Today is Memorial Day in the United States.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
[...] — Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 – 1918)
Not food nor gardening, but hey, sometimes a girl needs a break…
This is why you should NEVER – EVER – store plastic in your oven. Metal or heat-proof glass containers, yes, but plastic? Repeat after me: Do not store anything plastic in the oven. Don’t. You think you’ll remember, but one time – and it only takes one time – you won’t.
This is also why you should ALWAYS keep a big container of baking soda handy. Large handfuls of baking soda will smother a fire with a lot less of a mess than a fire extinguisher. While the fire might have burned out by itself – eventually – in the (electric) oven, the fumes might have be poisonous – they were pretty obnoxious even though we caught the fire early. I am sure it would have been a real mess (and a 911 call) if that had been a gas oven though…
And if you must ask. No, those photos were not taken at my house. They were taken at the house of a lady – who shall remain nameless - and of whom we were guests for a couple of days recently.
I was told that once the plastic cooled off and hardened, it just lifted off the floor of the oven and off the rack.
Nonetheless, say after me: “don’t store plastic in the oven and go buy a really large box of baking soda NOW”
My apologies to all of you who posted comments and whose comments have disappeared. It was not my doing: I love your comments!
It’s apparently an issue that other WordPress bloggers have been having. Not being a techie person, I don’t understand how it happened. But it did: poof! they disappeared altogether , even from the comment table says my IT person (who is also the baker and the pit master) – so there is no way to retrieve them from the cyber nethers. The first time it happened, a few months ago, I decided to save your comments as e-mails on my own computers. I will therefore try to repost them (a slow task!), as so many of them add so much to the conversation!
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