I was finishing a jar of extremely hot peppers (7 pot primos) that I had fermenting on Thanksgiving day. I made a hot sauce with them and cantaloupe. I had them in a pan at a low simmer to meld the flavors. The problem was the steam coming off was potent as hell. It filled the house when everyone was arriving and coughing from the hot sauce in the air, me included. We had to open all the windows, dig out the fans to get it out of the house, freezing everyone in the process.
Yeah I was making fudge brownies for my son and I forgot the eggs… brownies looked like crap
A buddy was having a BBQ and I got grill duty. One of the people there was a vegan and I, being dumb, used the same utensils for vegan and nonvegan foods. Looking back it was getting contaminated being on the same grill with nonvegan foods anyway. But I didn’t fight it.
Veganism isn’t a food allergy. Wouldn’t expect people to have much of an issue with that. Not that I grill with a lot of vegans.
I think it’s more about the cross contamination no?
To many vegans/vegetarians, it’s just genuinely repulsive. Either they adopted the diet, because they found meat gross from the start.
Or, for many folks, even if they started from purely a moral conviction, it still becomes repulsive over time. You just don’t really think about whether you find something gross or not, when you eat it regularly, grew up with it etc… Taking that step back, allows you to re-evaluate.Appreciate your response. Do you think when friends/family cook you food they should make the effort as if you did have a food allergy?
Well, me personally, yes. I’m much happier, if you just give me some salad and some noodles and I can throw together a makeshift noodle salad than if you expect me to eat a fancy vegan burger soaked in meat juice. But yeah, every vegan will have a different stance on that…
Fair enough. I’ll keep it in mind.
I’m a relatively recent vegan, but a lifelong vegetarian. If you share dairy or chicken utensils, I’ll be fine. If my food gets contaminated by pork or lamb (possibly others, I don’t intentionally try them), I will shit my pants. I’m sure there is a tolerable limit, but it’s lower than sharing utensils. It’s also less than sharing a pan, but I’m not sure about a grill, because you can clean a grill relatively easily by just letting the heat flare up.
Yeah, although vegetarian / vegan is a choice, it can definitely become a food allergy because we stop making the enzymes to digest certain proteins if we don’t eat them.
I still eat food from conventional restaurants, like veggie burgers and stuff, so maybe I get enough exposure that it’s not an issue for me (yet)
Yeah, although vegetarian / vegan is a choice, it can definitely become a food allergy because we stop making the enzymes to digest certain proteins if we don’t eat them.
Is that actually true? I don’t think that’s even the case with lactose. You’re either born with the gene or not.
Most people eventually lose some degree of their ability to digest milk, because adults don’t rely on it as much. If you’re worried, a full serving of dairy a couple of times a month is more than enough for most people to keep up their digestive ability.
I’m not sure if I lost the ability to digest fatty meats or never had it, because I’ve never intentionally eaten pork, and was 26 the first time I ate lamb. My doctors have advised me not to try eating red meat, as it would be too hard for my body to digest it now. That could be an old wives tale, but it’s good enough for me
I was trying to make guacamole for lunch once. I decided I wanted a little bit of spice and dumped in some chili powder without looking at the bottle, but it turned out to be cinnamon. I ate the guace anyways with some toast because who what’s to waste perfectly good avocado?
3/10, Would not recommend.
You should have tried it with rice. I heard its like a 5/7.
Ah a perfect score.
3/10 would be my guess for that mix. Maybe 2.5/10.
I rubbed my eyes after cutting habaneros. 🥺
I was mixing some “chili con carne”, went to the bathroom, didn’t wash my hands before… big mistake.
Did you wash your hands after???
Abundantly! And not only my hands 😅
Uuuuuuuugh. I thought of this as soon as I saw the title of this post. I’m so sorry…
What really gets me is when it’s not immediately afterward that this happens, but like 30 mins or an hour later, and you’ve washed your hands well - or so you thought - after cleaning up. But there was just enough oil left somewhere that you still get burned when you go for your eyes.
That happened the second time I worked with em, cuz I remember the first and scrubbed the hell outta my hands, using Dawn… Hour later, touch my face, “Ahhh! It burns!”
Oof…
I learned that one as a ween helping my ma make chili sauce. First my hands started burning. Then my legs started burning cause I tried to wipe my hands on my my clothes but I was wearing shorts. Eventually my auntie had to help me to the sink so I could wash. 😭
I went to spend Christmas with my in-laws about ten years ago and ruined their meal.
I’m not a bad cook, I know my way around a kitchen, my mom ran a fast food joint when I was a teen and she taught me how to work my ass off in a kitchen. From that start I’ve developed into a pretty good cook (or so my wife and friends tell me). I’m not the best but I do know how to cook. I know how to make prepare and serve a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings and desserts on my own if I had to.
At my in-laws place for Christmas I knew I should help so I just started doing dishes without asking. The place was hectic, the in-laws barely know how to cook and none of them seem to appreciate any spice other than salt or pepper. Everyone was happy I was helping and I kept the kitchen clean as the cooks worked. It was familiar for me and it amazed everyone else.
