Lessons to learn at midnight

[leftyjew]

Here's my story. Tell me what you would have done in the situation:

I was baking an eggplant late last night. The only baking dish I had was a big glass lasagna tray. It's lasted many a lasagna, though, so it's good. After the eggplant finished up cooking, I took it out of the tray, and then decided that the tray should go somewhere to cool off. I picked it up and put it on my table on top of an oven mitt. The oven mitt began to smoke. Okay, too hot for that. The stovetop was covered with things that were cooking, so I couldn't put it there. I decided that the best option was to cool it down quick. I held it over the pot-filled sink and turned on the cold water. SNAP! BANG! CRACK! BAM! WHOP! The glass completely shattered coating my kitchen in shards and splinters and large chunks of glass. They kept fizzling for a while, actually. "You chose poorly," said a voice-over in my head, along with "Holy crap! There's glass in my hand!" It was really cool, but also really a pain to clean up, and I lost my good glass lasagna pan. Well, at least I know, now. Does everyone know not to do this?

Comments

whoa.

[kellev.livejournal.com]

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...yes, you should never subject glass (or pottery, or cast iron) to sudden temperature changes. That's what wire cooling racks are for.

[alanscottevil.livejournal.com]

I woulda put it back in the oven if it was too hot to put down on fabric. And least I think I would have. I (intellectually, at least) know about the glass freaking out thing.

That was an awesome description of the results, btw. Is your hand okay?

[arctic-alpine.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!
glad youre hand was ok.
sorry about your lasagna pan, but hey, at least it broke in a cool way, rather than cracking on teh floor and dumping lasagna everywhere

[queerrocket.livejournal.com]

OHNOZZZZZZZ!

great to talk to you yesterday and hear about the civics of broken glass.

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

yes, silly. don't cool glass too quickly. it breaks.

how's your hand? how was the kitchen cleanup?

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

hand is fine, kitchen cleanup was fine (used a spoon to get the glass out of my drain), no food was lost or hurt. all is okay.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

Wow. I would have tried to dump the lasagna out into like one of those foil pans or something or put it back into the oven with the oven door open. It probably wouldn't have occurred to me to cool it down with water.

Are you ok?

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

no lasanga was hurt in the making of this lj post. all the food was safely evacuated before the glass shattered. (i wouldn't have put a pan full of lasagna into cold water. that's kinda gross). and i'm perfectly fine sans a small cut on my thumb

[rivka-m.livejournal.com]

yep, learned it in high school science when we were bending glass to make pressure gauges. One brilliant student decided to cool his off with cold water so it would be done faster. it shattered.

yeah, I'd vote with putting it back in the oven, if the stovetop is full. though I've never had a pan so hot it made an oven mitt smoke. woah.

oy vey

[jet17q.livejournal.com]

you put it back in the oven. or you put it on a table on a cutting baord.