gerneral cooking tips...

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If anyone has any they'd kindly share, I'd be ever so grateful!!

I tried to make some simple cookies tonight - it did not end well. I just wanted some of those haystack thingies, and my sis made some recently, the recipe was easy peasy, only 4 ingredients - melt 2 together, then mix the other two, then refrigerate. Something went wrong, my semi sweet chips and my butterscotch chips just wouldn't melt together - my butterscotch ones just got crumbly... So I thought maybe it was the glass bowl I was using and switched to my only decent tupperware bowl - I'd always THOUGHT they were microwaveable...

Hmm, well the recipe didn't specify a microwave time, just melt them. After 1 1/2 minutes a little at a time didn't do it, I had just switched bowls and put them in for another full 1 1/2 minutes. Just after a minute, smoke started rolling out of the microwave. and my bowl is destroyed, and the haystacks just aren't going to happen.



So - if anyone would like to share some general common sense about cooking, I'd be eternally grateful - ya know, along the lines of don't put chocolate chips in tupperware in the microwave