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[iamgrumpy]

Well if you remember I attempted a while back to make a pie... well I have mastered Apple Pie and I am almost a master at the Pumpkin pie now.

Well what happened a few minutes ago definitely WAS NOT my fault. My grandmother is over and well lets just say almost deaf and almost blind is not a good combination. She insists she can see and hear "perfectly fine" yet why am I stuck cleaning the microwave out after she set it to Incinerate while trying to soften the Butternut Squash??????????


I have never seen a vegetable explode before but yet there is always a first for everything

What kind of mishaps have you had while cooking a meal or preparing for a holiday feast?

[Lemap760]

First let me wish you lots of pixies to clean that up. Yuck.

The only mishap I've ever had is burning the microwave popcorn.

[OffKilter_Lynn]

Double yuck on cleaning that up - good luck!

Mishaps now are not my own - I'm teaching DD (age 13) to cook. Let's just say that we've learned the difference between salt and sugar the hard way!

[tinker_me_happy]

Just Cleaned my microwave. NOT SURE what exploded, but with 3 teens in the house, who knows! The worst is I haven't looked in it since last Thursday (it was CLEAN then) and the kids have OBVIOUSLY been using it. YUCK! COOKED on mess. It cleaned up pretty easily though: Tip from a friend: Put a microwave save coffee mug 3/4 full of water and cook for 5 minutes. Some will spill out, but dont worry. Let cool for one minute then wipe down. Even the dried on goop came right off with one paper towel.

Oh and I seriously BURNED my first pumpkin pie years ago...but let's not talk about that (I can still "smell" it when I think of it!)

[DyanKJ130]

Not so much a mishap on my part, but one Thanksgiving I was getting the dishes together that I was bringing to my parents' house for dinner, when DS (who was about 4 or 5 at the time) decided to use my scissors and snipped a good size chunk off the top of one of his fingers. I still remember his little face as he was walking by me to go to the bathroom to get a bandaid. Needless to say, we ruined the kitchen towel and spent a good couple of hours at the Emergency Room, where they glued ( glued!) his fingertip back on! Good times! Good times!

[WDWJAMBA]

I almost had a mishap this year, but luckily found my error. I got busy after putting the bird in the oven and forgot to turn it on.

[revral]

I had made a BIG batch of spaghetti sauce & was pouring it in to gallon size freezer bags. The doorbell rang startling me. I dropped the pan with all the souce on to the counter (of course the pan landed on it's side) knocking over the partially filled bag. I had spaghetti sauce everywhere. Counter, cabinets, floor, fridge, dishwasher, oven etc. It was a huge mess that took forever to clean up. I found dried spaghetti sauce in various strange places for months afterwards.

[Disney_Scarlett]

Hey, at least it wasn't your fault!

I almost lost a finger trying to make gingerbread men in a freak hand-mixer accident. I was mixing, and noticed some dry ingrediants near the lip of the bowl that hadn't been mixed in yet. With one hand, I pushed the "off" button on the mixer and the other, I stuck my hand juuuust inside the bowl to knock the flour mixture into the batter. Problem was, instead of "off" I pressed "high" which caused the mixer to go out of control and whirl over to the side where my hand was, and my fingers became stuck in the mixer. I screamed bloody murder, and it took three family members to get my hand out (with my hand in there, the "eject" button for the whisks was jammed). Not fun!

My dad decided to make bourbon pies one year and forgot to take the paper out of the pre-made pie crusts. That was fun!

[retiredkid]

okay, I did the xmas dinner from HE** about 40 years ago, trying to impress a boyfriend. I was 17 or 18. My parents went out visiting the rest of the family. I could not find the proper trussing kit for the bird and didnt even know that I could have 'sewn' it shut, so I did the next best thing and used b-b-que skewers. BRILLIANT!! (or so I thought)
After the turkey had been in the oven for a while, I checked on it and the oven was not even hot Everything was set properly, and no fuses were blown, so I called my Dad at my Aunts house. After following his leads to test for the problem, it turns out the baking element was busted. He suggested that I put the bird on the oven spit, turn the broiler on, and do it that way. My Mother (bless her heart) suggested I cook a ham as a backup. So, I put the turkey with the b-b-q skewers on the spit. Now, you gotta figure that anything that is hollow, but stuffed with bread and 'stuff' is not a good match for the rod. Remember, this is 40 years ago and it was a single rod, not with the multiple tines that would hold it secure. AAAANNNNNYYYYYWWWWWAAAAAAYYYYYSSSS..
the very first rotation, the very long skewers scraped the bottom of my mom's oven and put a couple of nice gouges in it. I adjusted the skewers so that this wouldn't continue to happen. I was soooooooo pleased with myself (remember 17 or 18). Close the door on the turkey and get to the other stuff. So this is all going on in a rather small kitchen with no counter space. Kitchen table was the prep AND eating area. There was no room for the ham as well as the bird in the oven, so out came the electric fry pan for the ham. I had to cook it on top of the washing machine in the basement. So now, I put the ham in some apple juice in the electric frypan downstairs on the lowest temperature possible. And so, its time to prep the veggies.....I can't recall the veggies, so perhaps there was no real catastrophe there.
After the prep time, it was time to check the turkey again.
All that fooling around with the skewers loosened the stuffing rather nicely, making it very easy to eject from both ends.
Thank God my parents came in just as I was about to shove my head in the oven. It only would have baked anyways, 'cause it was an electric stove
Dad checked the oven out much better than I did, because the bottom element was only loose (from Mom cleaning it a couple of days prior) and only needed to be secured a little better. NOW IT WORKS !!!!!!!!!!!

We are not even close to the conclusion of this saga, but I have errands to do. More on this later. ( If you want)

[Tink and co.]

Well, my best friend from elementary school called me last night and said her son's favorite memory of Thanksgiving was the year "the turkey was bleeding when we took it out of the oven." Yep. That was me, and obviously, the turkey was not done.

[akleos]

My mishap this year was not that extensive. I took out DS's bright pink medicine, shook it, set it down, went to get his juice reward for takign the nasty medicine, picked up the bottle, shook it... and the lid went flying. I was covered in bright pink medicine! It was on my white shirt, and the white freshly mopped floor. DH, DS and I all laughed to beat the band. Good thing there was enough medicine left for the next 24 hours!!!

[retiredkid]

seems like I'm the only long-winded one here. I apologize. This will be the "readers digest" version.
So..the ham is in the basement, the turkey in the oven. Dinner is going to be very late.
I decided to do shrimp cocktail served in half an avocado for each person. The veggies as I said, must have been okay. I am preparing the appies and a screeeeeeeeeeeching BEEP...BEEP....BEEEP. Forgot about the ham in the basement and set off the smoke detector. CHIT! After dealing with that it was time for dinner. Getting ready to bring the avocado appetizers to the table, I turned and two of them fell off the plate and skidded along the floor. I had cocktail sauce all over the floor and even a little up the wall. ALWAYS REMEMBER TO CUT A PIECE ON THE BOTTOM TO LEVEL IT OFF!!!
Needless to say, this one I will ALWAYS remember.

[maggieworkman]

DH spilled the bowl of cranberry jelly all over my new tablecloth when he set the turkey platter down on the table. We had to hurry and take all of the place settings and food off the table and put on a new tablecloth before we ate.

Maggie

[Colexis Mom]

Well it wasn't me, but I remember my grandmother dropping the cheesecake all over the kitchen floor