Well, not really, but we did have two kitchen adventures this week that were not so great. First, Jeff turned on the wrong burner, on which I had left a margarine container filled with baby feeding paraphernalia. Toxic plastic smoke soon filled our main floor. We opened windows and doors and I took the boys on the porch. Amazingly, the plastic cleaned off our ceramic top oven super easily, and the only real damage done was that one bottle had to be thrown out. A couple days later, I had 3 burners going on the oven. I was trying to open a package of instant mashed potatoes (so sad, I know, but this weeks "Recipe of the Week" is so much quicker to make with them), and it kind of exploded everywhere. Well, all of a sudden our house was filled with burnt potato smoke, it stank, and the flakes were all turned into little flaming embers. I turned off all the burners, to cool them down and clean up, and dinner was delayed by half an hour because I had to re-boil the water for the pasta.
Jeff and I have made a pact not to set the house on fire again. Ever.
4 comments:
I fully support your decision to refrain from burning your house down.
thanks for your support!
I once was making instant mashed potatoes for a potluck and the pot overboiled. I didn't clean it up... Well the very next day while boiling water, the potato water residue caught on fire. The flames were a foot high! Eeek!
Thanks for sharing your kitchen follies as well as successes!
I always always always boil over potatoes, so when we had to buy a new oven for our house I said we needed a ceramic top.... specifically so my potato water would be easier to clean up!
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