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stef -> RE: Cooking lesson/safety tip for the day! (8/26/2010 7:47:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: mistoferin
It is inadvisable to put a pan of eggs on to boil and then forget them. I am completely amazed at the force at which they blow!
Ugh. Don't remind me.
Five or six years ago my housemate called me at my shop. She frantically explained that she had started a pot of eggs boiling and because she was already running late, forgot about them as she ran out to meet someone. She was about half an hour farther from the house than I was so I shut down the shop and raced home, all the while looking up in the sky for the smoke from my house burning down.
When I got to the house, it was not engulfed in flames but as soon as I opened the door, I was hit in the face with the smell of burning metal, plastic and sulfur. When the water boiled off, all the eggs exploded and they were *everywhere*. The pot was glowing red and had deformed and melted in upon itself and the plastic handle was all but melted away.
Last year she nearly did it again but I was home and found them before they exploded. She is no longer allowed to boil eggs while unattended.
~stef
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