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I will never again . . . (Part 4)

Darienne

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Alex

Alex

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2 hours ago, Shel_B said:

... cook naked.

 

There's got to be more to this story, but I'm not sure I want rattling around my brain. :wacko: 

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ElsieD

ElsieD

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3 hours ago, Smithy said:

 

Is it salvageable?

Well, the display is working again after having dried out overnight.  I'll test it before I need to use it again.

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chromedome

chromedome

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I will never again leave the lid off of my jar of natural "just peanuts"-style peanut butter overnight.

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...which, in turn, means I should never again wake up to find a very despondent and fatigued mouse trying to keep its head above the oily surface.

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ElsieD

ElsieD

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Not sure if this should go here or in the non-culinary one.

 

I will never again sign up to take a day course at Le Cordon Bleu and forget to show up.

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JoNorvelleWalker

JoNorvelleWalker

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I shall never again...

 

A bit of backstory:  for weeks I have suffered a plague of fruit flies.  Not even in the old days of end-of-tomato season have I seen the like.  The flies are biblical.  I've been searching for a source without success.

 

Today a phone company technician came.  He needed access to the corner of my bedroom closet that has not seen the light of day in years.

 

I shall never again.

 

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Shel_B

Shel_B

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4 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I shall never again...I have suffered a plague of fruit flies.  Not even in the old days of end-of-tomato season have I seen the like.  The flies are biblical.  I've been searching for a source without success.Today a phone company technician came.  He needed access to the corner of my bedroom closet that has not seen the light of day in years.

I shall never again.

So much is eft to my imagination. Great post!

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 ... Shel


 

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Smithy

Smithy

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I shall never again pull the refrigerator away from the wall, blithely assuring my helper that there's nothing heavy up there to fall, until I carefully check this space:

 

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*CLUNK*

 

Oh, THAT'S where that cast iron baking mold went!

 

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Fortunately nobody's head was under it when it fell. Also fortunately, the chip it knocked out of the floor tile will be covered by the refrigerator.

 

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I guess now I know how the housesitter put a chip in our wooden flooring, next to the refrigerator, a couple of winters ago. We always wondered how she'd managed to do that.

 

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Guess I'd better figure out a better home for that pan.

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FauxPas

FauxPas

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1 hour ago, Smithy said:

Guess I'd better figure out a better home for that pan.

 

Wow, that thing looks heavy! Good thing indeed that no one got clocked by it when it came down!  🙂

 

 

 

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Senior Sea Kayaker

Senior Sea Kayaker

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14 hours ago, FauxPas said:

 

Wow, that thing looks heavy! Good thing indeed that no one got clocked by it when it came down!  🙂

 

 

Or on someone's foot if it missed anything on the trip to the floor 😟

 

 

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liuzhou

liuzhou

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... get up in the morning and wash the jug for the filter coffee machine, get the coffee from its cupboard, fill the water reservoir and switch it on while I wander off to do some routine tasks, return five minutes later with my favourite cup and attempt to fill it, only to find out that, because I had forgotten to actually put the coffee in the filter cone, all I had was a jug of hot water..

 

But I have an excuse!  

 

I hadn't had my morning coffee yet!

 

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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liuzhou

liuzhou

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4 minutes ago, TdeV said:

@liuzhou, at least you remembered to put the jug under the drip spout!

 

My machine doesn't work if I don't. But it sounds like you are speaking from experience?

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
Mark Twain
 

The Kitchen Scale Manifesto

chromedome

chromedome

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I sometimes have whole weeks like that...

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

JoNorvelleWalker

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At the urging of @Kerry Beal I'll further shame myself.  I had tempered a kilogram of chocolate in my KitchenAid Precise Heat Mixing Bowl, and made a set of bars to review a new mold from Amazon.  So far so good.

 

But I had wanted to make a batch of Rose Levy Beranbaum's chocolate buttercream for cupcakes I intended to bake and take to work.  The recipe calls for melting chocolate and beating it into softened butter.  But since I already had chocolate in the mixing bowl, I took a shortcut and added cubed butter before mixing.

 

The problems then began.  I seldom try to use the PHMB on the mixer.  The beater paddle didn't fit right.  I forced it.  Still didn't fit right, but now the PHMB was stuck.  I couldn't get it off.  I couldn't get the beater out.  I was so upset I couldn't sleep.  I had visions of sending the bowl, buttercream, and mixer back to KitchenAid.  Next day I took my largest screwdriver and a chance.  I pried the bowl latch off the mixer's lift arm.  After that I got the bowl disassembled.

 

Never again.  The PHMB is wonderful for tempering chocolate.  But I shan't allow it near the mixer.  It may be the PHMB is incompatible with my commercial KitchenAid.  Now, if you will excuse me, breakfast is panettone with a bit of buttercream.

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

JoNorvelleWalker

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I figured out what I did wrong.  I tried to cram the paddle for the 8 quart KitchenAid bowl into the PHMB.

 

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Shel_B

Shel_B

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29 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I figured out what I did wrong.  I tried to cram the paddle for the 8 quart KitchenAid bowl into the PHMB.

 

 

I hate when my paddle gets crammed ...

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 ... Shel


 

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