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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Nov 7, 2019 23:16:00 GMT
I'm sure we've all had food mishaps that made us angry - perhaps even cry, but how about one that, though it was a mishap, made you laugh?
One time, I popped the cork off a bottle of sparkling Shiraz, and that cork shot out like a bullet. It ricocheted off a couple walls and a cabinet, then landed inside one of the cells of an overhead chandelier. We called that one a 3-pointer and had a good laugh.
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Post by divtal on Nov 8, 2019 18:46:21 GMT
My Mom once dropped an aerosol can of whipped cream. The fall must have opened the valve. It spun at an incredible speed, looking like one solid circle of activity. Everything in the kitchen that was ankle height, or lower, was covered in whipped cream (including our feet). It was hilarious. It was also amazing to see how much one can held.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Nov 8, 2019 20:23:54 GMT
Not really a mishap but when I first brought my box turtle home, I had a nice carton of nightcrawlers I put in the fridge, it looked like a deli carton. In the middle of the night I heard WKD yell, he went to have a midnight snack and thought I brought something delicious home from the deli - what a disappointment for him.
I have weekly "mishaps" in the kitchen because I'm clumsy and somewhat of a slob, my kitchen ceiling and floors often have food on them ( I do clean them up at the end of the day.) I've often heard the saying that you can eat off of the floors (because they are so clean) with my floors you can eat off of them and have a full meal.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Nov 8, 2019 20:40:41 GMT
wickedkittiesmom: hilarious about the nightcrawlers! Good thing he didn't accidentally eat some of them, lol.
divtal: that whipped cream canister spinning around like that... yeah, that would've made me laugh, too. 
Oh, I just thought of another one: when I was a kid we had one of the earlier models of microwave ovens (they were pretty new on the market then). One time my sibs and I put an Oberto Polish Sausage in the microwave and let it cook. We didn't know how long we were supposed to leave it "on"... we found out a short while later when that Polish sausage overheated and exploded inside the microwave, making a big yucky mess. We thought it was hilarious. (Mom didn't share that sentiment, of course... but anyway, it was an amusing "learning moment" for us kids.)
And as an aside, whatever happened to Oberto Polish Sausages, anyway? They were really good! I wish they hadn't discontinued them.
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Post by suzi on Nov 9, 2019 5:50:51 GMT
I could have laughed too if I didn't have to clean the mess up!
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Post by divtal on Nov 9, 2019 17:28:50 GMT
I could have laughed too if I didn't have to clean the mess up! It took us quite a while. Whipped cream was out on the carpet in the hallway, between the 'fridge and the wall next to it ... everywhere. But, we had a good laugh before, and during, cleanup.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Nov 9, 2019 20:49:23 GMT
I could have laughed too if I didn't have to clean the mess up! It took us quite a while. Whipped cream was out on the carpet in the hallway, between the 'fridge and the wall next to it ... everywhere. But, we had a good laugh before, and during, cleanup.
One time I was carrying this little tub - which was nearly full - from the counter back to the refrigerator, and it slipped out of my hand, hit the floor, popped the lid, and splashed sardine oil all over the floor and the side of the refrigerator and lower cabinet drawers. I must've used an entire roll of paper towels sopping up that mess. Luckily I had hardwood flooring in my kitchen, otherwise, if it'd been carpeting like I currently have, I would've had a far, far worse mess to deal with.
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Post by divtal on Nov 9, 2019 21:09:56 GMT
A word to the wise ... I don't recall laughing at this one:
If you are using a bottle of Kitchen Bouquet, BBQ sauce, gravy additive, or anything that you might instinctively shake, check to see that you have secured the cap.
I think that, after that one, I used some not-nice words.
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Post by bluerisk on Nov 9, 2019 21:10:21 GMT
I'm sure we've all had food mishaps that made us angry - perhaps even cry, but how about one that, though it was a mishap, made you laugh?
One time, I popped the cork off a bottle of sparkling Shiraz, and that cork shot out like a bullet. It ricocheted off a couple walls and a cabinet, then landed inside one of the cells of an overhead chandelier. We called that one a 3-pointer and had a good laugh.
