skiing, cooking and what could it hurt??

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wcwbf

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talking to a good friend recently and invariably a story comes up about him when a bunch of us were in VT or was that NH skiing... many years ago. when it came to eating, over our week stay, we'd cook 3-4 BIG meals... or at least big entrees. somebody might make a big pot of meatballs & sauce. another person might make a pot of chili. this friend i was talking with decided he would make a turkey! perfect choice. he shooed all of us out of the kitchen... he needed NONE of us.

bird went into hot-ish oven (like 450) for 30-45 minutes. then we tightly covered and turned heat down to about 275! then off to the slopes... hey, it wasn't our house after all!:sneaky:

i was the first to start running out of gas. the aroma when i opened the door was amazing! i couldn't resist, so peeked! i noticed an odd "bulge" in the neck end?! you guessed it... the gourmet chef forgot about the "gizmos". they were cooked to death in that "paper" stuff... not plastic. one of the party had to be convinced we were all not going to DIE!!

obviously those bits should have been removed before roasting, but what could it really hurt? nothing.

i just put the easiest Sunday (thru maybe Tuesday or Wednesday) dinner into the oven... a nice chicken. it had NO goodies in the cavity at all?

now you wouldn't want to discover this around your dining-room while trying to impress an important client, but under normal circumstances would this be a problem for you? have you ever done this? have you done something even worse?
 
I would never go off and leave something cooking, not even when I was young. It's a Murphy's Law scenerio. I'd be afraid it would burn down the house. I even turn off simmering spaghetti sauce if I'm going to be outside for a short time. But when my oven was going on the blink, and I didn't know it, my cake came out really weird. I've mentioned that on this site before, so I won't repeat the story. But it boiled over.
 
wcwbf said:
talking to a good friend recently and invariably a story comes up about him when a bunch of us were in VT or was that NH skiing... many years ago. when it came to eating, over our week stay, we'd cook 3-4 BIG meals... or at least big entrees. somebody might make a big pot of meatballs & sauce. another person might make a pot of chili. this friend i was talking with decided he would make a turkey! perfect choice. he shooed all of us out of the kitchen... he needed NONE of us.

bird went into hot-ish oven (like 450) for 30-45 minutes. then we tightly covered and turned heat down to about 275! then off to the slopes... hey, it wasn't our house after all!:sneaky:

i was the first to start running out of gas. the aroma when i opened the door was amazing! i couldn't resist, so peeked! i noticed an odd "bulge" in the neck end?! you guessed it... the gourmet chef forgot about the "gizmos". they were cooked to death in that "paper" stuff... not plastic. one of the party had to be convinced we were all not going to DIE!!

obviously those bits should have been removed before roasting, but what could it really hurt? nothing.

i just put the easiest Sunday (thru maybe Tuesday or Wednesday) dinner into the oven... a nice chicken. it had NO goodies in the cavity at all?

now you wouldn't want to discover this around your dining-room while trying to impress an important client, but under normal circumstances would this be a problem for you? have you ever done this? have you done something even worse?
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It couldn't hurt anything. Cute story.
What fun you all must have had!
 
The oven can be set to start cooking while you’re away from home, so I do that. Not quite the same for chicken or turkey or anything uncovered. They can splatter.

I don’t leave anything cooking on the stove while I’m outside. It may run out of water or become too hot.
 
Wife left a pot of sauce on low heat while she ran over to the neighbors for something. Well, there was a small crack in the gas line and when the lp rose high enough... POOF. the end of Kitchen, living room, back porch, and water or smoke or both to the rest of the house. Total loss. :(
Just glad she wasn't inside when the explosion came. :love: Houses can be replaced.


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