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Mira (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 11:27 AMOriginal message A little levity for all the cooks I have learned to peek in on - and Happy New Year. My cooking has 4 levels:Level 1: My spouse and I will eat it.(example: tuna sandwiches)Level 2: My spouse and I won't eat it, but the dogs will eat it.(example: moderately burned chocolate chip cookies)Level 3: The dogs won't eat it, but the chickens will eat it.(example: rice prepared with one cup rice to one cup water)Level 4: The chickens won't eat it.(example: potatoes microwaved without stabbing first, aka potato-based charcoal briquets)May all your cooking be Level 1.
Husb2Sparkly (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 11:45 AMResponse to Original message 1. Lemme tall ya sumpin' ............ I would bet a year's pay that not one person who posts in this forum has missed out on the joys of Levels 3 or 4 ....... and probably Level 5, if it exists!
Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 12:10 PMResponse to Original message 2. Level 4 Putting a chunk of lasagna, uncovered, of course, into the microwave, and somehow hitting 11 instead of 1 minute. And then leaving the kitchen and forgetting about it................
Mira (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 12:26 PMResponse to Reply #2 4. That's a bloody explosion. And I would call that level 11.
Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 04:22 PMResponse to Reply #2 7. Oh YES.....I've "done" that.......not necessarily lasagna though.Whatta tragic, dried out, overcooked mess!
Warpy (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 01:19 PMResponse to Original message 5. I never bother to stab potatoes before I nuke them When was the last time one exploded in the microwave?If you're getting charcoal briquets, you've simply set the timer wrong.Moderately burned chocolate chip cookies are fine. It's called a microplane, and it removes sins from the bottoms of cookies as well as grating that super expensive nubbin of cheese over your spaghetti.There is a level 5: pigs and goats won't eat it. That means you've managed to achieve deadly poison in the kitchen.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 01:44 PMResponse to Reply #5 6. that microplane might work.... ...as a ped egg, too!
dotcosm (1000+ posts) Mon Jan-05-09 06:24 PMResponse to Reply #5 14. Last night, that's when I too have long given up on poking my taters, mainly because I tend to scrub the skin so well that I figured (wrongly) that piercing the skin was the main point of poking the holes (it's not. apparently).Yep, had my first microwave-based (yam, in this case) explosion. I'd say it wasn't purty, but it actually was (very nice deep orange!)Aside from that casualty though, what an excellent dish they turned into - mashed them up with some roasted/candied walnuts and dried cranberries! A keeper.
Phentex (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 05:20 PMResponse to Original message 8. Level 6 - Smoke alarm goes off and no one moves...because as my son said "It's just mom cooking."In my defense, the blasted thing is extra sensitive. I don't even have to be burning anything and it will go off.Does anyone here remember when I ruined a pot cooking food for the dogs?
wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 06:25 PMResponse to Original message9. May I add my level 5? Level 5: So awful I'm afraid the garbage guys might see it in the trash, so I bury it in the back yard.Level 6: Level 5 so bad all vegetation over the grave dies.
eleny (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-01-09 06:00 PMResponse to Original message 12. Forgetting to score chestnuts before putting them in the oven "What's that popping sound?", he asked.
