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- when making ramen, don't drain like spaghetti. You need the hot
water for the soup.

- when making pancakes, put oil on the grill before pouring on the
pancake batter.

I've been distracted this week!

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
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On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 16:41:39 GMT, Curly Sue wrote:

> - when making ramen, don't drain like spaghetti. You need the hot
> water for the soup.
>
> - when making pancakes, put oil on the grill before pouring on the
> pancake batter.
>
> I've been distracted this week!


Take the plastic *off* the frozen pizza.

-Jeff B. (who messed that one up during a bout with insomnia once)
yeff at erols dot com
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Yeff > wrote in
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> On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 16:41:39 GMT, Curly Sue wrote:
>
>> - when making ramen, don't drain like spaghetti. You need the hot
>> water for the soup.
>>
>> - when making pancakes, put oil on the grill before pouring on the
>> pancake batter.
>>
>> I've been distracted this week!

>
> Take the plastic *off* the frozen pizza.
>
> -Jeff B. (who messed that one up during a bout with insomnia once)
> yeff at erols dot com
>


Pre heat the right oven.

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StocksRus® wrote:
> Yeff > wrote in
> :
>
>> On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 16:41:39 GMT, Curly Sue wrote:
>>
>>> - when making ramen, don't drain like spaghetti. You need the hot
>>> water for the soup.
>>>
>>> - when making pancakes, put oil on the grill before pouring on the
>>> pancake batter.
>>>
>>> I've been distracted this week!

>>
>> Take the plastic *off* the frozen pizza.
>>
>> -Jeff B. (who messed that one up during a bout with insomnia once)
>> yeff at erols dot com
>>

>
> Pre heat the right oven.


Oh behalf of my Sis (she knows who she is) remove the plastic from the
canned ham prior to baking.

Jill


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jmcquown wrote:

> Oh behalf of my Sis (she knows who she is) remove the plastic from the
> canned ham prior to baking.


Hey! It was invisible! and why bother with the can and the key if
it's in plastic anyway!

nancy


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Curly Sue wrote:

> - when making ramen, don't drain like spaghetti. You need the hot
> water for the soup.
>
> - when making pancakes, put oil on the grill before pouring on the
> pancake batter.
>
> I've been distracted this week!


When doing the laundry, put the coins in the same machine
the clothes went into. Imagine my surprise when I started
to unload the machine and all the clothes were dry.

(Why the heck is the coin slide for the adjacent machine
so close -- they could put it in the center or something.)



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Nancy Young wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Oh behalf of my Sis (she knows who she is) remove the plastic from
>> the canned ham prior to baking.

>
> Hey! It was invisible! and why bother with the can and the key if
> it's in plastic anyway!
>
> nancy


True... the first time I took canned crab meat out of the can I was like...
hmm, this is funny. Didn't realize it was paper. DUH (laugh)


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"jmcquown" > wrote in
:

> StocksRus® wrote:
>> Yeff > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 16:41:39 GMT, Curly Sue wrote:
>>>
>>>> - when making ramen, don't drain like spaghetti. You need the hot
>>>> water for the soup.
>>>>
>>>> - when making pancakes, put oil on the grill before pouring on the
>>>> pancake batter.
>>>>
>>>> I've been distracted this week!
>>>
>>> Take the plastic *off* the frozen pizza.
>>>
>>> -Jeff B. (who messed that one up during a bout with insomnia once)
>>> yeff at erols dot com
>>>

>>
>> Pre heat the right oven.

>
> Oh behalf of my Sis (she knows who she is) remove the plastic from the
> canned ham prior to baking.
>
> Jill
>
>
>


Some people forget the little baggies inside the poultry.

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food
and water.
--------
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Don't forget to turn off the broccoli! Burnt broccoli is not something you
wanna mess with.

Best regards,
Bob


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While frolicking around in rec.food.cooking, zxcvbob of said:

>
>Don't forget to turn off the broccoli! Burnt broccoli is not something you
>wanna mess with.
>

Don't put some cold soup on a hot plate for reheating, close the
kitchen-door and begin to read something interesting, forget about the
soup, and then go shopping. Once soup has been reduced to coal, there's
*nothing* you can do to save the pot; plus it takes hours to get the
ventilation, and the entire kitchen, to stop smelling so badly.
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MEow wrote:

> While frolicking around in rec.food.cooking, zxcvbob of said:
>
>
>>Don't forget to turn off the broccoli! Burnt broccoli is not something you
>>wanna mess with.
>>

>
> Don't put some cold soup on a hot plate for reheating, close the
> kitchen-door and begin to read something interesting, forget about the
> soup, and then go shopping. Once soup has been reduced to coal, there's
> *nothing* you can do to save the pot; plus it takes hours to get the
> ventilation, and the entire kitchen, to stop smelling so badly.



