Tradition is Creme Brule. Tradition is a micro-torch which gently melts and smoothly flows sugar into a thin, crisp caramel crust.

Lack of time is a plumbers blow-torch that leaves globes of sugar rounded from surface tension and almost-burnt.

Joy is either crust on top of made-from-scratch Creme Brule after a dinner with great friends of cold water Lobster and extra thick steak.

Thank you, AJ.