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.

 

[Z-Cook]

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?

Been there done that quite a few times!
Found a large serving spoon I use a lot buried in the compost late last year - couldn't figure for ages where it went!

 

[badjak]

Oh yes, plenty of those.
And things you were sure you had and then halfway through cooking you realise you actually don't.
Problem of living alone is that I can't blame any one else

Or things you bought, temporarily put down as you quickly need to do something else, and then forget about
I needed to fill up my rice jar, grabbed the rice from it's hiding place and found a bag of AP flour. And just the day before I asked someone to get me some as I had totally run out.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

I've done the one everone has, I made a chicken stock from the bones and trimmings Then sieved out the finished sauce to be left holding a collander of scraps whilst watching the rich, flavoursome juice circling the sink drain.

We are always chucking away teaspoons too.

 

[Morning Glory]

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.

What does breaking beans mean?

 

[vernplum]

Well there was the time I threw away my stock that I'd been boiling for two hours and kept what remained of the bones...

 

[TastyReuben]

Then sieved out the finished sauce to be left holding a collander of scraps whilst watching the rich, flavoursome juice circling the sink drain.

I’ve done sort of the same, but the opposite (huh?) - I needed to keep the pasta water after boiling some pasta, so I emptied it in a big strainer set over a mixing bowl, shook it good and dry, and without thinking about it, turned right around and dumped it in the bin.

 

[TastyReuben]

What does breaking beans mean?

Aka snapping beans…stringing beans…where you snap the ends off green beans to remove any strings, and if the remaining green bean is long enough (and they usually are, depending on the variety), it gets broken or snapped into more manageable pieces.

Childhood ritual for me. I can still hear the snap all of us kids sitting on the back porch, each with a pile of beans, breaking beans, helping Mom during canning season, like tiny little firecrackers.

 

[Barriehie]

Aka snapping beans…stringing beans…where you snap the ends off green beans to remove any strings, and if the remaining green bean is long enough (and they usually are, depending on the variety), it gets broken or snapped into more manageable pieces.

Childhood ritual for me. I can still hear the snap all of us kids sitting on the back porch, each with a pile of beans, breaking beans, helping Mom during canning season, like tiny little firecrackers.

For us it was peeling and coring peaches, by the pickup truck load. I detested that until opening the jar of peaches in January.

 

[badjak]

Aka snapping beans…stringing beans…where you snap the ends off green beans to remove any strings, and if the remaining green bean is long enough (and they usually are, depending on the variety), it gets broken or snapped into more manageable pieces.

Childhood ritual for me. I can still hear the snap all of us kids sitting on the back porch, each with a pile of beans, breaking beans, helping Mom during canning season, like tiny little firecrackers.

Yep, we did that

 

[medtran49]

Childhood ritual for me. I can still hear the snap all of us kids sitting on the back porch, each with a pile of beans, breaking beans, helping Mom during canning season, like tiny little firecrackers.

That was my job too, not canning, but every holiday with family, whether at home or at theirs, since green beans were 1 of the things my mother always made.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I don't know how many vegetable peelers I've accidently dumped in the rubbish bin, along with teaspoons and forks.