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I set the stove on fire today.
Story:
Was taking up three of the four stove hobs while I was cooking both lunch and a batch of dinner food intended to last me a few days. I am cooking pasta in a saucepan, chicken in a frying pan, and zucchini soup in a wok pan. The soup is covered with a lid, to speed up the cooking time a bit.
Pasta and chicken finished first. The pans are taken off the hobs. Mixed the food with pesto sauce and ate (yum, yum), while soup was cooking. Took the lid off the soup and set it aside.
Started washing my dishes, as well as the pile of dishes that was in the sink for the sake of general cleanliness. I'm washing one of the objects from the pile, wondering whether I could quickly leave the kitchen to put some clothes in the washer when I hear a fwoomp and see an orange light out of the side of my eye.
After a second of thinking "what fwoomp?", I turn to the stove and see that the hob where I'd been cooking my pasta is on fire.
Turns out that I'd failed to turn that hob off, and it was on a high setting. I'd put the lid on top of it, and the severe heat and melted the plastic handle and caused it to drip onto the hob and be set aflame.
I poked the lid out of the way with what I was holding, filled a plate with water and poured it over the flame while going, "UH-OH, UH-OH, UH-OH, BAD, EEEEEE, FIRE."
Kinda like when Stewie got a piece of glass stuck in his skull.
Anyway, the flame was really small, and had only lasted a few seconds before meeting its watery end. The fire alarm wasn't set off, so that's all good.
The wok lid, however, could not be saved.
RIP
Wok lid
2006-2007
He was so young!
Also, went to a milkshake place they have here. And it was awesome. I had a Kinder Bueno milkshake with Maltesers in it. Next time I go in I may get a Plain Hob Nobs one.
It's so cool. The cashier's real pretty and the guy that makes the shakes has totally wicked tattoos. And they also have candy.
I wonder if they're hiring.
Walked into the kitchen today to find one of my male flatmates in his underwear, ironing his jeans.
I do not have a problem with this. At all. I'll try not to leer too much.
Also got some art supplies. Tomorrow some of us in the class are going up to London to draw at the Natural History Museum. Yay, dinosaurs and taxidermy.
So today I got to set something on fire, have a super-delicious milkshake, get more art supplies and see one of my flatmates in his underwear.
It's been a good day.
Fwoomp!
--Exit