Cooking can be dangerous!
Let me tell you!
We have pot luck dinners with the Kindall family about once a month or so. I try to make something that everyone will like and not cost a fortune. This time I settled on some cheesy scalloped potatoes. Mmm! I got out my favorite glass baking dish, a nice thick 11 x 15 inch beauty. Mixed up a double batch of those spud slices. Slid the sucker into my pre-heated oven.
Then I had a thought.
"Hmm, sometimes scalloped potatoes tend to boil over and drip a bit. I better put a jelly roll pan underneath, to catch the drips and keep the oven clean." In went the pan.
Then I sat down in the living room with Bradley to relax while it baked and Preston napped. Sigh. Relax.
CRASH!!!!!
There was steam pouring out of the oven! Something awful had happened! I run into the kitchen, open the oven and find this:
Exploded mess. Hmm. Good thing I put in the pan to "catch the drips." Um, yeah.
I could not belive it! Yes, I used glass. But it was not cold, it was room temperature! Yes, I put hot, almost boiling water into it, but that pan was THICK! It should have been able to stand up to this! And it sat there with the hot water for awhile while I stirred before I put it into the oven. It should have aclimated, right? Man!
There was glass everywhere! What a disaster! All I could do was turn off the oven and leave it until after we got home to clean up. I had really wanted to bring something of "substance" to dinner. I felt like bringing fudge was a sort of cop out, you know? Especially since there was a ton of dessert there. But what could I do? We did take a picture and show that as proof. But I still felt like a heel. Oh well.
So I got most of the mess cleaned up but have not had the energy to actually "clean" the oven. So my dinner options have been limited. :) But I think I am most bummed about losing that pan. It was perfect for a nice batch of lasagna. I am hoping my mom - I mean Santa - will get me a new one for Christmas. But even then, I don't think I will even be able to cook scalloped potatoes in a glass pan again! It will have to be metal!
We have pot luck dinners with the Kindall family about once a month or so. I try to make something that everyone will like and not cost a fortune. This time I settled on some cheesy scalloped potatoes. Mmm! I got out my favorite glass baking dish, a nice thick 11 x 15 inch beauty. Mixed up a double batch of those spud slices. Slid the sucker into my pre-heated oven.
Then I had a thought.
"Hmm, sometimes scalloped potatoes tend to boil over and drip a bit. I better put a jelly roll pan underneath, to catch the drips and keep the oven clean." In went the pan.
Then I sat down in the living room with Bradley to relax while it baked and Preston napped. Sigh. Relax.
CRASH!!!!!
There was steam pouring out of the oven! Something awful had happened! I run into the kitchen, open the oven and find this:
Exploded mess. Hmm. Good thing I put in the pan to "catch the drips." Um, yeah.
I could not belive it! Yes, I used glass. But it was not cold, it was room temperature! Yes, I put hot, almost boiling water into it, but that pan was THICK! It should have been able to stand up to this! And it sat there with the hot water for awhile while I stirred before I put it into the oven. It should have aclimated, right? Man!
There was glass everywhere! What a disaster! All I could do was turn off the oven and leave it until after we got home to clean up. I had really wanted to bring something of "substance" to dinner. I felt like bringing fudge was a sort of cop out, you know? Especially since there was a ton of dessert there. But what could I do? We did take a picture and show that as proof. But I still felt like a heel. Oh well.
So I got most of the mess cleaned up but have not had the energy to actually "clean" the oven. So my dinner options have been limited. :) But I think I am most bummed about losing that pan. It was perfect for a nice batch of lasagna. I am hoping my mom - I mean Santa - will get me a new one for Christmas. But even then, I don't think I will even be able to cook scalloped potatoes in a glass pan again! It will have to be metal!
posted by Kindall Family | 2:37 PM
5 Comments:
What a bummer!! I think I would have cried. But it makes a great story ;)
Yikes that is scary. I am glad no one was hurt.
I totally did that when Richard and I were first married and living in Provo. But mine was the glass lid. What a mess...
Kathryn, Kathryn, Kathryn, the recipe called for "baking" powder not gun powder!
Sorry that happened though, that stinks.
That has got to be frustrating!!!
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