five thousand shades of blue
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
It's extremely unfortunate to discover, too late, that your springform pan is not completely watertight. Egg (quiche) goes everywhere. Leaky eggy springform pan gets put hastily into a stoneware platter and the whole thing gets baked anyway, with another batch of egg filling after the leaked egg is cooked enough to form a seal. The end result is a pretty delicious quiche with a risotto base... but turned cleanup into something of a nightmare.
This would have been much easier with a sink of hothot water, soap, and a scrubbie. However, in keeping with health code, we only have a handwashing sink and therefore can only do dishes in a commercial dishwasher. With a two minute cycle, scrubbing power is greatly sacrificed for speed -- meaning that it just has to be run a million and one times, with occasional scrubs with a bottle brush in between cycles to loosen the baked on stuff, to get difficult stuff off of dishes. And then, of course, tiny bits of egg covered everything in there, until finally I had to drain the water, clean out the inside of the dishwasher, and refill it. Everything's ok now but my goodness, I didn't think I'd ever make that egg go away.
At least it wasn't dried oatmeal, which as everyone knows renders a plate or bowl completely useless and just has to be pitched.
And yes, this is in fact the most exciting blog entry ever written! So there. ;)
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