Cooking Faux Pas.......

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

I stuck a frozen burrito into the over-the-stove microwave a number of years back, punched in 3 minutes, then decided I needed to spend a little time on the throne.

I was immersed in a magazine, when I noticed kind of a burned smell wafting through the bathroom.........remembering the burrito, I returned to the kitchen, through a haze of smoke ( detector never did go off) and gazed at the now dark microwave.

Inside, what looked like last night's log fire glowed malevolently deep inside.  Apparently I had entered 30 minute into the oven, instead of 3 minutes.  Not only the burrito had been toasted, but the microwave also...........

A $400 experience!!

[tcmsecretuseid]

If that burrito had a foil wrapper on it, you could have at least experienced a cool $400 light show. 😉

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

'Fraid not, as I mentioned, I was otherwise occupied.......

[serendipityricho]

First time i made fried rice--followed all the instructions.

Nowhere in the recipe did it mention--boiling the rice first...............................Richo.

[serendipityricho]

Never ever-attempt to roast silverside--mumble mumble.........................Richo.

[*pepe]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

I stuck a frozen burrito into the over-the-stove microwave a number of years back, punched in 3 minutes, then decided I needed to spend a little time on the throne.

I was immersed in a magazine, when I noticed kind of a burned smell wafting through the bathroom.........remembering the burrito, I returned to the kitchen, through a haze of smoke ( detector never did go off) and gazed at the now dark microwave.

Inside, what looked like last night's log fire glowed malevolently deep inside.  Apparently I had entered 30 minute into the oven, instead of 3 minutes.  Not only the burrito had been toasted, but the microwave also...........

A $400 experience!!

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just how long did you spend in the throne room?????

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Well, the magazine was interesting............

[azureline**]

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@serendipityricho wrote:

First time i made fried rice--followed all the instructions.

Nowhere in the recipe did it mention--boiling the rice first...............................Richo.

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I never cook my rice first?

[lurker172602]

One of my sons had a children's cookbook when he was young.
One day he and a friend decided to follow the recipe for making a pot of tea.
The first step said to fill the kettle and put it on the stove to boil.
Trouble was, we had a plastic electric kettle and gas hot plates 😞

[tasfleur]

My first experience cooking in the microwave was to cause a lovely christmas pudding to turn into Mount Vesuvius complete with pyroclastic flow ....