I dreamt that I was at a party given by some friends who were from somewhere far away. Scandinavia comes to mind, but I am not sure were exactly they were from. They were preparing a special dish from their country for their new friends. It was a thick vegetable soup with many ingredients, most of which were rather common. However, the trick was in cooking a portion of the ingredients at a slightly higher temperature. A part of it was to be slightly undercooked, but everything was ultimately mixed together before serving. Feeling the difference in the mouth was the prize. I remember being puzzled by the pot used to cook the soup, though. While the soup was still boiling, a spout protruded from the middle of the concoction. Only when the pot was emptied into several porcelain bowls I realized that it had an inverted funnel built into it. The wide mouth of the funnel covered the bottom of the pot while its narrow stern was level with its sides at the top. The ingredients that went into the funnel were thus cooked at a higher temperature than the ingredients that went around it. The contraption struck me as quite ingenious in my dream. Only when I woke up it dawned on me that two different pots would do just fine for the cooking of the exotic soup. The inverted funnel was superfluous at best.