{"id":4115,"date":"2010-03-26T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:51:29","slug":"kitchen-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/4115","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oven\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember a while back when we renovated our Kitchen<\/a>?\u00a0 One of my favorite things was my new oven.\u00a0 It\u2019s an Atag<\/a> and we payed a somewhat ridiculous amount extra so that we could have one that opens sideways rather than downwards.\u00a0 I\u2019m short and in order to have our oven above the fridge it was essential that I would be able to reach inside.\u00a0 Yes, that is our itty bitty euro fridge beneath the oven, but that\u2019s an entirely different story.<\/p>\n

\"fridge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Who needs Vanna White when you have Xander \u2018Showman Hands\u2019 Soldaat in the house.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, the kitchen renovation took place back in 2007 and one thing has been bothering me the entire time.\u00a0 The oven was crooked!\u00a0 Whenever I would try to bake a cake, the back side would be higher.\u00a0 When I\u2019d make something with sauce, one side would have loads while the other side dried out\u2026 it made me crazy!\u00a0 I spoke to the people who installed it and they insisted it was installed properly.\u00a0 Yet one lopsided meal after another, I was convinced that they had done something wrong and were lying to me.\u00a0 Those bastards<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This morning I am making my very first baked cheesecake.\u00a0 A delicious looking Turtle Cheesecake<\/a> that makes me drool just looking at it.\u00a0 It\u2019s my friend Penny\u2019s birthday this weekend and she is having some close friends and family over for a Fuck The Diet Let\u2019s Eat Cake<\/em> party!\u00a0 Ok I think she may have worded it a bit differently but that\u2019s what I got out of it.\u00a0 We are having a no Weight Watchers, eat some sweets and don\u2019t feel guilty evening, which I thought was a good opportunity to try to make my first cheesecake.<\/p>\n

Getting back to the kitchen\u2026 I was worried that because of my lopsided oven, that I\u2019d end up with a lopsided cheesecake and I was growing frustrated before I even started making it.\u00a0\u00a0 Xander got out his level and checked the wire shelves, and sure enough they were tilted down towards the back.\u00a0 I knew it!\u00a0 Those sneaky bastards ruined my kitchen and got away with it!\u00a0 I was already planning the phone call in my head\u2026<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I was thinking on how I could remedy this so I could get my cheesecake made today, perhaps putting some tinfoil in the back to rest the back edge of the pan on when it hit me\u2026<\/p>\n

What happens if we put the shelf in the other way around, upside down?<\/p>\n

We took the shelf out and turned it over and I thought OH hey, look!\u00a0 That little rail on the edge would be handy to stop stuff from slipping off! <\/em><\/p>\n

Xander slid the shelf in upside down and as he was doing so he mentioned that the tilt of the rail going in seemed to work better than it did before.\u00a0 There was a curve in the metal that appeared to make it less easy to pull the shelf all the way out.<\/p>\n

Then out came the level.<\/p>\n

He exclaimed, \u201cHEY!\u00a0 Whattaya know!\u00a0 It\u2019s perfectly level!\u201d<\/p>\n

After I picked my jaw up off the floor I swore a little, laughed a little and then smacked my forehead in disbelief.<\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s right.\u00a0 The last three years of torment and all those lopsided, uneven and tilted meals were my own doing, because I put the shelves in upside down\u2026 and it took me THREE FREAKIN\u2019 YEARS<\/em> to figure it out. THREE YEARS<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always said that I\u2019m no whiz in the kitchen, and was disappointed when I realized the kitchen didn\u2019t come complete with cooking skills after managing to ruin cookies that didn’t even require baking<\/a>\u2026 but this literally TAKES THE CAKE.\u00a0 Sometimes even I am amazed by my own stupidity.<\/p>\n

Now, I am off to make a cheesecake, which is something that excites and frightens me at the same time.\u00a0 There are any number of things I can possibly do to ruin it\u2026 over cooking, under cooking, forgetting ingredients, not using that weird pan properly or maybe even dropping it\u2026 but at least I know it won\u2019t be lopsided!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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