Monday, September 22, 2008

How to Ruin a Small Sauce Pan

1) Place 4 eggs into the pan and cover with water.
2) Place onto stove, turn to high and set timer for 15 minutes.
3) Walk away, head upstairs to your computer and take a business call.
4) Complete call, hang up, surf the web, check email, and visit with the kids.
5) Notice a funny smell, but don't think much else about it.
6) Wait for another 20 minutes before finally going to investigate aforementioned smell.
7) Head downstairs and hear the faint beeping of the timer you set 45 minutes ago.
8) Run like the wind to the kitchen and find small sauce pan completely dry with 3 burning eggs inside. The 4th couldn't take the heat and exploded all over the kitchen counter & floor.
9) Throw burning sauce pan into the sink and fill with cold water.
10) Finish coughing fit, turn on fans, open windows and throw away burned eggs.

1 hour later: cough a little more since the smell of burned sauce pan still permeates every inch of your house - even with the windows opened!!!

*3 hours later: the house still wreaks of stink! I've lit candles and opened windows, but letting the A/C out and the hot air in isn't working very well, so had to close them again. But still, can't figure out how to get rid of the smell!!! Blech....

Is it Friday yet???

3 comments:

Judy said...

LOL - you just lived what is probably my worst cooking nightmare! I'm forever forgetting stuff in the oven or stove, only to find it MANY MINUTES later...haven't ruined a saucepan, but I'm sure my day is coming! HAHA

(not laughing at you, you know)

Katrina said...

Oh, man! This sounds just like something I would do! I'm glad you only ruined a pan and didn't burn your house down...lol!

Angela DeRossett said...

Oh no!!!! That is totally something I would do as well.