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Had to choose between fixing a burnt pan or tossing dinner, and I picked wrong
Last Tuesday I was making a garlic butter sauce for some pan-seared chicken breasts, and I stepped away for like 90 seconds to grab a towel. Came back to a smoking pan and chicken that looked like charcoal briquettes. I had a choice: try to scrape the burnt bits off the chicken and salvage the sauce, or start over with fresh chicken in a clean pan. I went with scraping, and honestly, the chicken tasted like a campfire and I ate fast food tacos from a place on Elm Street instead. Has anyone else had to pick between two bad options in a kitchen disaster?
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sam_thomas22d ago
Oh man, that is the worst. I have definitely been there with the burnt sauce dilemma. You just want to cry when you smell that acrid smoke and realize you have to make a choice. Scraping is almost always a trap, you are just eating regrets at that point. Fast food tacos were the right call, better to just cut your losses and start fresh next time.
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jesse_green5522d ago
Scraping burnt sauce is like trying to polish a turd.
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Friend of mine tried to salvage a scorched curry once, scraped the bottom, and the whole thing tasted like burnt regret for days. He said every spoonful was like eating a campfire, and his wife made him throw it out after two bites because the kitchen smelled like a smokehouse. Sometimes the only winning move is to admit defeat and hit up a drive-thru, you know?
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