Note to self... (and a public service announcement)
realnurse26
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When baking an angel food cake, make sure the rack is lowered first. It’s a “growing” cake... therefore, it will grow... thus taking over the heating element above if not on a lowered rack... thus making a huge mess... 🤦🏼♀️
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When frying chicken, do not confuse powdered sugar for flour.17
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springlering62 wrote: »When frying chicken, do not confuse powdered sugar for flour.
😂😂😂 Bless it!1 -
when grabbing chocolate sauce from fridge, make sure it is not the bbq sauce ( did that as a jid, sneaking ice cream lol! Karma)9
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Put your contacts in or your glasses on before grabbing the tube of hair conditioner instead of toothpaste. 😳9
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When grabbing a diet coke make sure you don't grab a beer instead. They just don't taste the same and you could have repercussions if you work at home with children and their parents find out. Oops.5
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Take your contact lenses out BEFORE chopping the jalapeños.11
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Do not store your fruit syrup next to a same shaped bottle of pumpkin seed oil. Noone needs super concentrated raspberry drizzled over their beans/onion/tomato salad.
Also shoutout to my mom storing salt in a glass jar labeled "Sugar". My banana bread came out salty as heck9 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Take your contact lenses out BEFORE chopping the jalapeños.
Ouch. I decided to leave those devils alone altogether when dummy me chopped them without gloves. My hands were red, burning, and swollen for two days afterward!
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Take your contact lenses out BEFORE chopping the jalapeños.
I was chopping some chili two days ago and got some in a little wound under my nail. After two days, it still burns.6 -
Cinnamon sugar chicken anyone?
I had a cold and didn't notice the blunder until my brother came home and asked when the cinnamon rolls would be done.
Jar with cinnamon sugar and jar with home made meat spice look the same. The cold meds seemed to have scrambled my brain.
It was an .. interesting taste combo...8 -
I forgot to tear a vent in the bag of rice that was heating in the microwave. The bag exploded, and my microwave looked like a snow globe.10
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When setting up the slow cooker for your daughter to start/turn on before she goes to school (because you leave too early) - include 'make sure its plugged in' in the instructions. Arrived home 4pm, chicken still raw (shock). It was years ago but I assume we ordered pizza.
Though now I have a programmable cooker...7 -
When making pickled veggies don't cook part of the veggies and spices, making a huge mess in the kitchen and then throw a big pile of salt into the vinegar instead of sugar.3
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When cooking soup in slow cooker and adding cream at last minute, dont ruin hours of cooking by using gone off out of date cream.8
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Oh lord... It grows in the mixing bowl too...lol2
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If the dehydrated chipotle and habanero peppers have gotten a little too humid to grind up well in the mortar and pestle, and you decide to use the microwave to fully dry them out, be really careful: Too long in there, and you literally have a kitchen full of stinging, choking pepper fumes.
Oh, and another one: If the pan is a little small for those buttery homemade cinnamon rolls, be aware that the smoke alarm will go off when the expanding rolls pour butter onto the gas oven's floor, and it ignites in lively flames.8 -
The avocado oil SAYS is has a smoke point of 500 degrees...
the smoke alarm says otherwise.12 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Take your contact lenses out BEFORE chopping the jalapeños.
I was chopping some chili two days ago and got some in a little wound under my nail. After two days, it still burns.
I must confess a bad habit: I sometimes bite my nails. Today I was biting. 6 days after chopping that chili, putting that nail in my mouth burned.
And yes, I live in the same world with covid and wash my hands with soap multiple times per day. That is one persistent chili.5 -
Don’t misread ‘Tamari’ for ‘Tabasco’ in your recipe and put 2tbsp in your Kidney Bean dish.
This was years ago when I’d just left home and had never heard of either product (early 1980’s) but I always think of it when I pick up the Tamari, even now! 😂4 -
Amazon third party liquid sucralose comes in the same type of clear squeeze bottle I use for mixing down 99.99% electronics cleaner into ~70% hand sanitizer. And both are clear liquids...2
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springlering62 wrote: »When frying chicken, do not confuse powdered sugar for flour.
Hmmm... candied chicken... actually sounds good to me....Amazon third party liquid sucralose comes in the same type of clear squeeze bottle I use for mixing down 99.99% electronics cleaner into ~70% hand sanitizer. And both are clear liquids...
Welcome back @PAV8888 .... the "legend" has returned 🤟4 -
Here's one from April. When chopping very hot chilies don't think: hey, I'm getting good at this chopping and then cut yourself into the finger with the knife that just got the whetstone treatment.
In my case I cursed, went to the hall where my first aid box is, looked at cut and saw what looked like a clean cut through finger nail and bottom of finger, got dizzy before I could get my bandaging stuff out. Tried again a moment later. Rinse and repeat a few more times. Then phoned GP who advised I should come by if I manage. Kitchen paper towel around finger (did I mention I cut chilies?), finger behind my back (you can't see what you can't see), and went across road to GP and freely distributed quite a bit of blood there. It took 5 days before I could take the bandage off without feeling too queazy. Yikes! It's just a finger cut; seen much worse. I think there's a switch in the brain that goes between: "bike accident - oh, I can see my knee cap! That's super fascinating" or "can I watch along during my abdominal surgery" and "Finger cut - now faint!"5 -
Baking powder vs baking soda - as a kid I don't know how many recipes I screwed up.4
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just_Tomek wrote: »When you wake up in the morning and go to brush your teeth half asleep, make sure that tube of toothpaste, is in fact toothpaste. That did not feel good, not at all.
Now you gotta tell us what it was? It was Preparation H, wasn't it?!? :laugh:4 -
Shake your almond milk BEFORE taking the cap off.12
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RelCanonical wrote: »Shake your almond milk BEFORE taking the cap off.
Or make sure your shaker bottle cap is closed tight...4 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Baking powder vs baking soda - as a kid I don't know how many recipes I screwed up.
What is the difference? I only know baking powder but saw soda in the uk1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Baking powder vs baking soda - as a kid I don't know how many recipes I screwed up.
What is the difference? I only know baking powder but saw soda in the uk
I’m not even sure, but mixing them up in a recipe is disastrous. Blech!0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Baking powder vs baking soda - as a kid I don't know how many recipes I screwed up.
What is the difference? I only know baking powder but saw soda in the uk
Baking soda is Sodium Bicarbonate (alkaline/base) - it needs an acid in order for it to make the bubbles that lighten up quick breads or whatever. Acid can be buttermilk, yogurt, citrus juice, vinegar . . . .
Baking powder is a mixture of a weak acid and something alkaline/base (usually a carbonate or bicarbonate), plus usually something to stabilize it, maybe cornstarch, so it doesn't bubble prematurely. Just adding a liquid will make it create the bubbles that are necessary for lightening up baked goods.
I'm not sure what disaster happens when you use baking powder instead of soda (seems like that might work, except that you might get some weird flat taste from the excess bicarbonate? If you use baking soda when you need baking powder, i.e., in a recipe without sufficent acid to cause the bubble-creating chemical reaction, the baked good product won't rise or have the right texture.4 -
Another note to self (and these have all been great, by the way) that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with a cooking mistake but is still very important to remember... do NOT use your cheat meal on a half order of nachos bell grande from Taco Bell. I have felt sick as a dog since yesterday. Dear God, what was I thinking??2
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