Only the worst kind of vermicelli tends to clump. All problems can be avoided by about 15cc of olive oil. So, I went out in the backyard, plucked some olives, crushed them in my nutcracker, spun them in the centrifuge, precisely toasted them in the autoclave, and dripped it into the pot with an IV. But you cannot cook with the radio on, I've found, nor when the smoke alarm is alarming. And under the stove, there's rustling that I don't want to investigate.