Dish towels burn. It’s a good idea to remove them from the oven before you preheat.
I had quite the excitement this morning and all before I had my morning cup of brew. So if could have been worse. I could have burned down the whole damn house.
What happened was I had bread dough resting in a cold oven. I preheated the oven and turned to my attention to brewing my morning coffee. That’s when I smelled it. I had forgotten to remove the dough from the oven. I chronicle this mistake in hopes that I NEVER do it again.
I didn’t think to take photographs until after the fire was out (probably a good thing) and most of the evidence had been destroyed. The towel covering the bowl caught fire so I grabbed my tongs and deposited the burning pieces in the kitchen sink. This is what is left of my dish towel:
I doubt I can salvage the bowl. What you’re looking at is the burnt bowl with the dough that baked and some burnt towel hanging from the rim.
But I did manage to salvage enough dough for a biscuit sized baguette.
Voila. This is what all the excitement was about.
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Oh no! That’s just the kind of thing I might do. Great thing you were nearby to notice it in time!
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I am breathing a sigh of relief that I didn’t remember to turn the oven on BEFORE I walked the dog. That was my original plan. This is one piece of forgetfulness that I can celebrate.
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That is lucky. I guess the take home message is that sometimes a lot of forgetfulness can be better than a little forgetfulness.
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I can’t believe you had the poxy to keep on baking the bread. Good for you. I would have been so discombobulated that I would have thrown everything out.
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I caught myself just in time. The whole lot of it was seconds from the garbage bin when it occurred to me there might be a little something to salvage.
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I did this once, but was defrosting some meat that was still in the styrofoam and plastic container in cold oven and began to preheat for lunch. No fire but what a smell, could not salvage any of the meat. Here’s to the near misses of burning down the house!
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I hate the smell of styrofoam.
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