Note to self... (and a public service announcement)

Put your contacts in or your glasses on before grabbing the tube of hair conditioner instead of toothpaste. 😳

Take your contact lenses out BEFORE chopping the jalapeños.

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...

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...

When cooking soup in slow cooker and adding cream at last minute, dont ruin hours of cooking by using gone off out of date cream.

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.

hipari wrote: »

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.

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!"