I set the stove on fire making jello when I was about 15. I left a dish towel on the gas stove, and left the room as water was boiling. Came back and the
entire thing was in flames. My only previous experience with a kitchen fire was when I was about 5, and there was a grease fire in the oven. my mom put it out
with flour, so I thought that was what you did with kitchen fires. Of course it did nothing, so I poured water all over everything, and spent 3 days cleaning
up flour paste off the entire kitchen.
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Posts: 4436 (05/12/08 7:56 PM) Registered user |
I set a pot holder on fire last week.
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Posts: 9047 (05/12/08 8:29 PM) Registered user |
Bignubber's favorite birthday cake is chocolate with Seven Minute Frosting which you cook on top of the stove in a double boiler. The first time I made it
for him when we were dating, I decided to double the frosting recipe so that I would have plenty. Big mistake, as it "grew" in the pan while I was
mixing it for seven minutes, spilled over onto the stove and make an incredible hard mess that I spent days cleaning up.
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Posts: 1057 (05/12/08 8:41 PM) Registered user |
The little cupboard above the stove popped open, either something was leaning on the inside of it, or the cat was breaking in, I never figured it out. A bag of
marshmallows fell out onto the still-hot front burner while I was out of the room. That was a pretty gooey melty mess to clean up.
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Posts: 1007 (05/12/08 8:48 PM) |
I had a leg of lamb in the oven once and was checking to see if it was done. Then stoves metal shelf tilted and the roast started to fall...I thought quick and
caught the damn thing with my knees and have two small burn marks on my legs now : (
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Posts: 17865 (05/12/08 9:25 PM) MESS member |
garbanzo beans (chickpeas) soaked over night as pr instructions, that never ever got soft and after 12 hours of cooking were still rock hard
tied with making (attempting to, at least) butter cookies with that butter/margerine combination stuff. I kept adding and adding flour to get them to rolling out consistency. margerine or butter alone work fine, but that mixed stuff did not. Little pieces of cardboard. |
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Posts: 2156 (05/12/08 9:51 PM) Official Board Stalker |
Margarine.
Was heating water for my tea and forgot about it. The bottom on my stainless steel pan melted. 
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Posts: 1055 (05/13/08 12:32 AM) Registered User |
I've almost set fire to my apartment kitchen numerous times. I think the last time I was making hard-boiled eggs, went back to my bedroom while they were
cooking, and only remember when the fire alarms went off and smoke started pouring through my door. I've done the same thing with chicken.
And every single fucking time, my roommate comes out and stares at me like I'm retarded, while I run around trying to put out the fire. Oh, and my cookies are like cement. Never again. |
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Posts: 901 (05/13/08 4:14 AM) |
When I was about 14 I decided to make popcorn balls. I had the recipe and all, it seemed simple, right? Well that's when I discovered that I was absolutely
unable to make popcorn on the stove like mom did. The shit burned so bad that you could barely see in the kitchen! My parents came home and thought the house
was on fire due to the smoke pouring out of the window.
I've never attempted "old fashioned" popcorn again. It's either air popped or microwave. I had the same issue with bacon. By the time I thought it was done, it would be burned. I've since discovered that you can make bacon (heh) in the oven and it's great! Not as greasy. |
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Posts: 7570 (05/13/08 7:45 AM) Registered user |
I have never used the oven because I am too scurred. I never bake, you can never save a baking disaster.
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Posts: 4949 (05/13/08 9:29 AM) WRP Official Spokesperson |
I heated a viand with aluminum foil in microwave cookware and it accidentally burned.
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Posts: 35334 (05/13/08 9:38 AM) |
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Posts: 7232 (05/13/08 9:40 AM) |
I shudder to think of the threads he'll start when he does.
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Posts: 7575 (05/13/08 9:41 AM) Registered user |
RoMa wrote: What do I need baking for?
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Posts: 2356 (05/13/08 10:18 AM) Registered User |
My neighbor called one evening witha family emergency and asked me to come over and watch her kids. I left brats boiling on the stove -- turned down to simmer.
My husband and her husband both got home and when she got home and all was well we opened a bottle of wine and ate at their house. When we got home 4 hours
later, the brats were like burnt cocktail weenies and the anodized steel pan was practically glowing it was so hot. It is a miracle a fire did not break out.
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Posts: 19391 (05/13/08 10:25 AM) Registered user |
I was following a paella recipe in one issue of the BON APPETIT magazine. I thought there was an error in the amount of onions it was calling for, but figured,
since I wasn't a chef, I'd just follow the instructions. Horrible. Too much onion. The paella tasted bitter and the onion-saffron smell overwhelmed my
home for about a day.
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Posts: 237 (05/13/08 6:38 PM) Registered user |
This one time I was heating up some soup while talking on the phone. The dish towel caught on fire and spread to the ant spray I had sprayed all over the
counters. I tried to put it out with the garden hose, but I had bought a short one so it didn't reach and the curtains with the corn cobs on them went up
too. Thank god Deborah was there with the fire extinguisher.
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Posts: 238 (05/13/08 6:40 PM) Registered user |
Oh and that other time, I was making unbrined turkey for thanksgiving and my freind Joey got it caught on his head.
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Posts: 24275 (05/13/08 6:48 PM) |
One time I didn't slice the garlic paper thin enough and Paulie bashed my skull in with a baseball bat.
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Posts: 21369 (05/13/08 6:49 PM) Registered user |
I once made dumplings--the southern kind, not the oriental kind--then proceeded to cook them in my chicken stock I had simmering for a couple of hours. My big
mistake: I had rolled out my dough on a sheet of aluminum foil and to my horror, there were holes all throughout the sheet. I ran and scooped out a
dumpling to see if there were tinfoil bits. There were black specks everywhere but in my blind panic, I couldn' tell if it was pepper or foil. I threw the
whole batch away. Lesson, kiddies. Never roll dough out on Reynold's Wrap.
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