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30 Times People Were Disgusted Or Horrified By Something Done In The Kitchen, As Shared Online
We all love (with fairly rare exceptions) to eat, and not just eat, but eat some really tasty food. That is why cooks have almost always been perceived as incredibly important people in human history, and skilled chefs - as real wizards. And you must admit that a good cook, performing sacred acts at the stove, has the quality of a probable Hogwarts professor!
At the same time, there are a huge number of people who can rightfully be called 'culinary muggles', who have either not mastered the great art of prepping delicious food at all, or only by a fraction of a percent. And often such people become sources of true kitchen disasters - the kind to which this viral thread in the AskReddit community is dedicated, a selection of the best stories from which Bored Panda brings to your attention today.
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#1
My super drunk roommate came out of his bedroom while I was heating up some food at midnight. He opened the fridge door and then pulled his pants down and started p**ing and then I screamed. He woke up from his daze and ran to the bathroom. I am an amazing roommate and friend so I cleaned up his mess. I asked him about it the next day and he said he didn't want to talk about it, but he's not going to drink for a long time. He venmo'd me $100 for cleaning and he's been sober for the last 6 months.
Upstaged75 2 years ago (edited)
In college the boyfriend of the girl across the hall from me drunkenly pissed in the stairwell in the middle of the night because he thought he was in the bathroom. Then he went and got back in bed. With some other girl. In the wrong room! She was quite scared/angry to be woken up by a random dude getting in to her bed. Pretty sure the whole campus heard her scream. One of many reasons I always slept with my door locked!
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RavenTheCat 2 years ago
The important part is even through shame, he correct himself and tried to make it right
Ripley 2 years ago
This might be far more common than you think - I know of 3 men who've done a wee in completely the wrong spot (kitchen bin, wardrobe, out the window) and they weren't drunk. Apparently sleep walk/weeing is a bit of a thing!
Bored&InSchool 2 years ago
one time I woke up and apperently I was sleepwalking because I was standing right in front of the toilet, pants down, already peeing lol
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LA Murphy 2 years ago
I had an ex who occasionally sleep walked. Once, while staying at my mother's, he thought he was in the bathroom and I woke up to him pissing in the hall closet. I was cleaning it up and swearing when mother woke up. I had to tell her what happened. She laughed so hard, I thought she would p**s her bloomers.
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
My cousin's husband used to get up, open his sock drawer, pee in it, close it and then go back to bed.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
One time i peed in my library (same size as my bathroom and right next door) exactly in the same spot as the toilet. I found my p**s soaked PJs on the floor the next day. This was 18 years ago and I don't drink anymore
zak 2 years ago
During my first year of college I lived I the dorms. One of the guys in the room across the hall from mine would get blackout drunk pretty often, and I remember one time he got hammered and went to bed early while people were still hanging out/partying (on nights/weekends most of us would keep our doors open and the party just kind of migrated from room to room throughout the night). A few of us were in his room hanging out with his roommate while he was passed out/sleeping in his bed, and we just watched in shock as he got out of bed with his eyes closed, turned around and peed *on his own bed*, and then immediately got back into his now urine-soaked bed and went back to sleep. (Yes, after the initial shock/laughter, we got him up and helped him into the showers to wash off/etc)
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#2
I read a story years ago in 'Reader's Digest' about a young wife who wanted to observe every step of how her mom prepared Thanksgiving dinner so that she could do it the following year. The next year, the young wife prepared Thanksgiving with her mom nearby her.
Everything went fine, but the mom had one question: 'Why did you place your dish-drying rack over the turkey as it thawed in the sink???' and the daughter explained: 'Because that's how you thawed your turkey,' and the mom replied: 'Yes, but you don't have a cat!'
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
This is less of a mishap and more of a miscommunication, but it's still pretty wholesome.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
There was another one about the daughter who cut a couple of inches of meat off of the roast she was preparing. When mom asked why, she said "that's how you always did it." Mom says, "I had to, my roasting pan was too small!"
Analyn Lahr 2 years ago
Oh, to keep the cat away from the turkey. I was thinking something horrible for a second.
Hutt'nKloas 2 years ago
I can testify.These lovely critters are absolute first class thieves.There's no food safe , that they love, if it aint locked behind locks/bars.They're definitely no obedient dogs.
Grace Marie 2 years ago
I grew up with meat defrosting in the microwave. Not turned on just sitting in the microwave because - cats lmao
Jane Hower 2 years ago
I heard a story about a gal who fixed a ham in a pan to bake and cut both ends off. Husband asked why, she said because mom always did it. She then asked mom and she said because grandma always did. They asked grandma why and she said because her pan was too short.
Lori Gibbs 2 years ago
After losing a drumstick to the cat last year, this is brilliant. (I cooked the one legged bird anyway)
#3
My sister made guacamole but used broccoli.
It was beyond terrible.
Andres Tejeda 2 years ago
My Mexican ancestors would come back from the spirit world to slap some sense into me if I did this.
Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
That's not how that works! Avocado is a fat. You replace a fat with a fat. Just because they are same color doesn't mean they are the same.
The Scout 2 years ago
Exactly. if she had added butter, it would probably have been edible even with a broccoli base.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
*sits on Auntriarch until the urge passes* You know cat law. You cannot move.
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Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I saw a California-style recipe that used pureed peas! Just as bad!
Horace Slughorn, the Potions professor from the Harry Potter books, liked to say that the ability to brew potions is an innate talent, and no amount of books or training will make you equal to a true genius. Well, when we read some of the stories collected in this list, we only see how right the wise old professor was. And from a culinary point of view, too. If you are not destined to become an outstanding cook, no amount of effort will probably help.
#4
I once had a roommate take a sponge from the kitchen, clean the bathroom with it, then put it back in the kitchen sink. When I asked him why he put the sponge back in the kitchen, he said because that's where he'd found it. I wanted to burn down the entire house. And it's a good thing I noticed at all. Edit: there was a hair in the sponge.
Megan Curl 2 years ago
Once the sponge in my kitchen begins to get worn, I rinse it out, microwave it for a minute (kills the germs), and put it under the sink to dry. The next time I have to clean toilets, that’s the sponge I use, and having served it’s last purpose, it gets tossed in the trash. I would NEVER use a sponge that I used to clean a toilet again - ever.
kath morgan 2 years ago
Scrubbers get demoted from kitchen to bathroom and it does not go the other way.
Alan Williams 2 years ago
Years ago (mid 80s) I was visiting my dad with my brother. my dad was living the life of a bachelor at the time and was never very good at household chores. We were in the kitchen doing the washing up when dad came down with the toilet brush in hand and said to us, "wash that in the sink would you?" In shock, my brother and I just laughed. My dad said, "Well it's never been used." Yes dad, it's been next to the toilet for God knows how long and you want us to rise it in the washing up bowl?
