Kitchen Lessons Learned

Our New Years Day had a bang alright and it had nothing to do with fireworks. This is a lesson in “yeah it seemed like I knew that was a bad idea but it happened anyway.”

Let me set the scene. I am doing a few dishes before starting supper. I place on the stove a metal baking pan and on top of it I place a glass bake ware dish.? They are both on the back eye of the stove.

I place my pots I plan to use for supper onto the stove and turn on the appropriate burners. Our stove marks the eye controls with a graphic. It’s four circles, and the one colored in is the right control. I always get these backwards. Well this happened and the eye with the glass bakeware indirectly on it was turned on.

The bakeware exploded, leaving shards of glass everywhere. Glass is very hard to clean up. The big pieces were no problem. It was the small, almost glitter-like pieces that were a pain, and I never thought I would get all of them. Just to be safe, we are wearing our shoes while in the kitchen for a next few days while we sweep and mop daily to make sure that all of the glass is up off the floor.

So, moral of the story is to never leave glass bakeware on the stove while cooking. I’ve done it before but never had it on a? hot burner. I’ve learned my lesson the hard way.