I figured I should just blog it now before someone else heard the story and exaggerated it and somehow it became THE GOSSIP OF THE YEAR!!!
Earlier today, I decided I needed to boil some water so I put a small pot of water on the still fairly new and clean stove. And then the phone rang and I got caught up in a series of various phone calls back at my desk in the other room.
Around 45 minutes later, as I'm just starting a phone call with someone else, I smell a horrendous chemical-like burning smell. I THOUGHT it was coming into our house through my office window, but in actuality, it was coming from the other room... our kitchen.
EEEK!!! I ran back into to the kitchen to see smoke coming off the VERY VERY VERY HOT pot, turned the stove off, grabbed a potholder, and dunked the pot into some water in the sink. It was STINK-Y. I thought I was going to gag and pass out from the toxic smell of burning pot (that's pot as in pots and pans, not marijuana pot, which incidentally, I am allergic to and would also probably make me pass out).
I opened all the windows and turned on all the fans, hoping the disgusting burning pot smell would go away. Actually, I left the house to run errands for an hour or so.
But the smell was still there (not as severe) when I got home. And I had guests coming over. Luckily, by that time, it was just a lingering odor that you could kind of get used to, but I could still smell it pretty strongly. I figured out hours later this was because the smell had been completely absorbed by my hair. Ick.
I told T the story of what had happened, and she was very sympathetic because she claimed that she once had a similar episode with a spatula on a frying pan. She even stood up for me when we were at a party later in the night and Yoshi was trying to figure out what my "kitchen mishap" was.
Yoshi kept saying: "You burned WATER?! How could you burn WATER?" and T stood up for me and said, "She didn't burn water. Water evaporates. She burned the pot." Yeah! Besides, except for the stink and the messed up pot, no one got hurt and nothing burned down.
Regardless, I never thought it was possible to screw up boiling water.
But I must be extremely talented.
Posted by jozjozjoz at July 31, 2004 12:37 AMyou didn't mention if it had been a teflon/non-stick kind of pot. if so, go read these next couple links. they are kind of flaky but have decent info.
http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/teflon/teflon2.htm
or
http://quakerville.net/features/teflon.asp
Posted by: rammer at July 31, 2004 10:01 AMyou were trying to make clouds. i understand. i've forgotten several pots of water esp recently. i don't use non-stick and now i won't.
Posted by: Enigma at July 31, 2004 10:53 AMSalad Master pots and pans. They're expensive as fuck, but it's totally worth it.
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Posted by: JoAnna at August 2, 2004 10:30 PMLike, my boobs are bigger than yours.
Posted by: Britney Spears at August 4, 2004 12:02 AM
Actually I know someone in my home who has burnt water lets just say it wasn't me. Advice get yourself stainless steal pots and pans. No matter what no chemical smells. A couple years ago I found a pot of rice on the stove and realized it was ontop of a low flame for over 24 hours. With hot water and soap and it soak for five minutes all that rice came up without any scrubing. Stainless is the way too go ! Buy one at a time if you have too, you will never go back. You of all people know you can trust me on this.
Posted by: shelli at July 31, 2004 06:44 AM