After a couple of hours of helping I thought I’d do more. They were making gravy and all it was was thin water from the drippings mixed with flour which made a white watery tasteless gravy. I thought I’d amaze them by making a roux with the own drippings, thickening the liquid, browning it to a golden color, adding salt, pepper, spice, a drop of maple syrup, soya sauce and a dash of Worcestershire. I kept tasting it and to me it was delicious. I had practiced for years and I knew how to make it taste good.
The in laws came in and the room went quiet, even the Christmas music stopped … they all looked at me like I murdered the cat and I was cooking it.
They were all upset that I had changed “Ma’s gravy” and turned it into something else. Everyone was either disappointed at best or just sneered at me like I had thrown a brick into the living room window.
I didn’t burn anything, didn’t over salt, didn’t make anyone sick, no fire, no explosions, blood or burns … I had just ruined “Ma’s gravy” of basically water and flour that everyone ate and somehow enjoyed every Christmas.
It was the weirdest TIFU in the kitchen I ever experienced.
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In Swedish we say “Smaken är som baken, delad”. Or “Taste is like the butt, divided”
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… and an asshole and some shit in between
Lol
As much as I love my wife and her family … in their family there is only one color for gravy … white … basic, bland, tasteless, empty, vacant, soulless, heartless white.
The best part is that I don’t think they like ‘Ma’s gravy’ either.
They cover their food with the tasteless white gravy and then dose it with lots and lots of salt everywhere. Even as we ate, people just regularly picked up the salt to sprinkle some more on during the entire meal. A telling part is that no one, even me, would think of consuming the gravy without salt.
The funniest thing was the next year I went for Christmas. They guarded the gravy from me. I still helped in the kitchen because they liked that. Then just when the meal started, they set aside a cup of gravy for me in a pot and said I could make my own if I wanted to. I was polite and said that I would have ‘Ma’s gravy’ instead … and reached for the salt. Lol
In the Spanish I speak, there’s a saying that goes “sarna con gusto no pica” ~= “scabies doesn’t itch if you like it”, meaning something like “love covers many faults” in a negative way, or something like “some people just masochists, they like pain 🤷♂️”
That reminds me of another time I was making chilli and came up with a great idea of getting frisky with my wife. Needless to say, it killed the mood.
I once decided to make myself an elaborate vegetable omelette for breakfast, and didn’t realize until the very final step that I had forgotten the cheese.
Making up coconut curry chicken one evening, accidentally grabbed a can of sweetened coconut cream, not coconut milk. Did not taste good. At all.
If only one…
I was going to make fries 🍟, put a couple liters of oil in a wok-like frier 🍲 on the stove ♨️… and a short phone 📞 call later, came running into a cloud of oil smoke 💨 filling the kitchen, and flames 🔥 bursting just as I quickly slammed a lid on it. Take lid off, flames burst 🔥, put lid on, only smoke 💨. PHEW!.. but I wanted fries! So… DISCLAIMER: do not do this!!… got a cinder block, put it in the middle of the kitchen, and veeeeery carefully, with the lid on, took the whole thing with the oil at flaming point, off the stove, onto the cinder block… took the lid off, flames burst 🔥, put the lid on 💨… but I still wanted fries! So… DISCLAIMER: seriously, NEVER do this!!… I took a jug🏺, filled it with water 🌊, and very carefully, started pouring it onto the cinder block under the thing full of flaming oil. A few jugs later, and a lot a steam, and a wet floor, and an incredible amount of luck 🍀 later… took the lid off… finally no fire! So… DISCLAIMER: y’know the drill… veeeeery carefully, I took it off the cinder block and back onto the stove… waited a while for it to stop smoking, poured the fries in… and some minutes later, had freshly made fries!🍟 And a kitchen floor to mop up.
9/10, tasty, with a slight risk of a horrible death and burning the whole house down.
Then, this other time… I was feeling hungry, so decided to make a bowl of pasta 🍝, with some sour cheese 🧀, with scrambled eggs 🍳, with some strawberries 🍓, and some sugar to top it off… only instead of sugar 🍶, I picked the flour 🍶 jug (white is white, right?.. right?)… several minutes of blowing flour off the bowl into the sink later… I said “f it”… added some actual sugar, mixed everything thoroughly, and ate it like that.
8/10, was hungry, raw flour tasted bad, but mixed up together it got kind of masked.
Another time, decided to make pasta, so put a large pot of water on the stove… but was really tired, so set an alarm for 10 minutes, about when it should get boiling (this was on a gas stove without a timer), and went to take a quick nap… something like half an hour later, woke up to a nasty smell coming from the kitchen, ran into it, and of course all the water had boiled off, the pot was getting burned ♨️… and I just overheard a cop 👮 on the balcony in the apartament next door, saying “yes, send the firefighters 👨🚒 to…” which is when I jumped out crying "no need!! everything under control!!"😳. They still wanted to see what happened, so had to let them in, show the burned pot… they looked at me with commiseration, “yeah, I know…” I said. Thanked the neighbor for calling for help and excused myself, she still looked pissed. Oh well.
