@kjady@yakkoTDI oh em gee. new fear unlocked and i got chills just reading this! how did this happen? toothpick fell and somehow got lodged upright?? yipes.
@catthegreat@yakkoTDI Walking around barefoot and screwing around with my brothers. The toothpick was lodge in a rug. I swung my foot back to kick at one of them and… well… yeah. Literally right through my foot and it only stopped because of the heel bone.
@catthegreat@kjady Mine was a toothpick that I didn’t know had fallen on the carpet. While it did hurt the worst part was seeing half a toothpick sticking straight out from under my toe. Thankfully it was a better quality toothpick and pulled out with no extra drama or pain.
@catthegreat@yakkoTDI My dad was a volunteer Firefighter/EMS and my mom was an RN. I was lucky it didn’t break or leave a splinter. Either was toothpicks are great for the intended use. On the floor? Never.
I dropped an unopened jar of mayonnaise. It exploded like the greasy bomb it was. Glass shards everywhere, ceiling to floor. Mayonnaise on the ceiling, floor, and all in between. Glass shards were still being found in nooks and crannies years later.
Seriously, sometimes the nightmares come.
I stopped Mom three seconds before she poured water all over a grease fire in a wok, and used a standard fire extinguisher instead. Thank goodness I’d been in the kitchen!
I have cut the area between the thumb and forefinger. I was trying to open a can of cat food and when the lid came off, it’s sliced in between that fleshy area. Yes, the cat got some extra red stuff in this food. I don’t think it even appreciate it what I went through. I generally don’t use cans like that anymore.
@mycya4me Your cat has been plotting to eviscerate you while you watch, drag your carcass to a nearby countertop, and then leisurely consume you while watching birds out of a nearby window. This has been going on ever since that moment you left some of your blood in its dish. Purr-purr.
@accelerator I got rid of that cat!
I went years before another one showed up. But this one came from a rescue shelter,(around 2) He was Fixed, Litter Box trained, Had his shots! He loves me! he is also an indoor cat. he stayed close.
Right across the joint of my thumb, from trying to uncork a bottle of corked meade where the wax was so thick…
They actually x-rayed the hand because the cut was so deep. It had to be immobilized for 2 weeks because of the location. Pain the ass for everything, including trying to wash your hair
@visioneer_one if you HAVE to thicken, I’d use tomato paste. Typically i use a combination of crushed tomatoes and whole peeled which i crush by hand. Making the day before and reheating (if you have the time) definitely helps as well.
@Kyeh@visioneer_one interesting - never heard of that. But i suppose if i had to choose between corn meal and corn starch, I’d go with corn meal. Is it a regional thing?
@visioneer_one@ybmuG I made a huge pot of chili last week (trying to use up some frozen black bean burgers from Costco that I don’t really like) and I made some cornbread to go with it. I’ve just been mushing it into the chili!
Using the oven for your toaster oven storage is no good if you forget to check before preheating the oven. My oven caught my toaster oven on fire. Oops.
PSA Never, ever use a steak knife (or any utensil really) as a screwdriver.
Brand new, very sharp knife slipped and stabbed me in the middle of my palm. Severed a vein and a nerve. Had to have a very complex surgery to reattach the nerve. This was ~15 years ago this month.
No feeling on one side of middle finger. Had lost utilization for a while, which was difficult, but eventually that came back.
TL:DR I made a bad decision w a sharp knife. When I FA, I FO!!
@tinamarie1974 Don’t feel too sorry for her. When she told me what she was doing and that she had done it all her life my response was “How the fuck do you still have all 10 fingers?”
Once when I was first starting out learning to cook, I got a little bit too “experimental” with seasonings and I accidentally made pork loin chops taste identical to hot dogs.
