Case in point, McCormick Course Ground Pepper. It used to have a screw top, you take it off and there was a little lid with holes in it and you just sprinkle it on the foods.

Well they've gone and changed the lids. Now it's a flip top. You don't unscrew the lid anymore. And if you do, you dump out a half a container of black pepper onto your food. Not good. Plus it's expensive to keep going back to the store once a week to buy pepper.

You'd think I'd catch on that they've changed the lid but Noooooooooooooooooo. I did it again twice in a matter of hours yesterday.

Today I called McCormick. They have no plans on changing it back to the way it was. The rep suggested I tape the lid so I can't unscrew it.

D'OH!!!!!!

Do you do dumb things that you can't believe you've done again and again?

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

I know darn good & well which knob goes with which burner. But inevitably if I have two burners going, I'll turn the wrong one up or down. Why oh why do I do that??

Linda

I have been known to put the ice cream in the fridge and the milk in the freezer...not paying attention to which door I opened. The other day I was emptying the dishwasher talking to my 15yo DD (you know those few occassions they wish to talk) so taking full advantage I put dishes into the fridge...ok it was good laugh because she is watching me do it!

Heidi

What about dropping your meat thermometer into a pot of boiling caramel sauce becuase you don't have a candy thermometer... TWICE in the same night! The second time, it split apart and the battery came out in the sauce. And I had just cleaned it from the first episode. Yeah, that's fun!

I've also been cleaning the stove and hit the oven knob with my belly during the process. Lemon sponge cake does NOT do well at 500 degrees! Burned my arse on a cookie sheet once... I took a batch of cookies out of the oven and then went to move my portable dishwasher... I was in a t-shirt only because I was about to take shower and backed right up into the cookie sheet that was hanging over the edge of the range. Not fun! I even posted about that here. The scar healed in a couple weeks... than goodness I didn't have any dates lined up!

Shaun, you don't use freshly ground pepper? Well! I think we need to bump that cooking confessions thread back up!

Nancy

You're right, I need to buy peppercorns and a grinder. I've never tried Penzeys.

Yep I've also put on the wrong burner. The one thing I always do and hubs has to check up on me all the time is that I forget and leave the oven on WAY after dinner is done.

Just about 2 weeks ago, I took out this little container that I microwave rice in (Pampered Chef Rice Cooker) I put the lid down,filled it with water/rice, then went to look for the lid, couldn't find it in any drawer I looked in. So I yelled at my son for putting things away in the wrong place! (his job is to dry dishes and put them away) I went on and on about how he makes my job harder, to pay attention to what he was doing........ *menopausal woman* Oh boy was I embarrassed when I saw the lid sitting on the counter. I apologized to him and poured a glass of wine.

This getting old is scaring me.

Or maybe spending the last 5 minutes trying to close the windows dialog box in your post after checking to be sure I was logged in!!!! LOL

Or pour my chicken stock into the strainer and forgetting to put the strainer in a bowl first........down the drain. Now that really pissed me off.

My friend wanted me to make her some Lima Bean Soup and told me she had a ham bone. I was at her house this past Wednesday, she pulled the bone out of her freezer and yesterday I set out to make her soup in the pressure cooker.

When it was done, I opened the PC up and using tongs, I removed the hambone. But there was no bone. It was a hunk of something her husband caught while hunting. Mystery Meat. She can't remember what it was. But it left a big bubbling mess of gray foam on top of the beans. I threw it all out.

Same friend - called me to give me a phone number I had asked her for. We talked for a few more minutes and she says, "So, did you call so-and-so yet?" I said, "Oh dear, you JUST gave me her number and I haven't hung up with you yet". hahahahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!!

There's more obviously, but that was the most recent.

I won't mention the canning mistakes like pressure canning beans for an hour and a half instead of half an hour.

Stacie

My biggest sin is tossing utensils, especially paring knives, in the plastic garbage bag I keep in the sink-- that and boiling dry my tea kettles & hard boiled eggs ! Ever had to clean an exploded egg off your ceiling ?

Other than that, the most stupid thing I've done was fry bacon naked. Now THAT'S stupid, but it was a long time ago. (grin)

Annie

Joanne

I couldn't figure out why our car smelled SO bad one time. The smell just never went away. I opened the trunk to find that a Yoplait yogurt had gone astray the week before, after a grocery run. Whew!!!

