Someday I'll remember

[highplainsdem]

to look for the meat thermometer more than 5 minutes before I need it.

Or just put it away in the same drawer every time.

Or buy a meat thermometer for every drawer and hope they don't migrate, or the kitchen gremlins don't make off with them....

[PJMcK]

1. I bought one about 3 or 4 years ago

It’s a digital model and it has magnets on its back so I can stick it on the side of the refrigerator or stove. It’s always handy and simple to use.

Still, your post is amusing!

[highplainsdem]

8. It had never even occurred to me to get one that could be stuck on the fridge. Though that's

probably because until last winter I always had a cat or cats here who believed a top responsibility (to the extent cats have responsibilities) was removing any magnets from the fridge.

Which sometimes involved the very downhill cat race down the front of the fridge.

After which I got to retrieve the magnets and whatever they'd been holding there from UNDER the fridge, while the cat or cats watched and directed.

[3catwoman3]

20. Our tuxie girl loves to peel magnets...

...off the fridge. I didn't know other cats did this.

Our mackerel tabby guy cat discovered that he can take one claw and removed keys from a computer keyboard.

The magnet thing is funny. The keyboard thing is not.

[Wicked Blue]

2. or you could stop eating meat

[highplainsdem]

9. I did try to become a vegetarian once. That lasted a week. These days my diet

is fairly close to, but not exactly, paleo.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. I made a little hanger on the wall above the stove, so it's always visible and within reach. nt

[highplainsdem]

10. Good idea...and I'm guessing you don't have cats.

[Binkie The Clown]

15. I've had cats all my life, but sadly, no furry companions at this moment. nt

[highplainsdem]

16. Same here. Cats for decades...and with the last one I'd actually turn off the stove's breaker

before going out for any length of time, since I couldn't trust him to stay off the stove (including when I was cooking anything in an open pan). So I couldn't hang things up at heights he could reach, if it might be difficult to secure them. (And then there were the years I had a parrot whose wings weren't clipped, who loved to chew picture frames...and books, and any clothes left out, etc.)

But I haven't had a cat, or any pet, for a year now...

[Binkie The Clown]

18. I'd love to get another cat, but at my age the cat would outlive me, and that's not fair to the cat.

[ret5hd]

4. You are probably targeted by a variation of...

“The Underpants Gnomes”:

[highplainsdem]

11. LOL! Never saw that before. Love it!

[Iggo]

5. With me, it's checking to see if the clippers are charged before I give myself a buzzcut.

Some day.

[highplainsdem]

12. Never had a buzzcut, but I can imagine what a problem that could be.

[Iggo]

17. At this point, it's more like mowing the lawn than getting a haircut.

But if they ain’t charged, it’s like running out of gas with half the lawn done.

And that ain’t no fun. 😂😂😂

[dhol82]

6. Just a variety of that problem the other day

I have a stand mixer. The various bits and pieces are still strewn about after a move.
I was making a very complicated cake recipe and just pulled out a hand mixer. Needed the stand mixer. In the middle of everything I went looking for the whip attachment which was nowhere to be found.
Pain in the ass time.


Have rearranged to make it easier next time.

[highplainsdem]

13. Argh, how frustrating! Now you just have to hope you can find that attachment next

time. I've discovered I sometimes have more trouble finding stuff after one of those rearrangements to make finding things easier. Sigh...

[Skittles]

7. f***

I went looking for mine and I cannot find it

[highplainsdem]

14. I hope you didn't have a roast in the oven. Mine ended up nearly 10 degrees above the temp I'd

wanted by the time I finally found the meat thermometer, but fortunately it was still edible.

And I got most of the mess I'd made of the kitchen drawers -- which looked like a small tornado had hit them -- straightened out during the 10 minutes of stand time before I could slice the roast.

[Skittles]

19. naw I wasn't cooking anything

I was thinking, I can't believe they don't know where their meat thermometer is, I know where mine is

*I did find it later, it's on the top stove part next to the wall

[dhol82]

21. ......

I def should do things like that periodically.