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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7970989" data-attributes="member: 19675">Had a bad day in the kitchen.The plan was to make breakfast- eggs, bacon, toast and cheesy grits for the household.  That DID happen.However, I decided to try cooking the bacon in the toaster oven on the convection setting (400degF for 9 minutes per 4-6 slices), and while the results were perfect, it set in motion dominoes that refused to stop falling.1) I started cooking everything other than the bacon too soon.  That led to my attentions being too divided2) I turned up my grits pot too high, so it started spattering.  3) When I tried to turn it down, I grabbed the wrong knob and turned on the burner under the edge of my plastic cutting board.4) When I realized that, my inarticulately profanely narrated reaction included nearly sending a paring knife into my foot as I scrambled to remove the cutting board from the heat (which, by then, I had turned off)5) Finally tuned the grits down, but because I was steam-basting my fried eggs, the first two were now overcooked (not burnt, just solid yolks). Dad took those,6) In the process of removing one batch of bacon from the toaster oven and putting in the next, I got distracted by the fact that I hadn’t started the toast,  “After this batch, I’ll do the bread...” and prepped the slices for insertion7) ...at which time I realized I had overcooked the next 2 steam-basted eggs.  Those became mine.8) got the toast in and out and started the penultimate batch of bacon- I was doing 2lbs- and realized that the THIRD pair of eggs had overcooked, though not as badly as the first two.9) finally got to the doing the last 2 eggs while that batch was midway cooked, and  produced a FLAWLESS omelette.  (It was supposed to be scrambled.)I took my plate and made a bacon & egg sandwich with my toast, then ate the other egg on my cheesy grits. A little cooler than I’d like, but I was hungry.Other fun happened during cleanup, but fortunately, I was able to get all the plastic off of the burner.</blockquote>

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