “decided not to attempt the dish again until we had those aids to housekeeping by us.” Surely he knows that no change of equipment will help Harris successfully make three dishes of scrambled eggs. Earlier, in Chapter III, the narrator sees a resemblance between Harris’s approach to challenges and those taken on by his Uncle Podger, who ran into a host of difficulties when merely hanging a picture on the wall. After we read of the scrambled eggs incident, we can see this connection, too.  
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