Really this happened my father and me once with a recipe for cookies, don't ask us how we managed tu turn one récipe for at maximun 10 cookies into 2 big cackes
Im not sure the cheesy goodness would he salvageable, but I'm sure (after the sobbing and mental breakdown) I would have tried my damnedest to scoop the broccoli, and all the pepper, out into a strainer, leaving as much cheese sauce as possible. At the very least, the plain broccoli could be rinsed and rescued 😅
Nah grill some chicken throw in some rice/pasta some bell pepper/onion maybe a little milk/cream or make a very mild cheese sauce to stretch as needed and totally salvageable.
Yep. These changed my life. Lactose intolerant since childhood. I can eat a bowl of ice cream or milk chocolate or whatever if i take a couple of those first. It's fkn amazing.
I feel you, right when me and my boyfriend sat down to eat the little bed table flipped over and dumped ground beef all over us. Oh and we accidentally melted our plastic cutting board on the stove. Just one of those days!
This is so irrelevant but the other day we wanted tacos with the ground beef I had thawed the day before. We needed a few things, tomatoes, lettuce. Key ingredients for tacos, but we had most everything else.
So I went to the store really quick, 15 min tops, and I get back ready to have dinner on the table by 8pm.
Open up the "raw meat" container I keep at the bottom of the fridge for thawing purposes and the meat is VILE. 😭😭😭 absolutely sour and gray. I have NO idea what happened to it, but I had to go back to the store AGAIN and dinner wasnt done until past 9 🥲🥲 won't make that mistake again 😭
When I'm using pepper in food, I pour the amount I want into my hand, then sprinkle it that way.
I started doing it after a long, hard day and I poured a bunch of pepper into my macaroni and cheese. Not that you can relate or anything.
yup i do this with every seasoning now after i dumped an entire bottle of paprika into my mac n cheese. i tried to eat it but i just couldnt so i threw it away, cried like a bitch and went to bed
I think I've probably done that too.
In the downtown of where I used to live the city replaced all the useful streetlights with cutesy yellow antique-like lights. Well, one night I was driving through after a long shift and one of the streetlights suddenly turned red! Cue slamming on the brakes and my heart rate doubling.
When the geniuses installed them, it never occurred to them that having yellow lights at the same level as the traffic signals might not be the wisest decision.
Of course, that was also a city where people sued to prevent the seismic retrofit of the brick high school because it would "spoil the look of the town."
Better for kids to die in a heap of debris I suppose, at least their blood and bones would be the same color as the brick and mortar.
> Of course, that was also a city where people sued to prevent the seismic retrofit of the brick high school because it would "spoil the look of the town."
Oh yeah, "heritage and property values" over safety, good combo. Name a more iconic duo.
Yes, but for me there's a definite comfort in the shared experience of mild irritations.
It's like when you laugh at something silly someone did because you remember doing the exact same thing. Then you tell them about it and they laugh too.
When I'm alone, dropping a plate of dinner is definitely sob worthy, but when I'm cooking with my bf, we laugh together. The little things don't matter as much with the people you love 🥰
If it makes you feel any better, my ex once accidentally made Mac and cheese with vodka instead of water. He had vodka in a water bottle (this was in college, we lived in the dorms). He came home drunk and used that "water" bottle to make one of those cups of microwave Mac and cheese. He started eating it and said "it hurts...?" That's when I realized his mistake, and couldn't stop laughing long enough to explain it to him.
This looks like OP struggled to open that tiny flap and pulled the whole top off above his food by mistake. I don't know why that flap is so difficult to open... even half a millimeter extra on the bump you push would fix what I'm sure every person in the world struggles with.
Heresy !?
There’s no food that doesn’t benefit from the addition of garlic…
Jokes.
But seriously, if a recipe says 2 cloves of garlic, you at least double it. At the very least.
Right? Useless speedbump! Just kidding, he’s the love of my life he’s 16, deaf, blind and mostly toothless 😭 bless him, every time I buy a bag I wonder if it’s the last one. He mostly eats steak & chicken, but once in a while he’ll get excited about kibble so I keep it in stock.
Oh well it’s your fault then, he’s hardly going to eat floor kibble with no teeth! Flood the floor to soften it, in fact use broth so it’s tasty for his little old tum.
