GTKY 11/6

dinomeetsjedi · November 2021

It seemed like a few people wanted to post something but didn't know what so I found some random questions. Answer any or all.

What is your biggest kitchen fail?

Have you ever sent a text message to the wrong person?

What is one thing you refuse to share?

dinomeetsjedi · November 2021

My biggest kitchen fail was actually using the grill for the first time. I was a teenager and I turned on the gas and waited for a minute with the top closed so it would be easier to light and then I threw the match in and I gave myself some nice fringe in the front and burned off the front part of all my hair. I kept my eyebrows though.

I don't think I've sent a text to the wrong person that really caused a problem but I have sent an email. Back when the internet was young and people sent chain emails around and it was really annoying, my mom would send me useless lifehack chain emails. One time I meant to forward a particularly dumb one to a friend, joking about how dumb it was but I guess I hit reply instead and I tried to go delete it from my mom's email before she saw but I only succeeded in deleting it off the computer and not the server and so she still saw it and was really offended.

I hate sharing my pillow. I don't want anyone's gross drool on my pillow, it's my pillow but my husband always steals it as soon as I get out of bed in the morning and I really hate it. Also I hate sharing food. Or finding food I had wanted to eat after work gone.

Hopefully these topics are interesting enough to get conversation going

rbflei · November 2021

Kitchen fails. Hmm more like a group fail. My husband and I used to make turkey taquitos every year with leftover turkey post Thanksgiving. Like the 3rd year I was handing him a rolled up taquito and he dropped it somehow in the exchange and a wave of hot oil rolled over my forearm. It's been about 10 years and I still only grow hair in certain chunks.

I have been spent a lot of years rechecking who I send things to after I had casually dated two guys one time each and I really didn't like one of them and kinda liked the other so I went to end things via text and sent break up to wrong guy then figured it out and got to do it again later that day to the right one. I just moved on from both as I was not in too deep and did not relish explaining myself. I was also 16 so lessons learned.

I actually don't mind sharing quite a lot post parenting 5 years but I drew the line today on gum. My daughter wanted to learn how to blow bubbles with her last piece of gum and I just can't do that.

robbenson · November 2021

Biggest kitchen fail would be when I moved into my first apartment and said I would cook the first meal for my roommate and myself. Didn't realize we didn't have cooking utensils and only plastic silverware until the water was boiling and I needed to stir the pasta. I cooked the sausage by putting foil on my finger tips and burning myself. Never had such a complicated spaghetti dinner in my life.

I have sent a text to the wrong person. Back when group messaging was messier like 10 years ago. Thought I was complaining about the people to my best friend who was on the group message but sent it to the group. I played it off like I was talking about my sisters. Not sure if they bought it but they kept me in the group. Whoops!

Bath towels and deodorant. I guess things you wipe on your body? Just eww

SmashJam · November 2021

@robbenson lol to the foil on the fingertips.

I've had plenty of kitchen fails-its usually when I try to go big with stuff or if I try to substitute ingredients without really thinking about it. I've put too much lime juice in an asian themed soup I made, which left H eternally skeptical of anything requiring citrus.

I haven't sent a text to the wrong person before that caused any issues. Which is so lucky considering I was definitely I drunk texter in my college/early adult days.

I will not share my Afrin. It was in my noseholes and I don't want it in anyone else's. Also when I'm drinking beer and I buy it for myself, my H is not allowed to touch it because he will drink all of it in one day ( I buy four packs) whereas I am a lightweight and can't drink more than one so it would last a couple days for me. He'll say, "But you had this leftover and I was out!" Then go get more! Or stop drinking! lol

Avrilmai · November 2021

biggest kitchen fail: trying to make a roux while on maternity leave. I don’t know what I was thinking. I did not have time for that, I had a newborn and the roux scorched and the whole house smelled awful.

Text to the wrong person: a few years ago my boss told me (somewhat in confidence) that some one had quit and I immediately texted my boss asking if she knew of anyone looking for a job. It was supposed to go to a friend. Luckily I didn’t say exactly what I thought of the person who quit. That would have been awkward.

