[Sca-cooks] Disasters...

[Aurore]

> Well...
>
> I've done my share of sewing myself, stabbing myself, cutting myself. I
> regularly whack my ankle onteh foot board of the bed at Dad's house (I'm
> not there often enough to remember it's there when I go around the corner.
> Tape and closed-cell...)
>
> My most fun kitchen disaster involved a batch of mead. I had been making
> the small mead that is in the _Miscellany_- from Digby. Had been putting
it
> up in the 1.5L bottles that my favorite mineral water comes in- one batch
> fits perfectly in two bottles. One day I discovered I didn't have those
> bottles. Well, I had lots of bottles in the recycle pile, so I pulled out
> two cranberry juice bottles, scalded them and used them. They were made of
> the same plastic and would be ok- right? Put them under the kitchen sink
> like usual, and didn't think about it...
>
> Then one day I heard a gunshot in the kitchen. Before I could peel myself
> off the ceiling, there was another. I peeked my head around the corner,
and
> when I saw the foam coming out from under the cupboard, I knew what had
> happened. When I opened the cupboard, I found that the bottles were ok-
> yes, the same plastic, and it was fine. But the LIDS had shattered. I was
> finding shards of plastic for years. And now the good part...
>
> The force had been so great when they blew, they dented the underside of
> the stainless steel sink! Dents that were visible in the sink! Dents that
I
> could not pound out with my hammer! Oddly, the University never asked
about
> those dents...
>
> My sweetie make very nice mead. I think I'll leave well enough alone...
>
> 'Lainie

ROFLMAO, ROFLMAO, ROFLMAO Aurore