Your most memorable FAILURE at cooking (v.2)

COMPLETE UTTER FAILURE

Well, what do you know. It was THIS MORNING that I wanted to cook myself some breakfast. I went grocery shopping Friday to pick up some pancake mix, some sausages, hashbrowns, and some eggs (for another morning). This morning I was getting all ready, and made the pancake mix all great. I got the other pot ready for the sausages, and started to put oil on the skillet on the already heated pan. So I pour in my first batch of pancake mix. All's fine and dandy . I start to work on the sausages and come back to the pancakes to flip them. THEN I reached for a METAL spatula, but there were none, but the FOOD WAS GOING TO BURN OUT, so I grabbed the nearest thing which was a PLASTIC Spatula. Useless thing as it basically melted the plastic all over the skillet and pancake. This was partly due to absent mindedness and sorta in a rush that common logic fails me.

WHY IN GOD'S NAME ARE THERE PLASTIC SPATULAS? They must be my evil twin. Metal forever.

Originally Posted by MY HERO

. See, this was the magical point where the stomach wakes up and says "Are you retarded? FUCK YOU".

I know...I know...;___;

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Nah, not completely melt it. I obviously threw out the now useless thing (is this an omen) and the pancakes. After scrubbing off all the plastic crap from the skillet, I started from sqaure one.

Actually, from way back in junior high days, the cooking instructor in home econ said that THIS:



Is called a "scraper" (which I still say is a plastic spatula for scraping the last bits of stuff in a jar and such)

...while THIS:



is a spatula.

My mom often just used these terms interchangibly and call them both spatulas, and so do I.

The food turned out okay, after using a wooden/bamboo spatula my mom usually uses for stir fries, so it works.

There's nowhere I can't reach.