I once permanently branded my forearm on a waffle iron. It happened while reaching over to grab the tongs to remove a freshly waffled waffle. My cat, at the exact same moment, dashed across my feet causing me to involuntarily lurch forward and simultaneously jam my arm into the gaping mouth of the waffle iron. The time of contact with the superheated waffle iron was brief but also with intense force. I truly believe the cat had a plan that, if she had succeeded, would have given her an opportunity to eviscerate me while I watched and then devour my carcass at her leisure while watching birds out the window.
Face-planted while walking across the kitchen one day when I had an unexpected brief run of PSVT. Made those in attendance a bit unnerved. SWMBO said she wasn’t concerned until she noticed I didn’t put my hands out to break my fall. Contact with the kitchen tile was a sufficient “pre-cordial thump” to slap me back into an NSR evidently.
Eventually a heart ablation fixed that issue.
I was making candy and knocked the pan off the stove. I tried to catch it - BAD idea. Melted sugar burns and clings. It took 3 years for me to get feeling back on my finger
I cut off the tip of my thumb on a mandolin. At the doc-in-a-box, the guy asked if we brought the tip with us. My wife told him that she flushed it down the garbage disposal. Took a while, but healed fine.
Happy that I’m not one of the unfortunate ones with injuries to report !
I guess my worst mishap was burning a pot of lentils. It stunk up the whole house and left a film of smoke on the kitchen walls and ceiling that I had to scrub off. It’s just lucky I got back and found it before the pot melted down or worse.
Perhaps the day I started a fire in one of the ovens that had just been repaired. It had a griddle on top but what we didn’t know was that there was a crack in the roof of the oven and it had filled with grease. We were finishing about a dozen orders of eggplant parm in the oven when I went to take them out I was greeted by flames. Fun ensued. Put it out with baking powder and remade them in the frier. All this started just as we were plating the party. Somehow I was just able to keep up.
Either that, or the time I ended up in the ED having cut the tip of my finger off.
@ybmuG its better than the work nickname I earned. Mattress Queen…
It was not as exciting as one could imagine. We had a contract w Serta to swap mattresses at hotels nationwide. I was in charge of figuring out recycle/disposal programs for the used ones. The stories from the installation crews and the things they found under the mattresses at the hotels. 🫣
Dropping delicious desert on the floor.
I had an accident with a mandoline that a stupid deal a day site sold.
@sammydog01 BTDT
Toothpick through the back of my heel. It was horrifying and why I refuse to walk in a kitchen barefooted.
@kjady I got a toothpick straight into the flesh under my left pinky toe many years ago. I was not in the kitchen but it still hurt.
@yakkoTDI Feeling a toothpick hit bone is not something I can ever forget. 0/10 would not recommend,
@kjady @yakkoTDI oh em gee. new fear unlocked and i got chills just reading this! how did this happen? toothpick fell and somehow got lodged upright?? yipes.
@catthegreat @yakkoTDI Walking around barefoot and screwing around with my brothers. The toothpick was lodge in a rug. I swung my foot back to kick at one of them and… well… yeah. Literally right through my foot and it only stopped because of the heel bone.
@catthegreat @kjady Mine was a toothpick that I didn’t know had fallen on the carpet. While it did hurt the worst part was seeing half a toothpick sticking straight out from under my toe. Thankfully it was a better quality toothpick and pulled out with no extra drama or pain.
@catthegreat @yakkoTDI My dad was a volunteer Firefighter/EMS and my mom was an RN. I was lucky it didn’t break or leave a splinter. Either was toothpicks are great for the intended use. On the floor? Never.
Ok yeah. So I’ve done all of those…
I fell and got stuck for a couple of hours between the stove and some boxes.
@ratman I’m really trying to picture this. We’re you little? What was in the boxes? The more i think about this, the more i have to know!
I walked into the kitchen and now people have expectations…
I dropped an unopened jar of mayonnaise. It exploded like the greasy bomb it was. Glass shards everywhere, ceiling to floor. Mayonnaise on the ceiling, floor, and all in between. Glass shards were still being found in nooks and crannies years later.
Seriously, sometimes the nightmares come.
