This is how my wife leaves a dish after taking it out if the oven and WALKS AWAY. We have children and a dog...
That's chicken?? I thought it was sweet potato casserole, aka sugary sweet potatoes covered in large marshmallows.
Are you from the south?
Not a high bar to hit, however.
I thought it was some form of really fucked up dumplings-
My mom used to tell me to always remember to point any pot or pan handle toward the wall so you don’t accidentally walk by and hit it. It becomes so ingrained in me that I get really bothered by people leaving things having like that.
I know someone whose kid pulled a pot of hot water onto himself so I am super paranoid about this. Handles are always way in.
Yeah, this is my kitchen paranoia. Nothing nar or over the lip, handles turned inward. No kids reaching onto counters.
My nephew did that a burned most of his lower body. It’s taught me to always use the back burner if I’m boiling things and always turn the handle to the side/back for anything else. It terrifies me bc even adults make mistakes. My husband wasn’t careful pouring boiling water and also burned him privates which was awful at the time. (Karma but still awful)
This is good policy, from everyone I've spoken to, whenever I've talked about cooking, with everyone I've ever talked about cooking.
My mom lost a brother she never met because he pulled a pot of boiling water on himself at 5 years old.
I'm so sorry
We were taught that in home ec class and failed immediately if we didn't turn our handles
My husband REFUSES to do this because he says if there is a fire it’s easier to grab and run but the amount of times I have almost dropped boiling hot liquid is unreal because I expect them to be turned in
His reasoning is really dumb. Every culinary teacher will ingrain into you to always turn those handles in.
Grab it and run is also a bad idea. Always cover with a lid or dump baking soda over it.
Hopefully he never gets to experience what happens if you run to the sink and try to put it out that way... but you might want to show him a video of it... I know reddit has at least a few
Oh my gosh NEVER EVER run with a burning pan or liquid!!!! my dads a firefighter and countless house fires start because of people trying to do this exact thing, always turn off the stove or oven first when faced with a fire to cut off the heat source, then cover with a lid to cut off the oxygen flow, or put it in your oven with the door closed, or even pour baking soda all over it but NEVER run with something while it’s burning, because one day he’ll find out what happens when burning oil and water happen to mix together... KABOOM your kitchen will be demolished, also running with fire just makes you spill it all over your floor and house so that’s also how a fire can easily start. please tell your husband to stop doing that because it’s an accident waiting to happen. also with the pot handles, a family member of mine lost a child because they left the handles pointed out and their kid poured boiling water on themselves when they were 4 years old, all it takes is one second for something like that to happen
he's doing that on purpose to fuck with you. He is disregarding what you say, probably because YOU told him so. that logic is really really dumb and sounds like some sort of gaslighting. moving your handles away is common sense.
She’s very close to dropping the chicken! Way closer than she was to dropping some seasoning on it…
Lmfaooo Shit looks plain and barely cooked
Holy crap, that's chicken? I thought it was marshmallows over sweet potatoes at first glance.
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I was half wondering if the real outrage was baking perogies. Boil and (pan) fry. Bonus points if you fry them in the fat from the bacon you cooked for the fried bacon and onions.
Omg after reading the previous comments this one made me lmao Thank you
She's trying okay? She's trying to discover variety of salmonella.
I thought it was perogies.
I thought it was some weird scallops
i thought they were mushroom tops
I thought they were raw biscuits, then realized the point of the post was it was taken out of the oven... so it would be hot and not raw. Had to go back in for another look. Yum.... Edit: mobile
To be fair it looks like it’s smothered in Italian dressing which is a great choice for chicken marinade.
I usually use it on the grill though.
Maybe she put it down so haphazardly because it's about to go on the grill!
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Mmm I feel like that's water from the chicken. I don't see any herbs
Definitely Italian dressing
I can't tell if that chicken is broiled or boiled?
Either way OPs home life must be absolutely miserable
I wonder if it's being par-cooked to go into some other dish to finish cooking
Even The Hound wouldn't want to eat all the fucking chicken in this room.
Christ you put more spice in this comment than that chicken will ever see.
She’s been roasted better then that chicken.
Edit: THAN.
*than
We have children and a dog and salmonella…
Whaaaa I thought they were scallops or something!!! Looks barely cooked for chicken!
I’m gonna give OP the benefit of the doubt here and guess that this is the precook before they fry them or do something to crisp them up.
