the perils of pyrex

random fact #3
One time in the kitchen, I literally blew up a Pyrex casserole dish . . . and food and glass went E V E R Y where! Here's the photo proof of the "during" and then the "after" clean-up:

  Note the 3 grocery bags it took to clean up; and, I was still finding glass nine months later.

Yeah. That really happened.

this month's theme

Since I never mind laughing at myself, I thought it'd be fun to share this experience from the spring of 2012; in April to be exact. So two years later, in thinking on this month's theme, I thought it'd be fun to talk about some of the random, interesting things we've done "around the house." This week: kitchen fails.

Even in prepping for this one and telling a handful of friends what I was going to share, each of them were able to right away tell me a funny/maybe not-so-funny-at-the-time story that happened to them . . . so . . . that means I'm thinking there are plenty more great stories out there just waiting to be shared! 

here's my backstory on this

I was in charge of bringing food to my church small group that week and honestly was SO excited to be preparing this special family recipe for everyone. It's a layered meat/cheese/pasta dish, and I was just about done layering when I thought that maybe I should cook a few more noodles and bring one more, smaller dish of it too. Just to make sure there was enough for everyone (def my mother's daughter in that regard!) 

my sweet small group from Church of the Highlands, spring 2012

So I filled a small pot with water, turned on the back eye (or what I thought was the back eye), and continued piling cheese on the larger dish. I was standing there, hearing a little *pop* *pop* *pop* noise, but thought it was just water that had trickled down the pot and was hitting the eye . . . you know how it does that?? So I didn't pay any real attention to it; and then it kind of sped up some which I thought was a little weird, and before I could do anything else, I heard and kinda felt, a big " B O O M !!!! " 

Y'all. I stood there in frozen shock for a few seconds, eyes BIG in awe, arms slightly raised at right-ish angles, (you know, like when you jump back from something?), and was trying to quickly figure out WHAT in the WORLD just happened?!? 

And then when I realized the dish had exploded, because I had somehow turned the FRONT eye on instead of the BACK eye (still not sure how that happened), I was amazed (and SO thankful!) that none of that glass flew up into my face! Now I'm sure there's some amazingly brilliant physicist out there who can explain in full scientific detail exactly what happened; but until then, I'm just gonna go with my theory: the weight of all that extra cheese on top kept the glass from coming up, thereby, saving my eye sight ;)  ( . . . I kid, of course . . . well, kinda) 

this week's question

It's pretty simple. What humorous and/or horror story do you have from the kitchen? Any valuable lesson learned from it? Feel free to share in the comments below. And here's the downloadable PDF if you'd like to write or type into it. And try to make #lifeaboutlife for others and ask someone else this question too. 

My lesson learned?
Pyrex is awesome INSIDE the oven. NEVER on top of it!
And . . . don't skimp on the cheese :)