Narrow escapes

[desperance]

Note to self: just because you made a humungous quantity of chilli last night, that doesn't mean it's okay to burn a panful this evening...

(Happily, self didn't - but only because other self caught it just on the very brink. I have this magnificent reputation for putting something on the heat and coming back upstairs just to fiddle, just for a moment...)

Also, I made too much chilli last night. I'd put half of it into the freezer for another time, but the freezer is full. What is a man to do...?

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An ex of mine was notorious for this: as a student he routinely set off all the smoke alarms by forgetting things he was cooking. He burnt chips so badly that they could be used to write with. And on one occasion he succeeded in setting fire to a pan of water.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I scorched a rice thing last night, so you have my sympathy.
With any luck, the spaking helped and I won't have to use the vinegar cure to get the pan clean.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Note to self: if putting a pork and apple burger back in the oven to avoid opportunist cat, make sure you have switched the grill off, or you will return to a small black hockey puck.

This evening's culinary failure.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

*sings:*

"...or, if I'm in luck, it's - broiled hockey puck. Oh well, what the hell..."

Tom Lehrer: a voice for every occasion.

And, yes. Done that, or near equivalent. For the same reason. Inside the oven is about the only place they haven't penetrated. (I have a separate eye-level grill, and Mac has been known to hook out a slice of bread before it was too well toasted for his taste.)