A small taste of my Monday:
- If you ever decide to make your own homemade chicken broth — you know, the kind that is really and truly from scratch and involves cooking a chicken skeleton in a large stock pot filled with water — and then you decide to freeze all that chicken broth for future use, you probably don’t want to store all that chicken broth in Ziploc-style freezer bags.
- Trust me, go ahead and use plastic containers.
- Because what will probably happen is that your hand holding the bag will slip and then cups and cups of chicken broth will pour all over your counter, down the fronts of the cabinets, and onto your floor.
- After you clean up that mess, you probably won’t have learned your lesson, so go ahead and re-fill the freezer bag.
- You’ll drop the freezer bag filled with six cups of chicken broth.
- AGAIN.
- You know, because your hand is slippery from — guess what? — chicken broth.
- Luckily, no children will be present during this second major spillage, because you will cuss a blue streak that would offend even fraternity guys, while you frantically strip out of your chicken broth-soaked running clothes that you haven’t even actually gone running in yet that day.
- Believe it or not, you will continue pouring chicken broth (what remains, that is) into those fucking freezer bags.
- Clearly, you don’t learn from your mistakes.
- When you’re carrying chicken broth-filled freezer bags the five feet from the counter to the freezer, DON’T carry the bags at the top where they’re sealed shut or else one will probably rip, thereby exploding all over the place and soaking the last remaining dry corner of the kitchen.
- I am not making this shit up.
- Chicken broth is slippery as snot and I’m not lying.
- It takes for-freaking-ever to clean up cups and cups and cups of chicken broth.
- Don’t forget to blot up the broth that’s inside the kitchen drawers.
- Whose idea what it anyway to have nothing but drawers — 23 of ‘em — below the counters?
- Oh yeah, that’s right; I insistently insisted on it.
- Plan to mop thoroughly after blotting up the wet mess.
- Plan to mop a second time after that.
- Like I said, chicken broth is slippery.
- After that, you’ll finally get around to going on your run and, the entire time, you’ll keep thinking, “Why do I smell fried chicken in this residential neighborhood?” before remembering (again) that you’re Mrs. Eau de Chicken.
- Needless to say, you won’t be eating chicken for a few days after spilling all that broth all over your kitchen, as you’ll be a bit OVER chicken for a while.
C’mon now, you made that up. Right? RIIGGHHT?
LOL–I’ll bet the neighborhood dogs *loved* you!
Oh Jen! I guess you need some Tupperware or Lock n Lock boxes?
Chicken sounds overrated at this point. Here’s looking at Tuesday to be better.
It’s reassuring to know that I am not the only one who desn’t learn from her mistakes the first time.
How else would we get entertaining stories
I don’t want to laugh but I can’t help it.
I usually save butter containers and use those to freeze in. The broth usually slips right out when it’s time to use it.
And thus they have given us Kitchen Basics.
http://www.kitchenbasics.net/
I have had a remarkably similar experience with chicken broth.
I’d better beware – I use ziplocs a lot!
That totally sucks! Did you get any of it into the freezer?
And this is why chicken box is readily available in a convenient box at the store. But yay you for fighting the good fight.
There’s a reason we’re friends. That is so something I would do.
I had a similar experience the other day when I was making popcorn on the stove all old-school like. I don’t remember what I did, but the way I grabbed the plastic baggy of popcorn somehow made popcorn kernels go EVERYWHERE in the kitchen. A lot easier to clean up than broth, but also not, since the cats were all “YAY! TOYS TO BAT AROUND!”
*Snerk* I’ve done the same exact thing! (Luckily, in my old kitchen.) This is why I put the ziplock in a tupperware and fold the top over while filling it. Much more stable. I would love to invest in a bunch of those glass freezer containers, but I just can’t swing it yet. And I’m not willing to leave all my tupperware in the freezer. I did see on another blog where a gal freezes 1 cup sized tupperware then pops them out and stashes the frozen saucers in a big ziplock. I just might try that next time…
We had a similar disaster on Thanksgiving a few years ago. My husband put the turkey in a gigantic Ziploc bag to soak in the brine overnight. When he was taking it out, I suggested that he do it over the sink, but he said he knew what he was doing. As soon as he moved the turkey to the pan, the Ziploc bag rolled right off the counter and onto the floor. We were at my mom’s house and she is a clean freak, so she screamed. There was turkey tainted brine everywhere, in all the drawers, in the dishwasher and oven, under the kitchen table, on the dog, EVERYWHERE. Needless to say, my husband is no longer allowed to prepare the turkey!
Oh Jen! I am laughing so hard at you…and I feel your pain because CHICKEN! SLIPPERY! EVERYWHERE!
oh mah holy hell.
hahahahahahahhahahah.
um. sorry.
What a terrible mess! But Jen, please forgive me for laughing the whole way through your post because I could picture the entire thing as you described it!
And now I feel guilty for laughing so hard.
At least you didn’t have a pack of dogs following you on your run.
Ask for glass freezer containers for Christmas!
No, you can still do ziplock, I see someone else posted similar to what I do, and that is take the ziplock, fold the zip part over a container big enough to fold the top over it, and then pour . . . ahhhhh, see? It’s contained, it will zip shut, and if you spill, or it comes out for some reason, you’ve got the contraption IN THE SINK, and it will go down the drain. wa-la.
Poor poor you!
Oh honey!
(THis comment will resume once I stop laughing.)
(But that may be awhile.)
Shhh..note to Jen…put bags on a baking sheet to carry them to the freezer. Just to be safe? Leave them on the baking sheet until frozen solid.
Signed,
Been There Done That