For your entertainment/criticism/sympathy du jour:

Last night, while rolling out pizza dough on the kitchen counter (made
somewhat crowded by random breads, vegetables (tomatoes, avocados) and
appliances), I managed to knock the large (~10 pound) open container
of flour off the counter that I was using to dust the dough.

Bad news: It landed on the floor, upside down.

Good news: It landed squarely. So the flour was constrained to a
small area of the floor and there was no huge cloud to coat the entire
kitchen a la some 1930s comedy movie.

After calling the family down to witness the mishap and accept their
abuse, cleanup was a matter of slipping a large flexible cutting board
under the container, then vacuuming up what little was left. Whew!

--
Silvar Beitel

Silvar Beitel wrote:

while rolling out pizza dough on the kitchen counter

If you can roll it it's not pizza dough.

Silvar Beitel wrote in message
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For your entertainment/criticism/sympathy du jour:

Last night, while rolling out pizza dough on the
kitchen counter (made somewhat crowded by
random breads, vegetables (tomatoes, avocados)
and appliances), I managed to knock the large
(~10 pound) open container of flour off the
counter that I was using to dust the dough.

Bad news: It landed on the floor, upside down.

Good news: It landed squarely. So the flour was
constrained to a small area of the floor and there
was no huge cloud to coat the entire kitchen a la
some 1930s comedy movie.

After calling the family down to witness the mishap
and accept their abuse, cleanup was a matter of
slipping a large flexible cutting board under the
container, then vacuuming up what little was left.
Whew!

Get thee to your Quik-E-Mart's SuperLotto! Lady Luck doesn't
visit so often that you should pass her up!

ObFood: Spawn+KitchenAid Mixer+flour = Disaster.

The Ranger

On May 12, 2:55 pm, Sheldon wrote:
Silvar Beitel wrote:

while rolling out pizza dough on the kitchen counter

If you can roll it it's not pizza dough.

You're right, of course.

What I made was a soft yeast bread dough with olive oil, salt and a
little sugar, rested after risen until I could stretch it easily by
hand but shaped with a rolling pin into perfect rounds since I am not
expert in tossing/stretching pizza dough by hand.

We did enjoy our "pizzas," or whatever they were.

--
Silvar Beitel

"Silvar Beitel" wrote

For your entertainment/criticism/sympathy du jour:

Last night, while rolling out pizza dough on the kitchen counter (made
somewhat crowded by random breads, vegetables (tomatoes, avocados) and
appliances), I managed to knock the large (~10 pound) open container
of flour off the counter that I was using to dust the dough.

Bad news: It landed on the floor, upside down.

Good news: It landed squarely. So the flour was constrained to a
small area of the floor and there was no huge cloud to coat the entire
kitchen a la some 1930s comedy movie.

Saved! by. the. BELL! That's a riot.

After calling the family down to witness the mishap and accept their
abuse, cleanup was a matter of slipping a large flexible cutting board
under the container, then vacuuming up what little was left. Whew!

Talk about dodging a bullet. And now you know to move the other
stuff out of the way. I'm particularly prone to working with clutter.
So much easier if you move it first.

nancy

On Mon 12 May 2008 11:36:25a, Silvar Beitel told us...

For your entertainment/criticism/sympathy du jour:

Last night, while rolling out pizza dough on the kitchen counter (made
somewhat crowded by random breads, vegetables (tomatoes, avocados) and
appliances), I managed to knock the large (~10 pound) open container
of flour off the counter that I was using to dust the dough.

Bad news: It landed on the floor, upside down.

Good news: It landed squarely. So the flour was constrained to a
small area of the floor and there was no huge cloud to coat the entire
kitchen a la some 1930s comedy movie.

After calling the family down to witness the mishap and accept their
abuse, cleanup was a matter of slipping a large flexible cutting board
under the container, then vacuuming up what little was left. Whew!

--
Silvar Beitel


You'd better be extra careful. This was probably just a warning, and no
telling what will happen next! :-)

Great story!

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Wayne Boatwright
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"Silvar Beitel" wrote in message
Good news: It landed squarely. So the flour was constrained to a
small area of the floor and there was no huge cloud to coat the entire
kitchen a la some 1930s comedy movie.


You sure were lucky. I've often thought about the possibility of that
while moving the big flour tin around. We keep a small tin in the cupboard
for things like that. It holds about a pound of flour and is handy for when
you need a dusting.