Comments on: She’s already smarter than me

By: laura

laura — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:48:11 +0000

Eleanor,
You certainly have me beat, I can honestly say of all the things that I have burnt on my stovetop, NOTHING compares to your experience. Thank you for the laugh today!

By: suse

suse — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:35:22 +0000

I’m glad no serious damage was done!

But I have to tell you, baked beans contain no mystery whatsoever. They are an entirely prosaic and pedestrian dinner one dishes up when one has arrived home at 6pm and there is only a limp stick of celery and half a litre of slightly suspicious milk in the fridge, and everyone is hungry.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:41:29 +0000

Oh no, I’m already regretting having outed myself.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:40:36 +0000

All right. You are forcing my hand here. You see, I’m dying to tell you the story of what I burnt on my stovetop, but doing so necessitates outing myself as a mother who bottle-fed her baby.

All right.

I burnt my nipples.

The plastic ones, which I was sterilizing in boiling water.

Bet you can’t beat that one

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:18:43 +0000

put a bag of cashews on the hot plate – off but still hot and 1) cashews my favourite and a treat as not cheap here and 2) were in a plastic bag that of course melted and burnt to the stovetop (of a rental! with an anal OCD landlord) and stank the place out for days

All been there! : )

By: tj

tj — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:16:28 +0000

We have all done that a time or two. Me, three or four or five…..

By: edj

edj — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:48:13 +0000

Just glad that only the pot was ruined…

By: Paola

Paola — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:47:45 +0000

My dear, sooner or later this will happen to ANYONE.
But kudos to Yaya for having the guts to reprise her mom!

By: #1mama

#1mama — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:04:25 +0000

Hey Laura I did that too lately, did not really switch it off and it was parked in the garage to make it hard to boost.

Rae, that is a good story and a smelly lesson for sure. That happened in our house a little while ago, and there were fans at the back door for blowing the smoke out, and smoke detectors had been going off, lots of fun, but I wasn’t home through all of it, and only found out later. Burnt beans though are one of the worse smells.

Hope you can shut the windows and doors soon.

By: laura

laura — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:32:33 +0000

would if make you feel better to know I left the key ON in my vehicle last night and this morning, surprise!, I had a dead battery? It makes ME feel better having told someone.
Maybe YaYa could make me a checklist too.

sorry to hear about the ruined food and the smelly, chilly house.