If it's a stainless steel pot, lye and warm water will save it. Don't ask
me how I know.

-Bob
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In article > , Dog3
<dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote:

> MEow > deliciously posted in
> :
>
> > While frolicking around in rec.food.cooking, zxcvbob of said:
> >
> >>
> >>Don't forget to turn off the broccoli! Burnt broccoli is not
> >>something you wanna mess with.
> >>

> > Don't put some cold soup on a hot plate for reheating, close the
> > kitchen-door and begin to read something interesting, forget about the
> > soup, and then go shopping. Once soup has been reduced to coal,
> > there's *nothing* you can do to save the pot; plus it takes hours to
> > get the ventilation, and the entire kitchen, to stop smelling so
> > badly.

>
> Don't forget to take last night's dripping broiler pan out of the oven
> before preheating it. I did this once and went to take a shower. I was
> living at home and in high school. Mom was way ****ed about having to
> paint the kitchen and replace the drapes. 2 weeks after the remodel she
> did the same thing and burned the kitchen down. It wasn't all bad, she
> got
> a new kitchen and never again was a broiler pan left dirty.
>
> Michael



Can I borrow that pan?
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hahabogus wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote in
> :
>
>> StocksRus® wrote:
>>> Yeff > wrote in
>>> :
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 16:41:39 GMT, Curly Sue wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> - when making ramen, don't drain like spaghetti. You need the hot
>>>>> water for the soup.
>>>>>
>>>>> - when making pancakes, put oil on the grill before pouring on the
>>>>> pancake batter.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been distracted this week!
>>>>
>>>> Take the plastic *off* the frozen pizza.
>>>>
>>>> -Jeff B. (who messed that one up during a bout with insomnia once)
>>>> yeff at erols dot com
>>>>
>>>
>>> Pre heat the right oven.

>>
>> Oh behalf of my Sis (she knows who she is) remove the plastic from the
>> canned ham prior to baking.
>>
>> Jill
>>
>>
>>

>
> Some people forget the little baggies inside the poultry.


Huh? Not me, never...(the paper ones don't really mess up the chicken, but
those plastic ones do)

>
> --
> Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food
> and water.
> --------
> FIELDS, W. C.




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In article >, "StocksRus®" > wrote:

>Pre heat the right oven.
>

Make sure the oven is empty before you pre-heat it.
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"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
...
> - when making ramen, don't drain like spaghetti. You need the hot
> water for the soup.
>
> - when making pancakes, put oil on the grill before pouring on the
> pancake batter.
>
> I've been distracted this week!
>
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!


Don't forget to turn the oven OFF. It was my first winter in a new
apartment, with a lot of coming and going. I kept thinking that it was odd
that they kept the heat so high. (No, I wasn't cooking much).

Finally figured out it was the oven that had been on for about a week. It
was really warm that day. Opened the bedroom window and cracked open the
patio door to the balcony, and went out, for what was supposed to be an hour
or so. Ended up going to a party, then a huge snowstorm blew in and I didn't
get back to the apartment for a couple of days.

I knew there was going to be a problem when the apartment doorknob was
freezing cold.

Snowstorm blew in, all right. I had several inches of snow carpeting the
living room, and the bed was covered with snow.

No, I did NOT turn the oven back on to thaw things out.




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While frolicking around in rec.food.cooking, zxcvbob of said:

>> Don't put some cold soup on a hot plate for reheating, close the
>> kitchen-door and begin to read something interesting, forget about the
>> soup, and then go shopping. Once soup has been reduced to coal, there's
>> *nothing* you can do to save the pot; plus it takes hours to get the
>> ventilation, and the entire kitchen, to stop smelling so badly.

