Sunday, September 25, 2011

And Yet ANOTHER for the Stupid Archives

I should just create a whole label for "Stupidity," because that's apparently my new hobby.

Yesterday afternoon after canning the salsa I had made the day before, I did all the dishes and, as I usually do, put the big pot I had made the salsa in on a hot burner so it would dry quickly and could then be put away. My big pot that I love. The indispensable, perfect big pot that I actually dedicated a whole (admittedly somewhat lame) post to not very long ago.

Then I went outside to harvest pole beans and tomatoes. About ten minutes into this activity, my sister-in-law came out to tell me there was an empty pot on a hot burner on the stove.

Shit.

I asked her, of course--and quite calmly considering the circumstances--to turn the burner off. Then I ran inside to find that the MiL had taken the pot off the stove and that the copper core bottom had actually come clean off the aluminum bottom of the actual pot. Some aluminum had melted onto the stove, but the stove was okay. The pot, however? Not okay. Not at all. Not salvageable.

SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT.

So that was the end of my favorite pot of all time. The MiL was actually about to leave for the Small City, so she found a replacement pot for me. It's the same brand, the same size, and the same general style, but it's just not quite the same. Not quite as heavy, not quite as nice. My fault, though, so I can't complain.

I can swear though, right? Right.

SHIIIIIIIIIT.

5 comments:

Teresa said...

Kristin,

Your not stupid your just human.

Sherry said...

LOL! I agree with teresa, you are just human! We've all been there.

Anonymous said...

Oh man I've done that a few times with the wok. I've learned to always set a kitchen timer for one minute when leaving the stove on under the wok to dry it out.

-Fred

One in Ten said...

I know how you feel ,I did the same thing to my soup pot the new soup pot is not the same

Anonymous said...

Did that to an aluminum pot many years ago....mom and dad went to town and I was left to make supper. I was cooking macaroni in a double boiler and it ran out of water. What a mess.