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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: nola276 on December 12, 2011, 01:28:28 am
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Went to my fridge this morning to get out the bread flour. Standing next to it was a brand new bottle of Sundried Tomatoes in oil, which just happened to jump off the shelf and onto the floor all by itself.
What a mess, glass, tomatoes and lots of goopy oil spread everywhere. Where to start ???. Goose walked out to the laundry and removed my very oily Crocs, straight into a sink of hot water. Then back into the house via the back door, to go into the bedroom, to get another pair of clean Crocs, so that I could start cleaning floors. Used a 1/2 roll paper towels, very carefully, so as not to get glass shards in the hand. Picked up all the bits I could find, and the tomatoes, and put them into a supermarket plastic bag, and continued wiping.
Yep, there had to be a hole in the bag, Murphy's Law. So cleaned the worst of that up again. Thank heavens I have a container of rather toxic but very effective on grease, cleaner and sprayed it on as the floor was really slippery.
Finally got my bread made (don't know how it will turn out) and made breakfast for myself. Poured milk over my toasted muesli, picked up the bowl and managed to throw half of that on the kitchen floor as well.
I think I should go back to bed.
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some days we are better off just staying in bed. :( :(
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Oy, what a mess that must have been.
For future reference, I keep a large supply of corn starch (I think you call it maize corn flower) on hand. Sprinkled on spilled oil, it will absorb a lot of it and make the cleanup easier.
I drop handfuls on spilled oil on my tile floor and then I can scrape up most of the mess with a dustpan. If you get oil on carpet, deposit a small pile of corn starch on it and allow it to set for an hour or so then vacuum it up.
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Wow, I wish I had posted this earlier, thank you Andie ;)
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Nola, I sympathise totally. What a morning.
Andie, thanks for the tip, I'm sure it is one that we will all need to use at some stage.
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Oh Nola, what a morning. Funny how things just pop out of a cupboard or fridge without human interference ;)
You can probably laugh at it now (as we did, sorry) but at the time it would have been very unfunny. I hope the rest of your day is much better :-*
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Oh dear Nola, I often have those mornings (sometimes days as it goes on all day). I hope your day improves.
I find the jars get very slippery from the oil and was wondering if anyone else has the same problem or a solution.
DG xxx
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Yes, I am laughing now, it was my own silly faulty. But as for the day getting better, my bread rolls are heavy, so not a good start. I did think the dough was a bit firm. Maybe I should have let them rise for longer. Never mind, Another day, another recipe :-))
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Nola it's overcast and going to storm so I'd go back to bed if I were you. ;)
I accidently knocked over a bottle of port I had bought at Curtin Springs just east of Ayers Rock on our trip. It was called '&**% Good Port'. I hadn't opened it. When it broke it went under everything on the floor in the pantry. Ugh.
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Oh no, and you couldn't even lick it up ;D
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Cookie, we've had that port before - don't worry, you're not missing anything!
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Thanks Marina. I didn't really think I was. We bought it for the name and had planned to sit around a campfire and drink it. (all 3 bottles - I hope not) The friends with us still have theirs so if I want to I can taste theirs.
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Haha thanks for giving me a laugh Nola! ;D ;D ;D We had a bit of a mishap this morning too, but with honey! Somebody hadn't put the lid on properly( nobody owned up) and all over the counter top, chair, 7 year olds pj's and legs and floor! I said, don't you dare move and stripped him down. Amazing where you find it after you think you've cleaned it up isn't it???
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;D ;D ;D :) :)
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You poor thing - what a start to the morning. Andie thanks for the tip.
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Must be the week for it. Yesterday I dropped a whole jar of crushed ginger on the floor. We have tiles so it smashed and went everywhere.
I also cracked a wine glass as I put it in the dishwasher. :(
I stayed out of the kitchen today and played in the Skinflint workshop. I made lots of gorgeous smelling soy candles and 4 kg of Body Butter.
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Oh Meganjane, I really should stay out of the kitchen tomorrow, but have to try to right the wrong done to the buns today. ;D
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oh NOLA, it must be the silly season.
I reached up to grab my TC recipe book from the shelf and knocked down a jar of Khorasan flour.
I managed to catch the jar between the cupboard and my arm before it hit the floor. :D
But the jar was upside down, and being a recycled Moccona Coffee jar of course the lid came off. (I can never get the lids off when I want to :-))
So I was standing there with recipe book in one hand and flour glugging out of the jar all over me and the kitchen floor yelling HELP.
DH arrived looking a bit frazzled, Usually calls for help mean something bad around this place.
Seeing me covered in flour bought forth laughs and eventually help.. :o
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OMG I can just picture it. Imagine all this being brought on by a recipe book that isn't ;D
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OMG I can just picture it. Imagine all this being brought on by a recipe book that isn't ;D
LOL. That is about right. I keep picking it up and hoping that a good fairy will have flown by and posted some actual recipes into the folder.
So far no luck there.
Thank heavens for this forum. It is a real godsend.
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Oh dear,
I have these kind of days way toooooo regularly for my liking.
Sometimes I think my boys actually set me up, naughty monkey boys.
Things move all the time, i go to grab simething in a tupperware container & as if by magic its been turned into some type of glass object, those naughty naughty little gremlins.
The frdige is my bug bear, all glass has to be at the back, but no these rules do not apply to my monkeys, vegemite always at the front just waiting to fall out.... I am sure they do it to annoy me....no typical males DONT THINK
Tomorow is a fresh start
H :)
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We keep cat litter at work to absorb nasty spills, probably would work well at home in case of floods of oil and port!
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Oh dear Nola, sorry about your morning. Oil IS indeed awful stuff to clean up. Sorry about your bread too, the last thing you needed :'(
JB
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Ohhhh that sounds awful to clean up Nola ! Hally I also have a no glass jars at the front policy for the fridge and the pantry !!! Prevents many a mishap with 3 mischievous boys !!
I think this is definately the week for it ! My 3 monsters boys snuck downstairs this morning without us knowing (we were still asleep) and made themselves milo. hmmmmm sounds simple enough, right ? wrong !!! Milo all over the kitchen and they even got the chocolate sprinkly thing we use for capuccinos and put that on top and somehow also filled that with milk. How many spoons of milo can you fit in a small cup ?? mmmm about 10 by the looks of it !!!!
Master 7 and master almost 5 both blamed master just 3yo. ONLY PROBLEM WAS THEIR FACES WERE COVERED IN CHOCOLATE !!!!
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Oh yes Debbiebillig,
That milo can sure travel far........ It even appears in our bed.LOL
Gotta love those monkeys, well most of the time.
Dont get it DH doesnt understand that glass at the back of the fridge is the ony place to put it.
H :)
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Yessss Hally, I know where you're coming from. My DH doesn't get it either and it always seems to be when he's left something where it shouldn't be and is at work or out and a spill happens of his making and I have to clean up the mess with littlies around !!! I curse him something shocking !!
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The cat litter is an excellent tip if you can have it in the house. Unfortunately I seem to be allergic to one of the components in most cat litters but I do keep a bag in the garage to clean up grease and oil from the yard and garden equipment. I let the yard help use it as even a mask doesn't seem to work for me.
Having been a baker for most of my life, I know all about spilling flour. I have one of the industrial-sized dustpans for the kitchen and use a short, stiff broom to sweep it up. I NEVER use a vacuum!
Many years ago, when I lived down below, a neighbor spilled a 5-pound bag of flour and tried to vacuum it up. Flour in quantity that becomes airborne in a confined space can spark and explode - often happens in big grain elevators but can also happen inside a vacuum.
She said the vacuum made an ooomph sound, started burning and as she was dragging it outside, she was burned on her legs and arms. Fortunately nothing else caught fire.
A little flour is not a problem my Roomba has no problem picking up small amounts, it is only when it is in a good-sized clump.
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"Flour in quantity that becomes airborne in a confined space can spark and explode - often happens in big grain elevators but can also happen inside a vacuum."
Andie I never would have thought about that, great tip.
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Andie, thanks for that tip.
Sorry to hear about the misfortunes girls. But after a fairly difficult morning here, your stories have done much to lighten my mood. So thanks for sharing your dramas!
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Oh girls I fully understand your fridge dilemnas. I have a rule where glass jars only go on the door. It is a good rule and works well.
My most annoying thing is that DS7 always leaves drinks near the edge of the table. I have knocked a few over and no matter how many times I tell him, he doesn't seem to take note. He always gets a drink and leaves the juice container out too. SO frustrating. >:(
The worst 2 things I can remember was when he was young he crushed a whole packet of weetbix on the carpet and also emptied a whole container of undilluted cordial on the kitchen floor. I was mopping for weeks and it always felt sticky. Lucky the new kitchen was coming soon and the new floor too :)
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Dissygirl, I think your mess was a lot worse than mine, which at least was on tiles. :o