>
>
>If it's a stainless steel pot, lye and warm water will save it. Don't ask
>me how I know.
>

Too late. I threw it out years ago, right after it happened. In any
case, it was just a cheapo pot, and I had two others, of which I still
have one left. The new ones I have are coated with some sort of
non-stick coating. So far, I haven't burned anything in them (7-9-13!)
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While frolicking around in rec.food.cooking, The Joneses of SBC
http://yahoo.sbc.com said:

>And never use that fork to chip away at stuff in the freezer. Having
>pierced a coil right thru the tinfoil thickness of the freezer, I was
>astonished how quickly a fridge became a cabinet. This of course was in the
>days before frost free freezers.


Whatever you do; never, ever attempt to remove ice from your freezer
with a hammer and a screwdriver, no matter how much you'd like the
de-icing to speed up. The appropriate way of speeding up the process is
to place something full of boiling water inside the freezer and *wait*.
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MEow wrote:

The appropriate way of speeding up the process is
> to place something full of boiling water inside the freezer and *wait*.



Another good way to speed the melting process is to set up a fan outside
the freezer so it is blowing in it. This is good in situations when the
freezer needs defrosting so bad you can't get anything into it. Also,
you can set up the fan and walk away.

--Lia

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After putting the kettle on for tea, don't go outside and garden. :-(

Dora




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limey > wrote in message
...
> After putting the kettle on for tea, don't go outside and garden. :-(


....Or, if you do (go outside), make sure you open a window so that you can
/hear/ the kettle's whistle blowing. <sigh> I super-heated SWMBO's tea
kettle into a blued-steel, flaked-enamel, glowing coal one morning.

The Ranger


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On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:33:19 +0100, MEow >
wrote:

>While frolicking around in rec.food.cooking, The Joneses of SBC
>http://yahoo.sbc.com said:
>
>>And never use that fork to chip away at stuff in the freezer. Having
>>pierced a coil right thru the tinfoil thickness of the freezer, I was
>>astonished how quickly a fridge became a cabinet. This of course was in the
>>days before frost free freezers.

>
>Whatever you do; never, ever attempt to remove ice from your freezer
>with a hammer and a screwdriver, no matter how much you'd like the
>de-icing to speed up. The appropriate way of speeding up the process is
>to place something full of boiling water inside the freezer and *wait*.
>--


It is true that defrosting a freezer with a hammer and screwdriver
takes a special kind of talent, akin to a sculptor of valuable stone.
A sculptor has to know the characteristics of each type of stone. So
does the freezer-defroster have to "know" the characteristics of the
types of ice found in a freezer, how the ices change in texture over
the course of the defrosting process, where to apply a valuable tap,
when to use a bit more force. The sculptor must be aware of the
location of faults in the stone, one improperly placed stroke can
destroy a beautiful work; the sculptor must also know exactly how much
pressure to apply to achieve the desired effect without breaking off
the nose. Museums are filled with the sorry results of distracted
sculptors. So must the freezer-defroster with her tools be
ever-vigilant that each tap may lead to ruin.

As the mercifully-retired veteran of many successful hammer &
screwdriver defrostings (I was known as the "Michaelangela of
Freezers"), I say to you "get a frost-free!"

Sue(tm)
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"The Ranger" wrote in message

> limey wrote in message
> > After putting the kettle on for tea, don't go outside and garden. :-(

>
> ...Or, if you do (go outside), make sure you open a window so that you can
> /hear/ the kettle's whistle blowing. <sigh> I super-heated SWMBO's tea
> kettle into a blued-steel, flaked-enamel, glowing coal one morning.
>
> The Ranger


Yes (sigh)....but you need to remember to flip the little lever down so that
it whistles.

Dora


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limey > wrote in message
...
> > How to Ruin A Tea Kettle

> Yes (sigh)....but you need to remember to flip the little lever
> down so that it whistles.


SWMBO's whistle lifts off (is removable) from the spout. I had that in place
but my castle is better insulated against external (and now I know internal)
sounds...

The Ranger


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Don't start a pot of eggs hardboiling and leave for the day. The
change that this makes in your kitchen decor--egg yolk in interesting
irregular blobs all over the ceiling and walls--is not easy to undo.
--thelma


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Curly Sue wrote:

> It is true that defrosting a freezer with a hammer and screwdriver
> takes a special kind of talent, akin to a sculptor of valuable stone.
> A sculptor has to know the characteristics of each type of stone. So
> does the freezer-defroster have to "know" the characteristics of the
> types of ice found in a freezer, how the ices change in texture over
> the course of the defrosting process, where to apply a valuable tap,
> when to use a bit more force. The sculptor must be aware of the
> location of faults in the stone, one improperly placed stroke can
> destroy a beautiful work; the sculptor must also know exactly how much
> pressure to apply to achieve the desired effect without breaking off
> the nose. Museums are filled with the sorry results of distracted
> sculptors. So must the freezer-defroster with her tools be
> ever-vigilant that each tap may lead to ruin.


