The locals call it "ledge".

Doh

Reminds me of the time I got whipped cream stuck on a popcorn ceiling. (It was impossible to clean, but it was an apartment and we moved out with the whipped cream, quite gross, still hanging like a moldering sword of Damocles, over the kitchen counter.)

:) how did you manage that ???

Glad you asked .... I make whipped cream the old way, starting with heavy cream, powdered sugar, vanilla - all cooled to near freezing and hand wipped with a French coiled-spring whisk in a heavy ceramic bowl (also at near freezing). Well, I had whisked and whisked and whisked and had achieved whipped cream (and not, as I once did, achieved butter instead.)

So, I'm done and I begin to clean up. There's a glob of whipped cream on the whisk. So I bang the whisk on the side of the bowl. Did I mention the whisk is a coiled spring? Well, that spring sprung. That sprung spring sent that blob of whipped cream up and up and up; up so high that it hit the ceiling and stuck.

One of my favourite stories my mother told me was of cooking lesson at school where they were making pancakes. She must have been showing off while the teacher was out of the room when she tossed one so high it hit the ceiling and stuck. When the teacher returned the door slammed and the pancake fell and landed on the teachers head. My mother was caned

I love to hear about kitchen crimes! Always funny, and we all seem to need some of that around now...