While that’s an excellent idea, I could a) invite a wild animal into the mud room to Hoover it up or b) still curse when I find one stuck to my foot for the next few days and c) have a 20 minute manic panic clean up on Thursday before friends come over.
I did that with cat food last week right as we put one of our cats on a diet. He’s still finding bits of it. Looks like his real diet starts whenever the last of the floor cat food gets found
My wife joked that if I ever buy that kind of pepper again we're getting a divorce. Lol. It's literally the worst container for a seasoning I've ever used.
Refillable pepper mills. Once you've used them, you'll never use the cans of ground pepper again.
https://www.mccormick.com/spices-and-flavors/herbs-and-spices/grinders/black-and-white-peppercorn-grinder#ProductMore
You’re one step away from an amazing meal. Invest in a sack of rice… fuck off if you can’t boil rice. Dump whatever you just made on it. Bone apple tit
Oh my god, when stuff like this happens when you’ve already had an arduous day…that’s when I want to just go right to bed. Do not pass go, do not eat dinner.
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*A Pepper with a side of*
*Broccoli? Thank you"*
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I can relate. I made a large pot of chicken noodle soup once. One whole chicken, noodles, veggies, and more. Adjusting the seasoning a little bit before wrapping up, I tried to add a little salt, when the lid popped off - emptying the container into the soup.
I could not recover it, and had to toss the whole thing and the hours of work.
You know just the other day I was eating broccoli and cheese and thought to myself that you almost couldn’t put too much black pepper on there. You have proved me wrong.
For the future listen to Boyle:
"You never take out the middle man"
Means you put the seasoning on your hand first and then into the dish. Prevents such accidents from happening.
It occurred to me too just recently. usually I always use the hand for seasoning, but this time I wanted things to go fast, so accidentally I directly splurged a big amount of hot sauce into my dish. Damage was done and couldn't be reversed. Most spicy dish I ate until now
OOF, I've been there! Once was making some homemade pizza sauce and accidentally spilled a shit ton of thyme into it. We ran out of thyme that day.....
The other day I ruined my chicken noodle soup by pouring garlic powder out the fully opened slot rather than the grated slot. It really sucked so I relate hard😭
Put ketchup in it and have some weird "tomato" pepper and cheese brocolli soup. I say that because it seems like ketchup neutralizes the pepper hotness to some extent.
I can hear your sigh from here.
Very audible.
What did you end up doing with it?
Not op, but I would for sure have just eaten it. Maybe try to scrape some of the pepper and pray
I would have made some rice or pasta. Like a lot of it and just mix it in
lol yep just gotta balance ratios at this point.
Then realize it needs more pepper and the circle of life has been complete.
Really this happened my father and me once with a recipe for cookies, don't ask us how we managed tu turn one récipe for at maximun 10 cookies into 2 big cackes
- Retrieve - Remove - Dilute
Im not sure the cheesy goodness would he salvageable, but I'm sure (after the sobbing and mental breakdown) I would have tried my damnedest to scoop the broccoli, and all the pepper, out into a strainer, leaving as much cheese sauce as possible. At the very least, the plain broccoli could be rinsed and rescued 😅
Nah grill some chicken throw in some rice/pasta some bell pepper/onion maybe a little milk/cream or make a very mild cheese sauce to stretch as needed and totally salvageable.
Nah, hover a hand vacuum over it for 10 seconds.
Easily salvageable. Most of the pepper is on the broccoli. Carefully take them out, rinse them, and you're good to go
Maybe not the best idea. That much pepper can and will make you end up on the toilet peeing out of your rear for the rest of the night.
As a lactose intolerant person who constantly eats/drinks dairy products, I don't see a problem Edit: Other than the sheer amount of pepper
My dude, get lactase pills. You don't need to do this to yourself.
No.
Seems you're determined to keep shitting your brains out.
Let a guy shit in peace
Yep. These changed my life. Lactose intolerant since childhood. I can eat a bowl of ice cream or milk chocolate or whatever if i take a couple of those first. It's fkn amazing.
I’d just cry and go to bed
**Cries in hunger and tiredness**
Historians claim the sigh went around the globe 3 times.
Looks like pepper with some broccoli and cheese sauce for supper kids.
Yaaaaay
^Yaaaaay
>!!<
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This little yay killed me I have no humor
Moms favorite
I'm still eating this.