That is far too much benefit of the doubt. Take some back.
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Reverse sear steak… crisp up last.
But at a restaurant I used to work at, we used to par-cook our marinated and brined wings prior to throwing them in the fryer. Did two things. Obviously the smoke added some depth of flavor, and it ensured fully cooked wings when we put them in the fryer.
Lol i knew this would be the top comment before I looked
Wrong! She sprinkled... counts… FIVE bacon bits on it.
Is that bacon? I thought it was like sweet and sour sauce with those lil pepper pieces in it.
At least she didn’t boil it? I don’t know, I’m trying to think of some way to redeem that dish.
Sorry to detract from the main message but she better put that shit back in
😭😭😭 I thought the same.
At first glance, and after all the comments about it "not being ready" and unseasoned, i zoomed in and IT'S PINK. RAW. NOT UNDERCOOKED. RAW. I was hoping it might be a "before" the oven picture, but some areas look white! So some cooking happened.
How?
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It appears that she is attempting to kill all of you.
My friend's kid ran into the kitchen, slipped and grabbed the handle of a pan. It melted his scalp. Like to the bone. He didn't die but he was horribly disfigured for the rest of his life. In pain everyday as the skin grafts stretched as he grew. The kid has 40+ surgeries by the time he was in highschool. He killed himself around the age of 17 because of the pain and the bullying and the meds.
By then my friend had spent nearly 2 million in medical bills and plastic surgery that was deemed "optional". His wife blamed herself after Alex killed himself and followed suit. My friend moved into the woods and doesn't really talk to anyone.
I’m so sorry to hear this. My coworker often tells me her younger brother died because he pulled a pot of boiling water onto his head.
I’m terrified to let my kid in the kitchen.
When my daughter was a toddler, there was always a gate in the kitchen doorway so she couldn’t get in there. I became very good at hopping over child gates.
I was a child of the early 80s, I fell into an open oven (which was on) and burned most of my right arm. This all seems crazy to me since my parents were very overprotective, but it only took 2 seconds of my mom not watching.
I grabbed a hot curling iron when I was two because my mom put my car seat on the bathroom counter??
When I was a kid my stepmom had a plug-in curling iron FOR THE CAR!! I will leave the rest to your imagination.
I grabbed a regular iron when i was like 5 because i saw it was unplugged but i havent realized that it hasnt cooled down yet and burned my hand :)
Had a cat that used to climb on the counters. Once I was cooking, turned off the burner and brought the pot of pasta to the sink to drain it and the cat jumped on the stove (flat, glass top) right on the still hot burner.
His little paw print was burned into the burner… poor little guy. Instantly he went to jump down and the bottom layer of his paw stayed there.
Once I got him back from the vet, I had to get the kitchen scrubber and scrap it off.
This is something I constantly worry about with my girl. I’m not a fan of cats on kitchen counters or dining tables (eating surfaces) but my new apartment is so small that the window above my kitchen sink is one of her few choices for an ‘up spot’ so I’ve made an exception for as long as I live here. I am worried that she’ll do what your boy did so I took a page out of my mom’s book and I’ll slide my kettle onto the hot burner. My mom always kept a teapot with some water in it on the back burner (off) so there would be something that wouldn’t burn or melt to place over the hot burner when we were kids, it prevented more accidents between my parents than for my brother and I.
Somehow I burned my knee on a clothes iron. Can recall it now but someone wasn’t supervising me
That's way worse than the fucking car cigarette lighter horror stories I've heard.
Fell victim to this and pressed the red hot burner on the palm of my hand. Will never forget that
I did it to the pad of my thumb :( I was not a smart kid
When I was a kid I bent a copper stick and put both tips into an outlet, the only reason I didn't die was I wasn't stupid enough to use my bare hand, my whole home electricity shorted immediately.
My mom AND a babysitter both put my little brother on the kitchen counter while they made Mac n cheese. Of course he put his hand on the coil burner.
These were two separate occasions. The babysitter was a high school girl and she was completely traumatized. I remember me and my mom trying to reassure her that he's done it before with my mom.
Also we made jokes at the time about how he doesn't have any common sense to do that twice, he doesn't recognize danger, etc. Turns out my brother is autistic! I couldn't imagine putting my daughter on the counter while cooking on the stove, she's autistic too.
