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My Disaster

dulwich — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:52:56 GMT

In the high 90's here up early and decided to make a zucchini quiche to eat later either salad. Never made one before but neighbor gave me recipe whic uses Pillsbury crescent rolls - evidently 8 to a tube- which is the base for the quiche.

Ha Ha how the heck do you open these tubes? Used magnifying glass to read instructions - then called DH who followed directions and ended up with gooey mess all up his arm. Me laughing he looked like an experiment from space.

DH now en route to Safeways for another tube!

Any advice as I could not even pick out shape of one crescent roll just a long blob on DH arm.

Re: My Disaster

Noel7 — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:14:54 GMT

Hi @dulwich

DISREGARD MY FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS, THEY ARE OUTDATED

I haven't done one in awhile, but assuming it's the same... look closely at the blue wrapper around the cylinder. It should show it's twirled around.

Take the container and strike it sharp on the edge of something, like your sink. It should pop open. You will have to twist it a bit more to get the dough out.

It's a bit startling, at least for me, lol, but there you have it.

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Noel7 — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:03:24 GMT

Oh, then you gently take out the lump of dough. You kind of unroll it and should be able to see it's perforated a bit showing you the triangles to take from it if that's what you want.

I have seen recipes lately for people leaving it intact to line a pan for something like quiche.

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chickenbutt — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:04:02 GMT

Hey Noel! Unfortunately, they don't open like that anymore.

Also, I might add, they are much more difficult.

You DO pull off that strip, as best you can, anyway, so that you can expose the seam. Then you need to take a spoon and try to push it over one side of the seam to make it 'pop' open.

I learned that no amount of banging it on the corner of the counter would work anymore and one day I finally read the label and it explained this.

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itsmagic — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:08:13 GMT

I opened a tube of crescent rolls a couple days ago. I use the handle end of a piece of silverware and press down with it near the seam that goes around the tube until it pops open. Then finish twisting it open by hand.

Re: My Disaster

Noel7 — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:13:29 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
Hey Noel! Unfortunately, they don't open like that anymore.

Also, I might add, they are much more difficult.

You DO pull off that strip, as best you can, anyway, so that you can expose the seam. Then you need to take a spoon and try to push it over one side of the seam to make it 'pop' open.

I learned that no amount of banging it on the corner of the counter would work anymore and one day I finally read the label and it explained this.

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THEY DON'T?!

Well, @chickenbutt, it has been a long time since I made crescent rolls, LOL!

Thank you for updating me

Re: My Disaster

chickenbutt — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:14:04 GMT

I forgot to add something else about the 'new' biscuit things - if you have 22 years of arthritis under your belt, as I do, and find that pushing that utensil down on the can is rather difficult, you can take a small paring knife and poke a hole through the seam and that will make it 'pop' open, too.

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chickenbutt — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:15:45 GMT

Noel7 wrote:
chickenbutt wrote:
Hey Noel! Unfortunately, they don't open like that anymore.

Also, I might add, they are much more difficult.

You DO pull off that strip, as best you can, anyway, so that you can expose the seam. Then you need to take a spoon and try to push it over one side of the seam to make it 'pop' open.

I learned that no amount of banging it on the corner of the counter would work anymore and one day I finally read the label and it explained this.
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THEY DON'T?!

Well, @chickenbutt, it has been a long time since I made crescent rolls, LOL!

Thank you for updating me

Yeah, I don't even know WHEN they changed that but I remember getting one and trying like heck to bang that thing on the corner to get it open and wondering why it wouldn't. Then I'd make sure I was hitting it right where the center of the seam was and - nope, no go. Color me puzzled.

I finally ended up just trying to rip it open with a knife and my hands. It was probably a few times down the road before I actually read the new directions (color me, now, embarrassed!). hehe

Re: My Disaster

Noel7 — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:20:44 GMT

@chickenbutt

It sounds as if it was easier just to smack it on the sink.

I must say, I've seen a lot of interesting ideas on things you can do with crescent rolls, though. One is just as simple as putting sugar and cinnamon on them before you roll them up, others use chocolate chips and mini marshmallows.

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DoneTryin — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:23:06 GMT

Aren't those the kind that David calls "whampum biscuits" because you have to whamp them on the side to break open? Sometimes I can get the package open that way, but usually wind up pressing the back of a spoon against the line. Then I'm always surprised when I get a mini-explosion. HA!

Re: My Disaster

chickenbutt — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:22:33 GMT

Noel7 wrote:
@chickenbutt

It sounds as if it was easier just to smack it on the sink.

I must say, I've seen a lot of interesting ideas on things you can do with crescent rolls, though. One is just as simple as putting sugar and cinnamon on them before you roll them up, others use chocolate chips and mini marshmallows.

