Things you should not do...

hoglet121

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

I will add curry to that list. My Mum left her curry on the table thinking it would be safe as cats don't like curry. Well they do.:rotfl:

I can second that! One of ours learnt that ice cream was eaten from bowls so he started begging if we were eating anything in a bowl. I thought I'd put him off that by showing him my bowl after we'd had curry.

That backfired. Literally.

lynsayjane

Sounds like the lesson should be 'dont' have cats or dogs' haha

tesuhoha

Don't leave clean washing in a basket outside the back door for any length of time even if under shelter. I did this and was folding my teatowels when a massive black spider leapt at me. I screamed and dropped the washing and it disappeared somewhere under the sofa! I'm waiting for the dread moment when it reappears.

Oh and don't make the mistake of putting a bird bath near your washing line especially when there is also a red berry bush nearby. Purple stained birdbath and washing.

bargainbetty

My male friend learned not to cook a Thai curry using fresh chopped chillies and only wash your hands once before your hot date arrives. The chilli oils last a remarkably long time.

It was a very successful date. Sadly, it ended up being their last, as she couldn't get past the memory of chilli burn on her... well, on her.

sillyvixen

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

I will add curry to that list. My Mum left her curry on the table thinking it would be safe as cats don't like curry. Well they do.:rotfl:

cats love curry, well mine did! after eating curry we would scrape the plates into his bowl, cats however don't like rice, well mine didn't. it used to be so funny watching him take one piece of rice and suck it clean before spitting it out!! it used to amaze me that a furry face could make such expressions.

Winter_Phoenix

A friend tells me: "Never turn on the top oven, and then put your cakes in the bottom oven. It is a very inefficient way of baking cakes!"

Pootle_3

sillyvixen wrote: »

cats love curry, well mine did! after eating curry we would scrape the plates into his bowl, cats however don't like rice, well mine didn't. it used to be so funny watching him take one piece of rice and suck it clean before spitting it out!! it used to amaze me that a furry face could make such expressions.

Please video and put on youtube!!


I am crying with laughter at this :-)

Baileys_Babe

This thread is brilliant, I've been crying with laughter, thank you.

Do not dry damp tea towels on the canopy for the eye level gas grill. My Mum used to do this regularly :wall:

Do not add the milk that the fish has been poached in to anybodies tea.

Do not mistake coffee for gravy powder and realise once you have poured it over every ones dinner.

Do not attempt to speed up cooking a jacket potato in the microwave by wrapping it in foil.

GreyQueen

Do not hide a tin of Roses in the oven to keep it away from rapacious offspring. Especially if you are going to be using said oven........

Don't warm the plates by putting them on the top of the eye-level grill with the plate overhanging the vent where the heat goes up. The crack will sound like a gunshot.

Equally, do not put the wooden-handled wok belonging to your daughter (hi Mum!) in the same place and then wonder why you can smell....toast(ed wood).

Don't keep SR flour in a container labelled Plain Flour as this leads to Unfortunate Culinary Incidents. Equally, know that you can't substitute granulated sugar for caster sugar when making butter filling for sponge cakes as it's horribly gritty.

When making a beef stew, do not leave the beef in the fridge and only notice when serving. Also, when roasting a turkey which came with giblets, when you don't find them in the usual orifice, try checking the neck for the plastic bag of giblets.

Don't make a large quantity of delicious ham sarnies the morning when leaving for a car-trip for a fortnight and then recall leaving them back home in the fridge when 100+ miles up the road.

rosalie-lavender

Don't assume when the doctor says he will refer you to a particular hospital that the actual appointment will be at that hospital. Then after not noticing the change of location on the letter (read by both myself and OH) turn up at reception wondering why you can't find the correct department.

All will be explained when the receptionist tells you " I hate to tell you this but you are at the wrong hospital!" The irony was they changed the location to make it easier for us as it was nearer. Well it would have been if we hadn't gone to another hospital 20 miles further away first. :rotfl:

Luckily we had arrived early and the receptionist phoned through to warn the correct hospital we were on our way but would be late.