@milstarr yes I have dropped stuff like that, WOW, the way the drop, exploded with both going everywhere. I feel you pain!
@milstarr @mycya4me I think I’ve launched pasta or some kind of red sauce to the ceiling in at least 2 occasions.
My ex-wife’s lasagna.
@Pavlov Was it widow maker lasagna?
Nobody’s going to tell some story about wild movie-style sex on the kitchen table leading to an unexpected pregnancy?
Or is everyone afraid their kids might read it and find out they were an accident?
I mean, I’m not going to be the first one to break the silence.
@xobzoo perhaps most children are Bob Ross events.
I stopped Mom three seconds before she poured water all over a grease fire in a wok, and used a standard fire extinguisher instead. Thank goodness I’d been in the kitchen!
@PooltoyWolf oh man! That was definitely a disaster avoided. Really could have been life changing! You earned a lot of son points on that one!
@ybmuG I was kind of amazed she didn’t know. She does now!!
I’ve cut my thumb while slicing tomatoes.
In my haste, I’ve burned my fingers on hot objects. This is why I keep a bottle of Aloe Vera gel handy.
@sjk3 …and why we have an Aloe growing as a house plant!
I burned some bacon once. Nothing worse than wasting good bacon.
@kittykat9180 I agree - this IS a real disaster!
I have cut the area between the thumb and forefinger. I was trying to open a can of cat food and when the lid came off, it’s sliced in between that fleshy area. Yes, the cat got some extra red stuff in this food. I don’t think it even appreciate it what I went through. I generally don’t use cans like that anymore.
@mycya4me Your cat has been plotting to eviscerate you while you watch, drag your carcass to a nearby countertop, and then leisurely consume you while watching birds out of a nearby window. This has been going on ever since that moment you left some of your blood in its dish. Purr-purr.
@accelerator I got rid of that cat!
I went years before another one showed up. But this one came from a rescue shelter,(around 2) He was Fixed, Litter Box trained, Had his shots! He loves me! he is also an indoor cat. he stayed close.
Right across the joint of my thumb, from trying to uncork a bottle of corked meade where the wax was so thick…
They actually x-rayed the hand because the cut was so deep. It had to be immobilized for 2 weeks because of the location. Pain the ass for everything, including trying to wash your hair
needed to thicken a pot of chili. grabbed and added cornmeal instead of cornstarch.
A tragedy
@visioneer_one if you HAVE to thicken, I’d use tomato paste. Typically i use a combination of crushed tomatoes and whole peeled which i crush by hand. Making the day before and reheating (if you have the time) definitely helps as well.
@visioneer_one @ybmuG And I DO use corn meal to thicken chili, because I like the way it tastes.
@Kyeh @visioneer_one interesting - never heard of that. But i suppose if i had to choose between corn meal and corn starch, I’d go with corn meal. Is it a regional thing?
@visioneer_one @ybmuG Maybe southwestern? I don’t add a lot, and it should be fine ground.
@Kyeh @visioneer_one well, it’s got me intrigued, anyway.
Found this.
https://www.southernliving.com/food/dish/chili/how-to-thicken-chili
I mean I do like corn chips with chili…
@visioneer_one @ybmuG I made a huge pot of chili last week (trying to use up some frozen black bean burgers from Costco that I don’t really like) and I made some cornbread to go with it. I’ve just been mushing it into the chili!
All of the above as well as almost slipping on the soapy water that leaked out of the dishwasher (I think it was trying to kill me)
Using the oven for your toaster oven storage is no good if you forget to check before preheating the oven. My oven caught my toaster oven on fire. Oops.
PSA Never, ever use a steak knife (or any utensil really) as a screwdriver.
Brand new, very sharp knife slipped and stabbed me in the middle of my palm. Severed a vein and a nerve. Had to have a very complex surgery to reattach the nerve. This was ~15 years ago this month.
No feeling on one side of middle finger. Had lost utilization for a while, which was difficult, but eventually that came back.
