Do you forget to set the timer when baking?

Hello, maddysmommy. Well, if forgetting to set the timer occasionally means a person is a lousy baker, I guess we are all lousy bakers! That is a bummer that the cookies got burned, but usually, it is possible to salvage a bite or 2 or at least a chocolate chip here and there when that happens. I've always thought baking is much tougher than cooking because it's hard to salvage a baking mistake! But, maddysmommy, please be comforted in the fact that all of us have burned a batch of cookies at some point in our life. It just makes our future cookies better! Take care. PearlGrace

back in my high school days, i was trying to learn how to bake. i forgot to time my first ever cookies and it burned. my neighbor even knocked on our door and informed my mom that they think our baked cookies/cake (they guessed) were burnt already because they can smell them even up to their house. it's pretty embarrassing... and no one ate my cookies, no one even tried to taste them =(

I do not bake much, but I am the super master of forgetting things in the oven. So I always set the alarm on my cell phone when something goes in there. If not it will move diectly from oven to bin.

Instead of the timer, I at times forgot the power switch. The timer is not an issue for me since I do remember somethings need monitoring. It is often after about 15 minutes I realised the power is not on. LOL.

LOL thanks i dont have to cook, so i am not worried about it take care

hahaha, dont worry you are not alone for doing such thing. i remember one time i did it and i swear i totally forgot that i am baking something till i smell the burnt cookies LOL do you do your cookies from scratch or like me you depend on the ready to bake one? now you make me want to baked a new set of cookies, i am trying not to bake something as much as i can coz i am trying to help my hubby (same goes with me) to lose some weight but now i am kinda wanting some. takecare

LOL! You poor thing! And that poor first batch of cookies. Don't feel bad at all though. I can't count the number of times I've forgotten to set the timer on the oven or forgotten to hit the start button. I won't call it being a lousy baker at all. I chalk mine up to having 'mommy brain'--too many things on it and not enough time in a day to focus on all of them.

Oh, its not just you! There are times that I forget too. In fact the other day I just burned the bottom of the biscuits so you couldn't eat them, had to eat the top off only. Not so good that way! :-)

No i dont think that makes you a bad baker. Just have a brain fart is all you had. LOL around this house we store some stuff in the oven when its not in use. More times then i can remember we have turned on the oven and then remembered there was stuff in the oven. Also a couple times there were plastic bowls with left over halloween candy in them that have totally gotten melted down. So that doesnt make you a bad baker.

We don't have a timer. I always wanted one. I did have one once but it broke and I never got one again. I never forgot to set the timer when I lived with my mom who has one on her oven.

I never set the timer on anything I cook. I just have a good sense of time I guess and never burn anything.

I forget the timer most of the time. Good thing my guys love burnt foods. They fight over the burned parts of the meatloaf and ham casserole. I just burnt artichokes tonight. They were not tasty IMO, but we are not wasting food here, so I ate mine without complaint. Ok, without outward complaint, but inwardly, I was wishing I had turned the timer on!

Yes , I have and have burnt many batches of cookies . I am now starting to get the hang of the whole timing thing . I was once famous for burning a whole pot rost dinner for not adding water.

Ya sometimes I also do such silly mistakes. You just not need to feel that u are a lousy baker. It happens sometimes in life

Yes, I also forget to set timers, but what's even worse, somemtimes I even forget to include the flour, or baking powder when I am baking! So don't tell me you are a lousy baker!!

LOL So funny I do that all the time. But in this house the oven doesnt have a timer. And you know what I think Im going to get one of those timers at walmart.

I hate when I do that! Then you go back and set the timer and pretend like you actually remember how long the food has been in there...ha ha. I cross my fingers and obsessively keep watch over the oven.

I am always forgetting to set the timer when I am baking something. Some things are not so critical on time, but when you forget to set the timer on some cookies it is VERY easy to burn them.

I do that too sometimes. I set the timer but forget the start button. You're not a lousy baker.... we all do that once and a while.

The other day I found my bag of onions in the freezer, so I guess we just do silly things at times