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Post by Opti on Jan 23, 2011 18:56:44 GMT -5
I could use some cheering up so perhaps after I share today's kitchen accident others can share theirs too. I decided to use some Chicken marinade to stir fry with tonight. I add a little to the pan when I start with the cut up chicken and a little more after I add frozen veggies. Well, tonight I forgot I didn't close the cap on the marinade so when I went to shake it of course it went all over the stove top and quite a bit on my t-shirt. The good news is the t-shirt is not one of my best, but I'd still like to save it and get all those wonderful spots out. So can you cheer me up? Any good stories?
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Post by Regie on Jan 23, 2011 19:03:24 GMT -5
I once forgot some eggs boiling, they went beyond hard boiled to explosive. Found egg shells 20ft from the stove. ExDH once put a pizza in the oven and fell asleep. I awoke 3 hours later to the smoke alarm. Ran down the hall and yelled fire. He sat up and said "No, pizza."
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Post by suzwantstobefree on Jan 23, 2011 19:03:59 GMT -5
That same thing happened to me at an italian restaurant with a bottle of italian salad dressing. It is a restaurant that I go to all the time and everytime I go there, they make a point of telling me that the bottle is open.....
If you want to try to save the t-shirt, rub laundry detergent all over it (since you cannot "spot" it) and wash it tonight in the hottest water you can without ruining the color. Hope it works!!!
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Post by Befferz on Jan 23, 2011 19:08:05 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my mom once made grits to go with dinner. As she was carrying the casserole dish from the kitchen to the dining room, she tripped over the threshold or something, and the dish slipped out of her hands. There were grits allllllllllllllll over, under the table and chairs, on the floor and walls of course, and even on the ceiling. She never made grits again...
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Post by Opti on Jan 23, 2011 19:08:35 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestion Suze. I have noticed so far its full strength detergent to get rid of any stains.
Thanks for the stories so far Regie and Suz. I so hate when I do something stupid.
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Post by rick on Jan 23, 2011 19:11:07 GMT -5
I was shaking up a jar of salsa one time and was just kind of slapping the top as I was doing it, and I blew the bottom out of the jar a salsa all over the kitchen
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jan 23, 2011 19:11:34 GMT -5
I won't even begin to list my episodes in the kitchen. Just say that I have set off smoke detectors boiling water. And a friend gave me a fire extinguisher for Christmas
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Post by MN-Investor on Jan 23, 2011 19:14:51 GMT -5
A kitchen mess, but not from cooking. My folks were painting their kitchen and Dad had the bright idea to use his drill with a stirrer attachment to stir up the paint. That only works if you have a variable speed drill. Dad didn't. There was paint everywhere! A lot could be cleaned up, but other splatters went into microwave oven vents, etc. They are there for the ages!
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Post by The J on Jan 23, 2011 19:15:48 GMT -5
I pan roasted some chicken to go with pasta. I took the chicken out of the oven and put it on the stove to rest. A few minutes later, I went to drain the pasta. When I wanted to put the pasta pot in a convenient spot on the stove to put the pasta back in and mix with the sauce, I grabbed the handle of the saute pan. Burned my entire palm. Now I have a little slip cover that goes over the handle as soon as it comes out of the oven.
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Post by Mad Dawg Wiccan on Jan 23, 2011 19:17:07 GMT -5
I once had a zip-lock bag half full of frozen leftover chili. I smacked the bag on the tile counter top to break the chili up a bit. Instead, I shattered two tiles.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 23, 2011 19:19:24 GMT -5
LOL!! I did that with mashed potatoes once. I wasn't paying attention and lifted the mixer up. Mashed potatoes were everywhere including the cabinets on the opposite side of the kitchen.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2011 19:19:52 GMT -5
I cut a big chunk of my middle finger off slicing potatoes to make homemade scalloped potatoes. I woke up with a lump on my head, my neighbor standing over me, and a bloody piece of finger in my sliced potatoes.
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Post by The J on Jan 23, 2011 19:20:23 GMT -5
Angel -- were you using a mandoline?
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 23, 2011 19:21:23 GMT -5
Angel, your story has cracked me up both times I've read it tonight! You are too funny.
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Post by Opti on Jan 23, 2011 19:23:01 GMT -5
I cut a big chunk of my middle finger off slicing potatoes to make homemade scalloped potatoes. I woke up with a lump on my head, my neighbor standing over me, and a bloody piece of finger in my sliced poatoes. Owwww! Did you get your piece of finger sewn back on? Luckily I've only bled profusely a couple times.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2011 19:24:00 GMT -5
Angel -- were you using a mandoline? Yes I was. It is a death trap! I actually am not allowed to use it anymore. I almost did it a 2nd time but the second time I just cut off my nail.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2011 19:25:44 GMT -5
I cut a big chunk of my middle finger off slicing potatoes to make homemade scalloped potatoes. I woke up with a lump on my head, my neighbor standing over me, and a bloody piece of finger in my sliced poatoes. Owwww! Did you get your piece of finger sewn back on? Luckily I've only bled profusely a couple times. No, I didn't think they could sew it back on so I just resigned myself to having a gimpy finger, but the meat grew back and all I have is a slightly scarred middle finger that I am still proud to flip people off with!
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Post by The J on Jan 23, 2011 19:26:13 GMT -5
You should ALWAYS use the cutting guard with a mandoline.
