Things you should not do...

Nellie_the_Viking

Don't decide to boil up a chicken carcass for stock, but forget that you are boiling up a chicken carcass for stock (also applies to casseroles in the slow cooker). Who'd have thought that chicken smoked so well?


Don't believe any recipe that tells you that you can slowly prove bread dough overnight in the fridge, ready for baking in the morning, unless you really enjoy being attacked by a moving wall of dough when you open the fridge in the morning!

Stello

worried_jim wrote: »

Don't buy cheap bin liners.

absolutely agree
don't buy too cheap things in general - you'll have to pay more after

CathA

CathA wrote: »

MIL did one better- just passed her test, took car and baby (my OH) to shops, came out and saw her usual bus just getting ready to leave, ran over the road and jumped on. Some hours later, FIL comes home and asks 'where's the baby?' Mum hadn't realised, so they had to rush to the phone box (no mobiles then!) ring grandad who lived by the shops to go and wait by the car while they shot over. OH was still asleep on the back seat, we've never let her live that down!!

MIL again! Don't forget that your toddler is on the loo upstairs!! She did, couldn't find him and thought he'd escaped out the door, got all the builders on the building site across the road out scouring the streets, about to go to the phone box (again!) to ring the police when she heard a little voice calling 'Mummy I've finished'. She bought him to the door, clipped him round the ear and told all the worried builders 'Don't worry, the little b*****r has come back, then took him in and gave him some sweets to make up for it.

CathA

And one from me-don't clean your teeth, have a mouthful of mouthwash and rescue a daddy long legs at the same time. Went to put it gently outside, it flew back into my face and made me jump, spat mouthwash down my clean t shirt and jeans.

Fruball

Don't teach your young daughter how to heat a microwave meal for 4.5 minutes without teacher her than a single slice of thin crust pizza only takes about 40 seconds. Result = the whole of downstairs full of smoke and one black triangular piece of charcoal glowing red in places and a new microwave required The stench lasted a good couple of weeks.

PenguinOfDeath

Two from me from today -


Don't stop half way though a bike ride and open the bag on the back of your saddle, then forget to close it and ride home! Luckily I had to top again and realised and nothing had fallen out, could have been my phone, house key, and £15 in cash gone!




Don't open the wrong bit of the oregano container and end up chucking half the pot onto your pizza instead of a light sprinkling...




And JUST now:


Don't put some sausage rolls in the oven to bake and forget about them! An hour later they are jut the ok side of black and luckily no plumes of smoke when taking them out....


Right, that's it, its clearly not my day today so I'm off to bed!!

smartcat04

Don't go out for the day and come back to find your house keys still in the door waiting to be locked. I think I meant to lock the door after I'd but my baby in the car but must have been distracted.

pinkladyvenus

Don’t try and pick up a jam jar that has just come out off the oven, to move it nearer to the jam pan unless you are wearing oven gloves. Did this today while making jam

Gingernutty

Don't, after you've finished a night shift, go shambling round the charity shops for a couple of big mugs and a few nice bits of clothes.

Don't stay up for hours after your bedtime, getting slower and slower as the hours progress watching your reflexes dim and bumping into people as you try to get about the shops and negotiate public transport.

Don't go home, plunk the bag containing your haul on the doorstep (two steps up from the pavement) and let it fall, in slow motion as your reflexes give up the ghost, down the steps as you put the key in the door.

You'll be picking out bits of china from the rest of the contents of the bag for a good few minutes.

Luckily it was the 20p love hearts mug not the £1 Silver Jubilee mug.

mashedavocado

Don't leave a butternut squash in your kitchen for four months. The smell, oh my goodness, I've never experienced anything quite like it _pale_

Don't take a lasagne dish out of the fridge, put it on the cooker top, spoon out the leftovers, and then pour boiling water into the dish to soak before you wash it. Because then you will owe your housemate a new dish, and you will have to dodge boiling water dripping all over the kitchen.