I had co-workers who were obsessed about the show, so we had stuff to talk about each week.
My mom was frying chicken once and the grease caught fire - she dumped a bag of flour on it to put the fire out.We didn't have fried chicken for dinner that night.
I was cooking peasant on a tiny stove in a tiny apartment. I didn’t realize that dish was a flambé. It never said anything like that in the instructions. I added the alcohol and whoosh!! The dish went up in flames. Right next to the apartment wall. I had the lid handy, but the fire, which had been more than 2 feet high, burned out almost in an instant.
Quote from: singdaw on September 15, 2025, 05:42:43 AMTOD:The only thing I have ever flambéed is a bag of pretzels that I forgot was stored in my oven when I went to preheat it.What a mess that was. And the smoke!One Easter when I was a kid, our parents made Easter "baskets" for us (actually, everything was just put in big bowls, but we didn't care ), but we couldn't find mine, and my mom couldn't remember where she hid it! Well, after a while we gave up looking and she started making breakfast and heated up the oven to keep food warm as she made more, and then shortly thereafter, we started smelling melting chocolate and plastic! THAT is where she hid my bowl (which was a big plastic mixing bowl), in the oven, and which also had plastic "grass," and of course all my chocolate. To this day, I still check the oven to make sure it's empty before I turn it on!
TOD:The only thing I have ever flambéed is a bag of pretzels that I forgot was stored in my oven when I went to preheat it.What a mess that was. And the smoke!
THREE!
RIP Bobby Hart, here playing on I Dream of Jeannie.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5GoGClBvOg&pp=ygUSQm95Y2UgaGFydCBqZWFubmll
Quote from: John G. on September 15, 2025, 06:56:17 AMI was cooking peasant on a tiny stove in a tiny apartment. I didn’t realize that dish was a flambé. It never said anything like that in the instructions. I added the alcohol and whoosh!! The dish went up in flames. Right next to the apartment wall. I had the lid handy, but the fire, which had been more than 2 feet high, burned out almost in an instant. Are you saying the fire went out without your needing to use the lid? If so, you got very lucky.Quote from: Jane on September 15, 2025, 12:18:42 PMI got very lucky. Quote from: John G. on September 15, 2025, 06:56:17 AMI was cooking peasant on a tiny stove in a tiny apartment. I didn’t realize that dish was a flambé. It never said anything like that in the instructions. I added the alcohol and whoosh!! The dish went up in flames. Right next to the apartment wall. I had the lid handy, but the fire, which had been more than 2 feet high, burned out almost in an instant. Are you saying the fire went out without your needing to use the lid? If so, you got very lucky.
I got very lucky. Quote from: John G. on September 15, 2025, 06:56:17 AMI was cooking peasant on a tiny stove in a tiny apartment. I didn’t realize that dish was a flambé. It never said anything like that in the instructions. I added the alcohol and whoosh!! The dish went up in flames. Right next to the apartment wall. I had the lid handy, but the fire, which had been more than 2 feet high, burned out almost in an instant. Are you saying the fire went out without your needing to use the lid? If so, you got very lucky.
I apparently got lucky twice
I just got my latest covid shot.
Water worked quickly and fine - instantly actually but I didn't use it until the heat was completely off. It would have burned itself out, but it was starting to smoke and I didn't want that.
Boyce & Hart on Bewitched. Those boys got around with all the supernatural chicks. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wfpw4Cg5dP8&pp=ygULU2VhbiBwYXl0b24%3D#
It’s a blue booby kinda Monday
