I was cooking pasta the other night (ever noticed how dropping a food substance into hot water constitutes “cooking”?) and I used a metal saucepan with a Corning glass lid. Not knowing any better, I tilted the lid at an angle so as to allow the steam to vent . . . and then I went upstairs to change out of my work clothes. Which turned out to be highly fortuitous, because my Evil Kitchen tried YET AGAIN to kill me!! This time by causing said lid to crack and explode and hurl glass shrapnel all over the stove and floor. Had I been still standing there I could have sustained a serious splinter or possibly worse, like maybe a broken nail!!! Hell, I could have lost an eye. Anyway, according to the girls at the pub [and who would have known they all belong to the Secret Society of Pheminine Physicists?], one should never tilt a glass lid at such an angle as it causes uneven heating patterns which can potentially lead to such an assassination attempt as the one from which I so narrowly escaped. Now I’m not saying that I’m a klutz necessarily, but from now on I’m keeping an empty plastic container in the kitchen in which to safely dispose of broken glass. And I’m going to “cook” from behind a bulletproof barrier.

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