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I will never again . . . (Part 4)


Darienne

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I've been trying to get to the back of my pantry and use up older stuff.   I found 3 cans of La Fiamma diced tomatoes, pop top cans.   I was in the midst of making cream of tomato soup, so these were perfect.....Until I noticed the tops on all three were swelled up.   Uh oh.   Instead of chucking them right there, I thought it was a good idea (:wacko:) to empty them on the compost pile.   At least my splattered shirt will make it into the next full load of laundry in a few minutes, I will need to wash my hair again, also.

 

These cans weren't ancient, but they weren't recent either.   I'm no longer a fan of longterm canned items with the pop tops.

 

I did avert a possible explosion in the pantry though, so I've got that going for me, I guess.

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6 minutes ago, lemniscate said:

I did avert a possible explosion in the pantry though, so I've got that going for me, I guess.

 

Amen to that last. The explosion over the compost heap and yourself is easier to clean up! Sorry to hear about the canned goods, though.

 

I once narrowly averted an explosion of a supposedly shelf-stable Tetrapacked feta cheese. I spotted one box expanded almost to the bursting point before it actually burst. I shudder to think of the odor and the damage to its surroundings if it had gone off before I found it!

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12 minutes ago, lemniscate said:

These cans weren't ancient, but they weren't recent either. 

Years ago I was under the impression that canned food would last until the apocalypse. I was disabused of this notion when I opened a can of whole beets to discover that they were almost white. I also had a can of pears that sprang a leak. That's not to even mention the condensed milk that had become almost DDL. At least now our canned goods are stamped with a best before date. 

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6 minutes ago, Anna N said:

That's not to even mention the condensed milk that had become almost DDL. 

I did look up DDL in a number of ways and found nothing useful.  Please define.

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1 minute ago, Darienne said:

I did look up DDL in a number of ways and found nothing useful.  Please define.

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I was cleaning out a cabinet a while back, and found that a tube of chipotle paste had sprung a leak. The surprising thing was it happened so long ago, the goo had completely solidified and I was able to just chip it off the shelf and just had to clean a little residue with hot water. During the pandemic “lockdown” I got better at rotating things so the cabinets didn’t become like archeological digs.

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I think I can be fairly confident in proclaiming that I will never again cut myself on... sugar.

 

My GF likes the old-fashioned dark brown sugar on her oatmeal rather than the everyday "brilliant yellow" kind, so I went up the kitchen to fetch a small timbale of it for her. Turned out the grandkids had left the bag open (again!) so it was a collection of rock-hard lumps. I took a couple of lumps and broke them up with my fingers, and the second one turned out to have a sharp edge which made a nice little gash on the index finger of my right (dominant) hand.

 

Even my daughter, no slouch in the klutz department herself, had to concede that this was pretty special.

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4 hours ago, chromedome said:

I think I can be fairly confident in proclaiming that I will never again cut myself on... sugar.

 

My GF likes the old-fashioned dark brown sugar on her oatmeal rather than the everyday "brilliant yellow" kind, so I went up the kitchen to fetch a small timbale of it for her. Turned out the grandkids had left the bag open (again!) so it was a collection of rock-hard lumps. I took a couple of lumps and broke them up with my fingers, and the second one turned out to have a sharp edge which made a nice little gash on the index finger of my right (dominant) hand.

 

Even my daughter, no slouch in the klutz department herself, had to concede that this was pretty special.

 

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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13 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

 

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

You'll be credited when I use that as the title of my autobiography. :P

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1 hour ago, ElsieD said:

 

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

54 minutes ago, chromedome said:

You'll be credited when I use that as the title of my autobiography. :P

I like it.  

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I will never again attempt to heat some jarred tomato pasta sauce in the microwave. Clean up continues.  

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40 minutes ago, Anna N said:

I will never again attempt to heat some jarred tomato pasta sauce in the microwave. Clean up continues.  

Having done more microwave cleaning than I signed up for, we now keep a plastic cover on top of the micro that we use EVERYTIME we use the oven.    It's a lot easier to wash.    FWIW, the n"cover" we use is one of those plastic bowl things that frozen meals come in.   Upsidedown, it fits over most bowls an small plates..

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5 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

Having done more microwave cleaning than I signed up for, we now keep a plastic cover on top of the micro that we use EVERYTIME we use the oven.    It's a lot easier to wash.    FWIW, the n"cover" we use is one of those plastic bowl things that frozen meals come in.   Upsidedown, it fits over most bowls an small plates..

I use one of these.  I like it very much although it does require a wash between uses.  Theere is also a smaller size available.

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2 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

Having done more microwave cleaning than I signed up for, we now keep a plastic cover on top of the micro that we use EVERYTIME we use the oven.    It's a lot easier to wash.    FWIW, the n"cover" we use is one of those plastic bowl things that frozen meals come in.   Upsidedown, it fits over most bowls an small plates..

Thanks. This was quite simply a case of putting engine in drive before neurons were engaged. 

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33 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

Butter is my microwave nemesis. I know this well.  I use a cover.  I choose a low setting. I stop and mix often. And yet....BOOM!...it's everywhere!

When I told @Kerry Bealabout my morning disaster she brought up butter as her microwave nemesis. Here's the thing - I know perfectly well that even heating tomato sauce on the stove top is likely to leave splatters everywhere if you are not very careful. When I ask myself what was I thinking the only answer is I was not. My microwave is old and noisy else I might've heard some action and stopped sooner. 

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On 3/15/2023 at 2:11 AM, blue_dolphin said:

Butter is my microwave nemesis. I know this well.  I use a cover.  I choose a low setting. I stop and mix often. And yet....BOOM!...it's everywhere!

 

It takes a little longer but my new induction hot plate has low settings that are great for melting butter and chocolate

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8 minutes ago, haresfur said:

 

It takes a little longer but my new induction hot plate has low settings that are great for melting butter and chocolate

 

That's a good point. I actually have a low simmer burner on my gas cooktop that will maintain a very low flame and should just use that. 

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13 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

 

That's a good point. I actually have a low simmer burner on my gas cooktop that will maintain a very low flame and should just use that. 

 

I second that approach. I use the lowest setting on the smallest burner, with this flame tamer (eG-friendly Amazon.com link).

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Well, maybe I will, because I don't know what I did. I went to cook the mushrooms I bought the other day and there they were - nowhere!

 

I know I bought them because I photographed them.

 

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I've searched the house and they ain't here! I can only guess I accidentally threw them in the trash, which I will try never to do again!

 

 

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5 hours ago, liuzhou said:

I've searched the house and they ain't here! I can only guess I accidentally threw them in the trash, which I will try never to do again!

Oh that is just wild. It is something I might do.  At least you have the proof that you did indeed buy them. Frequently I think I've bought something and the reality is I only thought I bought it.

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