I just had a pkg of frozen bread dough explode in my hands.

[Neecy]

I just did battle with a $1.98 package of frozen bread dough and the bread dough won.

Yesterday afternoon I took this demon bread out of the freezer to thaw, as I had planned to make pepperoni bread last night. After a very long afternoon of helping my sister adopt a Beagle, I got home late and figured I'd make it today, so I threw it into the refrigerator.

Warning. Frozen bread dough, once thawed, will rise even in a cold refrigerator.

A few minutes ago I reached into the refrigerator to remove the bag and just as I thought to myself, "Gee, this thing sure got huge" I heard a loud POP and the bag shredded. Fortunately bread dough is fairly dense so it didn't splatter everywhere, but just enough oozed out onto the floor for my five-month old puppy to start eating before I even realized what had happened. Fun times.

This is perhaps my stupidest cooking experience ever.

[Tab]

1. Yeah, leave a bag of pizza dough sealed in the fridge

and eventually the bag is expanded with "air" (really, the gases), so be careful when you open it.

The instant rolls that came in the cardboard tube used to do that too. You'd unwrap them and then POP! :nuke:

Catches you by surprise the first time.

Not necessarily a stupid cooking experience (although if you consider that your stupidest then you have a better track record than I). It was a learning experience, though.

[hippywife]

2. Ahem...

yeast farts. :rofl:

[Tab]

3. That's one of those things women keep to themselves.

I wouldn't know.

That, and synchronous menstruation (which is admittedly a thoroughly different topic).

[hippywife]

4. Yeah, I'm sure

that's one of those things you have no clue about. :eyes:

And the synchronous menstruation is not a myth. Just thought I'd confirm that for you. :D

[Tab]

7. That I know

but not too many males do.

(sometimes I find myself more enlightened than I want to be).

Anyway, we exceed the boundaries of this discussion group.

[hippywife]

10. I was just making a baking joke.

You know...just picture those little yeasties waking up from a long, dry nap and gourging themselves on all that food. Hilarity ensues.

You're the one that took it someplace I had no intention of going. }(

[Tab]

11. Well, I have been married

Either reference could have applied. :)

[Neecy]

9. I'm sure I've had other stupid cooking experiences

This one was particularly dumb because my puppy, whom I've dubbed my sous chef because he's always underfoot when I'm cooking, managed to down a big glop of raw bread dough before I came to my senses and shooed him off.

So far he's okay - I guess they're more adaptable than we think.

[Warpy]

12. Poppin Fresh does so with a vengeance here

at 6000 feet! All I have to do is loosen the wrapper half an inch or so at the tab and the tube pops apart. Of course, the rolls (the few times a year I eat them) are sky high when I take them out of the oven, so low air pressure at high altitude does have a use.

I can't tell you how many cans of soup I threw out before I realized that none of them is going to hiss at this altitude when I pop in the can opener.

Next time you want to rest bread dough in a plastic bag in the fridge, pop a couple of pinholes into the wrapper. That will likely be enough to release the serious gas.

[troubleinwinter]

13. Great clue you gave: "pop a couple of pinholes into the wrapper"

I live a mile high, and have learned that when I fly from low altitude to home, to squeeze air out of shampoos, makeup foundation, etc., before flight to prevent SPURTTT!!! when I open them upon arriving home.

[Warpy]

14. Oh, shoot, liquid stuff like that packed at sea level

has long been the bane of my existence. Justify to the DEA that you've lost half a syringe of morphine some time because you're a flatlander who didn't realize she had to take the cap off with the thing pointing up in the air.

I've learned how to open shampoo and conditioner bottles verry sllooowwwly.

[troubleinwinter]

5. Egads! Yeah, fun times.

I can't imagine cleaning up exploded dough!

My stupidest kitchen experience was when I put a big bowl of too old macaroni salad down the disposer...drain pipe had come disconnected and cabinet door was open.

I had very finely minced macaroni salad on the floor, stove, cupboards, walls and ceiling.

Ever after, I never ran the disposer with the cabinet door open, just in case.

[hippywife]

6. OMG! I think I would have cried.

What a mess! :hug:

[troubleinwinter]

8. Well, I wasn't gonna admit this, but

I was so freaked out, I called my husband at work. A good friend/coworker answered. I breathlessly told him what had happened with a bunch of !!!!?OMG???!!OMG!!!!??!!!

Friend said, "Well, then, clean it up." I felt like an idiot.