Set the microwave on fire this evening, exploding a perfectly good glass casserole dish and completely carbonizing the beet greens I was steaming inside it.
When your 3-year-old says "Fire?" from the kitchen, take my advice: Check on it. Like, don't wait to finish sweeping the dustpile into the dustpan. Just go look.
Also don't go "Aack!" and open the door right away. Even though the flames self-extinguished when I did it, you might not be so lucky. In retrospect that was a very dumb thing to do.
OK, so I microwaved the beet greens a little long, but I didn't think it was THAT long. 5 minutes tops, for about a cup of chopped fresh greens and a little water. Now they're charcoal.
Weird. I can't believe they actually carbonized.
Posted by: MelanieB | 15 October 2009 at 08:03 AM
Five MINUTES?!
Posted by: Rebekka | 15 October 2009 at 08:05 AM
Uh, Rebekka, is that "I can't believe you were so dumb as to try to microwave greens for a whole 5 minutes" or "I can't believe only 5 minutes did that?"
Am hoping it's the latter.
Posted by: bearing | 15 October 2009 at 08:51 AM
You're pretty awesome with the home schooling thing so I'm certain you turned this into some sort of awesome lesson plan, right? Science experiment? Fire safety?
(Glad it was mostly contained and no real harm was done)
Posted by: Mrs Marcos | 16 October 2009 at 12:00 PM
No, no lesson plan, but my husband and I did spend the next 20 minutes wondering whether the flames heated the glass enough to send it into the microwave absorption range, thereby causing the shatter.
Posted by: bearing | 16 October 2009 at 12:22 PM
Please be careful. I like you too much to see you incinerated.
Posted by: Margaret in Minnesota | 16 October 2009 at 11:41 PM