My DH and DD have both been known to leave the burner on the stove, despite the little red light that says "Burner on". The one on the other side is for "Hot surface" and they are so used to that light being on when they cook, that the other one doesn't phase them.

I'm also famous for not labeling things in the freezer (a habit I am desperately trying to lose). So having chili over spaghetti noodles was one of my more "stupid" things. (It's really hard to tell the difference between my frozen chili and my frozen spaghetti sauce, since both are made from tomato sauce.)

DonnaR/CA

Then bonjo reminded me about the funny smell in our pantry one time. At first I thought a rat might have died under the house but it turned out to be that I'd gotten a package of ground meat out of the freezer and put it on a pantry shelf while looking for something else and then forgot about it there.

i've boiled/cooked too many things down to a charred mess. worst part about that, is when it's first happening i can smell something good. then all too late or it just happens real quick after that, it's a disgusting burnt stench.

i'm notorious for banging my head on the open freezer door.

i've lost count how many times i've sliced a finger on the mandolin because i was in too much of a hurry and didn't bother with the guard. (can you say dumb azz)

i screw the caps on spice jars so tight that when i open them, the plastic-holed pourer is stuck in the lid and more than one time the entire jar contents of something has made it into the pot.

i know there's more...unfortunately.

maryanne

OH MY GOD!!! Y'all have rescued my evening and probably tomorrow as well! I've been laughing so hard I literally had to wipe the tears away to keep reading, 'cause they blurred my vision!

And Oh, how I needed that! Aggravating day, feeling like I had cactus spines between my skin and muscles since morning...the "change" is such a charming phase of life, let me tell those of you who don't know yet!

In a fit of hormone induced irritation...no, rage...I made the violent (for me) statement of throwing the paperback I was reading onto the coffee table. The coffee table with 3 smoked glass panels.

Oh yes, my paperback copy of Wouk's "War and Rememberance" shattered a pane of glass meant to withstand use as a table...and which had withstood such use for nigh on twenty years.

Now I have a coffee table with a large, rectangular, hole in it. The book is fine though, so I'll be able to finish it.

I guess I'll go shopping for a coffee table tomorrow. :P

After that, I'll revisit this thread and confess my own brain-dead kitchen moments...God knows there've been enough of them!

Thanks again!

I rented a villa in Italy for our family and DD in-laws. The first morning we were there I went to the huge kitchen to start breakfast for everyone. The stove was large with a glass top, good--I have a glass stove top.

I put the tea kettle on one burner and a frying pan on another. I walked across the kitchen (remember it was large) to the sink then heard an explosion with glass shooting all over the kitchen--good thing I was across the kitchen. The entire glass top was now little pieces of glass and over a good part of the floor around the stove.

Two days later we were at a mall so I went to the appliance store to see if I could get some information on the cost to replace the glass top. As I approached the stove department, I saw a row of ovens ALL WITH GLASS TOPS AND IN THE RAISED POSITION as if they were at attention.

Turns out that the tops are cook tops they are covers for the burners and are raised when cooking and become a back splash.

Linda

Always losing my beer. Beer smells so good after it has sat for a couple days. Found a half drank stale beer out in the garage after mistaking it for a fresh half drank beer... glad I could spit without having to run for a sink first.

Warm frying pan. Eggs that expired only last month. Oops they expired a year ago last month. Was tempted to throw the whole frying pan away. Some serious fridge cleaning to do.

: )
lyra

THAT cracked me up!!!!!!!!!!!

My boyfriend is always losing his beer. I told him he needs a beeper or something. When he can't find his, he just drinks mine.

lynn

Then there's always the take something out of the oven or off the burner and set it aside only to grab it bare-handed a few seconds later. Gosh burns on palms and fingers hurt!

When I was in the sixth grade, I decided one day to make a spice cake. Got all the ingredients together just fine, mixed it up and poured it into a loaf pan. Just after I popped it into the oven, a friend came over and we went outside. Mom wasn't home, and you guessed it, I forgot all about the cake. When I finally noticed the black smoke streaming out the window, I rushed in and grabbed the cake pan and threw it down the back steps.

That cake fell out of the pan, and broke in half with a sound like a rock breaking. Gave new meaning to the term "cinder block".

Would be nice if I'd learned my lesson about starting something on the stove/oven and going off to do something else, but noooooooo.

Is putting a preheated dutch oven on a poly cutting board stupid? If so, it's been just a couple hours since my last stupid kitchen trick.