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
EWWW that's against all OSHA regulations in the workplace so you should not do that inside your house!!! I am so strict with dishes and sponges and get so mad when one gets left in the sink. I definitely never cross-use in other parts of the house.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Life cycle of a sponge: Dish cleaning->kitchen cleaning->bathroom cleaning->garbage
#5
i once walked into the back of a french bistro on a slow night and one cook was swinging a trussed, raw cornish hen around his head and the other cook was fending him off with each of his arms fully sheathed in a large baguette. i laughed so hard i cried, that night.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I read this wrong and thought the cook was chasing a live cornish hen around the kitchen with a baguette trying to slaughter it
Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
For those who don't know, "trussed" means to tie down the wings and legs to prepare it for cooking. Basically, he was swinging the cornish hen like a flail.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Coq au Man. (When I typed this, autocorrect changed it to Cow Audible Man)
Ashbug 2 years ago
I once tried to use the voice search function on google on a sidewalk in New York and whatever I asked came out as dumbass m**********r syndrome it was so funny I had to screenshot it
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ShaZam 2 years ago
When I think of French Chefs, I think of the passionate ones mentioned above ... you know, chasing the duck trying to prepare it ... yelling at the servers
Rob Stevens 2 years ago
Ah, yes. Line cook shenanigans. Brings back memories. Terrible, terrible, alcohol-soaked memories.
#6
God bless my Mom, and her mac and cheese. Layers of elbow macaroni, slices of american cheese, a few tablespoons of flour, and a splash of milk. Repeat. She would stick it in the oven for 45 mins, and I would bite into ... gobs of flour. I swore for years I hated mac and cheese, until I realized, it wasn't supposed to have gobs of flour...
Karen Krause 2 years ago
I think she was vaguely following something she heard, or why else would she add flour? Usually, the flour is used when making a cheese sauce. If you are just adding cheese into the dish and no sauce, no flour.
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LeMurierBonjour 2 years ago
Oh yuck! I do not understand box macaroni cheese or made with American cheeses slices. It should be a cheese bechamel sauce stirred into the macaroni. Mature cheddar cheese grated on top, grill and then a whole world of homemade deliciousness.
Cyril Sneer 2 years ago
I'm actually inspired to see if I can make this work. Essentially making cheese sauce while it cooks in the oven. If the mixing is done right, and in the right order, it might be possible to make it edible.
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
My mother used to make something worse. Peas, dry rice, curry powder and canned tuna all fried together in a pan with no oil, no liquid of any kind other than the small amount of brine that came out of the tuna can. Fortunately, I am allegeric to fish of all kinds and could not eat it, but my gods the smell was bad.
“Modern cooking, if we do not take into account the most exquisite examples of 'haute cuisine,' is moving towards simplification, standardization and optimization of dishes,” Roman Sardarian, a chef from Odessa, Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here, sincerely believes. “By optimization, I mean a certain set of standard actions and ingredients, with the help of which you can quite simply and quickly prepare a truly tasty and even outstanding meal. Even if you have never studied culinary skills.”
“On the other hand, any cook can have, let’s say, a bad day when everything gets out of hand, the oil burns, water spills in the wrong places and at the wrong time, and at the most inopportune moment you forget to remove the frying pan from the heat. This is life. But someone can, through their own carelessness or neglect, time after time become the source of disasters in the kitchen, and this also happens. Well, modern civilization with its fast food and food delivery industry really makes life a lot easier - it's true," Roman is petty much sure.
#7
I had a roommate who would deep fry eggs
I walked into the kitchen and there was a quart pot of oil with a cracked egg undulating in it.
I later asked her about it. Because it was weird and also because maybe I didn't know?
No. She thought you fried an egg like you fried a piece of chicken.
Star Anäis 2 years ago
It is! The edges turn crunchy and it's so good with the runny yolk. I actually cook my eggs this way.
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This is how they basically fry eggs in Southern Asia. You ask for a fried egg in a Thai restaurant, this is how you get it. It's not in a quart pot of oil, but it is in a small pool of oil. It comes out taller, as opposed to flatter from a flat top.
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
There's a Thai place near me that will put one of these in most dishes.
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Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
My grandma always fried eggs in about a half inch of bacon fat, and gently flipped the grease over them with her spatula to cook the tops. I loved them like that because the edges got crispy. Not sure but I think it's called "coddling."
Alex Bailey 2 years ago
It might vary per country but my understanding is that to coddle food is to heat it in water kept just below the boiling point.
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I've seen many people in Romania fry eggs like this, including my family. I dislike how messy it is, as well as the crispy edges, but otherwise deep-fried eggs taste and feel amazing.
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I'm only talking about the technique here. I don't know how much "a quart pot" is, however if she was frying it like chicken then it probably was the right amount of oil
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It can't be the worst thing I've seen, but after browning ground meat, my mother would have us rinse it off in a colander under running water, to get rid of grease. RIP our plumbing and dinner.
Sweet Taurus 2 years ago
My husband does this!!! I've never seen anyone do that until him. Thankfully he doesn't cook all that often so our plumbing is still functioning.
Svenne O'Lotta 2 years ago
Tell him to stop washing off the taste and being weird. Some health guru in my country started that trend in my country in the 90's as a diet thing. Everybody laughs at it now and rightly considers it obsessive bordering on being eating disorder territory
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Spannidandoolar 2 years ago (edited)
If you're that worried about the grease, drain it off and if you want to go an extra step dab it off the meat with kitchen roll, washing it would be gross.
Shaunn Munn 2 years ago
This was a big thing a generation ago. Was supposed to follow the grease with lots of hot, soapy water, but lots of folks never knew that. Kept plumbers busy. Too wasteful of water, and there's better ways to dispose of grease these days.
Jan Moore 2 years ago
I was taught that by the hospital dietician. It was for people on low fat diets. Now I use ground sirloin and pat it down before doing the rest of the recipe. There's really not much fat left. For those who can't afford that and are trying to diet that is really the way to go.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
we pour it off into a cup, let it set, scrape it out and bin it. or if there's just a little bit use a wad of kitchen roll to soak it up and bin it.
#9
A girl in my uni dorm almost burned the place down because she tried to boil a potato (her words) - what she actually do was put a large, unwashed and unpeeled whole potato in a dry pot, put the lid on it, put it on high on the stove top, then left to go watch movies in her room while it cooked. She was bloody lucky that me and a mate were in the adjacent common room. We caught the smoke and whipped it off the heat, she was completely dumbfounded that she’d done something wrong. The potato was half raw and half charcoal 💀
lakitha tolbert 2 years ago
Things like not putting water into the pot to boil something is the reason Home Ec was invented.Can we get it back into schools.
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Laura Williams 2 years ago
Please parents teach the kid the basics. If they live alone they might kill themselves.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
I was cooking something on the stove it was going to take about 20 minutes and I wanted a baked potato with it. So I was going to bake it in the my microwave oven. For some reason I thought it would take 20 minutes also. So I put the potato in the microwave set the timer 20 minutes. Went into the living room to wait for the stuff to get done cooking. After awhile a I noticed what smelled like smoke. Went to get up to investigate and about that time the smoke alarm went off. I walked in the kitchen and the kitchen was filled with smoke and my microwave was on fire. Able to unplug the microwave and able to put the fire out. Glad I was able to catch it before it got any worse. Just scorched the cabinet that was sitting next to it. But destroyed the microwave. Melted the inside of it. Eventually went and bought a new one.
Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
I've never boiled a potato since we eat them baked or roasted, but doesn't boiling include water in the process, no matter what it is?
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
My sister's husband is a contractor. He remodeled their house, beautifully, I will admit. So remodel is done & they want to have a "show off" house party. I show up early to help prep. What can I do? "Wash these potatoes and put them in the oven". Okay. So I've scrubbed the potatoes with the "designated" scouring brush & I'm getting a fork to poke them. BIL is like "WTF are you doing?" Um, making sure they don't explode. He proceeds to tell me that that is a myth & what an imbecile I am and how I know absolutely NOTHING about cooking. Okay. You know exactly what happened. Every one of those potatoes EXPLODED in his brand new PRISTINE Dacor (oh, so fancy, what the f*ck ever) oven. I just looked at him and said, "Huh".
