(aka - THAT’S why our kitchen has been smelling funky lately)
Sorry, Hunny… no rice tonight!
UPDATE: If you’re wondering what exactly that is, that USED to be rice from our rice cooker! At least three different colors of mold, with multiple textures! We can’t even REMEMBER the last time we made rice in that thing & I only found it tonight because I was going to make rice for dinner. We usually keep the rice cooker EMPTY & on the counter in the corner of the kitchen. (Contrary to popular belief, this was NOT something that had been living in the fridge.)
When I took the lid off, I honestly thought I was going to throw up right inside it, making it 1000 times more disgusting. Instead I fled the room, got my camera, returned while holding my breath to take the picture, and then blogged about it. That made the initial wave of nausea go away long enough to think up a disposal plan.
I decided to take the rice pot outside to the dumpster with a pair of disposable chopsticks and I dug it out until I heard it THUD! against the bottom of the dumpster.
You only had to see a picture. I had to smell it & handle it. Blaaaargh!
Oh, Joz…….
“urp” indeed! That is why I never ask for a doggie bag.
i can’t remember the last time we made rice. has to be over a month ago! just foul. how did we forget?
oh, and i thought it was leftovers. thanks for sharing. i’ll be sticking my head in the toilet.
That’s one of the perils of having a permanent cooking item on your counter. My crock pot has attacked me with delights like that many times, and that even has a glass lid.
I think all of the mold I’ve smelled has fried my brain a bit…
“Oh my goodness, oh my goodness… we should start with the windows that way if we drip…”
I’m envisioning you with red springy curls.
ew. That’s all I have to say Joz. EWWWWW
I’m shocked that you don’t eat rice more often! It’s the best staple, much better than bread, though noodles is a close second.
That happened to a friend of mine- an artsy Japanese girl who was a complete slob. Except, she got maggots in hers
Hey! I am not a COMPLETE slob! Neither Yoshi nor I realized that rice was there! And the last thing in the world Yoshi is is a slob!
Ewwwwwwwww!!!!!
Btw, welcome to Hot Links!
I actually wretched when I realised I was looking at mould. Awesome, that’s the first time I have almost vomited sitting at the computer.
yuck³!
That’s disturbing on a number of levels.
But, if the bowl is steel, it’s still usable. Just wash the shit out of it. Use bleach. If it’s not steel, though, throw it out. Steel is impermeable to food, but other materials aren’t necessarily so.
Oh God! I’ve had stuff like that surprise me in the fridge, but never on the counter.
I have to run and check the rice cooker now.
Ugh.
Yikes! I can’t say that something similar hasn’t happened to me before…
Oh, look Ma! Joz has her very own petri dish going on there…
i would almost say “EGAD!!!” if i had not also done that before…letti
I wasn’t saying that either of you are slobs, but that my friend who the same thing happened to sure as hell is! BTW- didn’t it smell? I know there’s a lid on the cooker, but still….
Egads, girl! That be nasty!!
YUMMY! When’s dinner?? ;-D
That looks rather tastey. Did Yoshi try it? I would have, just to say I did.
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OMG. Thankfully, I haven’t forgotten any rice in my cooker (yet). However, that reminds me that maybe I should look in the coffee machine.