You'll see why I have that theory momentarily...
So normally I'm a fairly organized person in most of my daily activities. I know exactly how long it takes me to get ready in the morning which allows me to sleep in until the last possible moment. I have precise indicators along my route to work that help me determine what the most efficient route for that day will be. I have a set routine to begin each day at work. I could go on, but I think you get the general picture. However, for some reason, my methodical and logical nature somehow gets out of whack on certain occasions while baking. Mind you, most of the time I have perfectly normal and successful baking sessions. So I don't know for sure what causes my head to sorta disconnect, but I think my theory above is a close bet to what's going on up in yonder brain.
Real life example (happened this very week in fact!): I was making russian tea cakes and using my stand mixer to blend the ingredients. I had already creamed the butter and sugar and was at the stage of adding 2.5 cups of flour. I had the flour guard on the bowl (so as to avoid a repeat of the great brownie mishap), and was slowly adding the flour. I had about 1/2 of the flour in when I noticed a big glob of the butter/sugar mixture was still stuck to the beater. The right side of my brain started thinking about ways I could get the batter off of the beater blade without having to stop the mixer and use a spatula or spoon. I thought about how when using a hand mixer I'd just amp up the speed and whip it off the beaters. Somehow, I thought this would be a good idea with the stand mixer...with all of the unmixed flour still working it's way into the batter. Before the left side of my brain could catch up with the right side, my hand had already flipped the switch to a higher speed, and WHOOSH!!!! Suddenly I had flour ALL OVER the once clean counter top. Brilliant move, that one.
Just another one of those "DUH" moments to capture in my baking history.
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