May 14, 2017 - 12:14am
Bread related fails
Ever spent 24 hours nursing a loaf into being, then opened the oven to give a second spritz of water for steam... Then realised it's kitchen cleaning spray in your hand!
The "NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" could be heard across the county, along with a few expletives.
Ruined the loaf, probably ruined my baking stone, and definitely ruined my peace of mind.
Let's hear yours, cheer me up a bit.
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Just a bit more like a store bought loaf now ! Nice one although picking up a 500 degree stone with bare hands is a close second to that disaster ;)
Sounds pretty painful!
...the preheated lid of a clay baker with bare hands? No sir, didn't like it.
That is painful. Done it with a wire rack.
fresh out of the oven at Xmas dinner (Ever try eating and serving 10+ people with your left hand when you are right handed? Right hand was attached to an ice pack.), the other disaster was making roasted butternut squash soup the day before a family dinner, and having it go sour because I threw in fresh sage leaves just before putting the soup in the fridge. (Holy run on sentence!) I had forgotten to put the sage in and thought no big deal! Well it was a big deal the next day when I was reheating the soup and it was inedible. Thank goodness for soup in tetra packs! Only time I have ever served a soup I didn't make myself.
ETA: Oops, the above isn't bread related. Hummm bread related... Oh yeah. Raisin water leavened breads=bricks! Can't make those!
kitchen chemicals are all in a futzy-to-get-in-to container in an awkward spot in my pantry --- I have a long history of grabbing and using the wrong thing at the wrong time, so set that up years ago and haven't yet (fingers crossed!) sprayed the wrong thing on one of my loaves!
My only bread-related issues have been:
Learning that the lights in my oven go way hotter than "proofing" temps (my attempted cinnamon rolls became "butter puddle buns" as named by dabrownman)
Sending a proofed loaf for a short flying lesson (it failed - miserably) when I was trying to transfer it to the pre-heated roaster with the roaster still on the pulled out rack of the oven and hit the back of my wrist on the edge of the hot oven. Apparently it was the "send whatever you are holding flinging off in to space" nerve that I hit. Not a total disaster, fortunately, since the loaf was happily stuck to the parchment paper and it actually landed paper side down so it got baked without further incident (and came out edible).
Not a disaster, but severely annoying to discover that the floured plastic wrap that I have used successfully many times when proofing loaves much prefers to stick completely to each and every one of the rolls that I had nursed and sweated and babied in to tentative existence over a couple of days (I swear that the lean sourdough roll gods have it in for me...)
I have a history of kitchen "issues", such as the knife unexpectedly popping out of the other side of the spaghetti squash and requiring 5 stitches and a tetanus shot for the finger that stopped it, and the forgetting that I'd put the massive stew pot (with 20 servings of beef stew) on the stone tiles to cool before refrigerating (so it basically sat at room temp overnight and had to be thrown out), and ... well, you get the picture. Let's just say that the first aid kit in the pantry isn't for show...
Sending you all good thoughts that the kitchen demons have taken their dues, and that your bread baking will be incident free from now on!