Well, I myself have an old friend - an excellent person, smart and brilliantly educated, an excellent conversationalist and employee - but he never even knew how to heat a frozen pizza in the oven. Sandwiches and chocolate bars were a real salvation for him at one time - and in recent years he has been calmly ordering food at home, and feels quite great. At least the kitchen for him has ceased to be something that causes instant panic...
#10
My friends former roommate, bless his heart, was not culinarily inclined. Put the jar of pasta sauce in with the boiling water and noodles.
Bec 2 years ago
It reminded me of making a pasta bake. Put rotini or elbow noodles in a casserole dish, poor in a jar of sauce and water and bake.
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Horosho Bodka 2 years ago
Could one make pasta this way? Fill a pot with sauce, boil, add noodles, boil till cooked and all saucy... throw in a bowl and add cheese...
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Yes, as long as there is enough water for the noodles to absorb. Same with rice, wheat and other grains.
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Gretchen Esquilin 2 years ago
My grandma was almost an adult during The Depression, so she never wasted anything. She ran out of marinara, so she subbed w/ BBQ sauce. "Well...they're both red...." My mom let me go play outside to skip dinner that night. LOL
Kaye 2 years ago
A friend asked for my lasagna recipe. She made it but said it didn't come out the same. She hadn't browned the meat and didn't boil the noodles.
#11
My nephew tried to use plastic shopping bags as oven mitts.
#12
When I was in high school, my mom and I were absolutely famished leaving a late-evening rehearsal for our community band. We called my dad and older sister to make dinner since it was about a 30 minute drive home, there were no drive-throughs on the way and our house was too far out in the boonies to get anything delivered. “Sure, no problem, we’ll have it waiting for you when you get home!” they said…
They had decided to make a boxed creamy pasta, but realized after the noodles were already cooked that the milk had gone bad. So they replaced it…with **french vanilla coffee creamer**. For some reason, they thought it was OK because the creamer was sugar free. It was not OK. We each had about one bite and threw the rest of our plates in the garbage. I think we ended up having canned soup for dinner that night 😂
Laura Williams 2 years ago
My dad once was out of milk for mashed potatoes used coffee creamer I choked down four bites. Told him I was full. Though they usually kept half and half. Sooo...
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
I use half-and-half when I make mashed potatoes and I add a little sour cream along with some butter. Not low cal, but tasty.
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BooduhCookie 2 years ago
My hubby once used chocolate milk to make boxed Mac n cheese. He thought since the kids loved chocolate milk and Mac n cheese he would give them the best of both worlds combined. He thought for sure it would be awesome and the kids would love it. It was not awesome and the kids did not love it.
Shaunn Munn 2 years ago
Shortly after marriage, my husband made Hamburger Helper with sweetened, condensed milk. I TRIED to like it and was so relieved when he dumped his in the trash. He didn't know what SC milk was. Thought is was evaporated milk.
Nikki Gross 2 years ago (edited)
When we were 17 my bestie Dana called me and told me she made a box of Kraft mac and cheese with the powder mix but for some reason it was like soup and wouldn't thicken up. So I had her walk me through what exactly she had done, I'm sure you all know where I'm going with this one. She told me she followed the instructions, so she boiled the noodles then added the butter and milk and cheese powder. I asked her if she didn't drain enough water after she boiled the pasta? Her response "Wait?! I was supposed to drain the water before adding anything else?!!" Yup! She left ALL of the water in the pan! 😂 Her Mom always cooked everything or would just hit a fast food restaurant after work instead of making dinner. My Mom is the one responsible for teaching all of us kids and our friends pretty much everything we know about how to cook, bake and grill. One of the lines in her obituary was that "She was a surrogate Mom to many in the community."
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Which is why you should always have A) Cream of Mushroom Soup and B) Better than Bouillon in the fridge
SilverSkyCloud 2 years ago
they couldve just had the pasta, but was there literally no food items in the fridge or cupboard that they couldve made?
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
Brrr, must have been a nightmare. I don't even like a creamer in my coffee. Only normal milk; when not available, it's black coffee for me. Learned to drink that on a vacation in Tunesia :D
And yet, it’s probably worth envying the incredible tenacity of some people who, time after time, despite all the culinary failures, still pick up a chef’s knife, heat up the stove... and thereby give rise to more and more new stories in collections similar to this one. And there are actually lots of similar tales. So now please feel free to scroll this list to the end, and if you have ever faced or witnessed something similar, just share your own tale in the comments as well. And let it be as instructive as it is funny.
#13
I’ll fess up. This one was me. I had been working loong days and was very tired. I got up and poured a bowl of cereal. Then I poured some milk into my glass and some orange juice over the cereal. I didn’t have any money so I sucked it up and ate it.
Hey! 2 years ago
That's how a family I knew ate their cereals - with orange juice instead of milk. Yurk.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
it's quite common to use fruit juice with muesli
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Pie 2 years ago
Tell on myself: I was covering the kitchen for breakfast at a hotel. The real cook was late. Customer asked me what the special was and I didn't have one so I looked in the cooler and found a few things and tell him cinnamon swirl pancakes with semi-sweet cream cheese. One of my selling points was the frosting isn't overly sweet. I make the guy his pancakes and everything is fine. I even checked on him. Cook comes in and I make myself some cinnamon swirl pancakes. As I'm grabbing the frosting I realize my muscle memory isn't triggering on the cream cheese frosting. I follow my memory and grab... lemon butter in a squeeze bottle. I had put lemon butter on this man's cinnamon swirl pancakes! I ran out and apologized and he told me it was pretty good. First couple bites were weird but then he started liking it. Told me to try it. I didnt.
Horosho Bodka 2 years ago
AS a kid, we didn't always have milk. I ate cereal with kool-aid often. It's not great...
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Imagining the potions disaster that would happen if you DID do this in Horace Slughorn's classroom.
shanila.pheonix_ 2 years ago
this isn't as bad as the other stuff on this list. this is just a genuine mistake
#14
When I was a kid, one of my friend’s moms made a sardine lasagna. It was a traumatic experience.
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
I think I could make that work, but it would likely take several tries (fail, adjust, fail less, adjust, etc.)
Ace 2 years ago
Honestly this could be quite OK. I actually bought and ate a Tuna lasagna just a few weeks ago, and it was very nice. Why not sardine?
Cyril Sneer 2 years ago
Tuna is excellent in baked pasta dishes. But tuna and sardines are quite different ingredients. I think the strength of the flavour form sardines wouldn't work well in this type of a dish. I'd be happy to try it though if someone cooked it for me.
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SweetCheesySpaghetti 2 years ago
My father in law would RAVE about his lasagna... saying it was the best in the world.... He finally made it for me and I was SO excited. It was not good. Honestly, it ruined lasagna for me.
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
I love sardines... they do have sardines in tomato sauce so hey, why not?
#15
During my freshman year, my room mate put a frozen pizza in the oven with the plastic on. She thought it was like a popcorn bag and the pizza will steam.
Hey! 2 years ago
Maybe but it's written all over the boxes that you shouldn't do that.
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Chez2202 2 years ago
I once knew a young woman who put a pizza under the grill to cook it and when the toppings were done she turned it upside down to grill the bottom. When her partner (20 years older than her) told me and my partner she ran into the bedroom crying. To this day I don’t know how I walked into that room and managed to tell her with a straight face that this happens to a lot of people and she shouldn’t be embarrassed. Because it doesn’t.