Don’t share: my toothbrush that’s just gross.

queenklau · November 2021

Most of my kitchen fails are because I try to multitask and forget about something in the stove. But the worse was when I was making caramel for flan and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to touch the caramel when I was spreading it on the pan. It was the worse burn I have ever had, it hurt for days and I got a terrible blister. Even if something looks finger licking good, don’t touch it! Haha!

I am in a lot of WhatsApp/group chats with my in laws. We have a separate one to crack jokes that my SIL and BIL would think are you “too much”. One time my hubby picked the wrong one and we kept cracking jokes/made fun of a situation that reflected on them…oops. They never said anything, they need to lighten up!

agree, toothbrush, never ever. Not even with my kids…

minnie_yoga_mama · November 2021

What is your biggest kitchen fail? My husband says when these things happen that I “Laura’ed it.” 🤦🏻‍♀️ I suppose the biggest kitchen spill I had was when I dropped an entire pitcher of iced tea on the ground and the entire container emptied, literally EVERYWHERE. Safe to say it was a *bit* of a mess. Then there are the times I’ve grossly underestimated the amount of time it takes to make food we need for parties or lunches for the week and I end up cooking until midnight or later trying to get it done. 😅

Have you ever sent a text message to the wrong person? YES, and in the most embarrassing way. 😅 My husband and I were 15 and 16 years old, and after he left my house, instead of texting him, my impulsive teenager self accidentally sent a text to his step-sister (their parents had just started dating at the time). You know, just talking about how much fun I had with him in my bedroom and how sexy he is. 🙈 The worst part is, not only was she in our high school class in a very small school (out of about 70 in our graduating class), but she isn’t a very nice person and we still don’t talk to her unless we happen across her at a family gathering if we’re back in town. Yikes!!!

What is one thing you refuse to share? Agree to pretty much all of the above— toothbrush, body towels, drinks (except with hubby) etc. Since the beginning of the pandemic though, I’ve added sharing finger foods to that list. Especially at a party— you just have no idea who’s washed their hands!! Part the healthcare worker in me, part the germaphobe in me!

doxiemoxie212 · November 2021

What is your biggest kitchen fail? probably some sort of milk mixture boiling over on the stove and completely ruining the stove top

Have you ever sent a text message to the wrong person? I sent my mom a somewhat sexual text accidentally once? I think it was "I think it would be hot if you picked out lingerie for me." My friend at the time was a fashion stylist for A-list fashion magazines, and I played it off as a text meant for my friend as a joke.

What is one thing you refuse to share? I really don't like sharing water bottles with anyone. Not DH, not DD3, no one. Something about the potential for backwash just really grosses me out.

Blondesweety444 · November 2021

These questions are great! Thanks @dinomeetsjedi!

My biggest kitchen fail I think is when we tried to make our first meal in our new InstantPot. I really wanted to make risotto since its such a pain to make on the stove. We doubled the recipe but it was too much for the pot so it wouldn't seal and cook. We ended up with this absolutely disgusting mushy mess that never actually cooked. We dumped out the entire thing in the trash, which was a decent amount of the not so cheap arborio rice! I've since then been able to make it successfully and its so delicious!

I'm sure I've sent some wrong texts/emails to the wrong people, but I can't think of a particularly horrible situation on the moment. So I guess none of them were too scarring.

I feel like motherhood requires you to share everything. I don't particularly like sharing my food, but I will if it stops any whining (so basically every time?) If I really don't want to share I tell him my food is spicy and that makes him go away. I'll share my drink if there's no possibility of backwash (straw, water bottle, etc.). My husband also drools so we absolutely do not swap pillows. Its so gross to roll over in the middle of the night to a wet spot.

missa_lyssa · November 2021

What is your biggest kitchen fail?
There’s a recipe MH and I really like that uses store-bought gnocchi and a homemade sauce. One time I bought whole wheat gnocchi instead of the regular kind we had always used before. Turns out the whole wheat gnocchi is MUCH more finicky and quickly turns to mush if you don’t take it out of the boiling water at EXACTLY the right time. We tried it twice before deciding it wasn’t worth it and switching back to the regular gnocchi.

The worst part was that the first time, my husband was trying to take care of dinner by himself because I wasn’t feeling well, so he felt really bad for “ruining” dinner, but it really wasn’t his fault.

