Hot cocoa problems
I fixed myself some cocoa this morning as a special treat. I make hot cocoa on the stove according to the directions on the Hershey's Cocoa container: bring sugar, cocoa, salt, and a small amount of water to a boil, and then add milk, serve when heated to your liking. After putting the milk in, I sat down to answer a few emails. I headed back into the kitchen to check on the cocoa, and as my hand reached for the lid, the cocoa boiled over. I turned off the heat, but not before the stove was immersed in a shallow bath of too-hot cocoa.
Grumpily, I poured the cocoa into a mug (which fit perfectly thanks to the displaced cocoa), put the pot in the sink, and cleaned up the stove. The way it was going, I fully expected to burn myself on the hot stove, but I managed not to despite all the hissing sounds the stove made as I ran over it with a wad of wet paper towel.
I drank the cocoa, and it didn't taste like burnt milk like I expected it to. The cocoa got lukewarm before I finished it, so I stood up to dump it into the sink. I took one last sip and then turned toward the kitchen, and clanged my wrist into the back of a chair. I didn't drop the cocoa, but my short stop caused some of it to splash out of the mug, showering it over my workspace where my phone and laptop are. It was only a few drops on the phone so no damage was done, and the cocoa didn't even reach the laptop. Just another mess to clean up.
Now to wash the dishes and put this minor disaster behind me.
Grumpily, I poured the cocoa into a mug (which fit perfectly thanks to the displaced cocoa), put the pot in the sink, and cleaned up the stove. The way it was going, I fully expected to burn myself on the hot stove, but I managed not to despite all the hissing sounds the stove made as I ran over it with a wad of wet paper towel.
I drank the cocoa, and it didn't taste like burnt milk like I expected it to. The cocoa got lukewarm before I finished it, so I stood up to dump it into the sink. I took one last sip and then turned toward the kitchen, and clanged my wrist into the back of a chair. I didn't drop the cocoa, but my short stop caused some of it to splash out of the mug, showering it over my workspace where my phone and laptop are. It was only a few drops on the phone so no damage was done, and the cocoa didn't even reach the laptop. Just another mess to clean up.
Now to wash the dishes and put this minor disaster behind me.