Stupid Kitchen Tricks

Here's what you shouldn't do in the kitchen. (I'm not saying this happened to me, you understand.)

Say you wanted to make some cookies and the recipe calls for soft room-temperature butter. But your butter is ice cold from the fridge. You might think to yourself, well the oven is heating up for the cookies anyway, why don't I just stick these two boxes of butter in the oven? Just for a minute or two, and the butter should be nice and soft. That might seem reasonable, right?

Don't do it!

See, the problem is that you might have to make a bottle for one of your twins and forget all about the two boxes of butter in the oven. Suddenly you'll smell the delicious odor of melted butter and wonder where it was coming from. Then you'll run over to the oven and see the butter dripping down onto the bottom of your oven, the oven that you'll spend the next hour cleaning out.

So just don't do it. Maybe it's best to use cold butter. Or better yet, just go out and buy some cookies.

Not that this happened to me, you understand.