


{"id":358,"date":"2011-09-07T19:58:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T09:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=358"},"modified":"2015-05-21T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T23:50:40","slug":"how-not-to-cook-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/how-not-to-cook-that\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not To Cook That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-718\" title=\"IMG_1415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1415-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"melted scissors\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1415-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1415-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1415-400x299.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1415-1200x900-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My baby was asleep so I had at least 40 minutes to make a chocolate glaze, tidy the house and do the washing. \u00a0Previous recipes for chocolate glaze that I had used did not give the thick coat and smooth mirror finish that I was after, so I was trying a new recipe.<\/p>\n<p>The glaze was heating on the stovetop when&#8230; he woke up, it had only been ten minutes since I had put him down. \u00a0I quickly flicked off the stove top, moved the pan onto a different element\u00a0and headed upstairs to bub. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t settle him and ended up giving him a feed.<\/p>\n<p>I started to smell something strange and I thought perhaps the heater in his room was dying, so I switched it off. \u00a0When I eventually went downstairs there was a haze and a strong chemical melting rubber smell (the smoke alarm had not gone off).<\/p>\n<p>I had turned the controls of the wrong hotplate element. \u00a0So instead of switching the one off I had turned another on. \u00a0There happened to be a pair of scissors on that hotplate&#8230; well they are not scissors anymore.<\/p>\n<p>And to top it off the galacage recipe was terrible, it turned out gritty. \u00a0I have since found a great <a title=\"Chocolate Glacage [glassage]\/ Chocolate Mirror Glaze\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/chocolate-glacage-glassage-chocolate-mirror-glaze\/\">galacage recipe&#8230; click to go to that recipe.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/how-not-to-cook-that\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>My baby was asleep so I had at least 40 minutes to make a chocolate glaze, tidy the house and do the washing. \u00a0Previous recipes for chocolate glaze that I had used did not give the thick coat and smooth mirror finish that I was after, so I was trying a new recipe. The glaze was heating on the stovetop when&#8230; he woke up, it had only been ten minutes since I had put him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[31,523,2602,275,274,521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7824,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/7824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}