No. When something has burned again, I swear at my oven and I tell him how much I hate him. I kicked him once and the cover of the lamp inside fell of...then I felt a bit sorry. PS: German - der Ofen (it's a him).
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Nov 9, 2019 22:17:06 GMT
A word to the wise ... I don't recall laughing at this one: If you are using a bottle of Kitchen Bouquet, BBQ sauce, gravy additive, or anything that you might instinctively shake, check to see that you have secured the cap. I think that, after that one, I used some not-nice words.
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Post by divtal on Nov 9, 2019 22:55:19 GMT
A word to the wise ... I don't recall laughing at this one: If you are using a bottle of Kitchen Bouquet, BBQ sauce, gravy additive, or anything that you might instinctively shake, check to see that you have secured the cap. I think that, after that one, I used some not-nice words. This one was all my fault. I was in school with a house of lady-like sorority sisters. I don't think they'd have thought of that. 
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Post by mmexis on Nov 11, 2019 5:01:18 GMT
My father made soup in a pressure cooker once. He ignored the "level dots" on the inside. When we took the lid off.... ALL over the ceiling. He cursed and I laughed.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 11, 2019 5:13:08 GMT
ALMOST .…
That bottle of chocolate syrup and the bottle of BBQ sauce on the same shelf on the refrigerator door look an awful lot alike when you are in hurry … TWICE I almost had a Vanilla Ice Cream - BBQ sundae.
The bottles have now been put shelves apart !
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Post by staggerstag on Nov 13, 2019 17:19:28 GMT
A party of us went out one Christmas Eve quite a good few years ago. We all met up again on Christmas Day lunchtime for a jolly time at a flat belonging to two of the girls. The girls had had about two hours' sleep/stupor before coming to and knocking back the booze again. We had been there for about an hour when we smelled burning which seemed to be coming from the kitchen. It happened that Stephanie, one of the girls, still merrily intoxicated about an hour before we arrived and not with it at all, had somehow placed a frozen pizza in the oven instead of the turkey. The pizza was black and smoking like a burnt-out tyre and we never cooked the turkey because we would all be too drunk to carve and eat it once it had taken hours to cook. Stephanie was supposed to have put it in the oven when she got home the night before at around 4am. And with all the veggies needing prepping, potatoes peeling etc it was a no-go from the off. To be honest, I can't even remember much else of the day, and I made a vow then - never over-booze it on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. We all know that people are capable (by merely being incapable) of doing the most incomprehensible things when too drunk - but mistaking a frozen pizza for a turkey takes a lot of beating. And, yes, we were laughing about it. But our bellies weren't.
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Post by maya55555 on Nov 20, 2019 19:49:58 GMT
MY famous blender without a cover, while mixing drinks for a party!
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Nov 20, 2019 20:17:29 GMT
MY famous blender without a cover, while mixing drinks for a party!
I just thought of another one that kind of amuses me. Years ago I was rearranging all the stuff in my refrigerator, trying to straighten out the mess. A few items I took out and placed atop the refrigerator - then went off and forgot I had put them up there. I didn't catch it until a few days later. But by then, of course, they had spoiled, and I had to throw them out.
Ever since then I've developed this almost instinct-like habit of glancing up at the top of my refrigerator every time I pass by, just to make sure I haven't left something up there. I don't know but somehow that makes me chuckle that it's now turned into a life-long habit. It's like a nervous twitch - it won't go away.
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Post by njcardfan on Nov 29, 2019 8:34:07 GMT
Helping my wife make bread and butter pickles, I was slicing pickles on a mandolin and I ended up slicing part of my thumb off. A good 3/4" chunk of skin. I simply wrapped my thumb in gauze, threw out that batch of pickles and the piece of skin, cleaned the mandolin, and finished the job. When my wife got home I went to an urgent care and got it taken care of. What made me laugh was that it didn't hurt and that I simply kept on working.
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