Question of the Day, Friday, April 7

[Margret]

Early in our marriage, we had only one car so I took Roger to work in the morning and picked him up in the evening.  So one evening, I put the vegetables in the nice copper-bottom pot and set it on the gas stove to cook, and then forgot to turn off the stove before I went to pick up Roger.  Totally burned the bottom out of that nice pot. 

  I don't remember what we ate that night.

Margret

 

[mani]

Just one of those 'leave the toast in the griller and wander off' scenarios.  When I came back the fire brigade was there.

No fire, but a lot of smoke and it was an apartment building.

 

[Winchester]

Rick did that to a hamburger one time. He came home late, threw a burger puck in the frying pan and turned the stove on. He sat down on the couch and fell asleep. He awakened a while later and there was absolutely nothing in the pan. Smoke was everywhere. It was ugly. Thank goodness, he woke up in time.

 

[micknsnicks2mom]

i've had kitchen screw-ups!

cooking rice on the stove. i've learned that i must watch it until the starch cooks down/off (at least that's what i think causes the rice to bubble up), lifting the lid when the bubbles get close to the top of the saucepan......otherwise, it'll bubble over onto the burner every single time -- such a nasty mess!. i tend to like to multi-task, which doesn't work well when i'm cooking rice.

then there's the slow cooker chicken stock recipe that i made once. i followed the directions carefully, and when it was done the stock tasted like ever so slightly chicken tasting water. i'm still not sure if the problem was something i did/didn't do, or the recipe. i'll be making chicken stock again next week, and am going to find a different recipe to try.

and finally, there's the first homemade ranch dressing mix recipe i tried. the second recipe is great, but the first recipe i tried tasted overpoweringly of onion -- way too much onion powder! it was the recipe itself that was to fault. i looked up several other ranch dressing mix recipes, and noted that they all called for about 1/4 the amount of onion powder than the first recipe called for. however, i saved the too oniony mix, and will be converting it up to a larger batch of the second mix recipe, to bring the onion powder to the proper amount in the mix.

 

[sivyaleah]

I know one of them (soda, I think) requires a hotter temperature at the beginning to get the rising process started. Could also have been your oven temperature. So many things can go wrong with baking.

Or expired too.  

 

[sivyaleah]

Another one but not me, although I was there.

A roommate of mine, who I'd known since college, was a bad late night snack person.  Not easy things like a bag of chips. No, she'd make full meals. Drunk.

One night, I woke up at around 3am and smelled smoke.  I got up and realized it was coming from the very small kitchen (which, btw, was in a very small apartment - studio style).  The smoke was coming from the broiler. Opened it, and saw burnt chicken parts. Not just cooked, but freaking meteorites by the time I got to them.

Woke up my friend to tell her what a dangerous screw up she is.

In her semi-drunk state, she actually got up, and went into the kitchen, put a piece on a plate and proceeded to eat it!

You can not make this stuff up people.  

 

[bbdoll22]

Many years ago I couldn't cook to save my soul. I put some eggs in pot of water to hard boil them. I forgot them and went down the block to an antique store. Came home to a smoke filled apartment with eggs on the walls the ceiling everywhere. The pot was burned beyond belief.