What's the weirdest way you've misused a kitchen appliance?

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MissCris

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I was just reminiscing about having destroyed someone's microwave when I was a kid by trying to thaw out a frozen, homemade bubble mixture in it...trouble was, the bubble blower wand thing (that's a scientific term, by the way) was also homemade, out of a twisty-tie deal (also scientific) from a loaf of bread, and hey, those things are made out of wire. WIRE. Metal wire. Yeah.

I used an electric knife once to cut through one of those styrofoam balls people use for crafts.

I've used my slow cooker to melt down crayons.

Surely I'm not the only one to find small kitchen appliances useful for purposes not recommended by their manufacturers...
 
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Siberian_Khatru

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Lol I can't help but look at your current avatar:



then look at the thread title and giggle. :p
 

Lynx

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You know when you're in an engineer's kitchen. Every butter knife is bent. Those are his screwdrivers... well, they were his screwdrivers.
 

maxwel

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As a child I always used mixing bowls as helmets and spatulas as swords.

Well, actually, I guess I still do.

I don't know why people don't visit more often.
 

PopClick

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Does it count when I used a hand mixer's motor to power a little car? I'm sure I've done things weirder than that... but I'm drawing a blank right now. I need sleeeeeep. :p
 
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Tintin

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As a kid, I sometimes pretended the meat tenderizer (wooden mallet-looking thing) was a gavel and that I was the judge in a courthouse. Who am I kidding, I sometimes still do that!

My brothers and I used to bounce bouncy balls all around the house and it would drive mum crazy. Outside, inside, especially in the kitchen near an open flame. Ooops. I don't know what we were thinking.

Sometimes I would hide in the kitchen cupboards during a game of hide and seek. Problem was, I had to remove many kitchen tools to make room for myself and I had to do it quietly. I never made it to Narnia though.

(Sorry, two of these aren't even related to kitchen tools, but just the kitchen itself).
 

ArtsieSteph

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I have used a single chopstick to stab at shrimp. XDD
 

maxwel

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Does it count when I used a hand mixer's motor to power a little car? I'm sure I've done things weirder than that... but I'm drawing a blank right now. I need sleeeeeep. :p
It depends on whether or not you were driving the car.
 

PopClick

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It depends on whether or not you were driving the car.
No. :p It was about the size of a sheet of paper, but... taller. It had the crazy motor strapped to it with rubber bands, and a 9-volt battery to power it. When I wanted it to run, I would connect the wire leads of the motor to the battery and it would go vvvvwwwwWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! and I would set it on the floor and it would leap forward at an alarming pace, screaming with this high-pitched whine, and crash into the nearest wall because it didn't have a remote control.
 

Roh_Chris

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When I was 2 years old, I developed a fascination for the pressure cooker. I would pretend that it was my drum kit and bang on it with one or two spatulas. Then I would pretend to cook with it.

I even had two play-sets of kitchen utensils where I would cook some imaginary food.. :p
 

maxwel

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As a kid, I sometimes pretended the meat tenderizer (wooden mallet-looking thing) was a gavel and that I was the judge in a courthouse. Who am I kidding, I sometimes still do that!

My brothers and I used to bounce bouncy balls all around the house and it would drive mum crazy. Outside, inside, especially in the kitchen near an open flame. Ooops. I don't know what we were thinking.

Sometimes I would hide in the kitchen cupboards during a game of hide and seek. Problem was, I had to remove many kitchen tools to make room for myself and I had to do it quietly. I never made it to Narnia though.

(Sorry, two of these aren't even related to kitchen tools, but just the kitchen itself).
You just had to blurt that out.

Now Arlene will always know where to find you.

: )
 

Mo0448

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When me and my sis were young we'd play "miracles". Where we'd use pots and pans and add a ton of bread to them and pretend we were helping Jesus hand out bread to hungry people (our other sibblings and my folks). We would also play communion with grape juice and little biscuits...
 

gypsygirl

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ok, this made me smile.

i used to have a separate crock pot, blender, hand mixer and a few portable burners when i had a lot more storage and could use them for endless projects.

the last time i did a cement project table project, i used my good hand mixer on it. : ) though, in all fairness, beaters are pretty easy to clean well.

until very recently, i used to have two chainsaws. a big gasoline powered one, and then a smaller, electric one. i've used the smaller one in the house more than once on a project that was vexing me.

oh, and i could be the postergirl for my vacuum sealer. i've got my main one, and then a backup that i use for more non-food projects. things like, sealing camping supplies, and so on. i've even sealed fragile clothing items, such as the final pair of silk stockings that my grandmother purchased with ration tickets and then saved to give to her daughter one day.

turns out her daughter wasn't terribly feminine and so she passed them on to me. not that i would wear them, but yeah, they're in a vacuum bag. : )

anyway, yeah. it's great using creative solutions for problems. especially when you don't have anyone around giving you the look of "are you crazy, woman?".
 

gypsygirl

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No. :p It was about the size of a sheet of paper, but... taller. It had the crazy motor strapped to it with rubber bands, and a 9-volt battery to power it. When I wanted it to run, I would connect the wire leads of the motor to the battery and it would go vvvvwwwwWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! and I would set it on the floor and it would leap forward at an alarming pace, screaming with this high-pitched whine, and crash into the nearest wall because it didn't have a remote control.

verrrrry interesting. my barbie's dream car didn't come with that "attachment". ; p
 
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I cut up meat for stews and soups using scissors. I've mixed many a batch of aromatic bath salts using a hand mixer. My oven has been used for lots of kid's crafts, whether it's baking clay pots, melting sun catchers or "setting" permanent marker drawings onto teacups. The microwave... oh, you don't even want to know. :rolleyes:
 
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Tintin

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I cut up meat for stews and soups using scissors. I've mixed many a batch of aromatic bath salts using a hand mixer. My oven has been used for lots of kid's crafts, whether it's baking clay pots, melting sun catchers or "setting" permanent marker drawings onto teacups. The microwave... oh, you don't even want to know. :rolleyes:
Grace, what did I tell you about cooking gremlins in your microwave on high? Don't do it! ...the mess is terrible.
 

Lynx

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The best part about the coffee pot spaghetti is the site name at the bottom - thereifixedit.com is great!

And yes, after microwaving gremlins always clean the microwave thoroughly.