Duh

[jducoeur]

You ever have one of those moments when you realize you have done something so staggeringly dumb that you are forced to introspectively wonder if your brain has been replaced by Waldorf salad when you weren't looking? This is one of those moments.

Oh, well -- no damage done, and nothing wasted except a bunch of time. And it feels wonderful when a Major Crisis that is making me crazy dissolves into mist...

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Unbelievably common...

[chiefoperator.livejournal.com]

You have NO IDEA how many people have done just what you did - basically every technician and engineer here has done it at least once, and some of the stories are doozies.

What helps, of course, in these situations, is knowing what to expect, which radically increases the speed with which you realize that something has gone wrong... I was making cookies one time, and the recipe instructed me to "melt" some brown sugar in butter. What it really wanted was to just toss it in there and slush it around, but NO, I had to ACTUALLY try to melt it, which takes a FANTASTIC amount of heat, and basically generates a caramel substance which hardens to a rock the second you stop stirring it and it's junk and you have to throw it out and start over again...

Re: Unbelievably common...

[jducoeur]

Heh -- yes, definitely one of those "cooking for engineers" moments. It had never really occurred to me that cooks pretty consistently use "melt" when they really mean "dissolve"...