Honey... Do I Smell Something Burning!

Oh Bhai! I'm so sorry Bahu can't come visit. Write me if you need to talk. To answer your question, yes I have forgotten to get my clothes out of the washer Or to empty the dishwasher ! But it wasn't because I was on the phone, no! It was because I found a good show to watch on t.v. If I don't put on the timer to remind me... I Will forget.

Oh it happened to me too dear buddy!I was talking to a senior recruiter of some surveys..that time I was surprised receiving a call from her and she just called to tell me some stories about her when suddenly I smelled the rice I am cooking,smells like overcooked! I cut our talk and told her about it. But then she txted me and said that she was disappointed with me 'cause she is not yet finished with her story,oh my! Hey buddy,just stay being a good hubby to your wife. You know sometimes,we can't help but to feel jealous over anything if our hubbies are not with us. Take care!

Dear Sidhu, Then what you ate in dinner, you made food again, so sad to hear. I think you were upset with the news and forgot about the cooking part. If a calls comes in mobile I can still monitor the cooking too while talking, but if the call is on landline then it is not possible. in that case before picking the call, I do necessary steps in kitchen. If my hubby is there then he will pick the call. I am sure if I go any other work in between cooking, definitely something happen badly. Even if the flame is low milk will flow out for sure, I am that much lucky person. It is ok if the milk gone but cleaning the stuff, that is ridiculous. Note: Next week there is many holidays and She will come for sure.

Hello thesids, Affectionate, gentle and accommodating : if you are not a perfect cook, you have all the qualities of a good husband. It never happened to me during a phone call, but I forgot two times my meal on the stove because I was having fun on myLot. It is not a disaster, just more dishes.

With me it's the tea kettle. I put it on to boil and then go up to the computer while I wait and forget all about the water. Now I start the water, set up the pot, and ask my husband, who is already downstairs, to please pour the water when it starts to boil. This seems to work out. Sorry your wife can't be home with you.

I experience burning the one i was cooking when i watched a t.v. and chatting with a relative on the next house thru a window of our kitchen. But i never experience burning a meal over the stove because of a phone call.hehehe. Its okay as long as you were the only one left starving when your going to start to cook another meal but you will be very frustrated if someone is also waiting for that meal to be cooked. :)

AH, yes....multiple times! Many a wasted hour...spent, scrubbing, rubbing, scraping...soaking the blackened, burnt pots, and the only thing that is good for is TIME for reflection, with a re-occuring thought..YOU WILL NOT DO this again! Worst item, Pasta! Oh, the dilemna..as I try to get my weather-worn hands with huge scrubber down into every nook...and cranny, and make the pot look like nothing happened! I hate those words; "Mum, did you forget something on the stove..again?" You see, in my culture...the young relate AGE to forgetfulness.....and they are always looking for minute signs of memory retardation! LOL! Course, I always have to test my own mental agility..with an innate amount of multi-tasking...and can get easily DISTRACTED! I have had to rescue myself...with multiple timers! Thank goodness..they are one of the few kitchen gadgets...below $2.00! They seem to be the commonality in my home decor... I had to come up with a "one woman rescue plan"...OR be placed in the group of "old folks"...!

At least you have made us learned that you actually cook. Smile..Congrats to that.. But next time, manage everything well. Have the phone or the computer placed near the kitchen..where you can still take a look at the stove... And feel sorry that you are away from your wifey. You have the phone to keep in touch with her, anyway.

I don't have such incident as I don't like phone calls but if I am not mistaken my sister did leave a hot iron on the clothing too long while she get a phone call from her friend. What the worst that's her favorite clothes.(^^) Anyway stay be the good one, brother~(^^)

You were so focused on your conversation at the phone, hence you forgot about what you are cooking, sids. Well, that happens most of the time for those who do two things at a time and for me also. But hey, you can do it in front of what you are cooking. But that is, if it's a mobile phone or a wireless land line phone. So, were you able to eat it still?