My cat walked across the burner once. I heard my step mom say "no Milo that's hot right now" and two minutes later I heard him scream and my step mom say "you're a fucking idiot"
When I was 5 or something my dumbass just straight up stuck my palm on the hot stove top after being told not to several times, no permanent damage but it hurt like fuck, i only remembered it because of this thread
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kids are fucking stupid
My husband got third degree burns that covered his thighs and feet from a grease fire. The pan of oil on the stove was too hot. I saw black smoke and went to put a lid on it and turn off the burner. It flashed and the oil was on fire. He came out of the shower and threw his towel on the pan. I tried to say, “Leave it covered!” But he took the towel off and flames shot up to the ceiling. He swatted at the fire. The towel hit the pan, tipped it over, and the oil poured down on him.
So if you are cooking in a pan of oil, don’t have burner too high, keep an eye on it, and keep a lid close by.
Burn victim myself, when I was at the burn unit I would hear the stories of the other patients, it only takes a second, and sometimes a stupid person. I worked at the kitchen in a bar, used to work the fryers other times the grill, sometimes my coworkers who would be working next to me, (fryers and grill were next to each other) would try to play, I always stopped them, No playing in this area!! They would get it right away 👍
If you can remember to always turn the handles towards the middle of when you walk away, there's no handle to grab. Its much easier said than done because up until you have kids, it's a life long habit to just walk away. At my grandmas house growing up the stove was at the end of a counter and near the frequently used back door. When I was young, I left a pot of macaroni boiling & she lectured me about all of the horrors that could happen if a handle were sticking out on her stove. My kids dad took a lot of training and any time he left a handle even a skosh out I would dramatically accuse him of trying to murder our children. He'd roll his eyes and turn the handle in. But seriously, remembering/thinking it could kill his kids made him extra cautious about. I actually usually have to pull him away from being too cautious and remind him we have to train the kids to properly interact with their environment. Kids are hard work, especially when making sure they're good ones.
Yeah I know about the handles and I always turn them in anyway (just prevents spills in general, not just those caused by tots) but with everything in the kitchen I worry - are the kitchen shears out, are there knives in the dishwasher, etc.
My mother always reminds me about the handle when I forget. Not just for the children but also for the adults, as my aunt (mum’s sister) burnt herself with hot oil when she was ~17 years old while cooking
My older brother taught me to turn the handle of pots and pans so they weren't hanging over the edge of the stove when I was a kid and learning to cook. I have done this ever since. I think he learned this in home economics class, but I'm not sure. Now reading all these tragic stories, I'm really grateful he did.
No one warned me not to pour water into hot oil to cool it down though. I tried this once when I was really young. I poured cold water into a pan full of hot oil and it formed what I remember being a large bubble like a mushroom, before it burst and sprayed hot oil everywhere! Right before it exploded I jumped backwards and missed being scalded. I never did that again.
I have been in the kitchen since I was very young and I find myself constantly reminding the older people around me of my grandmother's teachings: always turn the handles inwards, never leave a fire unsupervised (we only have gas stoves in my country), never let the oven door open (seriously, how do people forget to close the literal gates of hell? Come on) and last but certainly not least, NEVER fuck around with hot honey, being burnt with honey is by far the worst possible kitchen accident apart from the ones that straight up kill you or amputate you. And the second one is debatable depending on how big the burn is.
Be careful in the kitchen people and teach your kids while their young, just not too young.
My husband's aunt (that he obviously never met) died when she was a toddler the exact same way.
I always use the back burners, turn the handles away, try to have everything ready so I don't walk away, and I have a baby gate. I don't care if people say I'm paranoid (they do, because it's such a habit I do it if I help at other people's houses), better safe than sorry and it's not like it's that hard to do.
As an ex-cook you're not paranoid. That's how you're supposed to do it with adults in the room too. All it takes is just two simultaneous careless acts to hurt someone seriously.
I've always taken knife safety so seriously to the point it's basically my first lesson in the kitchen to people. All because one time I used a knife to point at something and it caught the lip of an overhead shelf and I basically threw it at a server once I lost my grip on it.
Always keep the knife pointed down and in a loose grip when not in use. And a falling knife has no handle.
I feel like a lot of people need to have at least some experience working in a kitchen. I found a knife in soapy water the hard way at home and almost lost my shit with the Mrs, she just didn't know any better, let's just say it hasn't happened again since.
