# How not to make pumpkin bread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 18, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603 "2014-12-18T19:53:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603/1 "2014-12-18T19:53:59Z")
Bake at 350° for 6 hours…
My wife was up late last night making some pumpkin bread for her holiday party at work today. This morning when I woke up I could smell what smelled like pumpkin bread that had baked a little too long. I went in the kitchen to pour some coffee and heard a “click” and noticed that the oven was still on. I turned it off, then looked inside and saw a charred black mini pumpkin loaf brick.
Apparently she left one of the mini loaves in the oven to bake “just a little longer”, then forgot about it and went to bed. Oops!
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603/2 "2014-12-18T19:57:49Z")
A little part of me just died. ☹
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603/3 "2014-12-18T20:25:04Z")
We need pictures!
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### Author:  [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603/4 "2014-12-18T21:49:38Z")
I had salt dough ornaments cooking at 150 just to finish drying.
Then I preheated the oven to 400 for a pizza!
Well I simplified my Christmas. No salt-dough ornaments this year. On the other hand, I do have some charred lumps if everyone needs stocking fillers for the naughty folks.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603/5 "2014-12-18T22:22:54Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> We need pictures!
I know there must be a way to use whats left; maybe to make it into a “pumpkin potpourri”… but for the life of me I can’t think of a good one.
Maybe it could it be ground up, mixed with potters soil, and you could grow a plant in it? I wouldn’t leave it in your kitchen bread-pan though.
Oh, and once its mixed with dirt, please don’t serve it to guests. 😉
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603/6 "2014-12-19T07:26:48Z")
I once forgot a whole potato in the oven when I did a self-cleaning cycle. When the cleaning was done, I opened the door and found a potato-shaped piece of ash. It disintegrated when I tried to pick it up.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2014, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603/7 "2014-12-19T11:04:14Z")
If I may offer my version of _how not to make hard-boiled eggs_: put eggs in a pan of water. Turn on stove. Go shopping.
Not one of my better moments in the kitchen. I did save the pan, tho, with lots and lots of scrubbing.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-make-pumpkin-bread/707603/8 "2014-12-19T14:05:07Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> We need pictures!
Unfortunately it had already been tossed in the trash. I should have snapped a picture when I first pulled it out of the oven!
And as it turns out, that mini loaf was from a little bit of batter that was left over. She was going to save it and put it in the fridge, but then decided to go ahead and bake it.