memo to self!!!!

[moonymama]

remember not to take doggies a walk while the spuds are boiling away on the stove...oh yeah...came back to unappetising smell of burnt food and a saucepan that was now very black..lucky escape..there i was walking happily in the warm windy day enjoying my time and suddenly it hit me like a slap....the cooker the spuds..oh ;';';' (leave that to your imagination!!!)and the dogs didnt know what was happening..it was about turn and leg it...all 14 legs.....hurrying back to the little house on the prairie...carolline ingalls wouldnt have made that mistake!!!!!! no home made potato salad for me!!!!

 

[Northerner]

Yup! Done that too, although I wasn't walking dogs, I just fell asleep after putting the spuds on! 😱

 

[jalapino]

remember not to take doggies a walk while the spuds are boiling away on the stove...oh yeah...came back to unappetising smell of burnt food and a saucepan that was now very black..lucky escape..there i was walking happily in the warm windy day enjoying my time and suddenly it hit me like a slap....the cooker the spuds..oh ;';';' (leave that to your imagination!!!)and the dogs didnt know what was happening..it was about turn and leg it...all 14 legs.....hurrying back to the little house on the prairie...carolline ingalls wouldnt have made that mistake!!!!!! no home made potato salad for me!!!!

OOOPPPPSSSS!!!!!! 😱

 

[jalapino]

Yup! Done that too, although I wasn't walking dogs, I just fell asleep after putting the spuds on! 😱

OOOOPPSSSSS!!! for you to alan!!! 😱

 

[LeeLee]

Take it as a message from your guardian angel to lay off the spuds!

 

[megga]

remember not to take doggies a walk while the spuds are boiling away on the stove...oh yeah...came back to unappetising smell of burnt food and a saucepan that was now very black..lucky escape..there i was walking happily in the warm windy day enjoying my time and suddenly it hit me like a slap....the cooker the spuds..oh ;';';' (leave that to your imagination!!!)and the dogs didnt know what was happening..it was about turn and leg it...all 14 legs.....hurrying back to the little house on the prairie...carolline ingalls wouldnt have made that mistake!!!!!! no home made potato salad for me!!!!

Sounds like my normal cooking😱

 

[Caroline]

been there done it still got the charred saucepans to remind me not to answer phone while cooking.

 

[Copepod]

Or turn off ring before answering phone - that works OK, I fine, and leaves the excuse of "tea is cooking" for cutting phone call short if required.

 

[yorksman]

no home made potato salad for me!!!!

I love potato salad. I can eat boiled new potatoes so some recipes are ideal, not the very wet ones using soft spuds though. The more it turns to mash, the spikier it is. Oil, vinegar, onion and mustard powder with a bit of pickled gherkin and raddish is my favourite.

 

[Abi]

I left eggs boiling dry once- only reason I was hard boiling them was the fact that had just driven home from Tesco and noted some of them had cracked so I decided on hard boiled egg and salad for tea

Some time later I was interrupted by several "bangs" and found the kitchen tiles pepper with bits of hard boiled egg and shell

 

[Northerner]

I left eggs boiling dry once- only reason I was hard boiling them was the fact that had just driven home from Tesco and noted some of them had cracked so I decided on hard boiled egg and salad for tea

Some time later I was interrupted by several "bangs" and found the kitchen tiles pepper with bits of hard boiled egg and shell

When I was a student a lad I shared a house with put a tin of baked beans, unopened, in the oven to cook 😱 Fortunately, I came home shortly after he'd put them in and asked what was in the oven - I dread to think what would have happened. On another occasion he was trying to heat up a can of spaghetti in a pan of boiling water - without piercing the tin 😱 I explained to him how to heat up tinned food by first decanting it from the tin into a pan...🙄 Leading contender for a Darwin Award, I think! 🙂

 

[PattiEvans]

Our next door neighbour went out leaving something on the stove. Eventually we noticed black smoke issuing from his kitchen window. When we couldn't get a response to the front door we called the fire brigade. The whole kitchen had been burnt. He was lucky it hadn't spread further than it had.

 

[Northerner]

Our next door neighbour went out leaving something on the stove. Eventually we noticed black smoke issuing from his kitchen window. When we couldn't get a response to the front door we called the fire brigade. The whole kitchen had been burnt. He was lucky it hadn't spread further than it had.

