Where's my casserole?

[Doughdog]

I cannot for the life of me find my casserole dish. A large, bright blue, cast iron casserole dish that I used at the end of November last year but when I went back to look at christmas it was gone.

I havent lent it to anyone and DH says he hasn't either, I have looked in every kitchen cupboard in this dimension. Its just too big and heavy to be hiding in the odd sock/teaspoon place.

Where's the chuff is it?

Why wouldn't it be, in the freezer?

I think it's with mine. However, more likely is that mine was broken by the removals people who disposed of it/hid the evidence or it slipped between two corner kitchen cupboards somehow and was left in our old house.

If it had been in the freezer for a very long time, it might not have tasted as nice as "new in".

It's not the bright blue cast iron one I won in a raffle at Christmas is it? It came beautifully wrapped in cellophane along with a jar of gravy and a packet of stuffing. It's still on my sideboard if you want it back!

In the bottom of a wardrobe with your secret forgotten stash of chocolate 😁

I had exacrly this the other week, looked in every cupboard in case the kids had put it away.

It was where it always is with the other trays/cooking dishes etc but had been nestled with baking tins on top and I just couldnt see it for looking. (The baking tins should have been in another drawer)

Moved out of the way temporarily and now nobody can remember. Bottom of airing cupboard , shelf in living room , under a bed , bottom of closet .

Otherwise ran away with the spoon

Has it got inside another, bigger dish?

Someone burnt something in it, put it in the garden to cool, and forgot about it.

Oh come ON. NOBODY forgets a stash of chocolate. Nobody.

When you last used it was anyone visiting who might have washed up and put it in an unusual place? Was it a special occasion when the garage/back porch might get used as overspill fridge? It will be in the last place you look.

Bet that’s it.

In the understands cupboard.
Underneath another dish.

Have you found it yet?

In the oven.

You had some dodgy visitors over Christmas and one of them nicked it?

Would you like me to come and have a proper look. An all seeing mum look.

I did. Had a whole thread about it.😂

This is weird but... an identical to Op's casserole dish vanished from my parents' home. One of those blue Le-Creuset style ones with a lid. Big and heavy. And mine vanished when I took it to a party and it was not there the next morning when we were all tidying up.

Is there a black hole exclusively for casserole dishes? Like tupperware lids and single socks?

I've got a mutating cheese grater problem in that I had one of those tupperware ones where the grater sits over the top of a plastic box and one of the upright ones with the cheese side and then finer graters on the other side.

I now have two box graters and no upright one. The only answer is mutation.

Is there a black hole?

Yes. It is crammed with casserole dishes, teaspoons, odd socks, hairgrips, umbrellas, sunglasses, tupperware lids, vegetable knives and loose CDs.
And ironing boards. 😁

Understairs cupboard?

I’m going for someone broke it and didn’t tell you.

Can cast iron le Creuset type casseroles actually break? Genuine question? Are you sure it wasn't borrowed by family or Neighbours? Given with food it to anyone after party or funeral/illness. Could it be a uni with children?

Someone in the house used it, burnt something in it, or broke it... and binned it.
Denying all knowledge is safer than owning up after you've spent 3 hours hunting for it.

This is the story of my very expensive brownie pan, destroyed by experimental teenagers.

Yes, they do. I wouldn’t have believed it either, until I dropped one on slate tiles and it literally broke in two!