Bogdan Chelariu 2 years ago
One of my friends' girlfriend, now wife, during a party opened up the popcorn paper bag, tossed it in a plastic container without a lid on and put it in the microwave. Poor thing had no idea about the purpose of the bag and ended up scooping popcorn out the microwave for 5 minutes!
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I accidentally heated a frozen pizza with the cardboard not too long ago. I put it on the pizza crisping pan with all the little holes, so it was all right, but I'd never done that before.
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
My father in law got the plastic off, but not the cardboard insert. Why is this so... chewy?
Hey! 2 years ago
That happened to me once; I simply didn't see it and I had a cold. My husband took it out.
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Guy grabs 2 pound container of ground turkey, takes the wrapping off and puts it on the hot grill.
There were no additional steps taken.
Barbara Kayton 2 years ago
It’s actually a delicious technique to keep the turkey basted without effort. Done impressive extreme wrapping on this one.
Load More Replies... geezeronthehill 2 years ago
I'm guessing he wound up with a slab of dry, flavorless ground turkey.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Hmmm, wrapped in bacon! Does anyone know how to do this? I'm seeing it for the first time today and I like the idea
JLN 2 years ago
Just wrap your raw turkey in bacon and cook like normal. I tried it one year and now it's the only way I cook turkey, so moist and delicious!
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That bird is definitely not going to dry out and well executed to boot
#17
My ex Sister In Law made Curry Chicken with Sweet Coconut Cream for BEVERAGES. not the canned stuff
I couldnt stand her. She always told me, "I have expensive tastes"
One year for xmas I got her and her hubby a 2 cup $27 bottle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil and $15 bottle of Balsamic from Williams Sonoma.
About 2 yrs later we were sitting in my house chatting and she nonchalantly mentions, "oh someone got us Olive Oil one year and it was RANCID so we threw it out! Dumb ***** had never had really good olive oil and her expensive tastes didnt know what it tasted like. Im so glad I never have to see her again
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
You really have to research the various products made from coconut. Way different purposes, and they usually don't interchange well.
Erica Ventura 2 years ago
My sister works at a winery and olive oil farm, their olive oil is some of the best I've ever tasted and I love to give it as gifts since I get a discount too. I gave some to my mother-in-law but she used it so sparingly because she didn't want to waste it that it went rancid and had to get tossed. She passed away a few years ago and I'd give anything to be able to give her some expensive olive oil that goes to waste just so I could see her again!
Laura Williams 2 years ago
Now I have had people who were helping throw out perfectly good things because they had never used it before. It smelled bad.
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
No, the OP is entirely correct. Anyone who throws EVOO away is a culinary cretin ; in fact I hope the OP's ex SiL taste buds shrivel and die as she is obviously and idiot
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
First time I went and saw my parent's friend play in her jazz band at a club when I was 18, we got bread to dip in olive oil and balsamic vinegar and it was so good I finished it in 5 minutes!
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Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
I recently learned that coconut milk (not Coco Lopez; that's another animal altogether) and coconut water are two different things.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
The first time I tried coconut water was when one of the girls at my youth group, who was from Papua New Guinea, and her mum did a cooking session with us. I was the only one of the group who actually liked it, yet now (20 years later) it is really trendy to drink!
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When I was 18, I started working at a restaurant. One night during closing duties, I dumped some water into the empty broaster so I could scrub it. Except I forgot to close the drain valve, and the water went straight into the bucket of hot oil that was still sitting underneath it! The following chaos of an oil/ water volcano preceded to cover the ENTIRE kitchen. It took about 3 hours to mop everything up.
Shaunn Munn 2 years ago
Bad on the owner/manager for not teaching about grease disasters. This happens too often. No restaurant owner/manager should assume employees of any age have a handle on grease emergencies and precautions. It should be a major point of training.
Grumpy Old Broad 2 years ago
I love the word "broaster" and don't hear it nearly often enough. 😂
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago (edited)
Not a good situation to be in. I was working in a kitchen when someone (who really shouldn't have been there) knocked a cup of water into a 375 degree Imperial deep fryer. To say all hell broke loose would be an understatement. Bubbled all over the place. Took us near 4 hours to clean the floor, the fryer, the walls. Thank the powers that be that they didn't set off the ANSUL system. That would have not only been a mess, but expensive as hell to clean up and recharge/reset. We went home smelling like french fries and sadness.
#19
My grandpa’s wife served us tacos with UNSEASONED ground beef that she rinsed in cold water before serving. Flavorless hell, she didn’t want the extra calories of grease or spices
Brainmas 2 years ago
This makes me sad. Our family tradition is "grandma's greasy tacos." I had her show me how she makes them because I wanted to know why they were so good. It's because she got the 80/20 meat, browned it, then let it sit "til the grease soaks back in" instead of draining it. I didn't know that was possible, but it is. 🤷♀️
Nirdavo 2 years ago
Your gandma sure knows what she is doing! The grease/fat is what makes the taste so good.
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Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
Depends on the spices. Most are less than 5 calories per teaspoon.
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Nikki Gross 2 years ago (edited)
I loved taco and nacho night and it's still one of my favorite meals. We would always season the meat really good and have refried beans for those that want some and set up a build your own station with sour cream, shredded cheese, guacamole, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, onions, black olives and fresh cilantro since we had a garden and grew as many vegetables and herbs as we were able. We would always have hot, crunchy taco shells and would heat up tortilla chips if you wanted to have nachos instead. It was an easy meal for us to make since there were so many of us kids and we all got what we wanted.
Horosho Bodka 2 years ago
My MIL used to brown hamburger meat, then pour it into the sauce. Grease and all, no draining off at all. Pools of greasy fat on the sauce... but it was delicious sauce.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
This picture is of a Mexican street taco. Corn tortilla shell, carne asada (grilled skirt steak), chopped onion and cilantro. Yummy!
#20
I saw a video on Reddit or Pinterest of a woman washing her chicken in a sink with Bleach and a couple drops of Dawn dish soap. She said her Mother and Grandmother both cleaned their chicken this way.
Laura Williams 2 years ago
Ewww. The bacteria will cook off just make sure to check temperature.
MichelleDonut 2 years ago
I've heard of rinsing raw chicken in plain water (totally unnecessary, BTW), but this is crazy!)
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
It’s also dangerous, as it will splatter salmonella and other bacteria far and wide, riding on splattered water droplets.
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lakitha tolbert 2 years ago
That is not how you wash chicken. Actually you are only supposed to lightly rinse it with plain water, and quite frankly, most professional cooks advise against doing that or even touching it with your hands. Some cooks where gloves when handling chicken.
#21
I texted my boyfriend to throw some chicken breasts, cream of chicken soup, and some broth and seasoning into the crock pot as an easy meal for me since I was sickish and at school all day. I got home that night and one of the seasonings he threw in was cinnamon. It’s all you could taste. Bland chicken with some strong cinnamon from the cabinet. The taste still scars me.
Alexej Dvorak 2 years ago
I once ruined an otherwise great omlette by mistaking the cinnamon jar for paprika.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Well in all fairness, you didn't tell him WHAT seasonings/spices to throw in did you?
SilverSkyCloud 2 years ago
dont get into a relationship with someone who doesnt even know how to cook
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
One time I made sugar cookies but mixed up the flour with super spicy chicken fry. Looked the same/identical canister. So bad. Tim Allen's face in The Santa Clause when he drinks soy milk.
