To have just baked a tea towel?

[ViviPru]

I've just opened the oven where I was heating up some par-bake ciabatta rolls to find I've roasted a tea towel. There's smoke everywhere. It stinks in there. DP's not realised yet but I know he's going to be all "how on earth did you manage that - stupid arse" and I can't think of anything clever to say to excuse it.

So AIBU to bake a tea towel?

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No, perfectly reasonable, baking tea towels creates just the right amount of smelly noxious fumes that are completely fatal to kitchen bugs but harmless to humans. Well you can try it, he might fall for it

YWBU

Baked tea-towels just don't taste anything like fried tea-towels.

Yes of course YABU. Any sensible housewife knows deepfrying is the most effective way to cook a tea-towel. Tuts.

don't they smell like bastards though? I singed one the other day - the stink

ffs, everyone knows you roast tea towels

Dude- one of us needs to get some new jokes, and from the look of your username I suspect it's you.....

You wanted to infuse the ciabatta with a smokey hue to bring out the flavour of whatever you are serving with the ciabatta and you didn't have any wood-shavings...

I like it flowery.

I'm genuinely astounded at how noxious it smells, Sue. It was a freshly laundered one too (don't know if that makes any difference).

I'm just with myself as he thinks he is cleverer than me (he is not) and this will be another incident to add to his ticksheet when the "who is the cleverest" argument rolls round again...

people if your talking to me-I like my username thanks, no desire to change it.

The builders of my house baked the instructions, you would think they would of taken them out the oven .. but know

Of course I get blamed whenever anyone sees the parched pages

Surely everyone knows you boil tea towels?

OP, YWNBU to bake a tea towel but you were a bit daft. So I'm afraid I agree with your DH. and obviously I have never roasted a tea towel. Actually, I don't think I have but I have done many stupid things while cooking.

I have tried to boil tea towels, my mother taught me that I was supposed to do that. Not sure my pan was as alike to hers as I thought at the time, I ended up with severely singed tea towels and a stink.

one word dear NUMPTY

I have baked pizza cardboard a few times it adds flavour sigh

Is this really what we have descended too?

flowery - you need a lot of water and a large pan.

I put many items in the fridge (phone charger?) and not in fridge (bacon in cupboard) but I'm yet to roast a teatowel.

The thing is, if you DO EVERYTHING you have greater opportunity for things to go tits up. If you sit in the chair eating biscuits, then nothing can go wrong, can it?

not the tea towel but i may have baked the oven glove

I have set the oven glove on fire put my hand into a HOT oven , dropped dinner on the floor I am am elf and safety disaster

I get the fridge and the freezer mixed up (don't know why we've had the same one for years). Found a tub of butter in the freezer not long ago and fish fingers in the salad drawer. I blame my age and will continue to do so till the day I die.

Nagoo has hit the nail on the head. Men only have fewer household disasters because they don't pull their weight.

Eh, I set fire to one of mine a while ago by accident obviously. So could be worse....

You need nothing more than Nagoos sagacious reply

Hey it happens. I set fire to one once when I dumped it on top of the church ceramic hob, then turned the oven at the wall not realising one of the rings was on. Ooops.

There were about 200 people in the halls at the time, so really not a great time for a fire drill.

(managed to get it out though so no harm done, just looked a little silly).

Dipshit didn't even notice. Walked straight through the clouds of smoke and fragrance of devils armpit, picked up his ciabattas and took them into the other room. He's been a bit frazzled with work this week so it's understandable. He does usually do all the cooking too so maybe he was so grateful I'd made supper he didn't like to comment...

Arf @ all your tales of domestic absentmindedness