Have you ever mistakenly thrown out a cooking item?

[TastyReuben]

I was making stewed prunes earlier today, which always gets a little wedge of lemon tossed in. I grabbed a half-lemon from the fridge, sliced off a hunk, wrapped it back up and put it back in the fridge…

…or did I? About 20 minutes later, I was making salad dressing for later, needed a squeeze of lemon, went back to the fridge…no lemon!

Hmmmm…tore the fridge apart looking for it, then had an idea: “Did I?…Surely not!…”

Yep, I did. Opened the trash and there it was.

I remember another time when I threw a perfectly good vegetable peeler out with the peels!

How about you? Any moments like that in the kitchen?

 

[medtran49]

Early on, Craig threw away a whole bunch of my cake decorating tips because he didn't know what they were and thought they were junk. We had a talk about throwing other people's things away without speaking with them first.

 

[Barriehie]

Sometimes I'm wired backwards picking the meat off the bones. Bones are going in the meat pile and the meat is going in the bone pot... I don't throw much away so I don't have to fish things out of the trash often.

 

[TastyReuben]

Bones are going in the meat pile and the meat is going in the bone pot.

That’s a whole different thing, and I do that all the time. Same with breaking beans - I end up with two piles of half-beans half-ends.