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So 4 days ago, I made creamy/cheesy scalloped potatoes, meat loaf and broccoli for dinner.
I put the pans, covered in foil, from the scalloped potatoes and meatloaf (empty but still dirty) back in the oven so the cats wouldn't get at them while we were eating, and pushed the steamer aside (again, empty but still dirty) then decided to be lazy and left them overnight. Well, I forgot about them in the oven, as I didn't use it, and at a glance the steamer didn't look dirty so nothing "triggered" for me to wash the dishes.
Well, this morning, I could smell something funky, and it was the stagnant broccoli water in the steamer trap....OMG! cooked broccoli smells bad as it is, but rotting broccoli is....no words. Then, it clued in...the pans in the oven. When I pulled the foil off the meatloaf pan, it wasn't the worst, but then I pulled the foil off the scalloped potatoes, and I could thrown up!
I rinsed, quickly washed and then put them in the dishwasher to be sanitized well. But there is still a lingering funk wafting in my kitchen.
Anyone else ever accidentally have a science experiment or bio-lab in their home?
I put the pans, covered in foil, from the scalloped potatoes and meatloaf (empty but still dirty) back in the oven so the cats wouldn't get at them while we were eating, and pushed the steamer aside (again, empty but still dirty) then decided to be lazy and left them overnight. Well, I forgot about them in the oven, as I didn't use it, and at a glance the steamer didn't look dirty so nothing "triggered" for me to wash the dishes.
Well, this morning, I could smell something funky, and it was the stagnant broccoli water in the steamer trap....OMG! cooked broccoli smells bad as it is, but rotting broccoli is....no words. Then, it clued in...the pans in the oven. When I pulled the foil off the meatloaf pan, it wasn't the worst, but then I pulled the foil off the scalloped potatoes, and I could thrown up!
I rinsed, quickly washed and then put them in the dishwasher to be sanitized well. But there is still a lingering funk wafting in my kitchen.
Anyone else ever accidentally have a science experiment or bio-lab in their home?