funny this should come up. last friday i was chopping vegetables when I accidentally knocked the knife off the counter and onto my bare foot. whoops! ended up with 4 stitches in my left big toe. i was impressed how sharp the knife was! :)
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Sea salt crusted New Zealand pink snapper.
I already have a post under my belt about frying bacon naked, so I'll tell a story about "Joe".
My coworker had stopped at the bar one afternoon to celebrate a friends birthday for a few hours before heading home to cook his elderly mother a big pot of ham and bean soup. Getting ready for dinner, he pulled up his jeans and untied his boots. Before he could take his boots off, he noticed the pot boiling over. Still daffy from the party he ran across the kitchen, boots untied, pants up to his knees to heave the pot from the stove to the counter. Before he could get the pot to the counter, he tumbled forward smacking the pot against the stove, tipping it back towards himself, filling his boots with scalding ham and bean soup.
He managed to feed his mom and pack a bowl of soup to take to the hospital before the ambulance arrived.
Poor "Joe" couldn't wear shoes for a very long time.
Speaking of kitchen safety:
The Most Terrifying Canadian PSA of All Time
Warning: quite graphic.
(I don't think this has been mentioned on SE before; if it has, my apologies.)
This isn't mine, but my husband's. Same scenario as kmnola: Hot skillet of duck legs and sauce, directly from the oven. He put it on the stovetop, then did not drape a pot holder over the handle to remind him... you get the picture. Not only did he get a nasty burn, but he managed to drop/throw the skillet in some way that it shattered the glass door of the oven.
My quick-thinking son grabbed his video camera when he heard the scream and crash and captured the aftermath of shattered glass, spattered sauce, and cursing husband. The funniest part of the video is me saying, "Ummm, where are the duck legs?" (They were spared as he had just moved them to a plate, but all that delicious sauce...)
PS: I got him what I like to call a skillet handle condom for his next birthday.
That's easy...top of my hand at the base of my thumb. There's a full 1+" round brown spot where I burned myself in...May, perhaps?
I made (stovetop) popcorn and had already put the pot in the sink when I realized that the plastic soap/scrubber thing was too close to the pot and would likely melt. So I stuck my hand in that tiny space to retrieve it. 'nuf said? OUCH!!!
.... making the Italian waffle cookies, pizzelles. Grazed my forearm up against the hot pizzelle iron burning a festive holiday waffle pattern on my arm.
Haha that part about being a burner or a cutter made me laugh out loud. I think it's definitely true! My heart goes out to all you other burners out there. I have to admit, however, that I am sometimes a cutter when things are slippery, or if I misjudge the density of something, as someone mentioned above.
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The single most important ingredient is shopping -- or sourcing. Finding really great quality... or unusual ... spices or condiments or whatever you want to put together. Eventually. So for me, I have a pantry of exotica... that I use to augment the freshest basic ingredients I can find.
You can't improvise if there are no ingredients to improvise from. And if the ingredients are second rate, the results show up on the plate.
You can have great technique, but if a box of instant oatmeal is all that's in your pantry, you're not making anything much more exotic or interesting than oatmeal.
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Fresh and high-quality ingredients. Even the simplest recipe or technique benefits and is enhanced by what you put in as much as what you do to it.
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