TL:DR I made a bad decision w a sharp knife. When I FA, I FO!!
@tinamarie1974 You and my mom can share FAFO knife stories. She lost a little bit of use in her left pinky finger due to stupidity.
@yakkoTDI your poor mom!!!
@tinamarie1974 Don’t feel too sorry for her. When she told me what she was doing and that she had done it all her life my response was “How the fuck do you still have all 10 fingers?”
Once when I was first starting out learning to cook, I got a little bit too “experimental” with seasonings and I accidentally made pork loin chops taste identical to hot dogs.
I once permanently branded my forearm on a waffle iron. It happened while reaching over to grab the tongs to remove a freshly waffled waffle. My cat, at the exact same moment, dashed across my feet causing me to involuntarily lurch forward and simultaneously jam my arm into the gaping mouth of the waffle iron. The time of contact with the superheated waffle iron was brief but also with intense force. I truly believe the cat had a plan that, if she had succeeded, would have given her an opportunity to eviscerate me while I watched and then devour my carcass at her leisure while watching birds out the window.
Face-planted while walking across the kitchen one day when I had an unexpected brief run of PSVT. Made those in attendance a bit unnerved. SWMBO said she wasn’t concerned until she noticed I didn’t put my hands out to break my fall. Contact with the kitchen tile was a sufficient “pre-cordial thump” to slap me back into an NSR evidently.
Eventually a heart ablation fixed that issue.
I was making candy and knocked the pan off the stove. I tried to catch it - BAD idea. Melted sugar burns and clings. It took 3 years for me to get feeling back on my finger
I cut off the tip of my thumb on a mandolin. At the doc-in-a-box, the guy asked if we brought the tip with us. My wife told him that she flushed it down the garbage disposal. Took a while, but healed fine.
@GNOP i brought mine to the ED and they six “yeah, we’re not doing anything with that!”
Happy that I’m not one of the unfortunate ones with injuries to report
!
I guess my worst mishap was burning a pot of lentils. It stunk up the whole house and left a film of smoke on the kitchen walls and ceiling that I had to scrub off. It’s just lucky I got back and found it before the pot melted down or worse.
@Kyeh I once ruined a crockpot full of soup by putting in WAAAAY more lentils than any soup should have.
@yakkoTDI Well, that’s not good either, but I bet your house didn’t stink for a week.
Came to this one late…
There are so many, which to choose?
Perhaps the day I started a fire in one of the ovens that had just been repaired. It had a griddle on top but what we didn’t know was that there was a crack in the roof of the oven and it had filled with grease. We were finishing about a dozen orders of eggplant parm in the oven when I went to take them out I was greeted by flames. Fun ensued. Put it out with baking powder and remade them in the frier. All this started just as we were plating the party. Somehow I was just able to keep up.
Either that, or the time I ended up in the ED having cut the tip of my finger off.
@ybmuG
Do you own a restaurant/catering company?
@tinamarie1974 no, just worked at one a while back. Been over 30 yrs since i did that professionally.
@ybmuG here I thought I was going to have to start calling you Chef!
/giphy yes chef
@tinamarie1974 interestingly, it was the restaurant where i got the nickname Gumby which was taken here, thus the sdrawkcab ybmuG.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And wouldn’t that be fehC?
@ybmuG I actually cinsidered fehC and then didnt do it. Should I ask how you earned the nickname?
@tinamarie1974 I was pretty lanky and one of the waitresses said that I looked like I could bend any way like Gumby.
@ybmuG its better than the work nickname I earned. Mattress Queen…
It was not as exciting as one could imagine. We had a contract w Serta to swap mattresses at hotels nationwide. I was in charge of figuring out recycle/disposal programs for the used ones. The stories from the installation crews and the things they found under the mattresses at the hotels. 🫣
Other than the contents of a bathroom being dumped from the ceiling, shooting a box of shrimp into the ceiling (deep fryer accident).