Help! - there’s a screw in my dinner!

[VanityKase]

I spent the afternoon making a home made aubergine Ragu. Sat down for dinner tonight and my husband found a screw in his. Mortified! I did the Ragu and DH cooked the pasta & plated but had mixed his all up (I keep my sauce and carb separate). Neither of us noticed anything odd when making or plating.

Thing is - we can’t find where it’s come from!! I’ve looked in various places in the kitchen (cupboard fittings, pots and pans handles etc, inside the oven) but none of the screws I can see in our kitchen match the one DH found. I feel sick at the thought of it. But also so frustrated as I was batch cooking!! We went through all of the sauce that was served up and didn’t find another screw. The rest of it is in the freezer still - can’t face it yet.

Where could it have come from??

The most simple answer is that it’s from our own kitchen but I did used canned tomatoes and lentils so thinking one of the cans could have been contaminated!?

Any suggestions??

Is the pan cupboard below a drawer? It could be a screw that was shoved in the drawer for ages and has been pushed back over time and finally fallen out the back of the drawer into the cupboard.

I think it must have been in the tomatoes.

Or it fell out of your husband's head as he lent over his portion? Does he have a screw loose?

Here’s the offending item for all the screw sleuths out there! Stamps for size reference.

Not from the oven or hinges of cupboards / draws - they were the first thing I checked. Not salt or pepper mill.

I used tinned tomatoes and lentils. Packet pasta too but I do suspect it was the canned items. That was my first suspicion even before looking in the kitchen.

IIII PUT THE SCREW IN THE TUNA!!
Have you got a picture of it? Was it a large one or tiny one?

@Paperdove87 especially for you! Can’t take credit though - saw it on Instagram 🤷‍♀️

See pic for ingredients (except I ended up using 2 cans of tomatoes -800g)

Method

1. Place the aubergines whole in the oven to cook for 1hr
2. Sauté onions and garlic in the oil until translucent.
3. Add paprika & maple syrup, stir, then add the canned goods.
4. Take the skin off the cooked aubergine and break up the flesh with a fork. Stir in through the tomato lentil mix.

Best served with pasta or gnocchi but definitely NOT screws!

Yeah it's definitely not out of a small appliance, is it!

It does look more like a machinery screw

Childhood memories just come flooding back!!

😂😂

I found a NUT in my Jordan’s cereal once I mean a metal nut not a nut nut , complained and they didn’t believe me - it was a machinery screw, it’s not trivial can cause a massive trauma to a tooth which is painful and very expensive

My husband is an engineer specifically in screws and says that looks like a coarse screw and is primarily used in machinery...so looks like it got in the canned tomatoes/lentils from the factory!

@VanityKase thank you that looks so tasty love aubergines. Good luck solving the mystery...

@xprincessxjanetx wow thank you & your DH! Confirms my suspicions.

I think we’ll say mystery solved and chalk it up to the canned goods.

Thanks for all the help (and laughs!!) MNers!!

Grub screw?

Don't know about the screw but you need to use those stamps by end of July 🤣🤣🤣

Was it Kel?