Jan 9, 2023
Have you or any of your characters experienced cooking disasters?
I can imagine the scene. Harmony Duprie is in the middle of making her almost-world famous spaghetti when Eli calls. She stirs the sauce as they discuss their days, when he mentions changes the Mouse House is making to one of their oldest rides. She rushes to her computer to look up the history of the ride and then transitions to looking for information on the oldest ride still operating in the United States. The sauce, simmering on the stove, is forgotten. They move on to other topics—perhaps his next planned visit—and by the time she drags herself back to the real world, the sauce has scorched.
It didn’t happen—at least, I never wrote that scene. So, maybe it did happen and Harmony never told me about it. She knows how to keep secrets.
I’ve had a few cooking disasters in my personal life, but I blame them on inferior cookstoves. It’s hard to get a sheet of cookies done right when the front of the stove cooks slower than the back. I’m grateful our new place has a gas stove, and it cooks evenly. It’s also nice to have instant on and off on the burners, and I can control the temperature. The words I use to describe electric stoves run on the impolite side.
What’s the worst cooking disaster I’ve ever had? I burnt a pot of beans once. I had the burner a touch too high, and the liquid boiled off. Talk about smelly! (I think I was on the couch, reading, and not paying attention.) The beans were ruined, and supper plans changed that night, but at least I rescued it before it set off the smoke alarm.
How about you? What’s your worst cooking story? And to find out what disasters our other writers have written about, check out the links below.
As always, until next time, please stay safe.
Jan 9, 2023
Have you or any of your characters experienced cooking disasters?
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I’ve been distracted whilst cooking so many times, in the end I decided to use my experiences as part of a new character’s personality.
May the cooking disasters migrate to your character and leave you alone!
I long for a gas stove. To put one in requires punching through a 2 foot thick stone wall – so I’m stuck with an electric. Glad the smoke detector didn’t go off.
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The last house I was in, the smoke detector was so touchy it would go off if the spaghetti boiled over. I got real good at opening windows and waving a kitchen towel at it to get it to stop screaming.
Cooking while distracted can definitely be a problem! @samanthabwriter from
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