(laughing!) I love it, a poetic turn on defrosting the refrigerator.

> As the mercifully-retired veteran of many successful hammer &
> screwdriver defrostings (I was known as the "Michaelangela of
> Freezers"), I say to you "get a frost-free!"


I hear ya. I learned the hard way. At the most inopportune moment
possible, I chipped away at the ice. PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTT.
Well, I was not only flat broke, I'm not kidding around broke, I had
to pay the apartment complex $50 to have the thing fixed. Luckily
for me, I was meeting my soon to be outlaws the next day. I say
luckily as I had no money for food to offer. Nice.

Well, couple of weeks later, I hear PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTT! NO!!!
I didn't touch it!! For some odd reason, the tire on the bicycle in
the kitchen just gave out.

At any rate, if I see another one of those old refrigerators with the
freezer box built in, it'll be too soon. Piece of crap.

nancy
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In article <jdF2c.516101$na.1173237@attbi_s04>, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:
> Another good way to speed the melting process is to set up a fan outside
> the freezer so it is blowing in it. This is good in situations when the
> freezer needs defrosting so bad you can't get anything into it. Also,
> you can set up the fan and walk away.
>
> --Lia

But that's so boring, Lia! <g>
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In article >, Terrel
> wrote:

> Don't forget to put a bowl under the colander BEFORE straining the
> chicken stock.
>
> Terrel


ROTFL!! Wiping tears of laughter from my cheeks! Jeez!
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Terrel > wrote:
: Don't forget to put a bowl under the colander BEFORE straining the
: chicken stock.

I've done that with the one-cup coffeemaker.
--thelma

: Terrel


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"Derek N.P.F. Juhl" wrote in message >
>
> Once I baked a chocolate cake and forgot the flour. I realised the
> mistake when took it out of the oven. I let it cool, spread raspberry
> jam on top, decorated it with whipped cream and shaved chocolate, and
> served it as "chocolate decadance." It was one of the best desserts
> I've ever made.
>
> Derek Juhl


That's funny, Derek! Have you ever tried to duplicate it?

I left the eggs out of the first cake I made after our marriage. When I
opened the oven door, the cake looked like an atom bomb mushroom explosion.
You were fortunate - mine went into the garbage.

Dora


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The first time you ever cook a turkey, don't forget to put your hand in the
cavity and pull out the plastic bag of giblets, neck, etc. Otherwise, when you
"present" the glorious dish on the big day, you will pull out an evil-smelling
unrecognizable object.

Nancree
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Steve Calvin > wrote in message >...
> Melba's Jammin' wrote:

SNIP>
> Never leave the kitchen, even for two minutes, with 4 shell steaks on
> the counter until you have the Siberian Husky trained.


LOL

I have a similar story, but it involves a young cat and a raw
porkchop. Isadora ran around with that porkchop in her mouth for
quite a while before I cornered and caught her. Seems funny now, and
even seemed a little funny at the time, but I was not about to let her
get away with any theft that blatant.

Hard learned kitchen lessons include:

ALWAYS buy a whistler tea kettle. My old stove had one useless burner
where a late, lamented non-whistling kettle became one with the burner
because I'd forgotten it until I got a whiff of this nasty smell.....

When caramelizing sugar, DO NOT LET THE WATER BOIL AWAY. Otherwise
you're left with this dry, uncaramelized crust of sugar that looks
something like a lunar landscape. Adding more water after the fact
does not help, you must start all over again. Also, use a saucepan
and medium high heat for caramelization, NOT a frying pan and medium
low heat. And pay attention the whole time, molten sugar hurts when it
burns you.

Melissa
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Has anyone ever heard of the guy who tried to thaw out a pork raost in a
warm oven and forgot about it? It was in there for three days -- just
enough for it to stink and for the larvae to hatch.

I won't say the dope's name, but I see his face every morning when I'm
shaving.

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