84
submitted 1 year ago by Farksnatcher@lemmy.one to c/food@beehaw.org

I was finishing a jar of extremely hot peppers (7 pot primos) that I had fermenting on Thanksgiving day. I made a hot sauce with them and cantaloupe. I had them in a pan at a low simmer to meld the flavors. The problem was the steam coming off was potent as hell. It filled the house when everyone was arriving and coughing from the hot sauce in the air, me included. We had to open all the windows, dig out the fans to get it out of the house, freezing everyone in the process.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If only one...


I was going to make fries ๐ŸŸ, put a couple liters of oil in a wok-like frier ๐Ÿฒ on the stove โ™จ๏ธ... and a short phone ๐Ÿ“ž call later, came running into a cloud of oil smoke ๐Ÿ’จ filling the kitchen, and flames ๐Ÿ”ฅ bursting just as I quickly slammed a lid on it. Take lid off, flames burst ๐Ÿ”ฅ, put lid on, only smoke ๐Ÿ’จ. PHEW!... but I wanted fries! So... DISCLAIMER: do not do this!!... got a cinder block, put it in the middle of the kitchen, and veeeeery carefully, with the lid on, took the whole thing with the oil at flaming point, off the stove, onto the cinder block... took the lid off, flames burst ๐Ÿ”ฅ, put the lid on ๐Ÿ’จ... but I still wanted fries! So... DISCLAIMER: seriously, NEVER do this!!... I took a jug๐Ÿบ, filled it with water ๐ŸŒŠ, and very carefully, started pouring it onto the cinder block under the thing full of flaming oil. A few jugs later, and a lot a steam, and a wet floor, and an incredible amount of luck ๐Ÿ€ later... took the lid off... finally no fire! So... DISCLAIMER: y'know the drill... veeeeery carefully, I took it off the cinder block and back onto the stove... waited a while for it to stop smoking, poured the fries in... and some minutes later, had freshly made fries!๐ŸŸ And a kitchen floor to mop up.

9/10, tasty, with a slight risk of a horrible death and burning the whole house down.


Then, this other time... I was feeling hungry, so decided to make a bowl of pasta ๐Ÿ, with some sour cheese ๐Ÿง€, with scrambled eggs ๐Ÿณ, with some strawberries ๐Ÿ“, and some sugar to top it off... only instead of sugar ๐Ÿถ, I picked the flour ๐Ÿถ jug (white is white, right?... right?)... several minutes of blowing flour off the bowl into the sink later... I said "f it"... added some actual sugar, mixed everything thoroughly, and ate it like that.

8/10, was hungry, raw flour tasted bad, but mixed up together it got kind of masked.


Another time, decided to make pasta, so put a large pot of water on the stove... but was really tired, so set an alarm for 10 minutes, about when it should get boiling (this was on a gas stove without a timer), and went to take a quick nap... something like half an hour later, woke up to a nasty smell coming from the kitchen, ran into it, and of course all the water had boiled off, the pot was getting burned โ™จ๏ธ... and I just overheard a cop ๐Ÿ‘ฎ on the balcony in the apartament next door, saying "yes, send the firefighters ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš’ to..." which is when I jumped out crying "no need!! everything under control!!"๐Ÿ˜ณ. They still wanted to see what happened, so had to let them in, show the burned pot... they looked at me with commiseration, "yeah, I know..." I said. Thanked the neighbor for calling for help and excused myself, she still looked pissed. Oh well.

1/10, got no lunch that day, barely got on time for work, but the house still didn't burn down, and firefighters didn't have to break in, so that's something.


And once, I was going to make coffee, fished out a jar from the back of the cupboard, no expiry date, opened it to take a whiff... and just that moment my mom comes into the kitchen, bumps into me, and I get a full snort of coffee. It wasn't stale. I kept smelling it for a day or two...

4/10, coffee is fine, but everything smelling like coffee, from salad, to cheese, to orange juice, is a bit much.

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago

Please, for the love of god, cut back on your Emoji usage, my eyes are bleeding.

[-] CleoTheWizard@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Your eyes are bleeding over descriptive pictures in a personal story. Whatโ€™s people weird obsession with not using emojis? This isnโ€™t a college essay

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

If I see a bunch of emojis I just assume it's another lame copy pasta and scroll right by

[-] that_one_guy@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

An emoji or two are fine, but this abomination straight up reduces readability of the stories. Honestly makes me think it's made up by a 10 year old.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I have no issue with emojis but it was a bit jarring trying to read this. It was fine after like a paragraph. At that point my mind just started to skip over the emojis.

this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
84 points (100.0% liked)

Food and Cooking

6449 readers
1 users here now

All things culinary and cooking related. Share food! Share recipes! Share stuff about food, etc.

Subcommunity of Humanities.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS