Name One Thing That Made You Think..now I Feel Really Stupid
Decorating By Lazy_Susan Updated 17 Apr 2006 , 12:57pm by bonniebakes
Ok... I'll start because what I did made me think of this thread LOL
I was cleaning up my dishes after decorating a cake and I poured some left over egg whites down the garbage disposal. I knew that there was a piece of egg shell in it but thought nothing of it. Well, when I turned on the garbage disposal I heard a nasty crunch and grind. I thought to myself "Wow... eggshells are tough on the garbage disposal" so I turned it off to try again later to get it to go down. I finished up my dishes and accidently dropped a coupler in the sink. I caught it before it went down the garbage disposal but I wasn't sure if anything did go down it. Now I know you aren't supposed to do this but... I put my hand in the garbage disposal and felt around. I found a number 3 piping tip!!!!! LOL It was in there all along and boy was it really munched up. It wasn't the eggshell making the noise, it was the piping tip!!! LOL And here I was trying to continue crunching it until it went down. Boy did I feel really stupid!!! LOL
Lazy_Susan
I do stupid stuff all the time. Non cake related: Just the other day I rub toothpaste in my hair instead of gel...what a mess
Cake related: Used flour instead of powdered sugar for my frosting..hubby cleaned the kitchen and rearrange my canisters and I grabbed the wrong thing.
Toothpaste in my hair was far the worse 
lol just the other day when i was making my first cookies, (FIRST TIME DECORATING ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!) i was mixing up royal icing in the sunbeam thingy, and without even thinkin, while the SB was on full blast, i stuck a butter knife in the beaters...... it HURT considering i was STILL holding the stupid thing, and icing went all over the place... so... i have NO idea wat i was doing.. oh well ... lol... my bf heard me laughing and wanted to no wat was funny, and so i told him, yea, and felt stupid
Do I only get one stupid thing? I have many more!
Well, yesterday I was bending around the corner of my queenslander home (made of solid hardwood) when I heard my toddlers up to mischief, and CRACK goes my nose, I am sure that I have broken it, but my dh tells me not to worry! Really... Men, I mean I know that he is more of a leg man, but I don't want a crooked nose for the rest of my life!
Then this morning, I transport my tragedy of a easter basket cake( you may have read the post- the saga of the collapsing handle) and in my rush think to myself, I had better press my foot down onto the cakeboard next to my feet in the car to ensure that it doesn't slide as we drive, and by the time we get 10 mins away to the park, the cake has huge cracks at the base where the fondant has pulled away from the cakeboard! I know it was only for family but I am a perfectionist and I was sooo devastated! Oh well, it is now nighttime and I have had 2 wines, so my perspective is very different!! 
How about the time I realized the reason my icing was lump watery sludge was that I wasn't adding shortening to an icing mix. I just dumped the water in there and started mixing. (I was 18, I'd never made any sort of frosting from scratch.) I thought everything you needed was already in the mix. ALWAYS READ DIRECTIONS.
and this isn't cake related, but when I was 14 I met my husband at a BBQ. His aunt and uncle were friends with my parents. I walk into his aunt and uncle's house and see some teachers from my school. Being the overdramatic teenager that I was, I sigh heavily as I walk into the rec room where all of the kids are hanging out lamenting my bad luck at having to see my "mean 7th grade English teacher" and my "goofy sixth grade social studies teacher" on a weekend.
Future DH turns around and says, "The mean 7th grade English teacher is my aunt and the goofy sixth grade social studies teacher is my dad!"
GAH!!
A few months later, when he agreed to talk to me again, we started dating. We dated for seven years, have been married for six. At least he knew what he was getting into from the start!
And I know realize the English teacher was "mean" because I was a lazy student. My FIL is still a goofball, but a very lovable goofball.
I make a lot of goofs, but my "best" one is disgusting and I won't share it here. I'll tell on my best girlfriend. She canNOT cook but she keeps trying.