Bryn 2 years ago
Yeah, no. This isn't weaponized incompetence. This is someone not knowing what spices to use & taking their best shot at it.
Load More Replies... Biana Weatherford 2 years ago
This one seems a lot like Learned Helplessness. Did he get asked to cook again? He wins.
Bryn 2 years ago
Or someone who doesn't know what spices to use. People are so quick to jump to negative conclusions.
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A family member tried to make cheesecake for a family dinner. They didn't have sugar so they used cornstarch instead. Nobody enjoyed the cheesecake that night.
Karen Krause 2 years ago
Why try a non-sweet substitute? It's like the time, my sister's MIL asked for a recipe. MIL was excited and invited everyone over for dinner to try Sis' dish. Didn't go over well, tasted nothing like Sis' recipe. Sis asked MIL what happened. "Well, it called for alcohol, and we don't drink so I substituted water." And there were a few other ingredients she didn't have and substituted ingredients she did have, but weren't close to anything. And then, complained my sis must not have given her the "right" recipe.
LH25 2 years ago
I see that online as well. Someone will rate a recipe really low then talk about how they substituted pretty much every ingredient for something totally different.
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Mila Preradović 2 years ago
I make cheesecake entirely without added sugar and it is great. I use mascarpone cheese, which is sweet-ish, as well as canned whipped cream, petit beure biscuits and raspberries, which all contain sugar. Sweet enough 😊
Trista JW 2 years ago
I don't understand how anyone would think it's okay to substitute sugar with cornstarch. Just because they're both white does not mean they can be swapped. Depending on the kind of cheesecake they were making, other substitutes, such as honey (or even whipped cream) would have been acceptable.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah, try making gravy (I am the family gravy maker) with powdered sugar instead of Wondra flour because your sister is a F*cking MORON and doesn't label things properly. I threw everything I could think of into it: garlic, sage, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, paprika. We managed - but it was a stretch.
Natty Tempest 2 years ago
There seems to be a mentality of what can be substituted in recipes... People leaving out integral ingredients, or swapping them for an alternative with no idea what will happen. I'm diabetic. That does NOT mean that I should have sweeteners and any muppet who thinks they are interchangeable with sugar should share the migraine it creates! Everything from cups of tea to cake have been ruined by 'it's the same as sugar' or 'if its sweeter than sugar, you can have less of it'... Other rants I am glossing over include alcohol free booze, meat-free meals and even DIY home recipe monstrosities claimed to be store-bought.
#23
Was helping a friend prep for dinner, I was given the task of dicing an onion. I was using my usual method of slicing down half an onion and then making perpendicular cuts for a medium dice. He takes the knife out of my hand and goes, no my moms friend says just do it like this. He proceeds to chop violently and erratically at the onion until chaotic lumps of alum lay strewn about in various sizes and shapes. I dunno what’s wrong with his friend’s mom, but I have never and will never chop onions like that. I haven’t offered to help him cook since.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
Trying to brown chaotically-sized chopped onion will cause it to brown at different rates. Same for cooking in a recipe. You might bite into a chunk that was too large and didn’t cook/soften properly.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Look, I’m sorry, chopping onions is hard. I just hack at it until they’re all roughly the same size.
Alex Bailey 2 years ago
Buy an onion chopper perhaps? Or leave the root on until the very last so that you keep the onion in an easier shape to chop as it holds together. Added bonus is that you don't get the onion fumes if the root stays on and your eyes aren't streaming and painfull! I used to suffer badly as I have problems with my eyes anyway and then heard this advice from a TV chef.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Wtf??? Why would he do that. Was he afraid your perfect onions would outshine the rest of the meal? What a psycho
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
I can literally remember when they taught us how to dice an onion in home economics at school.
SonicAlchemy 2 years ago
I'm glad I'm a chef and none of my friends would ever try to tell me how to do anything in a kitchen because that's obnoxious. "He takes the knife out of my hand"? That's grounds for an a** whooping 😆 This person obviously knew what they were doing and how to do it properly, which, yes to any of you like user "Hey!" are questioning, there's reasons for it.
#24
In college I saw a girl cooking a chicken breast in the shared kitchen in a Teflon pan. She decided to cut it while it was still cooking in the pan. Not only was she scraping the s**t out of the pan with the knife, she was cutting too close to her silicone tongs and shredding tiny little slices of it into her chicken.
Russ Kincade 2 years ago
You can also get into trouble by putting a dry teflon pan on a hot stove. If it gets too hot it emits toxic gasses.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
You can never use a teflon pan if your have birds in your home. The gas will kill them.
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DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
Not gonna lie, I used to "cut" chicken breast while it was still simmering in a nonstick pan... But I used a metal spatula to kind of "chop" it, with my off-hand on the handle, not a knife! I no longer do this, and also no longer have a nonstick pan.
CG 2 years ago
I've honestly never pan fried chicken. I always cook it in the oven. Is there a noticeable difference between pan fried and over cooked chicken?
Sans Serif 2 years ago
Pan frying it (like you might a steak) sears the chicken (creating a bit of a crust) sealing in the flavor and juices...
Load More Replies... Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
I watched a girl take raw chicken out of a bowl, cook it and put the cooked chicken back into the same bowl. Salmonella Soufflé anyone?
David Paterson 2 years ago
Teflon is stopid. Nowhere near tough enough to cope with cooking. Deliberate planned obsolescence. Silicone doesn't taste too bad by the way, if it's cut up into little slivers.
#25
My older sisters would always take a piece of cooked spaghetti and fling it at the ceiling. If it stuck it was done. I never knew if the spaghetti noodle eventually fell down or if they used a broomstick to knock it down, but it always magically disappeared by the next day. I also made it a priority to learn how to make pasta al dente because I was tired of overcooked noodles.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago (edited)
that was an old technique that many people thought was true...but most people did it on the wall, which is much easier to clean that the ceiling!
Hey! 2 years ago
I heard about this, never tried it. I let my husband cook the pasta and he's great at it.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
It was a rather silly 60s thing, didn't know it was still doing the rounds
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jmdirks 2 years ago
I have heard that if it sticks it's done thing before. IT. DOES.NOT.WORK. From the point that the gluten becomes wet and hot it can stick to the wall.
#26
Microwaved dry pasta without water and complained it was underdone and crunchy.
MotherofGuineaPigs 2 years ago
My daughter did this with the easy mac and set the microwave on fire
Nikki Gross 2 years ago
I had a co-worker that was in the same lab as me that set the microwave in the break room on fire because she tried to make ramen and forgot to add water. The smell was horrendous and so much worse then burnt popcorn and it took forever to air out the break room and nobody wanted to go in there to eat.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I wouldn't assume it was arrogant, could just be first time cooking on their own and thought that's what they had seen their parent do, without seeing the step of adding water
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Hospital cafeteria. Cheese burger. Guy grabs a frozen patty. Puts a cheese slice on it right away. Okay. Let's it sit for 30 sec, burger still frozen solid. Flips it, cheese down. Acts like this is a normal f*****g thing that normal humans with normal heads that think normal thoughts would normally f*****g do. Not normal dude, not f*****g normal.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago (edited)
Actually, I have worked in a few hospitals whose food was so good that lots of retired folks came there for dinner. They finally had to have two lines, so the employees could get dinner during our break.
