Saturday, November 16, 2024
TRUE STORY - HIS WIFE'S FIRST THANKSGIVING DINNER
Since Thanksgiving is approaching, I remembered something from my past:When I was stationed at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, in 1983, for Polish, my friend, John Jenkins, a fellow army sergeant told me about his Thanksgiving experience.
His mother and father were visiting him and his new wife, whom they had never really met. She was hoping to impress them with a full-scale Thanksgiving dinner, complete with turkey....which she had never cooked before.
In fact, her cooking skills were next to nil.
Thanksgiving morning, she prepared the bird, turned on the oven, and put the bird in. She had carefully read the directions and expected it to be ready for dinner.
Come dinner time the bird had not even begun to brown.
Everybody snacked their way along, checking the bird from time to time. Despite the obvious fact that the oven was on, the bird did not seem to be cooking.
Finally, the young wife gave in and asked her mother-in-law for help.
After checking everything John's mom figured out the problem. The oven was set just barely above "Warm".
When John's wife was told how high the temperature should have been, she told them that she had been following the directions, which said the temperature should be about 160 degrees, and, since their oven didn't even go that low she had just set it asl low as she could.
Not sure who got to explain to the new cook that that was supposed to be the INTERNAL temperature, but, that you needed a much hotter oven to accomplish that.
I'm sure nobody's ever had a similar experience, hmmmmm?
Oh well. Everybody's got to learn sometime.
Labels: dinner, donovan baldwin, Thanksgiving
# posted by Donovan Baldwin @ 12:49 PM 
