Kitchen

[Pezzie]

DH was doing the cooking last evening.  He is a very good cook and also very creative, so I am more than happy when he tells me he has something in mind for dinner.  That being said, he is also a very messy cook, and if I own 10 frying pans he will manage to use all of them, or 15 bowls.  Slight exaggeration, but you all now what I mean.  The deal is, he cooks I do the clean up.  Might have to renegotiate that deal! Lol

Last evening while gathering his things together for dinner prep, he knocked over an almost new bottle of olive oil in the pantry.

OMG! What a royal mess!  
Now hanging on a hook in the pantry is a canvas bag loaded with grocery store plastic bags, due to COVID and not being able to use my own.  So, DH is picking up the larger pieces of broken glass to throw away, and instead of grabbing one of the hundreds of grocery bags hanging right in front of him, he carries the broken pieces of glass to the kitchen trash.  You got it, dripping oil all the way!  I was pretty chill up to that point, but when I saw that dripping oil, lol, 🤬! 
Clean up took forever.    Don't want another mishap like this one. 
Anyone else have doozies like this?

[Mom2Dogs]

No story here, my husband's idea of cooking is eating out.  You're lucky, well except for the major clean up!

[AuntG]

Can picture the mess. I'm sure you forgave him. I've heard stories of Temp-tations bakeware breaking in half in the oven which would cause a burned on mess. I've already flipped a pizza on the floor.

[SandySparkles]

I have twice made the unfortunate mistake of accidentally starting my Kitchenaid on one of the higher speeds, sending flour all over the counter, floor, and ME! 😲

Normally, I use the pour shield, but did not these few times.  I am a neat and clean fanatic, even while I am cooking, so this did NOT set well with me. Needless to say, I now ALWAYS start it on low; regardless of the contents in the bowl-dirty lesson learned.😁

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[hopi]

****** happens. 

Your story makes me love your hubby.

He sounds amazing.

You should see the stupid stuff I do.

[Toppers3]

Hi @Pezzie ,

I don't have the strength in my hands like I used to, so the kind of mishaps that I tend to have involve things slipping out of my hands.

I tend to have spill mishaps, and the ones that really make me irritable especially involve carefully removing a pan from the oven, and then having some of the contents from the pan spill over onto the oven rack!

Ughh!!

I had a messy spill like that a few weeks ago, where I did have some foil lining the bottom rack, but the spill happened in the back of the oven anyway.

it wasn't too bad of a spill, but I was crabby about it anyway for awhile! LOL! 

[gizmogal]

Well, no husband making the mess, but entirely my own mishap. I was pulling cans of the small 7.5 oz Pepsi off a 6 pack held together by those plastic rings. The goal was to stock the 6 cans into the fridge to chill. I only allow myself the small size soda very occasionally, so 6 cans is a month or more of indulgence.

I started to tug off this one can and it must have stretched the plastic ring because two cans came loose, bobbled the one out of my hand and both cans fell on the kitchen floor. No luck that maybe they would merely dent. No, they EXPLODED the pull ring off of each, spraying warm Pepsi on the lower (under counter) cabinet doors, the floor, the front of the fridge. 

Major wet and sticky mess! Very.Bad.Language!!  
I dumped a giant wad of paper towels to soak it up and was clever enough to drag the kitchen pail close enough not to drip the sopping wads across the floor for disposal. When I was realistically ahead of the yuck, I grabbed the sponge mop and sponged up the remaining Pepsi puddle. Rinse, repeat. 

I thought a lot of water and some Fantastic spray would break down the sticky soda sugars and I would mop and wipe surfaces sufficiently. Uh, not really....

Bleccch, my shoes stuck to the floor making horrid splat noises with every step all over the kitchen. I wound up researching Google for floor washing treatments and techniques for sticky soda residue. The next morning I had to get to the supermarket to buy white vinegar, pine floor cleaner, and other "ingredients" to make a treatment-fresh water-treatment-fresh water mopping cycle to eliminate the residue. And I had to wash the entire floor, not just the "explosion zone", because some of the spray really sent a mist all over and my sticky sneakers did the rest. (Yes, cabinet doors, too)

Let's remember the insult to injury: I only got to put 4 cans in the fridge, since two of them were spilled. A lot less enjoyment of a soda treat compared to the huge nuisance of dedicated clean up.

 
There was no one to blame or resent but me, Madame Butterfingers. 

Bad news of living alone--no one to help clean up. 
Good news :  no one had to hear the full throated vocabulary of expletives immediately, and during the infernal cleanup. I did not mutter. 

[1Snickers]

@Pezzie  My husband was the cook! I cooked some but he 

cooked better, Southern cooking. 
  I had bought new dishes and he chipped one, without thinking I made a fuss. He put all those new dishes up higher and used the old.

  I told him I was sorry and put them back.

  His main fault was putting food on to cook and falling asleep. He did it with homemade chicken soup and got in his recliner. My son was small and came running in saying "smoke, fire!"
I removed the pot, ran outside with it yelling to DH smoke open the outside door. When I came back he was in his chair looking out the door but he hadn't opened the storm door. I did that and put a huge fan in to blow smoke outside.

  Then, he called the insurance to claim the drapery cleaning which caused the insurance to go up! 
 I had to watch him but he was a good cook!  He died 17 years ago and I really miss his cooking. I do frozen dinners.     
                   🧯🍵🥘🔥
  

[J Town Girl]

I'm usually pretty careful in the kitchen so I don't spill things and then have a mess to clean up.  

However a few weeks ago as I was getting ready to make some hummingbird nectar I had my water ready to boil and was crossing the kitchen with my measuring cup full of white sugar.   A truck made a loud sound outside and it startled me.  The cup flew out of my hand spreading sugar all over the kitchen floor.   

What a mess to clean up.  I had to move the stove to sweep up the sugar that went under it.  

My husband hearing me cursing at my own stupidity came into the kitchen.  He took one look at my face and decided that it would be better to just keep quiet and help me clean up the mess.  

The only good thing that came out of it was my kitchen floor really looked great by the time we were finished.  

[ECBG]

@Pezzie When the boys were in lower elementary school, he put dishwashing liquid like Joy, not dishWASHER soap in the dishwasher, started it, and took them two streets over to school.  He came back to get his computer stuff for work, and suds met him at the top of the basement steps!