It happens so fast with kids. When my oldest was 3 he pulled just a mug of boiling water on top of him and got second degree burns down the side of his face, chest, and stomach. He was wearing a thick hoodie and still got it really bad. We where at the hospital all night and it was incredibly painful for him. The Mom guilt was incredibly real and I still think about it.
When I was a teen, my dad microwaved a bowl of water for like 5 minutes and I unknowingly grabbed it out of the microwave so I could put my food in. I immediately dropped the bowl and spilled it all over myself because it was scalding hot. Somehow I didn’t get any actual burns even though I was just wearing a t shirt.
When my youngest was a toddler he used to turn our gas stove on to see the pretty blue flame. He’d come out while I was cooking and poke his finger in the pretty blue flame. It takes a split second for it to happen. I really don’t know how all of survived that.
These are very sad stories that could happen to anyone. My kids are not allowed in the kitchen anymore.
One thing is NEVER EVER HAVE THE HANDLES OUT.
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How sad
This escalated by every sentence.
This is one of the saddest things I’ve ever read…
Damnit. How horrible.
This is legitimately one of the most depressing things I’ve read on Reddit, that’s just awful.
Holy fucking shit this comment section got dark as fuck
OP needs to show their wife this comment.
For real though.
This is actually so fucked up, I hope your friend is doing better. Give him a call or something he must be lonely in the woods.
Hey OP, show your wife this comment asap
That’s crazy fucked up. No one should be punished like that for a silly mistake like that. A burn, maybe a few stitches, but not a double suicide. Hope you do nice things for your buddy every once in a while, and I hope he finds peace in nature.
So basically be careful with hot shit around children, specially hot liquids
that's genuinely one of the most grim things I've ever read, I miss 10 seconds ago when I didn't read this
My cousin pulled a fryer down on herself..
This just makes my heart hurt. I hate f*ckn bullying & insurance co's!
Woah.
I 100% would’ve done the same thing if I was the wife. That had to have tortured her every day.
Thank you for justifying my paranoid feelings around the stove. I always tilt the handles into the middle, use 2 gloves and am super paranoid of a kid doing exactly that. Shit that happened but 1 in a million happens all the time.
Alright who is it? Which one of you gave this comment a 'Wholesome' award?
I pulled a cup of boiling water sat on top of a tea towel off the kitchen surface as a child while my dad was making a cup of tea. I was so lucky it only landed on my left arm and not my face, but still have a noticeable scar that extends down my entire arm 26 years later. I can only imagine the damage caused by a pan of oil. OP this isn’t mildly infuriating, this is genuinely dangerous behaviour. You need to show your wife these comments as as others have said, all it takes it 2 seconds and someones life can be changed forever, or even ended.
OP, does she do this all the time or was this a one-off? If it's all the time, have you mentioned it to her?
I'm wondering if she did this to avoid having the entire glass pan on the cold stove top. If it's really cold, it could crack the pan. If that's the case, she could fold a towel on top of the stove and put the pan on that.
You think there's any communication if he's posting this shit on reddit?
True.
Lmao “Look see everyone on Reddit thinks you’re a moron! Now you have to listen to me!”
I’m sure he complains all the time but never offers to cook himself.
I read this and instantly thought the same thing, why not talk to your wife instead of posting it on reddit for all to see and roast? Makes 0 sense to me lol.
I always wrapped my hands around the pan with oven mitts on. Then when I set it down the mitts were under it a bit and left a gap for airflow to cool it faster.
Started to avoid crashing the top.
The* fucking Chicken is the real crime here
Fucking a chicken should be a crime everywhere.
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It WAS legal in New Jersey until 2015… it’s still legal in like 10 other states.. shocking I know.
Came here to say that. It’s FAR from cooked. Much less cooked the right way!
You don't love soggy chicken that's been parboiled in it's own juices?
there’s a time and place for that type of chicken, but I doubt this is it
What place? Hell?
If she’s gunna cook them like that ask her to sear them in a pan first. Brown = flavor
Black = super flavor
Maybe she's reverse searing chicken for some reason? idk
Gordon in the back “Where’s the FUCKING SEASONING CRYSTAL?!!”
"That chicken is so raw I can still hear it clucking!"
"IT'S FUCKING RAW!!"
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The fact that it's not seasoned is the real crime here. 🤨
And it was basically steamed/boiled so it's going to be so mushy
You can season steamed meat. You can season boiled meat. You can season baked meat. 🤨
You can season my meat.
