Ok, this is a blanket retraction/apology to anyone who has ever been over to our house and watched me set stuff all over my flat-top electric stove, using it as extra counter space while cooking. More than one of you have told me you really didn’t think it was a good idea, it made you nervous, you were wondering if perhaps I shouldn’t be left alone with small children in my care.
My response to you might have contained more actual words, but basically boiled down to this:Â Whatever. Quit worrying. Worrywart.
I am sure I was more polite about it though. I do have manners, after all.
But back to the apology? I am truly sorry for mentally rolling my eyes at you. Because I was wrong. So very, very wrong to set my plastic cutting board on top of a surface that then could be accidentally turned on. All bubbly melted plasticky kinds of wrong – the kind of wrong that sent my entire family running out into the swamplike late May evening to escape the evil toxic cloud of Cutting Board Death.
About fifteen minutes later, Will says to me, “Can we go back in now? My eyes aren’t burning anymore.”
Oh yes, we’re having one heck of a holiday weekend at the Jones house…
told ya
so i guess i wasn’t just being obsessive for NOT doing that.
We have actually BLOWN UP 3 pyrex dishes that way. We will never use pyrex again, and yes I have melted things, and my mother has a cool burn mark on her wooden cutting board as well…at least you are in lovely company…
jerusalem, you just made me remember the time bryan decided to warm up his shaving cream (still in the can) by putting it in a pot on the stove…
dang that thing was loud when it blew up!
ok, i tried in vain to post from the road yesterday when i read this, but wordpress mobile not so much.
my comment, if i remember it correctly, was THANK GOODNESS THIS STUFF DOESN’T ONLY HAPPEN TO ME. like when i put a spatula on the edge of a pan, turn around for only an instant to argue with thing1 or thing2, and viola, we have burnt plastic in the chicken. i mean seriously, can’t they (whomever they might be) invent non-melting plastic?
ok, you guys are all scaring me. i’m not coming over for dinner any time soon.
I accept your apology.