That's the thing! Nothing was wrong, to my knowledge, with the way it was all those years. Pull off the strip, one hit on the corner of the counter/sink, and VOILA! It's popped open.

It was kind of a (frustrating) comedy of errors when I hadn't realized it changed and kept banging the darn thing on the corner of my counter. Laughing now, thinking about it.

But, IMO, this is one of those things that was not broken, so no need to 'fix' it!

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Moonchilde — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:26:25 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
Hey Noel! Unfortunately, they don't open like that anymore.

Also, I might add, they are much more difficult.

You DO pull off that strip, as best you can, anyway, so that you can expose the seam. Then you need to take a spoon and try to push it over one side of the seam to make it 'pop' open.

I learned that no amount of banging it on the corner of the counter would work anymore and one day I finally read the label and it explained this.

I learned this after several WT_ attempts on a couple of packages. When you used to be able to bang them on the counter they were easy to open. Now with the spoon it's the devil to get them to open. I usually give up and take a sharp object to the cardboard - way sharper than a spoon 😏

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chickenbutt — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:27:41 GMT

As to what you can do with crescent rolls - (sorry, I got interrupted a few minutes ago) - The thing when I was young was to take hot dogs (they gross me out now, but this was decades ago!) and put a slice down them but not totally in half. Then take some pieces of cheese and slide into the slit.

Then you open up the crescent rolls and break them apart and roll each one out just a little bit, wrap the hot dog into the crescent roll and put them on a baking pan. Then bake them for however long it took and you'd have a - oh, I forgot what they call that sort of thing. D'oh!

Anyway, for the time it was good.

Oh! pig in a blanket

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RetRN — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:28:12 GMT

Inch by inch, life's a cinch;

yard by yard, life is hard.

Everytime I try to open one of those tubes I have a mess.

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chickenbutt — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:34:23 GMT

Ok, get this - I have a can of Pillsbury (some kind of large, buttery or something) biscuits in my refrigerator I purchased this week because biscuits and sausage sounded good.

Anyway, I pulled that out to read the directions and see if it was described any better and I'll be darned if there are NOT directions as to how to open it.

I know they had changed the directions at some point, or I would not have known that. But now, nothing - just how to cook them and how to make them taller or something (? by crowding them I guess - I didn't read it).

If somebody had never purchased that type of product before, I wonder how they would figure out how to open it.

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chickenbutt — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:36:46 GMT

Oh, never mind. It's in very small writing on that corner of the paper you need to tear off to expose the seam. D'oh!

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Kachina624 — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:00:37 GMT

....Or add about 2/3 cup of Bisquick to your egg/milk mixture and it'll form its own crust.

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dulwich — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:12:06 GMT

Thank you all for your kind replies glad I am not alone with this how to open item.

DH returned with new tube - proceeded to get his small saw drilled the top off then unrolled the new "blob"

I think it is easier to use pastry case or make my own.

thank you all.

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Toppers — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:02:15 GMT

@dulwich wrote:
In the high 90's here up early and decided to make a zucchini quiche to eat later either salad. Never made one before but neighbor gave me recipe whic uses Pillsbury crescent rolls - evidently 8 to a tube- which is the base for the quiche.
Ha Ha how the heck do you open these tubes? Used magnifying glass to read instructions - then called DH who followed directions and ended up with gooey mess all up his arm. Me laughing he looked like an experiment from space.

DH now en route to Safeways for another tube!

Any advice as I could not even pick out shape of one crescent roll just a long blob on DH arm.

I understand how he feels, @dulwich!

I think that these tubes are difficult to open now, especially if you have any problems with your hands, like arthritis or any other type of health problems with them.

I often have difficulty trying to open the tubes, and I often have to call my DH to come over and help me open the tubes, sometimes. It is so frustrating.

Sometimes by the time that you do finally get the tube open, the dough is in one large, gooey mess, as you have found out, and then you find yourself trying to separate it out into its recommended pieces.

I have done as chickenbutt has recommended, and that is to take a piece of cutlery and then just push it into the seam to pop it open, if I am able to do it myself.

Banging the tube on the edge of a counter doesn't work for me anymore, like it used to do.

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Toppers — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:10:17 GMT

@Noel7 wrote:
@chickenbutt

It sounds as if it was easier just to smack it on the sink.

I must say, I've seen a lot of interesting ideas on things you can do with crescent rolls, though. One is just as simple as putting sugar and cinnamon on them before you roll them up, others use chocolate chips and mini marshmallows.

Hi @Noel7!

There are some really yummy recipes out there-I think-for things that you can make with either cresent rolls or biscuits that come in a can, too.

I have made taco-type casseroles, and a struedel-type meat recipe with them. Pocket-type sandwiches, too.

Years ago, I used to like using those Pillsbury recipe booklets that you could buy at the check-out line in the supermarket. They had some good recipes in them for using the pre-made doughs.