1/10, got no lunch that day, barely got on time for work, but the house still didn’t burn down, and firefighters didn’t have to break in, so that’s something.
And once, I was going to make coffee, fished out a jar from the back of the cupboard, no expiry date, opened it to take a whiff… and just that moment my mom comes into the kitchen, bumps into me, and I get a full snort of coffee. It wasn’t stale. I kept smelling it for a day or two…
4/10, coffee is fine, but everything smelling like coffee, from salad, to cheese, to orange juice, is a bit much.
Please, for the love of god, cut back on your Emoji usage, my eyes are bleeding.
Your eyes are bleeding over descriptive pictures in a personal story. What’s people weird obsession with not using emojis? This isn’t a college essay
An emoji or two are fine, but this abomination straight up reduces readability of the stories. Honestly makes me think it’s made up by a 10 year old.
If I see a bunch of emojis I just assume it’s another lame copy pasta and scroll right by
I have no issue with emojis but it was a bit jarring trying to read this. It was fine after like a paragraph. At that point my mind just started to skip over the emojis.
I was a little drunk and decided to make a sandwich. While cutting some cheese I cut part of my index finger off. Doctors were able to mostly fix it, and now I got a narly scar and only partial feeling with it.
I did something similar helping out in a vineyard. Cut part of my index finger off with secateurs/pruning shears. Not completely, but it was dangling on a thin string. It could be reattached, but it got rotated in the process of reattaching, making it look weird. Similarly to you, I also have partial feeling in it.
Luckily it was rather small. It’s an about 8x3 mm ellipse now at the the tip of my index on the middle finger side.
I once while very tired put salt in a batch of cookies as a substitute for sugar. Two cups of salt…
I’m sure everyone’s absent mindedly grabbed the handle of a cast iron pan they’ve just taken out of the oven, and had that quick “Oh no!” thought in the milliseconds before the pain registers.
I’ve got that trained down to perfection: the moment I go “Oh no!”, I’m already running towards the sink and turning cold water to the max. Heat takes a moment to spread through skin and flesh, so if you quickly dump a bunch of running cold water onto it (not ice), then there is a chance it will take away the heat before it does too much damage. I’ve avoided what I’m sure would’ve been a decent blister more than once that way.
I was heating oil to deep fry some jalapeños. I put the cover on the pan so it would heat faster.
After a few minutes I took the cover off… and the oil instantly burst into flame.
I was fast enough to just drop the lid back on the pan, which killed the fire before it got worse… but yeah, don’t heat oil with a cover on. And have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen, one that’s properly rated for grease fires. Know how to use your fire extinguisher. Do not store it right next to the stove - you need to be able to reach it if there’s a fire.
You can also smother a grease fire by dumping baking soda on it. Do not dump flour on it, flour is flammable.
Specifically, anything that is even slightly flammable (flour is starch, of course) can be violently explosive if it’s dispersed into air in the right (wrong?) way. That’s partly why water is such a terrible idea in grease fires.
Oxygen starvation seems like the safest bet. Like a huge, metal lid on a pot. I’d personally be skeptical of dumping anything into it at all, because of splashing.
Flour isn’t just flammable; if it’s dispersed in the air like a cloud, like it probably would be if you hastily threw it into a grease fire, it can even explode.
You can also smother a grease fire by dumping baking soda on it. Do not dump flour on it, flour is flammable.
From personal experience, salt also works. I keep a big box of salt with a big spout on my counter for more that just brining briskets.
Fire blankets are good, too.
Years ago I accidentally confused baking soda and baking powder… Not a good look.
For what dish?
Pancakes if I remember correctly… been about 30 years now.
Wait a sec. Which one is it and what does it do for pancakes? I love pancakes I’m always down to make them better.
My grandmother’s pancakes:
1 Qt. Buttermilk
2 TBS Baking Soda
1 TBS Salt
4 Cups Flour
2 TBS Baking Powder
1 Pkg Dry Yeast
1/4 C. Oil
6 EggsPut 1 quart buttermilk in large bowl and add 2 TBS Baking SODA and 1 TBS Salt.
Mix 4 cups of flour with 2 TBS Baking POWDER, stir this mixture into the buttermilk.
Add one package of dry yeast, 1/4 cup oil. Mix.
Whip 6 eggs till foamy, fold in mixture. Do not use electric mixer, use mixer tine by hand.
Pour batter into large pitcher or bowl. Cover with foil.
The next morning put a cup of milk in the pitcher to thin the batter.
Heat pan until hot. Add 3 TBS or so of oil, when water droplets sizzle in the pan it’s ready. Cook pancakes in 2s or 3s. When the tops are covered in steam-holes then it’s ready to flip. 2 to 3 minutes or so.
Lasts 10 days to 2 weeks in fridge. Yeast will turn black over time, this is normal. Stir batter before use.
Oh yes. Salt and Pepper chicken without the window open. Once and only once. Soon as the spice went in, I realised my mistake. The kitchen was unbearable for the whole night.