Hi thesids, Hope u have decided to visit your wife during the weekend/coming week & oh sorry to hear that mess. When we are so much involved in other things (tv, phone, gossip etc)and we forget about the kitchen affair, only the burning smell remind us that we left the job half done. However i do always take care to lower the sim whenever i have to attend something else that way there are less chances of any such accidents. I have to take extra care as in the morning hours i do a lot of multi tasks and some short cuts to finish the household chores before leaving for work. The milk get over spilled at times as i don't use a milk cooker / boiler. I think once a while i can clean that mess.. take care

Hello Thesids, Oh My God glad that you realized your meal is burning before it can burn your kitchen, it is really dangerous. I have neighbor who got their house completely burned down because they forgot that they were making dinner. I understand that sometime when we got a call it can distract our mind and make us forgot what we are doing. Well last wednesday my mom was making dinner when suddenly we got a call from a neighbor who informed us that their mother passed away, my mom did not tell me that she was boiling chicken for dinner. so my mother went out to the neighbor and everyone was not aware until i smelled something burn. I ran and quickly turned off the stove. oh my God, the chicken looked burning but glad that we can still eat it, it was just like roasted chicken When my mom got home, she was like "dont inform your father and just tell him that our dinner tonight is roasted chicken" Glad that my father never found out that it was actually a burned chicken.

Hi Godson Sorry that you nearly ate a charred food... and that your wifey is not there with you all the time as she's working far from your home. As for me, I haven't forgot the food. Sometimes I had to switch off the burner so that the food won't get charred when there is an important call. The other day I was boiling a rice and doing other things when I forgot about the rice.... good thing, a friend saw that it needs to have a little more water otherwise rice will be a little uncooked. I dont know how to boil rice in a stove, I just know how to use the rice cooker

Oh well, that was a good conversation, with another topic and of course close and personal. I had a similar experience two weeks ago. Somebody called me on my phone so I went ahead and answered. We had a good conversation that lasted for sometime. Then suddenly, I smelled something awful. I remembered that I had been frying something and I totally forgot because I was immersed with my conversation. It smells bad that I had to buy for another meal.

hi thesids not while on the phone b ut when I was still in our apartment i would get so involved and engrossed in mylotting that I scorched the rice and oh the odor plus it was going to ruin the dish I was trying to make.as rice is not a dish I love with any passion but a food that will shoot up my blood sugar I substituted pasta with a delicious spaghetti tomato pasta sauce over the veggies and had my own delicious spaghetti via Hatley so it was not a total loss. but the burnt food in the best saucepan I owned was a really tedious job getting it clean again.And I had never found an easy way to get burnt on food off a stainless steel saucepan. Now I do not get to cook as I am in this tiresome retirement center so do no cooking at all. I really do miss that too specially my own spaghetti hatley.

Well not just talking on the phone, also whilst being on the computer. Often times when I cook it's right after getting home, and my routine is to also use the comnputer so that I can earn more. I've burnt a few things by accident and had to dump it down the drain because of it.

Oh yes...among other things that tend to distract me...lol. I would have been very distracted by a phone call like that too. As far as my relationship with myLot, well, it tends to distract me as well. I think my b/f may be a bit jealous sometimes too but he has his own things that keep him busy for the most part. He is usually downstairs playing his instruments when I am myLotting. I am not much of an audience all the time although I do support his passion for music.

No food stories come to mind immediately, but only a few weeks ago I got a phone call from my oldest daughter. She was having a bit of a problem and wanted to talk with me about it. I got so involved with talking to her and trying to help her with her problem that I almost forgot to pick my little one up from pre-school! I had to rush there, and fortunately I was only a couple of minutes late, but my little one was not very happy that I had "fogotten" her.

It seems you have to get alarm clock.. kidding! We'll just give your wife kisses and hugs over the phone, when she visits you it's payback time I'm sure..

Lol. That's funny if it's not dangerous. I always get too involved in calls, I'm a talker! Most of the time I forget to eat for hours because I was on the phone during the time. I get distracted easily.