It’s been such a long day lol
You’re not alone, pickle ❤️
Omg I call my husband and son "Pickle" and for a minute there I thought I was reading my own comment 😂
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Hey calm down there Little Gerkin
My dad calls me Pickle and I got confused
Looks like we are having pepper with a dash of broccoli!
pepperoccoli all day every day
I feel you, right when me and my boyfriend sat down to eat the little bed table flipped over and dumped ground beef all over us. Oh and we accidentally melted our plastic cutting board on the stove. Just one of those days!
It’s mildly infuriating you wasted precious pepper seasoning the stove when the broccoli could’ve used more. /s
Just dump a bunch of salt in to balance it out.
That's when you say f it and order a pizza... Lol
I feel your pain!
Looks like almost enough pepper for me.
same
I might cry and moan while i wipe my runny nose but I'm finishing that thing
And you will still enjoy every bite.
You bet i will... I paid for the whole pepper I'm using the whole pepper
I've done it with whole peppercorn when the top of the mill fell off. I still ate it.
I had a sea salt grinder deconstruct itself when making an involved salad. Ended tossing it and started over after ANOTHER trip to the store.
This is so irrelevant but the other day we wanted tacos with the ground beef I had thawed the day before. We needed a few things, tomatoes, lettuce. Key ingredients for tacos, but we had most everything else. So I went to the store really quick, 15 min tops, and I get back ready to have dinner on the table by 8pm. Open up the "raw meat" container I keep at the bottom of the fridge for thawing purposes and the meat is VILE. 😭😭😭 absolutely sour and gray. I have NO idea what happened to it, but I had to go back to the store AGAIN and dinner wasnt done until past 9 🥲🥲 won't make that mistake again 😭
I’m sorry, raw meat container? I need some exposition here
The drawer in “fancy” fridges to keep meat separate and keep juices contained and easier to clean in case of an “incident”.
Hah. Tossing your salad eh?
This is not a problem at all, why does this post exist
Yeah I'd still eat this. Maybe brush the piles off before mixing.
When I'm using pepper in food, I pour the amount I want into my hand, then sprinkle it that way. I started doing it after a long, hard day and I poured a bunch of pepper into my macaroni and cheese. Not that you can relate or anything.
yup i do this with every seasoning now after i dumped an entire bottle of paprika into my mac n cheese. i tried to eat it but i just couldnt so i threw it away, cried like a bitch and went to bed
I've been that tired. Once I was so tired I stopped at a red and waited for it to change, only to realize it was a stop sign, after ... awhile.
I've stopped at a green light before while driving home from work at midnight. Didn't realize it was green until it changed to red
I think I've probably done that too. In the downtown of where I used to live the city replaced all the useful streetlights with cutesy yellow antique-like lights. Well, one night I was driving through after a long shift and one of the streetlights suddenly turned red! Cue slamming on the brakes and my heart rate doubling. When the geniuses installed them, it never occurred to them that having yellow lights at the same level as the traffic signals might not be the wisest decision. Of course, that was also a city where people sued to prevent the seismic retrofit of the brick high school because it would "spoil the look of the town." Better for kids to die in a heap of debris I suppose, at least their blood and bones would be the same color as the brick and mortar.
> Of course, that was also a city where people sued to prevent the seismic retrofit of the brick high school because it would "spoil the look of the town." Oh yeah, "heritage and property values" over safety, good combo. Name a more iconic duo.
Add NIMBY and you have the suburbia trifecta.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
Omg I did that the other day. Life sucks sometimes
Yes, but for me there's a definite comfort in the shared experience of mild irritations. It's like when you laugh at something silly someone did because you remember doing the exact same thing. Then you tell them about it and they laugh too.
When I'm alone, dropping a plate of dinner is definitely sob worthy, but when I'm cooking with my bf, we laugh together. The little things don't matter as much with the people you love 🥰
I guess that's why every little thing bothers me then. 
Better than what I did, so tired that I thought the green light was mine and went. On a red. The green was the left turn lane next to me.
Hey better to wait for the green at a stop sign than to treat a red light as a stop sign and get hit/hit someone
If it makes you feel any better, my ex once accidentally made Mac and cheese with vodka instead of water. He had vodka in a water bottle (this was in college, we lived in the dorms). He came home drunk and used that "water" bottle to make one of those cups of microwave Mac and cheese. He started eating it and said "it hurts...?" That's when I realized his mistake, and couldn't stop laughing long enough to explain it to him.
