"What just went 'boom' in the kitchen?"

[unixronin]

"What just went 'Boom' in the kitchen?" cymrullewes asked as she put the Kitchenaid mixer back in the pantry.  I looked behind her and saw nothing but Wen the Eternally Surprised lying on the floor.

"Well," I said, "there's a small person on the floor behind you...."

"No," she said, "a real 'Boom'.  Something just went 'Boom' in the kitchen.  Near the oven."

So I opened the oven...

"Oh no," said cymrullewes.  "I forgot to prick them!"

I know geeks are supposed to like blowing things up, and women are supposed to like cooking, but I'm not so sure combining the two is such a good idea....

(Eggplant.  It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.)

Comments

Depends

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

How hot are you going for and how much does what you are baking need an initial blast of heat?

For pizza, I let it pre-heat for half an hour while the dough proofs. For things like baked potatoes, I just put them in right after I turn the oven on. Other stuff, the normal 10 minute preheat time, maybe 15 minutes if I misjudged where I am in getting the food ready for the oven.

Re: Depends

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

Ok thanks for that.

I cook most of my pizza's from frozen, but only because I get a really good 'Texan Spicy Chicken' pizza locally.

Re: Depends

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Describe this Texan Spicy Chicken pizza, please.

Anything like this (http://community.livejournal.com/caerllewys/2606.html)?

Re: Depends

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

No, not really.

- It has a sweet BBQ sauce (not a strong flavour one, more towards the sweet of sweet'n'sour sauce) as the pizza sauce. Ingredients list for sauce is: salt, sugar, corn starch, smoke flavour, spices, tomato paste, chilli powder, onion powder, garlic powder.
Toppings:
- pre-grilled chicken 1cm strips (grill lines visible), marinated in some basting sauce - basting sauce ingredients noted as sugar, salt, spices, soy sauce, lemon juice.
- pineapple roasted in olive oil
- red/yellow/green peppers
- topped with mozzarella and chedder.

The McCain brand makes a 'Pizza International Thin Crust Texa Chicken', that's a wimpier version of this, but still very tasty.