You know it's going to be a bad day in the kitchen when...

You forget to put the whole wheat flour in the whole wheat bread.

 

Did you just put into the oven a slurry of water, yeast, butter and salt? That should be interesting

k.

 

No. It also has bread flour, oatmeal, oat bran, and buckwheat. It was looking too wet, so I just added more bread flour until it looked right. I didn't realize that I'd left out the whole wheat until things were going back into the pantry, and there was the wheat flour sitting impudently on the shelf.

The honey had crystallized and was in a bottle with a small neck, so things got interrupted waiting for the crystals to melt. Couldn't find my mixed grains or seeds (also in the bread) in the freezer and was being attacked by falling frozen goods.

One of those days with many small annoyances. And a major urge to throw things.

 

I can relate to the falling frozen good attack...seems like every time I open the freezer a pile of my daughters yogurt tubes land on my feet!

 

And the heaviness of the frozen item hitting your foot is inversely proportional to the weight of the item falling out of the freezer.

Steel toed boots: a single packet of yeast falls

Soft shoes: Frozen pizza

Socks: Half gallon of icecream

Bare feet: Frozen turkey.

 

That's why I have a bottom freezer.

 

That is what I have too, but in my last place that wasn't the case. My favorite time was when my wife went back to work after having our kids and we would have 40+ bags of frozen breast milk in the freezer tumbling all over the place. They would fall out, hit the floor, and slide like a hockey puck across the kitchen.

k.

 

I know what you mean, I once forgot to put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp, was a disaster

 

My freezer is like the Bermuda triangle- who the hell knows whats in there.

 

I have an upright freezer in the garage that had the drain plug up, so I had to pull everything out to defrost it. Some truly scary things in there.

Do you like the freezer on the bottom? It seems like what you want would always be on the bottom--then you'd drop things on your feet when you went digging for buried treasure.

 

And the rama lama became llama llama:

 

Actually, I pile up the stuff on one side when I'm digging and it's not that bad finding things. My feet usually end up under the drawer, and are protected to some extent if something falls off the pile.

 

I am often accused -- with complete justification -- of tending to just dump stuff, helter skelter, into the freezer when I get home from shopping. And of generally forgetting and not keeping track of what's in there. I rarely attempt to label containers. Sounds like I'm not completely alone in my disorganized tendency to fail to maintain any organized inventory. Sometimes even embarrass myself when I find, for example, that I've purchased yet another multi-pound package of butter, as I discover a previously purchased package that is buried in the freezer.

 

I meant to say "the heaviness of your footwear is inversely..."

Bah.

 

I think you said it perfectly the first time. Bottom line.....it's always freezer roulette.

 

I meant to say " and the Turkey is on the top shelf"

 

Too true!

I've been having bouts of freezer-related crazies lately. Pull out the bag of 6 items planning to take one out to thaw, put the one back in the freezer and put the bag of 5 into the fridge. I was feeling bad about it until I found out my husband's been having his own version---take one item to thaw out of the bag of frozen items and put them ALL back into the freezer.

And why is it always the stickiest, runniest, hardest to clean up stuff that has its container explode when it hits the floor on falling out of the fridge, whereas something like a hunk of cheese you could drop from 30,000 feet in a crystal box and it would land intact?

 

we just pulled everthing and inventoried and restacked found the 3 other bags of garden peas i thought we had

 

I clean the freezer at work when I feel myself getting unreasonably angry. It calms me down.