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.
That sounds like something that would happen to me. “We need to replace the icemaker because we burnt it on the stove.”
Love it! 
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.
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.
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.
I just remembered I promised you folks pictures.
Wow!
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.
That’s quite a mess, Chronos! Those are some mighty long finger nails you have.
Wow. That is… singularly impressive.
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.
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!
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.
*Maus *is one of my **favorite **comics. I guess that makes me a Jew-hatin’ Nazi. :rolleyes: