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Original poster

I want to share something REALLY funny about DD1 and her cookery lesson at school, but fear I may be shot down in flame.......

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psychohohohoho · 04/12/2008 19:50

do you think I can, cos seriously, I laughed my socks off and DD1 has also found it hysterically funny too....and may well go down in the hall of fame at school.

who wants to know??

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psychohohohoho · 04/12/2008 20:16

serious bragging

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psychohohohoho · 04/12/2008 20:17

PMSL at drinking a chemistry practical.

at least you lived to tell the tale, it was clearly a good safe mixture

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morningpaper · 04/12/2008 20:17

On the other hand I did accidently drink my chemistry practical exam.

pmsl

MadamDeathstarOverBethlehem · 04/12/2008 20:20

Well done to your DDs psychohohohoho.

Comma · 04/12/2008 20:20

we cooked liver pilaff in our cookery.

handy that.

nappyaddict · 04/12/2008 20:22

my gcse cookery teacher managed to set a jacket potato on fire in the microwave

FabioTheLiterateCat · 04/12/2008 20:23

liver pilaff?
'avin a laff more like.
bleah.

lol at drinking chem practical

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psychohohohoho · 04/12/2008 20:24

thankyou madamedeathstar.

I guess when it comes to the real thing in her GSE's (she is yr10 right now, so another year yet), either the teacher will have died of food poisoning and so no exam, or she will have learnt well and be fabulous

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psychohohohoho · 04/12/2008 20:24

ach, how old am I

GCSE's

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3littlefrogs · 04/12/2008 20:26

My best friend made stuffed tomatoes and didn't realise you had to cook the rice. The examiner was trying to discreetly spit it out.

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psychohohohoho · 04/12/2008 20:28

lol @ not cooking the rice.

at least DD1 would have known that one.

I think.

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GrimmaTheNome · 04/12/2008 20:35

Theres a good reason why theres always a NO EATING OR DRINKING rule in chemistry labs. I'm quite shocked by that actually.

Beginning to think it will have to be extended to 'food technology' er... what do they call the rooms now? sounds like they should be labs too as its all rather experimental!

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psychohohohoho · 04/12/2008 20:39

yup, tis actually called 'food tech' by DD1.

of course I knew it as home ec, and some of my friends as 'domestic science'.......DD1 just looks blank tho when I spout words like that!

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scoobyww · 04/12/2008 21:41

Reading this brought back a painful reminder of my own O level cookery exam....I was making a Shepherds Pie, with peas and carrots on the side...and just as we filed into the classroom, my cookery teacher passed us and whispered to me...'make sure you do the carrots in butter'...so having carefully peeled the said carrots, I then proceeded to put a big dollop of butter into the saucepan, add the raw carrots and wondered why they were not cooking 20 minutes later. Having then realised my mistake, I put the carrots (which were burnt on the outside but still raw) in a seive, rinsed them under the tap...and boiled them again in water, knowing the whole time that the examiner was paying particular attention to my movements. They looked grim and must have tasted bad, as I failed the exam!
The shame still lives with me!!

ZZZen · 04/12/2008 21:42

aw scooby!

This is hilarious

barbarianoftheuniverse · 04/12/2008 22:31

I once made an omelette that we used as a frisbee. We used to hurl it down the garden for the dog to fetch. It stood up to quite a lot of wear, for an omelette.

sweetkitty · 04/12/2008 22:35

First and only time I made meringue I got the eggs mixed up and wondered why my egg yolks were not forming little stiff peaks!

MadamDeathstarOverBethlehem · 05/12/2008 15:25

There was a no eating and drinking rule in our chemistry labs as well Grimma. Unfortunately we were still pipetting by mouth and with exam nerves and everything I sucked a bit too hard.

judgenutmeg · 05/12/2008 15:31

For my 'o' level practical, I pressure cooked a wooden spoon along with my French onion soup, got my tied-back ponytail caught in my hand whisk (which flipping hurt) and dropped my roulade.

Things have not improved in my kitchen.

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psychohohohoho · 05/12/2008 18:15

seems that DD1 is not alone in the disaster area then

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MrsSeanBean · 05/12/2008 18:17

Why would you have been 'shot down in flames' op?

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psychohohohoho · 05/12/2008 18:45

for telling tales on my DD........

not the done thing really is it, altho she has found the funny side since the cookery lesson, and I did wait until she found the funny side

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MrsSeanBean · 05/12/2008 18:55

OP - but it's not like we know her and even so we've all been there (well I have anyway - nothing to be asahmed of).

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psychohohohoho · 05/12/2008 19:27

that is very true, in the 'not-knowing-her-way' and the having been there way

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pardon · 05/12/2008 19:45

we were told to put our biscuits on baking paper before we cooked them. one lad couldn't understand why his oven was on fire. obviously the teacher didn't mean a piece of paper you ripped out of an exercise book...