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Danger in the kitchen!
A couple years ago, I was searing some beef shanks for some osso bucco and put them in the oil in the wrong direction and got a hot oil spray in my face. This was about a month or so before my wedding. Luckily, everything healed nicely and I didn't have any scars.
Sunday Brunch: Thomas Keller's Quiche
I was just at Tartine this weekend and was surprised at how "fluffy" the quiche was. I think the "scrambled egg pie" characterization that BC makes is pretty accurate.
Not to take anything away from Tartine's "quiche," especially because it's excellent.
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Danger in the kitchen!
I have one kinda like kerosena's. I was about seven and my stepmomster asked me to bring in the five gallon jug of sun tea from the backyard. Umm, Yeah Right. I picked it up then promptly dropped it on on my foot. All I remember her doing is panicing and calling my dad at work. No band-aids or towels or even a hug. Five hours later at the emergency room and six stiches later. She wanted to know if I was okay. I still have a nasty fish hook shaped scar on my baby toe.
Danger in the kitchen!
Just the other day I was cutting up potatoes . . . let's just say I "missed" the potato and hit my thumb. Lovely little deep cut there now.
I cannot count the number of times I've burned myself w/ hot water. . . usually trying to make macaroni. You'd think I would learn!
Danger in the kitchen!
In college: a very very underripe, hard-as-rock avocado + a flimsy, bendy steak knife found in the dorm kitchen = a trip to the infirmary, and a lot of blood. Thankfully, my finger healed fully. It was the middle one, so I had a lot of fun showing off that wound!
Danger in the kitchen!
One winter I was flambeing a duck breast and wearing a cotton sweater. The sweater had a lot of little "hairs" sticking up. Somehow the "hairs" caught fire and the fire literally ran up my arms and around my back (my husband beat it out). I wasn't hurt and neither was the sweater (amazingly). But now I always roll up my sleeves!
Danger in the kitchen!
One winter I was flambeing a duck breast and wearing a cotton sweater. The sweater had a lot of little "hairs" sticking up. Somehow the "hairs" caught fire and the fire literally ran up my arms and around my back (my husband beat it out). I wasn't hurt and neither was the sweater (amazingly). But now I always roll up my sleeves!
Danger in the kitchen!
When we purchased our house about a year ago it came with an electric Frigidaire range that is now about 2 years old.....I have never had an oven that holds as much steam as this one!....I have to be very careful when I open the oven door as I have had a face full of steam more than once...not fun!
Danger in the kitchen!
spashed some boiling grease on my hands a number of years back. FG drove me to the ER, where i wouldn't stop screaming (i think i was more scared and embarrased than hurt) until they tranquelized me. it really wasn't fun. it was about five years until i'd sautee anything greasy after that.
these days it's mostly little cuts. i loves my sharps kniveses.
Danger in the kitchen!
awimmer, I too have small hands and the only pot holders I find comfortable to use are the Grabbitz (http://www.stevenslinen.com/grabbitz.html). I've found them in my local stores at times.
Danger in the kitchen!
the lesson - NEVER try to catch any falling knife or sharp utensil. Step away from the falling object, let it drop to the floor and pick it up later.
I totally forgot the lesson when I tried to catch in mid-air a falling mandoline... hey - they're big in comparison to the ittty bitty small blade, right? I sliced the whole tip of my little finger when the blade was falling. Not a nice sight when preparing dinner for 5 people. Ouch.
It's still healing but I think the triple antibiotic was key to leave as little a scar as possible.
Danger in the kitchen!
There are a few. The first that comes to mind was trying to slice a bagel with my best friend's new bread knife. As I was cutting, bagel balanced on edge, I thought to myself, "you know, this a bad idea. I could cut myself." I'll spare you the details, but suffice to say: knife -1, Jeni - 0.
I've broken several tempered glass pieces - once by cooking bacon on a glass plate (it shattered about a minute after the oven turned off; cooled too fast, I guess), once by adding water to a hot Pyrex baking dish (de-glazing doesn't work with Pyrex), once by trying to make soft mead in the microwave (I think there must have been a flaw in the bowl). These days, I'm a bit more careful with glass.
Also, cooking while topless is generally a bad idea.
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Favorite foods: Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles, Ad Hoc Fried Chicken, Orrechiette at Osteria Mozza, In-N-Out Burger, my wife's lemon pasta, my mom's leche flan, Beef Short Ribs (sous vide > braised), a proper Yorkshire pudding (i.e. NOT from HoPR in S.F.)
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