Today is Kitchen Klutches Day in America and it reminds me of a story of when I was working for the USDA.

A lady bought some raspberries from me and was going to put them up.  (Putting them up means, cook them and put them in bottles for storage).

She had the whole kitchen to herself in the evening after supper and she was working very hard at getting it all done before bedtime.

She had a pressure cooker going and she stepped out of the kitchen for just a second to get some bottles, when KAPOWWIE!!!  The lid of the pressure cooker blew off and all of the contents in the pot flew all around the kitchen!

She was very lucky not to have been in there because she would have been badly burned and maybe even worse.

She heard the explosion and came running back into the kitchen to find it a total dripping sticky mess.  Raspberries were dripping from the ceiling, running down the walls and all over everything!  YUK!

Well, she came to work at her usual time that next morning and told me all about it and how she and her daughter cleaned and cleaned until it was time for her to get ready for work.  She got no sleep that night.

I felt really bad for her and I didn’t have any raspberries to pick to give her more.  She had gotten the last of the picking for that season.

So, I hope none of you have an experience like that.  Enjoy your kitchen klutziness today!  This day is for you!

Bears Butt

June 13, 2012