Edit: Thank you to whoever gave me the wholesome award. It fits oh so well, nothing quite like getting my neat seasoned!
Dad?
No, it's your creepy uncle.
I didn't recognize that as chicken.
Please tell me that is some kind of whitefish.
that, my friend, is white-finned landpecker.
You have a way bigger issue if your kids and dogs eat that dish!
Sometimes I just bake off plain chicken breast in the oven if I plan on using it as an ingredient in a dish that requires shredded or cubed chicken. I’m going to choose to think that’s what’s happening here 😮💨
This is the most basic bitch chicken I've ever seen.
Hey, as an EMT that saw a scalding of a 2 year old who flipped a mug of fresh coffee sitting on the edge of a coffee table today, you're (obviously) going to regret it and hate yourself so hard as a parent if that flips on them. Really think about how you'll feel if that happens, because it is not pretty from an outside perspective especially because children don't know any better, but those parents were especially devistated...
Coming from a parent who’s toddler pulled a mug of hot liquid on top of him I definitely agree with this.
Damn man, that chicken looks sad as hell.
It's never too early to teach your children about proper food seasoning.
or how to avoid food poisoning
Boiled frogs?
That’s not mildly infuriating… that’s a major heath and safety hazard, especially if the dish is still hot.
right? i dont get how no one else here sees it that way. everyone says "maybe talk to her instead of posting it" as if he cant do both and even fix her stupid mistake on top of that. she is a walking health hazard for her own child.
Way nicer than my wife. Mine would drop it in my lap for posting something like this on the internet.
I sent it to her parents as well. Her father was mortified.
Bonus is my wife has an excellent sense of humor.
But zero sense of placement
Or Sense of seasoning
or culinary skill
Problem is there is literally nothing funny about this. Like leaving a loaded gun on the table.
The gun probably tastes better, though.
This works in more ways than one.
Certainly has more seasoning
I hope so, if she ever sees this thread 😄
She'd loose points for that in a babysitter certification class. Still burned into my head to never leave a pot handle hanging over the side of the stove. Not that this was relevant to my life since I almost never babysat, but still. Don't do it folks. Never know when a toddler will come in your house and dump a pan of hot liquid (or in this case chicken) onto their head.
Was it finished being cooked and seasoned?
If the kids and dogs got into that bland looking chicken they’d probably never recover.
It looks f**king RAW!
Salmonella enters the chat
Dangerous way to leave your poached salmonella
Sorry I'm a bit late. How did shaming her on the internet work out?
He said in another comment that he sent this to her family too, and that she had a sense of humor
bruv, tell her to season that chicken
It will only take one of them getting burned once for her never to do that again.
Thai sweet chili sauce drowning bland unseasoned chicken
Maybe it's better the dish drops
There are two opinions I have: 1) Instead of posting it just address your wife and tell her what's wrong with it and how she should change that habit do it doesn't harm your child and doggo 2) There are more seasons in the year than grams of pepper in it lol
She should take a safety in the kitchen class
The real crime here is the chicken
Bro put that shit back in the oven lmao. As Good old Gordo would say, that looks RAW.
Yikes.
I hope she was going to look for some seasoning before putting that chicken back in the oven
Chicken sashimi?
Do you have a spice rack as well? Jeez man…
Looks like some Midwest chicken
what the fuck is THAT?!?!?
Prolly hoping it gets knocked over so she don’t gotta eat it
Okay so just to clear a few things up:
- The chicken is glazed, this is why people are saying it looks raw. It's cooked to temp.
- I was in the kitchen when she did this. It was posted here because it's subject appropriate but she found it funny after the fact. (She was genuinely amused at getting called out for it).
- This is not something she does regularly but let's her guard down when I'm around to back her up. Cell phone hanging off the edge of surfaces is usually the culprit. This does not make her a bad person/bad wife.
- Lastly, to the trolls that are claiming I need to grab the kids and leave/divorce my wife? Never feed the trolls. They will only spew forth more stupidity when you do.
That would drive me fucking NUTS
This is how a total Homer shames his wife on social media, rather than simply fixing the situation and speaking with her about it.
Let it fall. It ain't like it's edible.
I feel like thats mot the only issue here. Looks like she also forgot to season the meat and turn the oven off. What is this dish supposed to be anyways?
Season that shit scoot it back and walk away chief.
Y’all must be mayonnaise is spicy white
That chicken is getting roasted in these comments way more than it was in the oven.