Now you've forced me to contribute, because I have a variation on that one. It wasn't me (although it could have been). It was a friend of mine.

He bought some bargain priced small chickens to make stock with. He simmered the chickens slowly all day in a big stock pot. Then he put a colander in the sink and carefully strained the contents of the pot through it.

Jim

ROFL!!:D ;D :D

OUCH jim, that visual hurt so bad.

maryanne

I'm with you on the ingredient thing Kathy. I have poblano peppers in the fridge and can't remember the recipe I bought them for. I do that a lot more than I care to admit.

See Shaun you're normal just like the rest of us.

Tracey

It has repaid itself in laughs many times over.

I don't have enough digits to count the number of times I set the coffee up the night before for morning and while pouring the water tell myself...do not turn on, do not turn on...and I turn it on! Argh! What is wrong with me?

Just did this one - hope I don't repeat it. Was running to pick up my son from school and got to the car and went to hit the button on my keys to open the door...and I didn't have my keys - I had a potholder in my hand! You see I obsessively have to "straighten up" things even if I am in a rush - so while in a rush went to put the potholder away and grab my keys...and you know. The funny thing is I was going crazy looking for the keys - then it hit me - they were in the potholder drawer. At least I remembered the baby:)

Okay, not kitchen related but loosing your mind related? Last night I purposely did a wash with the jeans I wanted to wear today. I go down this morning to get them and the dryer door and washer are both open - I just never transferred the wash.

My problem is while I am doing something I am thinking about the next thing I have to do. I think that is why I trip a lot - LOL.

Now I've had strawberry milk before, but this is ridiculous.
It was as awful as you'd imagine... don't EVER do that!

In my defense, I was a little preoccupied. I had the Brady Bunch on and Bobby and Cindy had just gotten lost at the Grand Canyon!

Shaun- get yourself a pepper ball! I bought one for my better half (it had flames on it & matched his grilling tools) but I've claimed it for my own. You can grind one handed while you cook. It opens up a whole new avenue of possibilities for cooking mishaps. Grinding while scanning a recipe f'rinstance(I discovered that ground pepper is one of the few things the dog won't eat off of the floor).

Non pepper related was the time that I cremated the bacon. I always cooked bacon under the broiler so there was no reason that I should do it differently with the new stove. Unfortunately the old stove was the gas equivalent of the E-Z bake oven & the new stove is a Viking with an infrared broiler. The good news is that the vent-a-hood worked so well that I didn't even realize that the bacon was immolated until I noticed the flames inside the oven.

Also, if you put a plastic cutting board on top of a hot, cast iron burner grate it will melt.

Nina

Ahem.

ROTF! Annie, I've done the "naked bacon" thing too! Would I be evil if I tried to get hubby to do the same and watched?? I'm feelin' evil!

1. Pamper Chef mixing bowl lids are NOT oven-proof!!!!

2. Neither are plastic forks inside Pampered Chef bowls!

Note to self:
Do NOT preheat oven to 400 degrees while your sourdough starter is inside.

There! I shouldn't have any more problems!

yeah. right.

Deanna (the mixing bowl is fine, BTW!)

What a great thread, Shaun!

Alzheimer's anyone?

Love those melted lids.

Kind of kitchen-related ... I often drop my purse and car keys into the paper sack as I'm leaving the grocery store. Recently I came home from a shopping trip, removed my purse, unpacked most of the groceries, got distracted, started filling the same sack up with recyclables, and took the recycling out to the curb. Next morning, I was surprised to see the recycling truck show up late, and listened with amusement as the recycling-dude conducted an argument with his girlfriend on his cellphone, then the truck slowly, slowly drove away. Later that afternoon, I couldn't find my car keys. Yup, they got recycled.

I have learned not to dry off my cast iron in the oven with a dish cloth wrapped around it. Burnt dishcloths smell bad.
Or think that I can preheat the oven to 120 degrees so that bread will rise quickly.

The worst is probably turning the filtered water faucet over to the counter to fill up the dog bowl, coffee pot, whatever. Then forgetting about it until it floods the counter and all the drawers underneath. I'm ashamed to say this has happened several times.

I didn't have far to go to work so I drove slowly as not to slosh the sauce. I slammed on the brakes to avoid running into the car who stopped abruptly in front of me. Yup, the crock pot fell forward and 6 quarts of spaghetti sauce sloshed up under the dash board and filled the foot well.

