Things to remember when cooking
Things to remember when cooking
1)Pan lids also get hot in the oven they are mot magically immune
2)Rice expands when boiled.
This I forgot when cooking yesterday the result two burnt fingers and enough rice left over to feed ten people.
Anybody got any cooking stories?
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I was trying to fry an egg, fat spat all over me, i dropped the pan and ran around screaming until help arrived, i havnt ever tried cooking again
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Making "just one BIG cookie" does not work.
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I'm trying to think of funny anecdotes, but all I can cook is spaghetti, and it's rather idiot-proof...
:(
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When making coffee remember to add water, otherwise it's no good.
Okay if it happens once, but twice ...
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Don't let the maid do it.
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Remember that your Halloujmie (sp?) can not always wait until after your next battle on EB
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A flatmate of mine at university, on his first day away from mommy, decided to boil an egg.
It would have made less mess had he added water to the saucepan.
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If you want to boil water, don't forget to add... water
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Learn the difference between salt and sugar.
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Still strugling with the basics of boiling water
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rice needs cooking before you can bake it
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I can't cook but in reaction to it I try to minimise the difficulty of the recipe when I have to. Besides a good stomach also helps.
My worst mistake was using a quarter bottle of amaretto instead of just a few sips when making tiramisu. But I don't regard adding to much alcohol to a desert as a mistake.
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Learn to tell the difference between ground paprika and ground chilli.....
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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The meaning of the concept "Best before [date]"...
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...to wear clothes when cooking with lots of oil is a good idea.
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Remember to read the recipe properly, adding 6 tablespoons of salt to pancakes because you read the amount of baking powder required for the recipe instead of the amount of salt required still screws up yur pancakes even if you dump sugar into them afterwards.
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Today I learned potatoes have to be in boiling water for about 20 minutes.
Should I start my own restaurant now?
"The Boiled Potatoe"
On the menu today:
Starter:
- two boiled potatoes;
Main Course:
- three boiled potatoes;
Dessert:
- one boiled potatoe.
At least worth a 3 Michelin-star rating...
Last edited by Andres; 10-13-2006 at 14:07.
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Never put your full confidence in the accuracy of a written recipe. It will be wrong 1/3 times.
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Remember to flip Pancakes... not Pizzas.
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Do not form the burgers by squishing them.
I know its not cooking, but I consider it important.
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I was a cook in high school and all thru college (part time the last 2 years) all at nice restaurants, and it has been my experience that you should always remember to cook a little extra for the bartender and the hot waitress. A free beer and some nice company after your shift is always nice.
Restaurant rule to live by, if your not going to make $30 bucks an hour then you should eat $30 bucks an hour!
While cooking at home it is best to know that baking chocolate is not the same as the candy bar kind.
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Never buy grated cheese from the shop -- they only grate it to hide the rats' tooth marks....
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An apron will do...
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Never tip any spice or herb containing jar over your dish if you are unsure whether this is a sieve-like lid on the top to stop everything falling in your dish. Something which I did forget when I was making a soup when I was eight, and proceeded to tip the whole contents of a jar of dried basil into the soup, which my mum promptly had to fish out with a tea strainer.
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Why??? There's no such thing as too much basilproceeded to tip the whole contents of a jar of dried basil into the soup, which my mum promptly had to fish out with a tea strainer
But, still, good advice, though -- next time it may be chili ....
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Don't attempt to Fry Bacon without wearing a shirt...
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Don't fry bacon naked
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^^^^^All pretty much the same.
Oh, and another thing: always read the instructions for a recipe before you start making it. Something which I did not do one night, when I was making a stew. Having prepared everything at 9 pm (I like doing things late), and it was all boiling nicely in the pot, when I read step 5, which said "Leave to cook for 3 hours". I wasn't going to wait till midnight until I could eat it!
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"We were not born into this world to be happy, but to do our duty." Bismarck
"You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other. Not both." The Right Hon. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication" - Lord Byron
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C. S. Lewis
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But if you must, keep your beer at least 3 feet away from the frypan.
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