Stuff Burns?

Jan 1, 2007 by Naomi.

A watched pot doesn’t boil. Old sayings are wise and paying attention to them serves me well. That is, I do not stand and wait for my kettle to boil. But walking away and forgetting to come back leaves me with some very black kettles. I’ll have you know that the enamel on the bottom of my kettle actually stuck to my burner after “some” minutes left unattended. Is that physics? Or ceramics? Or chemistry? Or pyrotechnics?

Must be some kind of real hard science.

Once the fire department investigated the smoke that occurred when I left on an errand after setting eggs to boil. The fire chief apologized profusely for the invasion.

Microwaves have no live electricity to set anything on fire but I burn stuff anyway. Like popcorn, while I wait for the last kernel to pop in the bulging paper bag. Well I can’t see what is going on so how can I tell?

When shopping I discovered loose popcorn is far less expensive than the ready measured and bagged stuff. And I am frugal. What to do? A pan burns very quickly on my electric burner so back to high tech radiology. I put a handful in a covered glass casserole and lo! I could actually see the last kernel pop. But I did watch closely. No more walking off to catch up on tasks left half done.

I don’t know whether that great enlightenment will turn my life around but it bodes well for how I might pay attention to other heated moments from this point forward.

Cannot hurt to hope.

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