Saturday, December 10, 2011

Baking catastrophe!

So -- I'm at the BFF's house - and we're making the brandied fruit bars -- we doubled the recipe -- and

I guess her oven is pretty air tight -- and doing twice as much was a bad idea

I opened the oven to check on them and a big ball of flame came out

I have no eyebrows
I've lost a bit of the front of my hair

and a pretty bad burn on my nose

so --

this was shocking -- I've made these bars at LEAST 12 times before

never had a bit of a problem with it

so -- thought I should warn you all

I'm ok -- scared -- a bit blistered (I may have a tiny scar on my nose from it)

hurting

but ok

thought I should blog about it

PS -- made Sin's chewy oatmeal bars afterwards and they are AMAZING!

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8 comments:

  1. sinDecember 10, 2011 at 4:11 PM

    omg - are you ok? How scary is that? Lucky there was someone else there I think!

    They do warn us about doubling recipes. But I don't think we expect it to go this wrong!

    -sin

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  2. JzDecember 10, 2011 at 5:14 PM

    I did that with a gas grill once.
    Eyebrows, eyelash tips, and 1 1/2 inches off of ONE SIDE ONLY of the hair on my head.
    The day after a splurge expensive hair cut.

    Scary at the time.
    Maddening afterwards.
    Glad you're OK, tho.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 10, 2011 at 5:55 PM

    Glad you are ok. Wow!

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  4. AnonymousDecember 10, 2011 at 6:57 PM

    That reenforces my feeling of no baking, lol

    Glad you are alright.
    smiles
    butterfly

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  5. strivingforpeaceDecember 10, 2011 at 7:43 PM

    Hi all -- well -- 10 hours later -- it still hurts. I have a much higher hairline

    and there are bangs in my near future -- as well as quite a bit of time drawing in eyebrows

    It took -- hmmm -- 8 hours to make my first joke about it -- it went something like this

    "are you about done baking for the day?"

    "Yeah -- I was done when my head caught on fire"

    although I'm only at the stage where it's funny to me. --

    the blister on my nose is going to be ugly.

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  6. StormDecember 10, 2011 at 8:44 PM

    Ouch! I once had an oven that liked to throw fireballs...It made me change my stance on receiving kitchen appliances as gifts.

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  7. AnonymousDecember 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM

    OMG, just now seeing this... Glad you're ok. How scary!!!

    aisha

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  8. mouseDecember 12, 2011 at 3:55 PM

    Omg! So glad your ok.

    How awful.

    Hugs,
    mouse

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