# I just stupidly destroyed a pan. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389 "2010-08-16T04:18:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/41 "2010-08-18T17:46:02Z")
My father used to make himself some prunes once in a while, for reasons probably easily imagined, and his method was to dump some prunes in a saucepan, cover them with water, sprinkle them with cinnamon, put them on the burner, turn it on high and **just. walk. away**. I lost more nice saucepans that way. :mad: Time and again I told him “If you want stewed prunes, let me make them for you” but he would just take it upon himself. Grrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/42 "2010-08-18T18:25:25Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Can we add my ice maker? A couple of hours after the power went out I took it out of the freezer and dumped the ice in the sink. Since my countertops are wood, I put it on top of the stove so the remaining water wouldn’t warp the countertop. When the power came back on I was downstairs. About an hour later I noticed a horrible smell. Turns out hubby was cooking when the power went out and never turned off the burner. That sounds like something that would happen to me. “We need to replace the icemaker because we burnt it on the stove.” Love it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/43 "2010-08-18T20:21:34Z")
Hard boiled eggs cook passed out, boiled dry, I bought them on food stamps I recall, janitor came in and shut off stove, saw the guy a few years later barely ambulatory. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/44 "2010-08-18T20:27:30Z")
> [@smee\_goan](#): > > Hard boiled eggs cook passed out, boiled dry, I bought them on food stamps I recall, janitor came in and shut off stove, saw the guy a few years later barely ambulatory. I think I had a stroke while reading this. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/45 "2010-08-19T18:59:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Congratulations! Now you can get yourself a cast iron pan instead. I wish I could, but I need to watch my dietary iron. I will take the opportunity to get one a bit larger, though: As it stands now, when I’m making chili, I can’t put all the ingredients in at once, but have to let it reduce a bit first. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/46 "2010-08-20T01:11:30Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Melted the blinds over the sink from the heat off my flaming pan of popcorn as I attempted to douse it. The pan survived, but I needed new blinds. I created a fireball a while back in my wok and burned off a chunk of the interior coating. I was really tired and hadn’t calculated prepwork time while the oil was heating in the wok with the lid on, and as I opened the lid, the oil ignited and nearly caught the cabinets on fire. It did, however, smoke the heck out of the above-the-stove microwave, which took forever to get clean again. I survived with singed armhairs and a bruised ego, then proceeded to order something in to eat, as I was too nerve-wracked to attempt cooking again that night. The wok still works great, and actually works better without the center coating. No harm, no foul. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/47 "2010-08-20T15:46:13Z")
I just remembered I promised you folks pictures. [The inside of the pan](http://cassandra.physics.montana.edu/pan/pan.jpg) [The serving spoon](http://cassandra.physics.montana.edu/pan/spoon.jpg) [The burner](http://cassandra.physics.montana.edu/pan/burner.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/48 "2010-08-20T15:50:00Z")
Wow! ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/49 "2010-08-20T16:06:51Z")
I just remembered the time a friend of mine suddenly realised that he had a pig’s liver boiling on his stove and that he wouldn’t be home until several hours later. Luckily his daughter was able to go over to his flat and take it off. ---
**Author:** ![StinkyBurrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@StinkyBurrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StinkyBurrito)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/50 "2010-08-20T17:28:24Z")
That’s quite a mess, Chronos! Those are some mighty long finger nails you have. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/51 "2010-08-20T22:29:11Z")
Wow. That is… singularly impressive. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/52 "2010-08-21T04:23:43Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > > [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > > > One time I put a live lobster in a pot, set the pot on the stove, turned on the flame, and went off to do something else. > > > > I forgot to add water. > > > > The ruined pot goes without saying; I reckon Mr. Lobster will be waiting for my ass when I shuffle off this mortal coil. > > I take comfort in everyone else’s “Hey! I did that too!” stories - been there, done that, shattered some Pyrex and melted some spatulas - but this is by far my favorite. Thanks for sharing with us. The one that involved a live creature suffering in agony until it died a horrible death is your _favorite_? I think I’m going to be ill. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/53 "2010-08-21T19:27:31Z")
Gulp! Looks like you were pretty lucky there **Chronos** If you leave potatoes baking in the oven all night they get really small and whistle. In other news, a friend called this morning, he was at the supermarket - is there anything I want because he’s “coming over by me straight after”. Well, I asked for fresh chicken livers. Hmmmm - that was five hours ago, I wonder how they’re doing, languishing forgotten in his car, it’s pretty hot today! ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/54 "2010-08-22T04:48:38Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > > > I take comfort in everyone else’s “Hey! I did that too!” stories - been there, done that, shattered some Pyrex and melted some spatulas - but this is by far my favorite. Thanks for sharing with us. > > The one that involved a live creature suffering in agony until it died a horrible death is your _favorite_? I think I’m going to be ill. The last line of KinkiNipponTourist’s post, which seems to me to be acknowledging that it was a horrible thing to happen, also makes it kind of funny. I say this as a person who won’t even step on a bug much less boil one. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389/55 "2010-08-23T16:37:57Z")
\*Maus \*is one of my \*\*favorite \*\*comics. I guess that makes me a Jew-hatin’ Nazi. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-stupidly-destroyed-a-pan/550389.md?page=2)