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BossyCloud 2 years ago
The hospitals in my city have great food, actually. Definitely makes a hospital stay less awful
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
Oh god - my brother used to eat those icky frozen White Castle burgers as a teenager. I can still smell his burps. :)
#28
when i wsa a kid (probably younger than 10), i watched my mom pour cold water into a glass or ceramic roasting pan that she had a roast in and had just pulled out of the oven. the pan shattered and we had to order pizza. no idea to this day what she was trying to accomplish. apparently is a core memory re: my mom's terrible cooking...
Bec 2 years ago
My stepson, who has taken multiple physics classes and is usually pretty sharp, ruined on of my frying pans by putting it straight under cold water right off of the hot stove.
Load More Replies... Ace 2 years ago
It's perfectly normal to add liquid to the roasting tray to deglaze it and use all the resulting juices for gravy. Clearly not ice cold water on a glass dish straight from the oven which this must have been, but it's an accepted (and taught in culinary schools) way of doing things.
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
I learnt the same lesson with cold wine in a hot crackpot.. shattered it. 😲 😳🤦♀️. In my defense, I grew up with my aunt (who raised me) using a pressure cooker for EVERY meal, and when I married I was determined to learn how to really cook. It was an important lesson I taught to each of my children. Cold on hot can be BAD!
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
My sister filled our glass Disney canister with ice cubes then poured boiling water into it. It exploded miraculously. Shrapnel everywhere. She screamed. Last time she was trusted with the tea making
Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
I took a glass casserole dish out of the oven and set it on the counter. There was water on the counter; not much, but just enough to shatter the casserole.
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
I learnt that the hard way with my hot crockpot and cold wine. 😳🤦♀️
#29
Watched a friend of mine in 8th grade attempt to make mac and cheese for us. I gave her a few minutes to realize her mistake and once seeing that she wasn’t going to, asked her how she plans on boiling the water with no water in the pot. Lol she just put the pot on the stove and turned it on high. Her parents overheard me from the living room and jokingly called to pray for her 😂
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
I'm guy and a pretty fair cook because growing up my mother taught me how to cook because she said, "momma won't always be around to coddle you when you get older and move out."
Jellybean the Jellyfish(they/them) 2 years ago
How is just turning up the heat supposed to solve anything?
Shaunn Munn 2 years ago
And if she poured water in the hot pot she could have ruined it. I destroyed one of my mom's good pots before I learned this. Not the brightest kid on the block. And yeah, I had to fork over babysitting money to buy a replacement. All in all, a good life lesson.
#30
I knew a family that made all their famous spaghetti with plain ketchup. That was the family’s favorite. You go over there and they pull out the noodles and pour ketchup over it.
Sweet Taurus 2 years ago
The amount of times I've read about ketchup for spaghetti sauce on BP is disturbing.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
The weirdest part about hearing all these "spaghetti with ketchup" stories is that a jar of spaghetti sauce from the store is like half the cost of a similar sized bottle of ketchup, or less... So it's not a poverty thing - just a weird taste thing! Hey, whatever makes them happy!
Pudgy Panda 2 years ago
Ketchup (especially in the US) is loaded with sugar.
Load More Replies... SonicAlchemy 2 years ago
You're not wrong in that has culturally become a common "condiment" but it is, technically, a sauce. Especially when you consider the processes of what would be making it from scratch. It's of the same of what goes into making a "hot sauce" or a "BBQ sauce", the ingredients are what makes it "ketchup", is all. Would I pour it bare a** over pasta and call that a dish? No.
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Wendy Miller 2 years ago
Try living with this. My husband will make egg noodles, put ketchup on them, and eat them out of the pot. Disgusts me.
Dont Sellmyinfo 2 years ago
My cousins would eat white rice with butter and ketchup. I never tried it because it grossed me out. I now have to watch in horror as my children lick ketchup off of their plates. Why do people do such gross things with ketchup!? I guess to each their own, but ketchup is one of those condiments some people will try to work into any meal.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My sister was over recently and asked where the tomato sauce was and I just looked confused and said 'ask dad' because the only thing I use it for is meatloaf, which I only have once or twice a year!
Load More Replies... Captain Awesome 2 years ago
This saddens me deeply. I made spaghetti tonight. Homemade meat sauce and al dente noodles and fresh shaved Parmesan
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
had a swedish friend who used to do the same thing...if she wanted "bolognese" she would put hamburger crumbles + ketchup....she loved it!
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
I know. two completely different things! someone was talking about putting noodles in their lasagne earlier. very confusing.
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Sunshine Lady 2 years ago
My mother was doing this and that was the way my brother loved spaghetti.
#31
My old roommate decided to treat myself and our other roommate to a steak dinner. He “marinated” three giant ribeyes in JAMESON (Irish whiskey). Literally nothing else was in the “marinade”. He then dumped the steaks and all the liquid into a flaming hot cast iron skillet. There was so much whiskey in the skillet that is essentially boiled the steaks. Well done boiled whiskey flavored steal. It was atrocious.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
Is marinating steak in whiskey a thing? Seems like a crime against both steak and whiskey!
Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
Some people do it, but it's not to my taste. A small side of cream and whiskey sauce for steak is nice, though.
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ROSESARERED 2 years ago
I had a housemate who marinaded a steak with Malibu...his reasoning...he liked ir as a drink, should be great with staek
#32
We had one egg left that we were going to use for dinner. Unfortunately, my wife's brain farted and she cracked the egg into the compost and put the shell in the bowl. She was very embarrassed and we had a good laugh.
Then there was the time my coworker needed to defrost some bread in a rush so he put three whole loaves of sliced bread into the steamer, bags and all. This is the same person who seasoned taco meat with dried oregano--and ONLY dried oregano. The residents were not impressed.
#33
I had prepped most of dinner knowing I would get home late for work. Was planning mushroom soup as part of the dinner, with nice mushrooms from the farmers market. I left detailed instructions for my husband to finish the soup. My husband is a gadget guy-if he can buy a gadget to do it, he will. I am the opposite. I feel like the time I save using most gadgets in the kitchen is used up by cleaning all the parts of said gadgets, so I’d rather just do things by hand. So I told my husband to slice the mushrooms before sautéing them for soup. He gets out the food processor, and using the s-blade, or pureeing blade, proceeds to absolutely destroy those mushrooms into a paste. I get home as he’s trying to make soup with mushroom paste. I mean, for a creamy soup it might have worked, but not for what we were making. It looked like gruel. He couldn’t figure out what he did wrong.
Crybabyartist 2 years ago
..."the time I save using most gadgets in the kitchen is used up by cleaning all the parts of said gadgets"...I decided to buy a salad shooter because I wanted to eat a bit more healthy. I told my mother and she said "you'll never keep using it, so don't waste your money". Well, as you said, clean up was a nightmare, but it's actually worse than that because I still had to "prep" everything to fit stuff in the shooter. I never use that thing. What a waste of money. Sorry I didn't listen mom.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Yep! My mom had a Salad Shooter when I was a kid growing up in the 80s. She’d use it on veggies, and also on blocks of cheese to make shredded cheese. She used it daily. But, when I think back, she spent SO much time cutting down the cheese into rectangles that would fit into the top feed, and washing it was a NIGHTMARE (a job often delegated to me.) These days, when my bf or I want shredded cheese, we use a grater XD at least there’s only one piece to clean and you can just use the block of cheese as-is.
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My mother was ill, fancied mashed potatoes. My dad tried to make it in the food processor. Glue. Yes I know my mother is a technophobe, but there's a very good reason for mashing the old fashioned way
#34
My mother once made us a turkey, broccoli and Swiss cheese PIZZA. I was 13 at the time. I’m now 53. We still talk about it.