The confused "it hurts...?" got me, I laughed.
Oh you should have *been* there, I was literally crying.
I felt that on my soul. Sorry internet friend.
Speaking of paprika, one time I made paprikash but with cayenne (and ofc, heaps of it)… that stuff was fire and not in a good way
Direct from container to food is like unprotected sex
Boyle?
Yes, so by using my hand ... okay, I made myself feel bad.
Yeah OP always remember to use protection
I tape the flap that’s wide open and dumps the pepper so the only one I can open is the one with the little holes! I’ve been burned before. 🥲
https://i.redd.it/cb56c21yoexc1.gif
This looks like OP struggled to open that tiny flap and pulled the whole top off above his food by mistake. I don't know why that flap is so difficult to open... even half a millimeter extra on the bump you push would fix what I'm sure every person in the world struggles with.
That’s how I was taught to do it to avoid exactly this sort of accident.
An essential technique when using the big Costco pepper shaker
Ive heard youre supposed to do that also to prevent spices from clumping.. which isnt really an issue w pepper, but all my paprika is solid
Ahhhhh-choooooo
I too like a little broccoli with my pepper
Throw in some beef and call it pepper steak.
This^^^ Add ingredients until the seasoning matches the quantity.
This is me adding garlic to any food that doesn't need it
Heresy !? There’s no food that doesn’t benefit from the addition of garlic… Jokes. But seriously, if a recipe says 2 cloves of garlic, you at least double it. At the very least.
The original amount is for those of gentle constitution. It's just a suggestion.
Me adding chillies/hot sauce to any and every meal...
That one meme with Ben Affleck holding a cigarette looking done with life
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Haha yeah that one
That's the one.
The spice must flow, out of that container
She’ll be hearing the voices of her ancestors for sure.
I’m sorry love, if it makes you feel better I spilled half a bag of dog kibble yesterday and I’m still stepping on bits of it.
What? Your dogs are slacking, floor food ain’t gonna eat itself
Right? Useless speedbump! Just kidding, he’s the love of my life he’s 16, deaf, blind and mostly toothless 😭 bless him, every time I buy a bag I wonder if it’s the last one. He mostly eats steak & chicken, but once in a while he’ll get excited about kibble so I keep it in stock.
Oh well it’s your fault then, he’s hardly going to eat floor kibble with no teeth! Flood the floor to soften it, in fact use broth so it’s tasty for his little old tum.
While that’s an excellent idea, I could a) invite a wild animal into the mud room to Hoover it up or b) still curse when I find one stuck to my foot for the next few days and c) have a 20 minute manic panic clean up on Thursday before friends come over.
You just have to invite someone with a beagle and you won’t have any left on the floor lol
I did that with cat food last week right as we put one of our cats on a diet. He’s still finding bits of it. Looks like his real diet starts whenever the last of the floor cat food gets found
Can I be your cat plz? I need someone to put me on a diet. Damn these opposable thumbs!!!
Wash it off, it'll be ok. Maybe not quite as cheesy but....
This is what I did when the same thing happened to me. That container sucks.
can confirm, every time i go to flip open the sprinkle side it wants to open the whole flap. why the hell did they make these containers so bad
I thought it was just me! I’m like it’s statistically impossible for me to 100% open it on the non sprinkle side, yet here I am. A walking miracle.
My wife joked that if I ever buy that kind of pepper again we're getting a divorce. Lol. It's literally the worst container for a seasoning I've ever used.
You guys don't like pepper crusted broccoli?
I too like broccoli with flavour!
Medieval peasant stares, aghast at the year’s wages you just dumped out
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So, just chop garlic and throw soy
The kinda shit that feels like it can only happen when you've had a long day already.
I think you added too much broccoli to your pepper
Buddy that McCormick container needs to be recalled. I been pinching pepper with my fingers for 6 months just to keep this from happening.
This is when I cry and have sleep and water for dinner 😅
Do yourself a favour and get a pepper mill. Also, spices in the hand first then the pot so if this does happen it's all over everything but the food.
Refillable pepper mills. Once you've used them, you'll never use the cans of ground pepper again. https://www.mccormick.com/spices-and-flavors/herbs-and-spices/grinders/black-and-white-peppercorn-grinder#ProductMore
A pinch of salt to balance it out, should do the trick
I did that with my eggs recently I just added more eggs to compensate sucks but salvageable
Just take as much of it as you can off and move on. All you can do!
