It’s up to you to choose – A friendly bet
One of the advantages to having a blog is the ability to reach a number of people quickly. So, I’m hoping you can help settle a friendly bet hubby and I have going on.
A number of years ago, soon after I got married, I made a cooking mistake. Hubby has made a few jokes about it and used it to share it with a few family members to describe how my cooking skills were in the beginning. Yesterday, hubby made a cooking mistake too. In jest, I laughed and said that he can’t tell my cooking story any more because his mistake was worse.
He still thinks my story is the funnier one. He even challenged me to let my “bloggy friends decide”.
So here are both stories and you can vote at the end. I left out who did what (per his request) so as not to influence the voting. I think he’s paranoid.
Burned Beef Stew:
While cooking beef stew, cook no. 1 got side tracked and forgot the stew was on. It cooked through all the liquid and by the time cook no. 1 realized what had happened, the pot and meal were completely burned and the smoke set off the fire alarm. First the cook removed it from the stove and placed it on a place mat on the counter. It was so hot, it burned through the place mat. Then the cook placed it out on the patio and the heat burned a circular ring on the deck.
The burned Pop Tart
In a rush to get to work, cook no. 2 decided to make a Pop Tart. Thinking the microwave would be faster, cook no. 2 put it into the microwave and read the instructions, 30 seconds. Before the 30 seconds were up, smoke started escaping from the microwave. Upon opening the microwave door, cook no. 2 realized that the Pop Tart was no longer a Pop Tart but a lump of coal. Re-reading the box, cook no. 2 realized that the instructions did not say 30 seconds, but 3 seconds.
Honestly? My vote is for the beef stew. The pop tart thing, while embarrassing is a mistake I think many people make. (I mean seriously, what needs microwaved for 3 seconds? I’ve never seen anything less than 30 I don’t think.)
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My opinion is – You did a complex thing that required many many steps… with the chance of mistakes along the way. Making a beef stew compared to making pop tart is sort of like screwing up a one-step thing as opposed to screwing up a multi-step thing…
Sort of like apples and oranges – or more like peeling an orange as opposed to baking an apple pie. Not the same.
Maybe suggest he make a stew and you do the pop tart thing and see how it goes before you decide…
Tracy
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Very hard to decide.But I think the beef stew.I can picture the smoke and the alarm ringing.And all the panic.
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Oh, the beef stew for sure. Sounds like a giant mess! I have an award for you on my blog!
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I voted for the pop tart and I am clarifying that while the beef stew is probably a funnier story to tell, the pop tart is the bigger mistake because it’s pretty easy to cook a pop tart (sorry if that one was yours.) The beef stew I can sympathize with because it’s more complex to cook and has more room for error. Plus, I need to set a timer for everything that I make that needs to cook for some time because it’s easy to get side tracked. I set my timer so that the smoke detector doesn’t have to be my reminder that something is cooking.
Anyway, you did a great job of telling about both. They both made me chuckle.
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Ok, I voted but I think you both have no business being in the kitchen!
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This was so funny I had to post to Twitter about it! LOL
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They were both hilarious!!! it was hard to choose. I am totally 50/50. But the pop tart did make me laugh out loud. Mostly because I have done the whole “reading the directions wrong” on MORE than one occasion.
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I voted for the beef stew because I have been there and done that! I’m not sure that the pop tart actually qualifies as cooking…lol
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~LaShan~
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I found the whole beef stew thing funnier because of the things which happened after that; the burned through place mat and the circular ring on the desk. On the other hand, the Pop Tart seemed much more dangerous stunt than funny. Glad no one was hurt in any of the process.
I laughed at both stories, but I voted for the beef stew because it sounded like a scene from a movie: the fire alarm going off, burning one ring on a placemat and another ring on the deck. You guys should have a comedy show
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I am going to have to go with number 2. Of course this is coming from a girl who tried to cook a No-Bake and forgot to add water to ramen.
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