National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day


 
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Joan

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Come on now! I know we have all had at least one of those days. How about sharing at least one or two of those incidences here with us. We all could use a good laugh these days. ;):giggle:
 
Making scratch chocolate cake. Put all the dry ingredients in to the Kitchenaid stand mixer. So far so good. Wife and 4 kids are watching as it is a rainy day. Ok, here’s where the fun happens…. I plugged it in without checking the speed setting…. It was on 8 of 10. According to my family, I disappeared into a cloud of coco powder. It was even piled up on my eye lashes. That happen some 25 years ago ang they still bring it up. I was angry because I was now out off coco powder….. cake never got made…
 
My first quiche was made using a two piece tart mold. When placing it into the oven the filling leaked all over the place and it was then I learned to place the mold onto a baking sheet. You learn once.
 
Many years ago, my then girlfriend and I spent the morning in a canoe picking blueberries along the shore of a lake.

Later that day we made 2 pies from scratch .

When it came time to remove the pies from the oven , the flimsy sheet pan (under the pies ) buckled and both pies hit the floor .
 
Beautiful pot roast coming out of the oven, hand slipped and the whole thing hit the deck! The air was not as blue as it might have been, all I could do was blast out one sentence of that followed by twenty minutes of laughing about it! It could have been a lot worse, didn’t even get burned, just lost the entree for family dinner. Bucket of chicken wasn’t too far away!
I have one involving blood too, suffice to say I was lucky to have a doctor in the house that had not had as much beer as I had. “Should I go to the E.R.?”
“Nah, you cut it clean as a surgeon, it will be fine, get a beer and keep it elevated.”

So, what’s yours Joan?
 
So Joan, your silence in this subject (initiated by you) leaves me rather curious; you must be an absolute technician far above the likes of many professionals who admit, and sometimes show pride in, admitting the occasional failure.
Are you really that good? Own up to one, after all, you started this!
 
Got up early to smoke a pork butt. Fired up the WSM hooked up my trusty maverick and took it out in the garage with me to monitor the cook. When the WSM stabilized I went in to get the butt and the phone rang, It was just a spam call so I hung up and went back out to the garage. Almost three hours later I wondered why the temp on the butt hadn't changed from 85 degrees. I went out to check and here's the meat probe just hanging in the wind. I thought I just forgot to put it into the butt. The look on my face must have been priceless when I lifted the lid and no butt.
It was still in the fridge. Needless to say dinner was a little late that day.
 
I'd be a TVWBB 5-Star Olympian if I spoke to all my mishaps. The food processor blade slicing my leg, the runaway Reynolds wrap roll, the hung pork shoulder dropping into the fire bed, the raw meat 5 second rule no one knows about, etc, etc.
 
Timothy F. Lewis said:
So Joan, your silence in this subject (initiated by you) leaves me rather curious; you must be an absolute technician far above the likes of many professionals who admit, and sometimes show pride in, admitting the occasional failure.
Are you really that good? Own up to one, after all, you started this!
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DH has been doing all the cooking for quite a few years now and before that, my memory is not that good.

Also, Senator, I plead the fifth. lol
 
Sorry madam, you’ve GOT to give us just one.
I will not speak to opening up a thumb on a processor blade, nor acknowledge the uncountable burns (2 were severe but, I did not go to the hospital, won’t give the sob the satisfaction!( thanks Gunny)).
Besides this (Thank you Chris!) is NOT a political forum! Just plain (sometimes embellished) truths!
Again, senator, YOU opened this line of questioning!
You’ve just been called out ma’am.
 
When I was an Army cook, Thanksgiving was always a bigger holiday meal than Christmas because so many people wanted to go home for the holidays.
In our dining facility(mess hall) we had 4 large commercial convection ovens and 2 large ranges that had 3 sections across the top instead of individual burners, as well as an oven underneath. The top had variable temps so you could either simmer or saute something and the oven had a temp setting and a high, medium or low range for the heat.
Because most everything was being roasted that day, we used the ranges to cook some boneless turkey rolls. Actual boned turkeys, with light and dark meat and skin! They were not too bad if cooked properly.
During the mad rush to get everything cooked, someone reached down to turn up the heat on the top.
Unfortunately, they grabbed the wrong knob, and turned the oven heat from low to high range!!
After about 10 minutes or so, we looked over and flames were coming out of the oven!!
The roasting pan was yanked out and covered with a sheet pan to put the flames out and the turkey rolls went back in to finish cooking.
If I remember correctly, after cooking was finished the blackened pieces were cut off and the turkey was served!
 
Timothy F. Lewis said:
Sorry madam, you’ve GOT to give us just one.
I will not speak to opening up a thumb on a processor blade, nor acknowledge the uncountable burns (2 were severe but, I did not go to the hospital, won’t give the sob the satisfaction!( thanks Gunny)).
Besides this (Thank you Chris!) is NOT a political forum! Just plain (sometimes embellished) truths!
Again, senator, YOU opened this line of questioning!
You’ve just been called out ma’am.
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ok, the last thing I did to screw up in the kitchen was put dirty dishes in the dishwasher before the clean ones were taken out.
 
Joan said:
ok, the last thing I did to screw up in the kitchen was put dirty dishes in the dishwasher before the clean ones were taken out.
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That’s not a failure just simple “didn’t look” , one of the reasons I don’t have a dishwasher, I did that when I was 17. Sorry, you can’t get off with that one, own one Joan.😉
Come on, you put salt in when it should have been sugar in a batch of jam for your mother in law?
You can’t start this kind of thread without remembering a time when you did something wrong.
Fun, silly or, stoned. Dishes do NOT count,
 
Phil Perrin said:
When I was an Army cook, Thanksgiving was always a bigger holiday meal than Christmas because so many people wanted to go home for the holidays.
In our dining facility(mess hall) we had 4 large commercial convection ovens and 2 large ranges that had 3 sections across the top instead of individual burners, as well as an oven underneath. The top had variable temps so you could either simmer or saute something and the oven had a temp setting and a high, medium or low range for the heat.
Because most everything was being roasted that day, we used the ranges to cook some boneless turkey rolls. Actual boned turkeys, with light and dark meat and skin! They were not too bad if cooked properly.
During the mad rush to get everything cooked, someone reached down to turn up the heat on the top.
Unfortunately, they grabbed the wrong knob, and turned the oven heat from low to high range!!
After about 10 minutes or so, we looked over and flames were coming out of the oven!!
The roasting pan was yanked out and covered with a sheet pan to put the flames out and the turkey rolls went back in to finish cooking.
If I remember correctly, after cooking was finished the blackened pieces were cut off and the turkey was served!
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Doesn’t that kind of fall under the aegis of SNAFU? I can only imagine!
 
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