What to do with cake mix and no oven?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL. Testy I am not. If someone posts a question that I don't want to or can't answer I ignore the thread. I don't ask why do they ask the question.

Be careful about taking jabs at someone's misfortune of losing an oven in a fire. You know what they say about karma. Hopefully you will never face the inconvenience and danger of having a fire in your home so will not have to address such issues yourself. Finally, I don't see any "fretting" about a box of cake mix. The question was simple. The helpful answers answered the question: toaster oven microwave oven, you get the idea. Asking how/why/how long someone lives without an oven and not answering the question = not helpful.

I made the cake in the microwave today, I like it and I'll receive my new oven soon enough.

It's a discussion forum, one of the risks you take when you ask a question is that people will question your question. Get used to it.

Calling you ovenless is not setting myself up for a home fire due to karma. We lost my childhood vacation home to a fire. It was sad, but I will still call you an ovenless lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL. Testy I am not. If someone posts a question that I don't want to or can't answer I ignore the thread. I don't ask why do they ask the question.

Be careful about taking jabs at someone's misfortune of losing an oven in a fire. You know what they say about karma. Hopefully you will never face the inconvenience and danger of having a fire in your home so will not have to address such issues yourself. Finally, I don't see any "fretting" about a box of cake mix. The question was simple. The helpful answers answered the question: toaster oven microwave oven, you get the idea. Asking how/why/how long someone lives without an oven and not answering the question = not helpful.

I made the cake in the microwave today, I like it and I'll receive my new oven soon enough.

Also, since you decided to bring karma into the discussion- what bad deed did you commit in a present or past life to deserve the loss of your oven?

[Anonymous]

Oh give it a rest.

[Anonymous]

Dear ovenless cake lady:

You shouldn't take the curiosity the wrong way. This forum loves personalities. So when we see someone with an interesting question or issue, we like to drill down further and assign all kinds of motivations to these characters we've invented. So that's why we all loved Bouquet Bride.

I'm sorry you lost your oven. Good luck with the new one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh give it a rest.

Ditto.

[Anonymous]

I lived without an oven for years. When I moved into my husband's place, his oven was broken & had been that way for at least 4 years (a few of the burners worked). We also lived with a broke-down oven for a few years I was a kid. It's really not that bad, just mildly annoying.

Good luck with your cake!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived without an oven for years. When I moved into my husband's place, his oven was broken & had been that way for at least 4 years (a few of the burners worked). We also lived with a broke-down oven for a few years I was a kid. It's really not that bad, just mildly annoying.

Good luck with your cake!

Did you just not cook? I cook daily and would not last very long without an oven. My friend however, remodeled their kitchen for 3 months and had absolutely no cooking appliances, except a microwave, and basically ate take-out 3 meals a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived without an oven for years. When I moved into my husband's place, his oven was broken & had been that way for at least 4 years (a few of the burners worked). We also lived with a broke-down oven for a few years I was a kid. It's really not that bad, just mildly annoying.

Good luck with your cake!

Did you just not cook? I cook daily and would not last very long without an oven. My friend however, remodeled their kitchen for 3 months and had absolutely no cooking appliances, except a microwave, and basically ate take-out 3 meals a day.

You can do a lot a couple of burners. Stir fry, pasta, rice, poaching, veggies, etc. We also had a gas grill, so I used that a lot. Now that I have an oven I hardly ever use it in summertime.

[Anonymous]

Glad your cake came out OK in the microwave! I was going to suggest a stovetop or burner if you had one, and make it into little pancakes. It's very popular to do that with cake mixes in Japan.
Sorry about your fire, hopefully everything will be up and running for you soon!

[Anonymous]

Now that I think about it, other than Christmas dinner, I don't think I've used the oven in three months. I guess I'm a stove top cooker, not an oven cooker.

Now, if you took away the stove top, then I'd be lost.

[Anonymous]

I could go for months without an oven. I did in fact. Ours never worked so we just stopped using it for months. Then we called a repairman (he could do nothing). And then took months to find a new one. But we had the range (top of the stove), a toaster oven and a microwave.

When our fridge broke, it was hard to find one that fit. I found one, on sale, but they said it would take 2.5 weeks to deliver. So its pretty darn easy to go for more than a few days with a "needed" appliance. Man, I was glad to get that fridge!

OP, sorry to hear about the fire. I hope the damage was limited to the stove and you enjoy your new one!

[Anonymous]

The mix has been used but I wonder if you could adapt this recipe for frozen cookie dough (eggless) balls using your cakemix (http://www.joythebaker.com/blog/2010/06/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-balls/). Yummmmmm

[Anonymous]

Probably too late for an answer but, when camping, I have taken ginger bread cake mix, mixed it up and made gingerbread pancakes. I'm sure it is the same for cake mix. It is a way to have cake when you are camping.

[Anonymous]

As someone who had a housefire growing up, I'm really sorry this happened to you, and I hope that the damage was minimal. (and I mean in our main home, not some summer vacation luxury home that a PP talked about earlier, so unlike her, I can relate) I'm glad that you got to still try your cake mix, and that it came out decent in the oven. Praying for your family as you try to put (at least) your kitchen back together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear ovenless cake lady:

You shouldn't take the curiosity the wrong way. This forum loves personalities. So when we see someone with an interesting question or issue, we like to drill down further and assign all kinds of motivations to these characters we've invented. So that's why we all loved Bouquet Bride.

I'm sorry you lost your oven. Good luck with the new one!

Sorry but I can't resist-what to do with a fruitcake who's oven burnt down?