My neighbour's smoke alarm goes off with worrying frequency. I suppose I should be happy that they have an alarm, at least! (I live in a semi, attached to them 😱)

 

[PattiEvans]

Our smoke alarm is at the bottom of the stairs, next to the kitchen door and yes, it's a bit sensitive, have to shut the kitchen door if there's the least suggestion of smoke! Fortunately we are detached 🙂

 

[DeusXM]

My mother-in-law-to-be nearly blew up my entire block of flats with her cooking.

She was staying at our flat with her sister while the missus took the cousin out for the day. I'd wisely run home for the weekend.

We have a gas hob and she has only every used electric hobs.

Because the MIL and her sister smoke like chimneys, they both have absolutely no sense of smell. Also, because they live in the deepest darkest depths of the countryside they're also a bit unfamiliar with cities anyway and so any unusual industrial smell could therefore, in their minds, be what a city is supposed to smell like.

It was later that afternoon that there was a knock on the door. An extremely worried gas engineer was standing in the hallway and apparently opened up with "Hi, we've had a report there's a gas leak but I've been unable to find it and...."

The next part of the sentence rhymes with 'clucking bell'.

It turns out my MIL had nudged one of the dials on the hob while cleaning it and for the entire afternoon the hob had been quietly pumping out gas throughout the whole flat. As smoking is forbidden in our flat, thankfully they'd been going outside to smoke but any of the electrics could have sparked and ignited a flat filled with gas, which I daresay might have made a bit of a dent in the building.

My mother-in-law is now banned from our kitchen indefinitely.

I am aware how much this story sounds like a Simpsons episode; sadly, I'm really not making this up.

 

[Cat1964]

I left eggs boiling dry once- only reason I was hard boiling them was the fact that had just driven home from Tesco and noted some of them had cracked so I decided on hard boiled egg and salad for tea

Some time later I was interrupted by several "bangs" and found the kitchen tiles pepper with bits of hard boiled egg and shell

I once decided to make egg mayonnaise late one night for lunch the next day for sandwiches. It was about 11.15pm. Hubby was asleep on the settee and daughter was away staying with her gran. it was a month or so after my dad had passed away and as a family we were going through a bit of a rough time due to the circumstances in which he died. anyway, I put on a few eggs and sat down waiting for them to boil. The next thing it is after midnight, the smoke alarms are going off and the house was full of smoke!!😱 i almost had heart failure!!!! I went into the kitchen to find a blackened pot and smoke belching from it. I opened the kitchen window and managed to get the other house windows open and eventually calm descended. I was so upset as I had just bought Sophie's First Communion dress and it was hanging in the living room. I couldn't stop crying and kept apologising to hubby for almost killing us both! I must have been so tired that as soon as I put the eggs on to boil and sat down that I was out like a light. That was the last time I ever attempted egg mayo late at night.

 

[PattiEvans]

My mother-in-law is now banned from our kitchen indefinitely.

I am aware how much this story sounds like a Simpsons episode; sadly, I'm really not making this up.

I can totally believe that! Many years ago when we were first married we had one of those real-flame log effect gas fires. It was a "first generation" one and after turning on the gas you lit it with a match. My mum was visiting and I left her in whilst I went to the supermarket. On my return I rang the bell and mum opened the door. I took one look at her hair, which was badly singed at the front and said "Are you alright?" "Of course dear why?" I pointed out that her hair was burnt and smelled horrid. It transpired she'd lit the gas fire, but the first three matches had gone out, by the time she got a 4th lit it had exploded with all the gas that had been pouring out.

 

[AlisonM]

It was a pot of soup for me, and I have no excuse, I just forgot... For four hours!

 

[trophywench]

Hey Sue, do you recall the very distinctive smell that pervaded the house when the glass syringe you'd put on to boil, neatly mummified in a nice big piece of lint to stop it clanking round the saucepan, boiled dry, set fire to the lint and would have welded itself to the pan, except I kept an old aluminium pan for this purpose and being used to heavy bottomed stainless steel pans I usually turned the gas up far too high for far too long ......

My husband always knew what I'd done even hours afterwards.

We were both really glad when we were able to get disposable syringes!

Incidentally, if you soak a burned pan in water obv with plenty of biological washing powder dissolved in it, if you leave it for a few days it sort of 'eats' all the burned food off the pan and the pan comes up gleaming with very little effort !