Because I'm stupid...
I now have three decent sized oil burns decorating my face and collar bone as well as a pattering of lovely smaller burns across my arms. Why? Again...see the title. I blame the sleep deprivation and its effects on my logic processing skills.
So...the story...Jadie came over this weekend. Now this is not an unusual occurrence of course, but there was something special we decided to do. For the past forever, I've been telling her that I would make black pepper popcorn for her since we became obsessed with it after going to DisneySEA. So...we were working on it, heating the oil and everything, had the test kernels in, but I guess the corn was old or something because like...they popped, but just barely. They were little burned crisps at the bottom of the pot when I checked them. Probably a good idea to start over, yeah?
Here's where my higher brain functions stopped...functioning. The pot was really hot...with a nice coating of hot oil. I needed to get rid of the old oil before I could scrub the burned part off of the pot. I think what I meant to do was tilt the bottom of the pot under the water to cool it down. I'm sure you've all figure out what I did instead...
It's so funny, y'know? As it was happening I totally knew what was about to happen. Far too late my "YOU'RE BEING A DUMBASS" alarms started blaring, and then the water hit the oil and I was spattered with burning death. Ah, well...At least my eyes were spared. Now THAT would have sucked.
So...the story...Jadie came over this weekend. Now this is not an unusual occurrence of course, but there was something special we decided to do. For the past forever, I've been telling her that I would make black pepper popcorn for her since we became obsessed with it after going to DisneySEA. So...we were working on it, heating the oil and everything, had the test kernels in, but I guess the corn was old or something because like...they popped, but just barely. They were little burned crisps at the bottom of the pot when I checked them. Probably a good idea to start over, yeah?
Here's where my higher brain functions stopped...functioning. The pot was really hot...with a nice coating of hot oil. I needed to get rid of the old oil before I could scrub the burned part off of the pot. I think what I meant to do was tilt the bottom of the pot under the water to cool it down. I'm sure you've all figure out what I did instead...
It's so funny, y'know? As it was happening I totally knew what was about to happen. Far too late my "YOU'RE BEING A DUMBASS" alarms started blaring, and then the water hit the oil and I was spattered with burning death. Ah, well...At least my eyes were spared. Now THAT would have sucked.