My Disaster

dulwich · ‎01-18-2012

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.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

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DISREGARD MY FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS, THEY ARE OUTDATED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.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

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.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

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.

itsmagic · ‎08-08-2011

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.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@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

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

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.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

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

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@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.

DoneTryin · ‎03-09-2010

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!