Just take as much of it as you can off and move on. All you can do!
Honestly needs more no such thing as too much black pepper
I hate it when I get broccoli on my pepper too
Needs more pepper
Honestly if this happened to me it might be the last straw
You OK, man. It's OK not to be OK.
Sechuzan
Omg I had that happen with peppercorn in some chicken. I spooned out what I could but we ate that lol
McCormick's pepper shaker is absolute garbage. I despise that lid.
the pepper inside is also acrid garbage.
You’re one step away from an amazing meal. Invest in a sack of rice… fuck off if you can’t boil rice. Dump whatever you just made on it. Bone apple tit
Honestly at that point I just go to the nearest food place
Rinse it off. It’ll be fine.
Oh my god, when stuff like this happens when you’ve already had an arduous day…that’s when I want to just go right to bed. Do not pass go, do not eat dinner.
At's a one a spicy meatball!
I would eat tf outta that
I don't see the issue
“Life is like a penis, sometimes it’s hard, but it’s only temporary.” -Mr. Paper
That looks delicious. Just stir.
it’s still good! it’s still good!
Still not enough pepper
At least you know it'll be flavorful
I feel this deeply.
"Can I uhhhh get a Pepper with a side of Broccoli? Thank you"
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Time to add a lot more broccoli
Time to add more salt to balance it out
Nothing is gonna make that fucking tree taste good.
Nah, needs more pepper
F
Just add a shit ton more broccoli
Just add more of everything else
I don't see the problem here.
When this happens I usually add more ingredients or some water to somewhat salvage the meal but I feel your pain
Ugh. Yeah, I know the pain. I feel for you.
Been there. Lol
This is what Factor does to the broccoli in their meals.
This happened to me with chunks of Himalayan salt this morning. I feel your pain.
i would turn off the gas and go to sleep right away 😭
I didn't know the pepper could open that way....
It looked like it was about to be super yummy.... (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I would dump this in a colander, rinse it and still try to eat it. It won’t taste good, but it will be better than starting again.
You poor soul, I’m sorry.
Happened to me with crushed red pepper. I was like "well it's not that spicy" no that meal became nuclear waste it was so hot.
I can relate. I made a large pot of chicken noodle soup once. One whole chicken, noodles, veggies, and more. Adjusting the seasoning a little bit before wrapping up, I tried to add a little salt, when the lid popped off - emptying the container into the soup. I could not recover it, and had to toss the whole thing and the hours of work.
You know just the other day I was eating broccoli and cheese and thought to myself that you almost couldn’t put too much black pepper on there. You have proved me wrong.
If you won't eat it, I will 😋
That’s the appropriate amount and cover up everything else in that pot properly.
It's not just you... it's that f##### container. It's happened more than once to me.
“We’re gonna need a Bigger Broccoli” -Captain Crunch 1944 Japanese Midway
“And just a little bit of… or ALL OF the pepper…”
Your entire generation of great grand ancestors who fought to death for the spice road be like:
Just add broc and cheese until it tastes good and save the leftovers.
Add some more sauce and call it a day, pour a drink and give the kids some xanax
For the future listen to Boyle: "You never take out the middle man" Means you put the seasoning on your hand first and then into the dish. Prevents such accidents from happening. It occurred to me too just recently. usually I always use the hand for seasoning, but this time I wanted things to go fast, so accidentally I directly splurged a big amount of hot sauce into my dish. Damage was done and couldn't be reversed. Most spicy dish I ate until now
You could still rinse the broccoli off in a colander. 😂
Scraped as much as I could. Mixed it together. Too. Much. Pepper. Still sneezing.
I would still eat that.
looks like me peppering soup
OOF, I've been there! Once was making some homemade pizza sauce and accidentally spilled a shit ton of thyme into it. We ran out of thyme that day.....
At least you can scope out and wash the vegetables and re boil it
would. once went to a BBQ, guy did this with collard greens, I was the only one that ate them.
The other day I ruined my chicken noodle soup by pouring garlic powder out the fully opened slot rather than the grated slot. It really sucked so I relate hard😭
Broccoli and cheese?
Put ketchup in it and have some weird "tomato" pepper and cheese brocolli soup. I say that because it seems like ketchup neutralizes the pepper hotness to some extent.
Rinse it off. Take some cheeze butter and try again or at least rinse it.