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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 2:48AM / Standard Entry / Members only
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I'm having 3 friends over for a light supper (too light to call dinner) tonight, after which we're going to play Wizard and watch American Idol.

I cleaned house yesterday, then started assembling the ingredients for hot chicken salad this morning. Things were going well until I decided to have a toasted cheese sandwich for lunch. I got distracted and it burnt in the toaster oven. What a nasty lingering odor burning bread leaves! I opened the front and back doors and turned on the ceiling fans. Then I did a quick internet search for helpful hints on how to get rid of a burnt smell in the house.

One suggestion was to set out bowls of white vinegar. My favorite suggestion was to soak a bath towel in white vinegar and water, wring it out, then walk through the room where the smell is the strongest, slinging the towel around in a circle over your head. Supposedly the towel will absorb the burned smell. That may be, and it sounded like fun, but I had visions of cleaning up water splatters from all over the kitchen and dining room floors and walls. AND a fear of being committed if someone should come to the door and see me twirling around the kitchen/dining area with a wet towel over my head. lol I stuck to the bowls of vinegar and it does seem to have helped. As fate would have it, I recently bought a bottle of white vinegar, instead of the golden variety, though that might have worked also.

But what helped the most was the homemade chocolate fudge pie I just baked. I do love an excuse to make a pie. Now I have a new one. If the house smells, it must be time for chocolate fudge pie.

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Seeker-09
posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:33PM [Report]

lol @ the thought of the vinegar soaked towel cure, you were wise to go w/ the bowl haha. sounds like a fun evening!
mhough
posted on Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:14AM [Report]

Ughh...I totally dislike that smell of burnt toast.

apparently vanilla essence in a bowl also helps...I don't know.

But the chocolate fudge pie sounds divine!

I need a new stove.......mine throws sparks everytime I want to switch on the grill for the oven. So it has become a touch and jump scenario. Then the element goes....and then I hear my neighbour (who is a handyman) knocking on the door...."hello - it's me - the man who is bringing you sorrow - who will never allow you to have a new stove..." and he fixes it again.

I think I'm gonna push the stove into the pool one of these days.!
JoanneSanderson
posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 5:45PM [Report]

That towel tip sounds more like a witches ceremony :D. Vinegar seems to have a cure for everything. Burnt bread is a terribly smell, I must remember this tip for the future!

Although I love the homemade pie tip better ;)
Flagday
posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 7:01AM [Report]

ahahaha  I like the towel tip.  I wonder how many people did just that only to have to clean up vinegar splatters over everything.

Enjoy your supper.  Sounds good to me!

What's Wizard?  I know.  Look it up.