Imagine my embarrassment when new DH went to carve the perfectly looking chicken and melted plastic oozed out. Nobody told me you had to shove your hand up it's @$$ and pull out the plastic bag of organs.

OK so it took me 20 years before I attempted a whole bird again and my family still teases me every time I serve one. Even when I don't LOL

michaelp

My most memorable kitchen memory-lapse was definitely hormonally-induced. I was pregnant and 5 days overdue with my first child. I had major nesting instincts and was baking and cooking like crazy. I made a loaf of banana bread, put it in to bake, and promptly forgot about it--for 3 hours. I forgot about it so completely that as I was going to bed I brushed the oven and noticed it was hot and could not remember at all having put anything in it. But there was the banana bread--dark brown, melba toast all the way through. I took it out, and was overcome by an intense rage at myself so I threw the banana bread against the wall, then left it lying on the floor (that one I've never done before or since!) Two hours later, I went into labor. My husband gets very hungry when he is nervous. When I woke him and told him that I was in labor, he immediately ran into the kitchen and ate the entire loaf of disgusting banana bread off the floor! My daughter just loves that "when you were born" story...
Those hormones are dang powerful...

Imagine my embarrassment when new DH went to carve the perfectly looking chicken and melted plastic oozed out. Nobody told me you had to shove your hand up it's @$$ and pull out the plastic bag of organs.

OK so it took me 20 years before I attempted a whole bird again and my family still teases me every time I serve one. Even when I don't LOL

I'd have never made that casserole, but it was Ashley's special request, LOL, she still tells me I did that on purpose.

I never did quite get that sauce out of the carpet of the van....

Annie

The oven rack wasn't secure at the rear. It had a little hook that was supposed to engage the guide. So the heavy batter-filled pan was on an oven rack that behaved like a seesaw, the pan flipped over and a quadruple recipe of cornbread batter landed sizzling on the inside of the hot oven door, with whatever didn't land there landed on the floor. What an unholy mess.

In the movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" Clark Griswold's father tells him how he got through the holidays: "I had a lot of help from Jack Daniel's." Just so.

When I was in college they had just put in some new furniture in the TV room of our dorm near the Laundry. One night, my roommate and I decided to pop some popcorn and watch TV while doing laundry. We put the hot pot full of popcorn on the fabric couch between us and ate the popcorn right out of the pot. We thought it would be fine since pot holders are made out of fabric. It turns out that the fabric was some sort of synthetic, because when we got ready to leave the hot pot had melted the fabric and it was stuck to the couch. We had to just rip it off and it left a big, circular hole on the couch. Since our pot had the fabric stuck to it we were afraid of getting in trouble so we went to another dorm and threw it in the trash there.

I just left a burner on for almost two hours. I made a grilled cheese for lunch on the stove top. I watched an episode of Laverne and Shriley, then shampooed the rug, then came back to the bedroom to go online for a while. When I was done online, I went back to the living room to break down the carpet shampooer and noticed how hot it was in there. I knew I didn't leave oven on because I hadn't used it. When I looked up at the range to see if I'd bumped the oven knob, there was a blue flame ring under the frying pan in the front burner. I never turned it off! Thank goodness I didn't leave for the supermarket (or the mandatory staff meeting on my day off today... yeesh!) with the burner still on! Hope my frying pan doesn't warp.

I just left a burner on for almost two hours. I made a grilled cheese for lunch on the stove top. I watched an episode of Laverne and Shriley, then shampooed the rug, then came back to the bedroom to go online for a while. When I was done online, I went back to the living room to break down the carpet shampooer and noticed how hot it was in there. I knew I didn't leave oven on because I hadn't used it. When I looked up at the range to see if I'd bumped the oven knob, there was a blue flame ring under the frying pan in the front burner. I never turned it off! Thank goodness I didn't leave for the supermarket (or the mandatory staff meeting on my day off today... yeesh!) with the burner still on! Hope my frying pan doesn't warp.

A week or so ago, I set the sugar & water mix for my hummingbird feeder on the stove (in my favorite small, stainless steel pot)and went to check my inbox to see if a friend had replied to a note I had sent her.

A quarter cup of sugar can make a hellish amount of black, crusty foam once the cup of water has boiled away. After chipping the foam out, it took me 2 days of soaking with baking soda and scraping to clean the burnt crud off the bottom of the pot.

So. And what happened then, you ask? I got lazy one day about lunch, and since I was home alone I opened a can of chili, put it in my favorite small, stainless steel pot...and went to look up a recipe for dinner on the internet.