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Post by queenofcorona on Jan 23, 2011 19:27:22 GMT -5
My exbf coated what are known as mountain oysters in powdered sugar rather than flour before frying. They weren't a big hit. I wouldn't touch them with a 10 ft. pole either way .... if someone tells you it tastes like chicken, I figure I'm better off just eating chicken. My own duhs: I accidentally used sour milk one year at Christmas in the mashed potatoes. We were at my grandparents and she keeps sour milk for use in Texas Cake and the like. Sour milk in mashed potatoes is not what sour cream is to a baked potato. Yuck. I also had a crock pot of the little cocktail wieners tip over in the trunk of a previous vehicle. That one was really ugly.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2011 19:34:59 GMT -5
I was trying to make a pyrex dish of baked beans cook faster so I took them out of the oven and put them on the stove top... not such a good idea. The dish popped and I've still got a yucky burned spot on my smooth cook-top. I couldn't get it cleaned up because the eye was so hot and just kept cooking it. I ended up cutting myself on the glass and burning myself trying to clean the eye. So much for speeding things up!
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Post by Sammy on Jan 23, 2011 19:48:05 GMT -5
I put an entire pan of left over lasagna on the back floor of the car. Temps plummeted overnight and the lasagna froze. As it froze the oil and tomato sauce leached around the covering and onto the floor mats. By the time I found it the spilled contents were frozen and stuck to everything it came into contact with. Once the mess thawed I mixed up an extra strong solution of Oxyclean and started scrubbing the mess. Dang, not a stain was left when I finished. Considering the amount of oil between the cheeses and olive oil I never thought the mess could be cleaned.
I also badly burned the palm of my hand on a deep frier. Stuck my hand in cold water and kept changing the water until the burn stopped hurting. Took an hour or more, but I was only left with angry looking red marks that did not hurt. The quicker you treat a burn before it starts the blister by keeping it cool and the longer you keep the burn area cool the better off you are. Of course if the burn wound is open then you immediately head to the emergency room with clean cool compresses on it.
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Post by Jake 48 on Jan 23, 2011 20:16:01 GMT -5
when youngest son was 3-4, he took the squeeze bottle of ketchup of the table while his mother was cooking. He went into the living room and pulled the cushions off the sofa, squirted ketchup on one side ,flipped it over on the carpet and did the other side
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 23, 2011 20:23:16 GMT -5
LOL, jake! Although I am sure you guys were not laughing! The first time I made Thanksgiving dinner, I was 24, and we had a few people for dinner. I was so concerned with all of my side dishes that I never basted the turkey. The whole top was dried out, and the part sitting in the juice was nice and juicy. There wasn't enough good turkey to go around, thank goodness there were enough side dishes. I did drop an anchor hocking covered casserole on the tile floor. I don't even remember what was in it. Whatever it was kept the glass pretty much intact (it did not shatter far and wide), and the glass cover did not break at all.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jan 23, 2011 20:23:50 GMT -5
I was making chicken stir fry in a stainless steel skillet. I hadn't used the stainless pans since 2006 bc I didn't like how they did on electric stoves. Just recently got a gas stove again. It was fine when I checked it and a few minutes later the food was burnt to the bottom of the pan. I'm still trying to get the burnt stuff off the bottom of the pan. Also tonight trying to clean the stove I burned my fingers. The places with stubborn spots are right above the pilot lights for the burners and its HOT! When I first moved here I burnt 3 bags of popcorn in the microwave. Made scrambled eggs and bacon this morning. Bacon was frozen so I put it in for a minute longer than normal. Burnt it black, there was hardly any grease left on the plate.
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Post by Sammy on Jan 23, 2011 20:30:35 GMT -5
;D Man, we are some dang good cooks on this board. ;D
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 23, 2011 20:33:48 GMT -5
My funniest Thanksgiving story was my very first Thanksgiving (just got married that May before) and had a dozen family members coming over. I had a huge turkey in the oven in what was to me my new home. DH1 already owned it. I went to baste the turkey and when I pulled the wrack partially out of the oven to baste the turkey, the wrack dumped the turkey out of the oven and it skid across the kitchen floor in the pan. LMAO!! It was like the turkey was trying to escape! Somebody put the wrack in upside down (yes, DH 1 did it). I was laughing so hard he had to pick the turkey pan with turkey up to put it back in the oven. I was trying to explain to him that the wrack was upside down but I was laughing so hard I couldn't talk. In spite of that, dinner was a hit and we had a funny story to share.
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Post by queenofcorona on Jan 23, 2011 20:34:36 GMT -5
bwaahaaaaaahaaaa jake, that is a perfectly awesome awful story.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jan 23, 2011 20:35:40 GMT -5
My fajitas tonight turned out fabulously. There's always the time I was talking on phone while mixing up chocolate chip cookies and only put half the flour in that it called for. I wondered why they were so runny when I put them on the baking sheet. I've burnt grilled cheese a bunch just by not paying attention. Made bread pudding that never set up. Used the called for amounts of liquid and bread it just didn't work. Made it again with more bread it was fab. Forgot to put it in the fridge and it molded. Made it for a third time and put it in the fridge. It was for a pregnant friend who was craving it so I had to get it made.
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Post by Jake 48 on Jan 23, 2011 20:36:04 GMT -5
wvugurl, if it is good quality stainless steel, do you have access to a sand blaster. That will clean the burnt food right up
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 23, 2011 20:36:39 GMT -5
;D Man, we are some dang good cooks on this board. ;D The best cooks learn from their mistakes!
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