Richard Michael 2 years ago
Sounds like you were mad that she didn't make you chicken nuggets or mac and cheese, lmao.
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Not sure about the Swiss cheese, but with a base of Alfredo sauce this could be really good
KittyMommy 2 years ago
Very similar to the flatbread I make. Garlic Alfredo, some veggies, whatever mild flavored meat I have, and fresh mozzarella, hit it with some spices, lazy meal day
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 2 years ago
I put ketchup, cheddar, peas and fish fingers on a pizza base more than once. It's the "What is there available before payday" recipe
#35
I grew up rinsing pasta, starting food in a cold pan- all sorts of things. I’ve read and learned a lot, but some days I just crave a pot of “doctored” Kraft macaroni and cheese the way my mom made it- a whole lot of milk and two slices of Kraft American cheese added. Basically artificial cheese soup with macaroni noodles.
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
Nostalgia is a thing. Why else in the name of all that's pink and spotty would I have fray bentos steak pie about once a decade
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Believe it or not, actual cheese can be purchased in slices, shreds, or blocks. I guess a lot of folks grew up with the cheese food product so it's comfort food, tho.
Laura Williams 2 years ago
If I get the rare taste I put the cheese food a little butter no milk.
#36
My mother used to regularly put her keys and/or wallet in the fridge when she’d come home tired. Frequently enough that the fridge was the first place I’d look if she couldn’t find her keys or wallet.
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
Better than milk in the cupboard and port in the fridge....me when I was tired
#37
This was in the kitchen of our motor home. Hubs and the kids took a big summer adventure to Alaska. Most nights they ate out but sometimes when they found an RV park, they decided to take turns making dinner. All the kids can cook, because Mom made sure of that, but Hubs never cooks and doesn’t want to know how. But the kids decided everyone would participate. Dad’s night he opened a can of Ranch Style beans, dumped them into a pan, added a can of undrained tuna and dumped that into the same pan. Heated them up on the stove and served them on a paper plate. Runny, oily beany tuna on a thin paper plate. “Hey kids, dinners’ ready!” 🫣😬🤢 🤢 After that Dad got pulled off the rotation. Even the dog wouldn’t touch it! I’ve heard this story many times and told it a lot too. That combo still grosses me out. So glad I had to skip that trip! 🤓 Edit word
BTDubs 2 years ago
I agree, even an idiot would know to drain the tuna can. The guy surely has taste buds too...
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Jennifer Ness 2 years ago
My dad told me this story over 40 years ago and it still haunts me. His mom was in the hospital so his dad made dinner for himself and the kids. A big bowl of rice over which he spooned unheated condensed tomato soup, topped off with sliced boiled eggs.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
My father and I survived on tomato soup and rice while my mother was in hospital with my brother. Not sure I would have liked the eggs though
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My mom was raised that most vegetables, except potatoes, were given to farm animals as feed. She was appalled when my dad cooked carrots and insisted on nightly green salads. She also only used the white part of a scallion, and cut of the leafy parts of romaine. (She sounds here like a hick…she wasn’t…)
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
I'm from England.. I've eaten Corn on the Cob six I was small...its one of my absolute fave veg, and tastes amazing when on bbq.
Never Snarky 2 years ago
I love corn, too, but it isn't a veggie. It's a grain.
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Hey! 2 years ago
I'm in Canada and we had visitors from Europe. I served corn on a cob as a side. I did not know that those only went to cows. I had to explain that we did too but it was another kind of corn. They both ate it but were not impressed. LOL.
RNA 2 years ago
I'd say i wouldn't expect everyone in Europe to be like that. In my family we serve corn on a cob as a side for BBQ for example. Also you can get it in KFC or even in some of the supermarkets. It sounds like one of the examples of people that would say that 'chickens come from supermarkets' and is not representative to the majority of people in Europe
Load More Replies... Mir Adwari 2 years ago
I eat it regularly - on and off the cob. Love the stuff (UK).
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Mum said when I was very young that the recipe books etc always said to use only the green part of spring onions (scallion) but that she (and therefore me) would use all of it, because otherwise it was a waste.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
several friends from europe who don't eat corn/maize, especially on the cob b/c it's pig food....they don't know what they are missing...i also know that jains don't eat root veg, but i doubt that is the case here.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
where in Europe? it's common in the UK to eat sweetcorn.
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Putting food and oil in a frying pan at the same time they turned the stove on
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Always test if the oil is ready with a small pinch of flour. If the flour fizzes up right away, the oil is hot enough to cook in it.
#40
Years ago, went over to friends' house for dinner. We sat around for an hour or so chatting, now it's getting late and we are quite hungry, then the wife said she guessed they should start getting dinner together and gets up AND TAKES SOME CHICKEN PARTS OUT OF THE FREEZER
Sans Serif 2 years ago
Microwaves are very unkind to chicken. Using it to defrost will achieve the goal but the chicken still pays a price...
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CG 2 years ago
Nothing inherently, but frozen meat takes longer to cook. That's why it is better to let the meat thaw out in advance.
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#41
Quiche with a graham cracker crust
#42
I caught my roommate shaking dry herbs into the boiling pasta water. I confronted him at the time because it was so absurd to me that it would even cross his mind but immediately felt bad. He was genuinely trying out different things on his own, i should've celebrated his trial.
Pie 2 years ago
My life changes the day I started adding things to my potato boiling water. My mashed potatoes are a fan favorite.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
CHICKEN STOCK AND WHOLEGRAIN MUSTARD! makes a huge difference. I also add chicken stock to a cheese sauce, too. it's lovely. I like the Jelly stock pots. they give a lovely smooth texture as well as flavour.
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Justin Smith 2 years ago
Not really. The herbs with flavor the water and pasta.
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My mother-in-law is not known for her cooking, but even so, I was shocked to discover she cuts *everything* with kitchen shears. Vegetables, chicken, whatever. She does not use knives unless she's using a steak knife to eat. While she cleans everything properly and doesn't ever "double dip", I still find it very upsetting.
My dad and I both love frozen bananas in smoothies. Sometimes we just throw banana in a blender with a little milk, maybe some peanut butter, and call it a meal. My mom hates bananas. Years ago, my dad came home with what must have been 40 bananas. Found them at the end of the day at a farmers market where the guy wanted to offload them, so he sold them all for like, $6 or something. My mom, trying to be helpful, froze them all for us, except she didn't peel them first. She froze every single banana, peel and all, in an individual ziplock bag. I think my dad took the time to peel each frozen banana and eventually used them all up, but what an inconvenience.
My brother bought a very fancy new grill and invited people over to test it out/show it off. He apparently had never grilled before, and subsequently burned every single burger, steak, and vegetable he touched. He then figured out his mistake(s) and went to throw on the shrimp he had been marinating, which looked very bizarre and unappetizing as he brought them out to prep. Turns out he doesn't like white wine, so he marinated them in oil, herbs, garlic, and merlot. I don't think I ate that night.
Hey! 2 years ago
I really don't see the problem of using kitchen shears. I have one pair for meat only and another for the rest. Yes I use knives too but the shears are great when I have eczema, or when it's faster (scallions, or cubes for butter chicken). The way you cut your food as nothing to do with the taste.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I'm sorry, genuine question, what do knives have to do with eczema? My daughter has it and I am genuinely wondering
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Bruce Horton 2 years ago
I just throw overripe bananas in the freezer peel and all without wrapping them up. When there's enough, banana bread time.