Chili is no slouch in the burnt crud department.

I'm going to stop reading this thread....I think it's contagious!! HAHAHAHAHAHA

anon

One time I needed several egg whites for a recipe, so I took the eggs to the sink carefully cracked one, poured the yolk from one shell to the other and watched the white slither down the drain.

Another time I took a pyrex baking dish out of the oven took the broiled fish out of it, set it in the sink and thought "some of that is really burned on, it'll be easer to clean later if I fill it with water now and let it soak" As I started to run the water, the entire pan jumped six inches in the air, shattered into a thousand pieces, and landed back in the sink.

And then there was the time I was was packing for a trip, and realized that the first flight would have no food, and the trans-atlantic probably wouldn't have anything for a few hours, so I decided to make a quick snack. I filled a pan with water and dropped in two hotdogs and turned it on.
I then remembered that I wanted to call Visa to let them know I'd be travelling overseas, so they wouldn't freeze my card. After a few times of calling customer service, waiting, getting transfered and getting disconnected, and trying again, I finally got through and got things straightened away. I hung up and noticed that the hallway out of the bedroom looked a little smokey... Uh oh. I ran to the kitchen through ever thicker smoke, and found the pot was dry and over half of each hotdog had been charred away and vaporized into the most horrible smelling smoke ever.

About once every 2 years I forget to use oven mitts when removing something from the oven.

Bob... I enjoyed reading about your Pyrex jumping 6 inches and then shattering. I could just picture that... sounds like something that would happen to me.

Todays special "trick" was pushing the dishwasher rack in with a knife pointed upwards in the silverware basket. Anyone know if Cascade removes blood stains from a dishwasher interior?

Tonight, when I get home from work at midnight, I have to make a cake because I'm pressed for time the next couple of days. I'm sure that I'll add too many eggs (or forget them altogether) or use cornstarch instead of flour. Keep this thread alfoat at least until tomorrow.

Shaun, Shaun, Shaun... starting this contagious thread. I hope the moderators remove it because it is dangerous! Not only do I do more supid things (or realize them) now, I also choke on my food and drink while I'm reading due to the laughter.

I didn't even think that the bread was going to expand and grow a little while sitting there, and when I went to put them in the hot oven, they stuck to the peel.

Another loaf went into the garbage, it was hanging off the oven racks, glopping all over the place.

Note to Self - leave the corn meal all over that peel next time!

Normally, frozen ground nuts are very well behaved - they are mostly oil without much water so they don't freeze together so it struck me a little odd that these had some ice crystals and were hard to scoop but I didn't think a lot about it. Fortunately in trying to get the stuff loosened up, my head came near the box. It really cleared my sinuses - grated frozen horse radish looks a lot like ground almonds except for the ice crystals. Also fortunately I hadn't put any into the bread yet - 3/8 a cup of horseradish would probably have been a bit strong and not have functioned in the recipe at all like 3/8 cup of ground nuts.

Note to Self - remember to mark things put into the freezer!

Annie

I use my portable dishwasher as my work top because my counter space is so limited. So, I keep it on the carpet at the end of the kitchen counter and just roll it in the kitchen when washing (stay with me here, I'm setting the scene!). I sliced the watermelon up and began juicing. I kept filling the glass under the spout up and pouring it into the pitcher so I could continue. My friend Larry stopped me to ask how to turn my microwave on.... For the 9th time. I got a post it note from the desk, wrote "Press this START button to turn microwave on", then I drew an arrow on the post it and stuck it on the microwave right under the button so there wouldn't be any more confusion. OK, so I got my sarcastic humor kick for the day in, back to juicing. As I continued, I forgot to pay attention to the pulp basket. I kept cramming watermelon chunks down the machine and watched in horror as watermelon juice cascaded out of the pulp basket, onto the dishwasher, down the side of the dishwasher, and ONTO THE CARPET! I must have used 100 paper towels cleaning the mess off... I had to break the juicer down and clean it as well, because I didn't want "stuff" going into the motor. I quickly shampooed the carpet where the spill happened so it didn't get sticky. Then I had to reassemble the juicer and continue... I still had more watermelon to juice. As I was setting the juicer back up Larry interrupted once more. "Bobby, why doesn't this lever on the side turn your mixer on? It does on my mom's and she has the same one!", he called out. "Why Larry darlin, you gotta PLUG IT IN FIRST!", I responded. OK... Back to juicing. I crammed chunk down the chute of the juicer and watched the red juice fall right onto the dishwasher top and run down to the carpet. I'd forgotten to replace the cup under the spout!

