Put a pot of beans on then go to sleep. This has the special bonus of making the house smell funny.
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Is the yesterday's pan with the missing handle and the cracked pot lid that didn't match and had to be kept on with string?
ReplyDeleteouch! xoxoxo, sugar, i KNOW that feeling *sigh*
ReplyDeleteThis household seems to have pot issues!
ReplyDeleteOh Hai Savannah!
That'll teach you to buy cheap pots!! On a more serious note - you definitely have a guardian angel! No poisonous gases apart from just the required amount to make the house smell funny and no fire brigade...
ReplyDeleteThe Man did the same thing on Sunday - he was making chili for Super Bowl Sunday and decided to check his email. Two hours later and a fume of smoke and he realized. Thank God I wasn't home at the time.
ReplyDeleteSee Lulu, it happens to all of us! Good luck with the pot issue (that sounds so illegal!).
Not the same but once I heated a pot of water with several eggs in it - of course to make hard boiled eggs. Trouble is, I get bored with the kitchen-cooking process and I tend to wander off. So I went outside, washed my car and drove to the library, ran into some friends and stayed to chat.
ReplyDeleteWhen I returned I opened the front door and my cat came screaming at me, landing on om chest and impaling me with all his claws. He had a totally frightened look on his face. The apartment was was filled with white fog that smelled of burnt egg.
Once I cleared the air I found a melted pot on the store and the ceiling was covered with cooked on shell fragments.
This is just one of the reasons I do not cook.
No.... really?
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, I'm suddenly obssessed with the notion of making Chilli for supper.
We did the same trick in college, only with rice and no heat, just leaving them to ferment for a few weeks. Delish!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was first married I set fire to my kitchen with a pot of beans. The house stunk for weeks. I use tinned now.
ReplyDeleteThis is why I'm not allowed to make rice. Luckily Sainsbury's make brown basmati in microwaveable packets.
ReplyDeletethanks for that: I feel so much better about myself now (-:
ReplyDeleteSo that's a pot roast. It explains so much, thank you Lulu.
ReplyDeleteFrenchie - that cracked pot is still doing sterling service
ReplyDeleteSav - but do you remember the smell?
xl - This household has many issues!
Ange - I don't buy cheap pots, but I do consider myself very lucky - this time
Scribe - I hope he had it all cleared up by the time you did get home
Bill - Egg on the ceiling - is that worse than egg on the face?
Donnw/2nz - just don't fall asleep while it's brewing
Mr Red - mmm fermented food, I haven't discovered any of that here - yet
Eryl - tinned beans are the way to go - definitely!
ReplyDeleteGlory - microwaveable basmati!
Kevin - We are here to make you feel better!
Inky - a pot roast - perfect!
for once, i'm glad i don't cook. i'm bringing this post to my intended pronto -- see how lucky he is that i never attempt to even boil water?!
ReplyDeleteoh no..... the smell takes AGES to dissipate... though I am still laughing Bill's egg mishap and his poor cat
ReplyDeleteAhhh, been there too. I used to be so cool and trendy that I made my own humus... one day whilst in the cinema with a friend: "Ah, f**k, I've left the chick peas boiling on the stove!"
ReplyDeleteFunny, the closest I ever come to setting the kitchen on fire was with a pot of beans...uummm.
ReplyDeleteI have a stock pot with a black artex lining as a result of forgetting I was making popcorn.
ReplyDeleteMrs Weight - salads don't burn!
ReplyDeleteNursey - the smell was still here when I came back Sunday night.
Gadjo - chick peas have a terrible habit of exploding one way or anither!
FJ - should beans be banned?
Kevin - black artex - people pay good money for that - check the Unhappy Hipsters link on the left.
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ReplyDeleteYou can do it with porridge, too. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd if you put one kilo of solid vegetable fat in a pan to melt, and forget it for nearly two hours, you can set the kitchen on fire, melt the extractor hood, and almost kill your dogs. And it doesn't do the pan too much good, either. :(
welcome to you nodamnblog - I want to read that story
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