I will never again . . . (Part 4)

[lindag]

2 hours ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

I immediately identified it as a sprouted spud.   But then, I have experience with these since I'm sometimes slow to finish a sack of potatoes.   

I keep my spuds in a specially made burlap sack out in the garage (bought from Amazon).  Every once in a while one on the bottom goes bad - a smell to make one gag.

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

1 minute ago, lindag said:

I keep my spuds in a specially made burlap sack out in the garage (bought from Amazon).  Every once in a while one on the bottom goes bad - a smell to make one gag.

 

A neighbor in the country advised us that a rattlesnake (lair) smells of rotten potatoes.    Should you ever need this info!    I've fortunately never needed it.

[liuzhou]

11 minutes ago, lindag said:

I keep my spuds in a specially made burlap sack out in the garage (bought from Amazon).  Every once in a while one on the bottom goes bad - a smell to make one gag.

 

 

You bought a garage from Amazon⁈ How much was delivery?

[liuzhou]

I will never again post my dinner in the dinner thread and misidentify the pork as chicken. When I bought it, I knew it was pork; when I cooked it I knew it was pork; when I ate it I knew it was pork. When I posted it, my fingers decided to type 'chicken' instead.

Now edited.

Edited August 25, 2021 by liuzhou (log)

[Margaret Pilgrim]

More often it's when my fingers type there for their, your for you're, here for hear, then for than, than for from...   Pesky digits!  

[liuzhou]

2 hours ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

More often it's when my fingers type there for their, your for you're, here for hear, then for than, than for from...   Pesky digits!  

 

These homophone errors are common, either through ignorance or carelessness or wandering attention. They are however, kind of understandable. 'chicken' and 'pork fall into a different category, I would suggest.

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typo (log)

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Mental lapses are indeed a different category.

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

 

To see homophone errors are common, either through ignorance or carelessness or wandering attention. They are however, kind of understandable. 'chicken' and 'pork fall into a different category, I would suggest.

 

"Pork, the other white meat."

 

[heidih]

12 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

"Pork, the other white meat."

 

Oh gawd that dry lean tasteless crud the Pork Council marketed!

[Shelby]

Pressure canned tomatoes yesterday.  I laid the still warmish lid on top of one of my barstools.  Apparently it was a perfect storm of the screw being loose and the lid being warm enough.  Sucked the top of the stool right up.  

 

 

I can't get it out.

 

 

Ronnie will have to do some surgery.  I may be reduced to a total of 3 stools lol. 

 

Sigh.  

 

This would only happen to me.

[Anna N]

3 minutes ago, Shelby said:

This would only happen to me.

Wow. Who’d have thunked?  That is quite a story. We live and learn. 

[blue_dolphin]

Wow, I can’t believe what a perfect fit that is!

[Shelby]

1 minute ago, blue_dolphin said:

Wow, I can’t believe what a perfect fit that is!

I know, right!  You should have seen my face when I went to put the lid back on my pot.  

[Tropicalsenior]

If he drills that hole right on through to the other side it should release the suction and then all he has to do is plug the hole with a little bit of wood putty and you're done.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Been there and done that with glass lids and pans but never a barstool!   I use glass lids almost exclusively and they seem to have a propensity to suck onto frying pans.    Here is an 8" grill pan I use for scallops, often pulling it from heat and adding a glass lid to keep the scallops warm.    When I "glued" a lid to it, husband released the suction by cutting a slit in the pan.   (He expected me to toss the pan but it still works just fine, thank you very much.)

 

 

[heidih]

Clever boy, frugal you. I had a co-worker who decided to eat healthy and bring his lunch in those Glad storage containers. Young guy. He stuck it in the microwave without popping the lid. We bout died laughing watching him struggle to get the suctioned lid off. 

 

My fiasco yesterday was going 3 rooms away while simmering leftover Costco chicken bones for simple stock. Not my bones but stepmom was gonna throw them out. I used minimal water and set on super low flame. Started to smell wonderful. Then oops - scorched stench. To make it worse I added water and gave it a taste. The bitterness put me off my feed for the evening. 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

2 minutes ago, heidih said:

My fiasco yesterday was going 3 rooms away while simmering leftover Costco chicken bones for simple stock. Not my bones but stepmom was gonna throw them out. I used minimal water and set on super low flame. Started to smell wonderful. Then oops - scorched stench. To make it worse I added water and gave it a taste. The bitterness put me off my feed for the evening. 

Been there and done THAT TOO!    I seem to be a poster child for "do what I say, not what i do!"

I have started turning on a timer ANYTIME I leave a room with a pan on a burner.

[Tropicalsenior]

Believe me, I would rather have it glued to a bar stool than blown 10 feet away when your pressure cooker blows up. Been there done that! Scares The Living Daylights out of you, let me tell you!

[FauxPas]

4 hours ago, Shelby said:

Pressure canned tomatoes yesterday.  I laid the still warmish lid on top of one of my barstools.  Apparently it was a perfect storm of the screw being loose and the lid being warm enough.  Sucked the top of the stool right up.

 

Did you manage to get all your tomatoes canned, at least? I would be even more upset if I still had a pile of tomatoes waiting to be processed!  🙂

 

[Shelby]

5 minutes ago, FauxPas said:

 

Did you manage to get all your tomatoes canned, at least? I would be even more upset if I still had a pile of tomatoes waiting to be processed!  🙂

 

No....it will be a while before I'm all done with tomatoes--my counters are piled high 😀.  I do a batch at least every other day.   AND the barstool is back intact and my lid no longer has a seat in it lol.

[FauxPas]

3 minutes ago, Shelby said:

No....it will be a while before I'm all done with tomatoes--my counters are piled high 😀.  I do a batch at least every other day.   AND the barstool is back intact and my lid no longer has a seat in it lol.

 

Right, I remember you sharing a photo of some of your tomatoes! So glad you have your pressure canner lid back again!  🙂

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Question:  I realize that it depends on the variety of tomato because of differences in acid content. but can you tell us why you are choosing pressure as a method for canning tomatoes.   i have for years used water bath with good results.    Sauces and simple whole or quartered tomatoes, brought to a boil then jarred and bathed.  

[heidih]

Put my forearm across top of Zo rice cooker exactly such that my wrist is over the steam hole. Perfectly round painful burn that I keep resting on

on desk as I type.  I dropped it years ago and seal not perfect so I push down to "seal" when it gets going. Still males great rice.

Edited September 5, 2021 by heidih (log)

[ElsieD]

32 minutes ago, heidih said:

Put my forearm across top of Zo rice cooker exactly such that my wrist is over the steam hole. Perfectly round painful burn that I keep resting on

on desk as I type.  I dropped it years ago and seal not perfect so I push down to "seal" when it gets going. Still males great rice.

 

Ouch!

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I shall never again turn off the wrong burner and expect my peas to cook.