If this pan could talk ...
Working up a sweat after meticulously scrubbing off the remains of roasted cabbage, I gave up and let the pan win. It made me look closely at all the remnants of things cooked previously. I smiled, thinking to myself that this pan had lived and served me well. It has seen the good, bad and downright ugly for years.
If your pans could talk, what would they say?
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25 Comments:
Sounds like a night (or three) out of the kitchen is in order...
derosa at 9:35AM on 06/04/09
Mine would say: Ah, it must be the girl cooking again. Don't you cook anything besides chicken, lady??
meem21 at 10:22AM on 06/04/09
My pans frequently scream for help at the top of their tiny little iron lungs. I have to make sure to close the cabinet doors securely of they try to escape during the night, last time I found them hiding and shivering in fear inthe coat closet.
huneybumper at 10:35AM on 06/04/09
My cast iron skillets and Dutch ovens are saying, "Thank you, Billy, for treating me so kindly!"
1stmakearoux at 10:44AM on 06/04/09
Mine would say: Your mom loves you.
She recently handed down THE family spaghetti pot to me. The same pot she cooked the majority of our Italian dinners, including the family gravy (spaghetti sauce) every Sunday. She would start the gravy on Saturday night and let it simmer all night long. We weren't supposed to touch the pot until afternoon Sunday dinner, but we couldn't resist the wonderful smell of the sweet tomatoes, sausage and meatballs waking us up in the morning. Breakfast was covert, sneaking bites of soft Italian bread dunked in the sauce when no one was looking. There was usually never any bread left by the time dinner was served.
-Dawn
WickedGoodDinner at 10:48AM on 06/04/09
@huneybumper - Hilarious! You are a joy.
smallkitchen at 11:05AM on 06/04/09
Mine would say...Why do you let THAT MAN wash me????
sammie at 11:27AM on 06/04/09
mine would say "lay off the hallucinogens, aren't you too old for that crap?"
sloppy at 11:36AM on 06/04/09
My mother has a nice cake pan that she recently used to make cinnamon rolls, but she let them bake too long and they forever burned the bottom of the pan with their shapes, which are unmistable. Every time that I make something in that tray, that is all that I can think of. I even make a cake for a colleague at work and she had taken it home, not knowing about the stains, and had spent half an hour trying to soak and scrub them out. She apologized profusely until I let her in on the secret. It was too funny. Poor thing.
Traveller at 11:37AM on 06/04/09
Right now... "Where have you gone? What have we done wrong? Come baaaack!"
It's grilling season, what can I say? :-)
wasliche at 11:37AM on 06/04/09
Mine would say, "My lord, woman, don't you ever stop cooking? How about a nice meal out, our treat?"
I think they secretly know how much I love and appreciate them, though!
soozm32 at 11:47AM on 06/04/09
My mom still uses her grandmother's cast-iron skillet, so if it could talk it would say a LOT.
embolini9 at 11:48AM on 06/04/09
Mine would beg for forgiveness for the meagerness and try to barter for their lives because they know they will be imminently replaced. Hooray for registries!
mookie at 11:56AM on 06/04/09
"Stop letting your husband do the dishes!! Or get on medication for OCD!! We're sick of being pruney from double cleanings."
mollykate678 at 12:41PM on 06/04/09
I know this is off topic, I'm not sure on protocol, should I start a new talk next time or is there a way to just chat to wickedgooddinner?
@wickedgooddinner: will you share that recipe with us?
b.
mrstkach at 2:13PM on 06/04/09
"please dont leave me soaking for more than a day, I get pruny"
CATERPILLARGIRL at 3:01PM on 06/04/09
How come you never talk to us, but you talk to Art? You know, Cuisin Art. And you talk to Kitchen Aid, too. But you never talk to us. Why? Hey! Hey, what are you doing? Oh no! No! Not the FIRE! Ow, that hurts, oh ow, my butt! Oh, that's not good enough, NOW you're opening the oven! It's hot in there! NO! Is that the BROILER???? Heeeeeelp meeeeeee....... (slam!)
dbcurrie at 3:11PM on 06/04/09
My non-stick pan is breaking up with me: "It's not you, it's me. Let me go, I've got nothing left to give..."
bigfatmouth at 3:55PM on 06/04/09
Mine would say stop going out so much and start using me again.
pjracz10 at 8:32PM on 06/04/09
It's girls nite again, and you really need to keep the bandages near the stove. You get gabbin and forget you CANNOT take me out of the oven without a towel, then you hurt my ears by screaming in pain cause yet again you have taken me, a cast iron skillet, out of the oven with a bare hand!
donnie at 10:33PM on 06/04/09
mine would say "enough of the garlic already - nobody in the cupboard wants to talk to me...."
pooch at 10:41PM on 06/04/09
@pooch, I hear ya, my pans hear ya.
My sheet pans would say, enough already with the dang bread rolls. We want cookies! My kids would say, "One sheet of rolls and one sheet of cookies--you know you want to make 'em." Carb addicts...
dhorst at 12:21AM on 06/05/09
My stock pot would say, "Are you boiling peanuts AGAIN???"
1stmakearoux at 8:37AM on 06/05/09
I have my great grandmother's cast iron skillet that has been passed down by my grandmother, mom, and then myself. My great grandfather was an abusive alcoholic and supposedly one of the ways my great grandmother got away from him was hitting upside the head with this skillet, she passed it to my grandmother, who used it on her abusive alcoholic first husband, then she passed it to my mother, who used in on her abusive first husband, who passed it to me, who isn't married and uses in for FRIED CHICKEN. I'm thinking about writing a book about it. Not the happiest story a skillet could tell, but not every girl considers diamonds their best friend.
Eliza524 at 9:01PM on 06/05/09
I'm not pretty, but I sure can cook it.
CJ McD at 7:08PM on 06/07/09