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Re: Cooking Mishaps
[Re: Blibbleblabble]
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11/02/07 12:05 PM
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I love deep fried turkey, I've had it down south and it's delicious, but talk about a potential kitchen disaster? Here's a link: Deep Fried Turkey Disaster
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/02/07 08:49 PM
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I'v only recently heard many say that deep fried turkey is really good. I'd try it, but damn, after seeing that video, it'd be just my luck I'd not just burn my house down but probably wipe out my entire family.  That's really scary. Surely there's gotta be an easier way to deep fry a turkey?????  TIS
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/02/07 09:52 PM
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Well they did say the turkey was only partially thawed and that's why the huge fireball. All I can say to whomever might try it..follow directions very carefully.  I have had my share of cooking mishaps, and was trying to think of a really different one, but I guess I've had the normal mishaps like burning the roast or undercooking the turkey; one time as a newlywed, we had another couple over for dinner. I had just learned how to make spaghetti sauce. The only problem was I only made enough sauce for two people but cooked enough noodles for four. Needless to say, the pasta was pretty darn dry.  Don't know what I was thinking. I must say though, that particular blunder never happened again. My family in Michigan and my aunt's family still tease me about my famous "lopsided" cake.  Don't even ask. I don't know what/how I did it but it was an oblong cake that more or less looked like a hill. TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/02/07 10:11 PM
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Mig, I can't make pie crust!! I tried for years and finally gave up. It seems like I'd always have to end up patching it together.  I'll buy the frozen crust, it's easier. I feel I'm better (and more confident) at cooking meals as opposed to desserts. Maybe cause I don't usually care too much for the desserts, I don't know. Yet, I can make chocolate cookies from scratch and those aren't bad.  TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/03/07 05:25 PM
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We nearly always used packaged biscuits and pie crusts. After a continuous series of disasters with the crusts, we gave up and looked around for a good commercial brand. I really think that's the key - experimentation because there is so much to choose from out there.
One pseudo-mishap comes to mind, but it has nothing to do with baking:
Around 15 years ago, I gave my late father and The Bee-yotch (his wife) our recipe for pasta with tuna and olive sauce (I posted it in another thread in this forum). I mailed them the full instructions, and waited to hear how everything turned out.
After a couple of weeks, I still hadn't heard anything, so I called him and asked him what they thought of the tuna sauce recipe. He said it was terrible. I was shocked, to say the least. I asked him if they had followed my directions exactly, and he said they had. Then I asked him if there were problems with the spaghetti. "Spaghetti?" he replied. "Yeah," I said, "What happened with the spaghetti?" There was a silence on the other end of the phone, then he sheepishly confessed that they hadn't made any! He had forgotten all about that part. I gently reminded him that it was a sauce, meant to be served over pasta, and that they should try it once more, but the proper way. But, stubborn person that he was, he wouldn't do it.
After that, I gave up. I don't believe I ever sent him another recipe.
Signor V.
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"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/03/07 06:40 PM
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SV, You're right on the variety of frozen crusts these days. They have some supposedly "easy to roll" dough I have yet to try. Talking about biscuits, etc, true story from just a couple hours ago. I went to the grocery store with my daughter (the one with 3 kids). She's loading up the cart and gets some frozen mini pancakes. She makes a comment about how she's not making the "homemade" kind......"I said you mean like Aunt Jemima where you just add water?" She said "yes". I cracked up and said, "that's not homemade. Homemade is buying the proper flour and making literally from scratch. We both got a good laugh.  TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/05/07 01:28 PM
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Cooking mishap - I wanted a two egg omelette today. I got everything ready (scrambling the eggs, lightly oiled the pan, etc.) and poured the eggs into the pan after a few minutes.... it wasn't cooking.  I could feel the heat and couldn't understand "why" it wasn't cooking. Then it hit me.... I turned on the wrong burner on the stove. 
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/05/07 02:58 PM
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Cooking mishap - I wanted a two egg omelette today. I got everything ready (scrambling the eggs, lightly oiled the pan, etc.) and poured the eggs into the pan after a few minutes.... it wasn't cooking.  I could feel the heat and couldn't understand "why" it wasn't cooking. Then it hit me.... I turned on the wrong burner on the stove. Sounds like something I would do. Have you ever put a pan of biscuits in the oven and forget to turn it on?
Dylan Matthew Moran born 10/30/12
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/05/07 03:52 PM
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There was one very serious cooking mishap that happened when I was a little over two years old. In fact, it is possibly my earliest memory.
We lived in a small house in the suburbs, and it happened one afternoon when my father was at work.
I was with my mother, and we were both in the kitchen. She was making preparations for dinner, and was preheating the oven. After several minutes, she checked the oven and noticed that it was not lit. So, she opened the oven door to relight it. I was standing quite near her. She didn't realize that the gas had built up within the oven, and as she bent over and struck the match all the gas ignited with what I can only describe as a noise like a huge explosion. A literal wall of flame shot out of the oven over my mother and me. The fireball was huge, but it only lasted around a second or two - we were burned, but not set on fire. I ran screaming out of the house through the kitchen's side door absolutely convinced my mother had been killed. Nobody could possibly live through that, I thought. Neighbors found me still screaming in the backyard, holding my hands to my face to try and stop the pain from the burns.
Amazingly enough, the burns were actually minor, and we were both okay in a few days. But, at the time, to a two-year-old, it seemed like the end of the world.
Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
[Re: Signor Vitelli]
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11/05/07 04:26 PM
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That's a scary story, Signor V. Your mother must have been worried. What kind of burns did you both have?
Those brief fireballs are something else. On a much smaller scale, I was once cooking on a grill at a picnic/fundraiser, and lifted the top of the grill, and saw nothing but a sudden, brief wall of flame all around. I didn't feel a thing, other than a rush of surprise, but seconds afterward someone asked me, "Where did your eyebrows go?"
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/05/07 04:56 PM
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On a much smaller scale, I was once cooking on a grill at a picnic/fundraiser, and lifted the top of the grill, and saw nothing but a sudden, brief wall of flame all around. I didn't feel a thing, other than a rush of surprise, but seconds afterward someone asked me, "Where did your eyebrows go?"  Sr. Vitelli's story reminds me of a similar one of my own. My ex and I bought a house in 1980. One of its main selling points to us was its modern, well equipped kitchen. It had a six burner stove with two ovens and we were anxious to try it. The day we moved in I went to light the oven, holding a match to the oven's pilot light, but it didn't light. I tried the other oven. Same result. I couldn't figure it out until ALL OF A SUDDEN the oven went on.... we'd never had a self-igniting oven before. 
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Re: Cooking Mishaps
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11/05/07 04:57 PM
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Wow...they had electricity back then? It was a gas stove - still the best way to cook as far as I'm concerned. What kind of burns did you both have? The burns were first-degree and our hair and eyebrows were a bit singed. My mother also sprained her wrist because she fell over when the flames flashed. She got the worst of it - she was kneeling down right in front of the open oven door while I was standing a couple of feet to her right, watching her. My father came home as fast as he could and we both saw the doctor that day. I remember we were given some sort of salve for the burns, and my mother's wrist was bandaged. She was told to rest in bed for a few days, which she did. All in all, probably the scariest moment of my young life. Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
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