Aug 20, 2026 · 0 min · 9 segments
In this encore episode, we chat with and learn from members of the Hadley community. Dia Kraft and Don Pojman share their own tips and tricks for continuing to cook despite having lost some vision.
Dia KraftGuestYou know, a lot of times we hear these stories of someone who has climbed a mountain, or they've become a winner of cooking contest, or they've done something just over the top amazing, and it feels inspirational in a way because, like, look, this person did this amazing thing.
But in a way it's not relatable because I don't know about all of you, but when I try something, there's usually some disasters before there is the perfection, and we don't always hear about those disasters.
I want to hear when you were learning to cook and figuring out your adaptations, share some, some times when things didn't quite go as planned.
Since my vision loss, this is awfully humorous, but because I could not see to drain the spaghetti after it was cooked in the pot, so I brought it to the sink with the colander, and I thought that the spaghetti was in the pan.
And then that, that cracked me up because when I bit into the hamburger patty, I ate the paper.
I've cooked a pizza in, in the oven with the cardboard under it, and tasted the pizza and it tasted like cardboard, and I couldn't figure out why it was cardboard.
You know, a lot of times we hear these stories of someone who has climbed a mountain, or they've become a winner of cooking contest, or they've done something just over the top amazing, and it feels inspirational in a way because, like, look, this person did this amazing thing.
But in a way it's not relatable because I don't know about all of you, but when I try something, there's usually some disasters before there is the perfection, and we don't always hear about those disasters.
I want to hear when you were learning to cook and figuring out your adaptations, share some, some times when things didn't quite go as planned.
Since my vision loss, this is awfully humorous, but because I could not see to drain the spaghetti after it was cooked in the pot, so I brought it to the sink with the colander, and I thought that the spaghetti was in the pan.
And then that, that cracked me up because when I bit into the hamburger patty, I ate the paper.
I've cooked a pizza in, in the oven with the cardboard under it, and tasted the pizza and it tasted like cardboard, and I couldn't figure out why it was cardboard.
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