Kitchen Cooking Bingo

Recipe calls for an ingredient you don't have

Garlic smell lasting until tomorrow

Onion that makes you cry unexpectedly

Sauce that spatters in every direction

Tasting as you go to the point of not being hungry

Pan that needs deglazed before you remember what that means

Timer going off before you're ready

Dish that takes longer than the recipe claims

Doubling the recipe and regretting it

Smoke detector goes off from a perfectly good sauté

Substitution that probably changes the outcome

Mise en place resolved as chaos immediately

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First pancake that's always a sacrifice

Oven temperature wildly different from its setting

Pot that's too small by the time it matters

Cutting board sliding around no matter what

Knife that's technically not sharp enough for this

Clean as you go commitment abandoned by step three

Finishing the dish and realizing you're exhausted

Plate presentation attempt with a sliced garnish

Dish better than expected

Dish worse than last time

Recipe abandoned in favor of making something familiar

Someone wandering into the kitchen asking when it's ready