Have you ever sent a text message to the wrong person?
Nothing too disastrous, but my husband and his brother have somewhat similar names (both short with the same first two letters), so I have occasionally texted my BIL thinking it was my husband. Shortly before our wedding, my BIL texted asking what he should wear to the rehearsal dinner. Later the same day, my then-fiancé asked me the same question in person, and I was like, “Honey, we already talked about this! Don’t you remember texting me?” Finally realized what happened, and now in my phone my husband’s name has a heart in front of it, and my BIL’s name is in all caps. 😂

What is one thing you refuse to share?
Toothbrush for sure. I share food and drinks with MH and used to with other immediate family, but not so much any more. But at the same time, I can be weirdly defensive/protective about my food and get a little offended if someone just takes food off my plate or eats leftovers that I wanted; it’s only okay if I offered it.

Sort of related, I like to have a variety of snacks around so I have lots of options, but my husband sometimes likes to “use things up” so we don’t have tons of extra stuff to store. So he used to finish off things that I was really looking forward to eating. Thankfully we sorted that out pretty early in our marriage. 🤣

shlecks · November 2021

What is your biggest kitchen fail? Ah probably the biggest fail that I can think of is from right before we got married I was trying to prep a potroast by browning the meat and I used olive oil which gets WAY too hot and I set all the smoke detectors off. This happens at the house we live in now ALL the time because they are super sensitive so we really have to watch when we use the broiler or anything like that.

Have you ever sent a text message to the wrong person? I'm SURE I have but I can't think of a juicy story.

What is one thing you refuse to share? The one thing I can think to add to this list you all have started is LIP PRODUCTS. Chapstick, gloss, lipstick, etc. NO

monstera13 · November 2021

Good GTKY questions!!

Kitchen fails- over the years I’ve head plenty of mess-ups, but one happened this weekend so it’s on my mind. DS4 helped me make peanut butter banana bread, and we put the loaves in the oven. When the timer went off, I was in the middle of doing something, so I turned it off with the intention of getting it out of the oven in just a few seconds. Well I forgot, for at least 20 minutes 😩 It was burnt and DS has a huge meltdown because he was looking forward to it!

Things I refuse to share- unless it’s an emergency, I’d rather not share most hygiene stuff- toothbrush, towel, deodorant, etc.

aloha_mama · November 2021

Kitchen fail: So many, it’s embarrassing. Lots of macarons and bread in the trash because they just turned out awful. I set a plastic pot meant for the microwave on a stove burner once and melted plastic all over it, we had to replace the coils. Last year for Christmas I made a dulce de leche pie by boiling cans of condensed milk in the Instant Pot. Everything was going great until I had to get the cans out of the pot and I dropped one back into the water when it slipped out of my tongs and splashed boiling hot water all over my face. I had second-degree burns on my forehead for our Christmas dinner. But the pie was delicious!

Text fail: I can’t really think of any that are really juicy… I revealed someone’s birthday present in a group chat once.

I refuse to share bath towels and washcloths/sponges. I just can’t. We’ve shared a toothbrush before in a pinch, like when we were camping or something, but definitely not on the regular. I don’t share my stethoscope at work, either, because I’m too paranoid it’ll disappear even though it has my name engraved on it. I’ll follow the person the make sure I get it right back if I loan it to them.

doxiemoxie212 · November 2021

Oh yeah, 100% I would rather not brush my teeth than share a toothbrush. I cannot imagine in what scenario I would be desperate enough to share a toothbrush. Absolutely not.

bluecampanula · November 2021

What is your biggest kitchen fail? Early on in our marriage I was making lasagna and mixed up tablespoons and teaspoons for the salt and didn’t realize it until it was completely made and we sat down for dinner. I was so sad, it seemed like this huge amount of food and effort and it was totally wasted. We lived with DH’s grandma at the time and she actually tried to fix it, and I was like no, even if you can’t taste all that salt it’s still there - don’t eat it and die!

More recently, I dropped a sharp knife pointy edge down into my foot. Also don’t recommend doing that.

Have you ever sent a text message to the wrong person? Yes, but nothing spectacular. More along the lines of announcing dinner is ready to my group friend text instead of DH

What is one thing you refuse to share? Toothbrush, that’s gross. Because of my celiac I also have my own toaster and jar of pb that no one else gets to touch!

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