#44
When Hilaria Baldwin forgot the "english word" for cucumber on television. She was born and raised in Boston.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Do you lie about being born in Spain the way she does, though? XD
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 2 years ago
I lost the word "mushrooms" for over 18 months. If someone told me it, I wouldn't retain the word. I knew fungi, edible fungus, champignons, not toadstools. I then mislaid "letterbox" when I was a delivery driver. "Where did you put it?" "In the hole in the door for mail". My system eventually succumbed to stress and shut down, refusing to let me read for 2 years. 23 years later, I can read for pleasure, not at the 1,000 pages of small print a day that I used to enjoy, and not without sleeping for twice the number of hours that I read afterwards. But I can read again.
Alison Marchand 2 years ago
For anyone who thinks this is just a simple moment of forgetfulness: Hilaria Baldwin has an established reputation for being deceptive about her Bostonian origins, and has basically crafted her persona around appropriating Spanish culture. She *could* have genuinely forgotten, of course, but this is one in a looong line of similar instances.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
I often forget Hungarian words, too. Born and raised in Hungary, still living here. Happens.
#45
Urgh! My husband used rinse off the pasta after he cooked it. I hated that. I finally convinced him to stop doing that. Most ridiculous thing: My father who was "OCD" like to have ketchup in a special squeeze bottle (this was in the days before all ketchup came in squeeze bottles) so, in order to fill up the squeeze bottle, he placed the ketchup bottle upside down on the squeeze bottle in order to fill it up and left it. After a few minutes, the whole thing fell over and ketchup went every where.
Never Snarky 2 years ago
You're not supposed to rinse the pasta after cooking because whatever sauce you use won't stick to it.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
the general "rule" is that you rinse pasta that you use to make cold salads (pasta salad, macaroni salad) so it doesn't stick toegether, but you don't rinse pasta that is served hot b/c it helps thicken and bind the sauce to the pasta...
Crybabyartist 2 years ago
You rinse pasta after boiling it to wash away the excess starches, Heat it back up when you add the sauces or other toppings. Overcooked starchy pasta makes me gag.
badger 2 years ago
well don't overcook it then - duh. if you cook pasta in a big enough pan with enough water it won't be starchy.
Load More Replies... MotherofGuineaPigs 2 years ago
My grandma did this with ketchup, but she made a little funnel with waxed paper so it wouldn't spill.
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
My Italian Great Grandma (Nonna to us) taught us to pour a little sauce over the noodles and toss it. It kept the noodles from sticking together. The starch is what makes it sticky. The more you cook it, the more starch is extracted from the noodle.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I always rinse pasta under cold water for 1 second or it clumps together in the pot
Lem Johnson 2 years ago
Then you have tremendously over cooked your pasta.
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Kendall Jenner cutting that cucumber. Absolutely absurd in the worst way.
ginshun 2 years ago
very proud of the fact that I have never seen one single episode of this show.
Laura Williams 2 years ago
Or any of the siblin, parents, cousins, or children.
Load More Replies... Karen Krause 2 years ago
I don't keep up with the Kardashians, how can you mess up a cucumber?
Lydsylou 2 years ago
She was absolutely destroying it and she had her hand on the end of the cucumber near to where she was cutting. It was actually hilarious the only reason I watch the Kardashians is because I can laugh at the stupidity and drama
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Lady Vader 2 years ago
I just watched it, I don't whether to laugh or cry. Are people really that dumb AND entitled?!! "Hey chef, do you wanna chop this up for her?" OH MY GOD
What do you think ?
kath morgan 2 years ago
Please teach children to cook. It shouldn’t be as hard as some people make it out to be.
Joe Publique 2 years ago
It's not hard at all. Some people are just lazy. Feeding yourself (and possibly your family) is one of the most critical life skills a person can learn.
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Papa 2 years ago
When I was a teenager I had a thought that cheese would be good on pot pies. I put two frozen pot pies in the oven and put a slice of cheese on each. Forty minutes later when I went to check on them I had a black square of burned cheese on each one.
New Everywhere 2 years ago
Good idea! But those things are so lava hot when they're done it would've been fine to do it after
Load More Replies... Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Many years ago, my best friend got married, but she never learned to cook because her grandmother did all the cooking. Her dad had passed and mom worked. She called me at work when she came home from their honeymoon, and was panicked because she didn't know what to make for dinner. I went to her apartment with chicken breasts, veggies and salad stuff, and showed her how to bake chicken. She called her mom later that evening.
Julia French 2 years ago
My cousin, a physics student at MIT, tryed to cook an egg in it's shell in the microwave. His brothers won't let him live it down.
Andrea Delden 2 years ago
Now I know why there are the most minute instructions on things, such as "remove plastic before putting in oven"!
Tobias Reaper 2 years ago
when i was younger about 13 or so i took some bread out of the freezer and put in the microwave to defrost only i didnt use the defrost setting 10 mins on the counter yeah not good soggy nasty bread
B Jones 2 years ago
My first apartment. Worked nights. Came home at like 5am and wanted someone hot but easy. Boxed Mac and cheese. Boiled water, or macaroni in, half asleep opened cheeses powder packet... Dump it all in the full pot of water. Stare for a minute then dump it all and went to bed hungry
Melissa Gàrza 2 years ago
When I was in rehab, every night we'd get a snack; usually a pb&j or crackers and cheese. One night though, they sent us up peanut butter and salmon! It was so disgusting but we laughed our butts off about it for the next couple days!
kath morgan 2 years ago
Please teach children to cook. It shouldn’t be as hard as some people make it out to be.
Joe Publique 2 years ago
It's not hard at all. Some people are just lazy. Feeding yourself (and possibly your family) is one of the most critical life skills a person can learn.
Load More Replies... Papa 2 years ago
When I was a teenager I had a thought that cheese would be good on pot pies. I put two frozen pot pies in the oven and put a slice of cheese on each. Forty minutes later when I went to check on them I had a black square of burned cheese on each one.
New Everywhere 2 years ago
Good idea! But those things are so lava hot when they're done it would've been fine to do it after
Load More Replies... Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Many years ago, my best friend got married, but she never learned to cook because her grandmother did all the cooking. Her dad had passed and mom worked. She called me at work when she came home from their honeymoon, and was panicked because she didn't know what to make for dinner. I went to her apartment with chicken breasts, veggies and salad stuff, and showed her how to bake chicken. She called her mom later that evening.
Julia French 2 years ago
My cousin, a physics student at MIT, tryed to cook an egg in it's shell in the microwave. His brothers won't let him live it down.
Andrea Delden 2 years ago
Now I know why there are the most minute instructions on things, such as "remove plastic before putting in oven"!
Tobias Reaper 2 years ago
when i was younger about 13 or so i took some bread out of the freezer and put in the microwave to defrost only i didnt use the defrost setting 10 mins on the counter yeah not good soggy nasty bread
B Jones 2 years ago
My first apartment. Worked nights. Came home at like 5am and wanted someone hot but easy. Boxed Mac and cheese. Boiled water, or macaroni in, half asleep opened cheeses powder packet... Dump it all in the full pot of water. Stare for a minute then dump it all and went to bed hungry
Melissa Gàrza 2 years ago
When I was in rehab, every night we'd get a snack; usually a pb&j or crackers and cheese. One night though, they sent us up peanut butter and salmon! It was so disgusting but we laughed our butts off about it for the next couple days!
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