Our first Thanksgiving together, she wanted to make the pies. Fine. Except she didn't have regular pie tins and used those aluminum foil ones. Carrying them from the kitchen to the dining room, she only supported them from the bottom. Pumpkin pie flling is HEAVY y'all....the weight of the filling collapsed the sides of the pans, and they dumped on the floor! Next year, she was determined to redeem herself...wanted to make the pies again. This time she used real pans. But forgot to put the sugar in them!!!!! We were hosting a bunch of sailors who coudn't go home for the holiday. Bless their hearts...they just left dishes of pie with one bite taken out of it and didn't say a word!
Then, shortly after that, she wanted my help making her deceased mother's famous candy. She'd tried and tried, but it wouldn't come out right. Would I watch? Sure...no problem. So, it said to boil to hard ball stage, remove from heat, yadda, yadda, yadda. So, she brings it to a boil and removes it from the heat. WOAH!!!! It's not hard ball stage! Not even close. "I didn't know what that meant, so I just skipped that part."
She has a really good heart. 
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I have a friend who hates to follow instructions and thinks she can create her own baking shortcuts, but she really doesn't bake/cook enough to pull it off. I gave easy instructions to make Baklava - if you've ever made it, it's pretty much fool proof. Layer phyllo pastry with melted butter and nuts/sugar in between, score, and bake. Let it cool and drizzle with light sugar/honey syrup. Easy, right?
Her short cuts? Layer phyllo and nuts, don't bother scoring, dump a full jar of honey over top and THEN bake. Hilarious!! She got a rock-hard candied mess that you couldn't cut with a jigsaw. She called me in a tizzy, wondering what was wrong with MY recipe. She's never made it again, citing my impossible instructions! She said I'll just have to make it for her from now on (Hmmm...how convenient!)
When I was little I can remember my mother rushing around to get everybody ready for school and herself ready for work. Well one day she was a little too rushed and instead of grabbing the Listerine mouthwash she grabbed her big bottle of Jean Nate' cologne. 
Needless to say she spewed Jean Nate everywhere, but she did have the best smelling breath.
As for myself I've done some pretty boneheaded things. Like doubling a cake recipe, but forgetting to double the water. I kept thinking to myself, Wow, this a really fudgy cake! 
LOL yeah I have to work on remembering to double ALL the ingredients, too!
Or I'll start making cookies or cake and then at the end realize I'm short an egg and should have checked supplies first... 
We won't even talk about tips going down the garbage disposal.... but hey, dh can't yell at me for doing that anymore because he has accidentally put TWO of my basketweave tips (I only have one at a time, too!) down the disposal!
My sister one time made cookies using a Tablespoon of salt instead of a teaspoon! She never claims to be a baker, that's for sure. haha. She definately does not do the "read the instructions" thing very well.
Non cake related...one time I was staying at my parents house so had all my makeup and toiletries in a bag...I had a tube of face cream and...yeah, a tube of Prep H (Hey! I have had three kids now....). If you ever wondered, Prep H is awfully thick and sticky and is made to stay ON skin, not wash off... Hey maybe I actually found the latest craze for facial skin care!!!
OK, I've got one from just last night... get ready to laugh!
Picture this... big Easter dinner... ham, yummy twice baked potatoes, brussel sprouts, macaroni and cheese, etc....
I tasted the macaroni and cheese (a tradition at Easter dinner for us) and thought... hmmm. this tastes peppery. I said to my husband "you know. I just don't understand this. The last time I made this and tonight, it tastes too peppery. I've got that new pepper mill, but this time I was so careful about how much black pepper I put it "(I'm notorious for NOT measuring). He tastes it and says you know, I taste it too. We ponder for a while... I think, maybe the new black pepper is smething exotic and strong? Then he says "are you sure you didn't use cayenne instead of paprkia?" I laugh at his silliness... cayenne?
But, he's got me thinking now, so I go to the cubbard to check. Sure enough! I picked up the wrong bottle (it had been put back on the worng shelf)- both times! - and had been using cayenne pepper instead of paprika! UGH!!
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