I laugh now, but I remember adding more than a few splashes of vodka to the juice after that episode!

keep going - better you than me! I haven't been cooking enough to be stupid, I guess. Or I'm so used to it, I don't even remember anymore - lol!

Annie, I bet that smelled great, uh yeah.

uh oh, after reading back upwards, I am getting skeered!!!!!!!! It seems that just reading this sets a person up for disaster!!!!!

That was going to be my dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow, and I was so looking forward to it... guess it's a grilled cheese or a trip to the supermarket now.

Lars (if you're still attending this dangerous thread), didn't you say something the stars having an affect over people and how clumsy they are?

D'OH! Supposed to cream the butter and sugar together! So I tried to scoop out the sugar from the flour.

They still turned out ok but I heard that Psycho Music play when I realized I was supposed to put the sugar with the butter.

This is all the butter's fault for not being cut into sticks when I bought it. Threw me off.

I vowed never to tell, but a week later my sister-in-law told me how stupid she was -- she not only did the same thing, but at the last minute, their neighborhood decided to do an all-house carry-in around the community pool . . . so she took her turkey there and carved it in front of all her neighbors! She said she thought she'd die on the spot. She was thrilled to hear I'd done the same thing.

Who knew turkeys hide things in two places?

Ann

Shaun, you're right!

Second stupid thing: throwing those pots out. I've finally come to realize that there are few burns I can't remove with some product and a lot of elbow grease. I've wasted some really good pots.

I've done the burnt nuts thing so often I don't even think it's stupid any more :)

Probably my dumbest was the time we had another couple over for dinner. I was making some green chile sauce of some sort and had it in the blender. For some reason I scraped it down with a metal spoon instead of with a rubber spatula. I was talking to my guests while I finished up this sauce, so was rather distracted. I turned the blender back on ... and discovered I had left the metal spoon in it. It shattered.

I routinely put cold things in the pantry and dry things in the frig, DH and I both lose our drinks (coffee, water, beer, wine, doesn't matter). The saddest was when I made a glass of ice water using the water on the frig door. A little while later I couldn't find my water. DH found it still sitting on the little shelf on the frig door waiting to be filled.

I put some beans in a tupperware the other night, as I anticipated taking them for lunch the next day. Woke up early, could not find the beans. Searched the fridge. Cussed out hubby for eating my beans. Got home, searched again, still couldn't find them.

Mentally cussed out hubby again.

Three days later he is putting tupperware away in the cupboard and looks up at me with a twinkle in his eye...

"Missing anything?" he says... as he holds up the stinking, about to explode, rotten bean container...

I ate crow for lunch instead !

Cat threw up in the washing machine...

I don't take well to change in my old age.

I burn food-- over and over and over-- I know better than to walk away from scrambled eggs. They take five seconds. And yet I do. Over and over. Good thing I buy five dozen at a time.

Jim

received them as a gift. they each had this lovely magnet in the corner that let you attach them to the appliances so you didn't lose them

they stick just as well to the bottom of the cookie sheets you stick on the side to cool off between batches. you can hide one under each pan. I couldn't figure out what was burning until the magnets were pointed out after the pans cooled

the second stupid thing was when i realized i had to make cookies in a hurry. while making ginger snaps i grabbed the small McCormick's jar of ginger to add to the recipe. put it in the batch, cooked them, and delivered them to the bake sale. only to get back home and when i began to put away the ingredients find i had put dried mustard in the cookies

wouldn't have been so bad but i did the exact same thing two weeks later. I now buy the ground ginger in a glass bottle and the mustard in a can

So, how's your reputation as a cookie baker? Hehehehe!

Jim

LOL

Linda

Not my video
dcarch :-)

Back when silver was very expensive, I had some sterling candelabra that I wanted to hide as I was leaving the house on a trip. Quickly stuck them in the oven...with the candles still in them. A week or so later, I turned on the oven to preheat. Melted wax all over the oven, along with lots of smoke. Also had the persistent smell of melted wax for weeks afterwards.

Jim

the strange part about the mustard snaps we people liked them

I had requests for the recipe

i gave them the original one and two people accused me of holding out on them because the cookies were good but they were "missing" something

I tried one from the second batch

they weren't horrible but not ginger snaps