Sunday, December 19

On Friday night I killed our stove ...

... I was going through the motions of making Spinach Rice Gratin, to go with our lovely bits of salmon for dinner. I popped a small pot of water on the stove to bring to the boil and stepped outside to pick spinach & sliverbeet.
Having been outside for only a moment, certainly not long enough for the water to even have begun bubbling, I heard a BANG. Then I heard Mr Brown say a very rude word. Then he called me inside and showed me this.A fault in the pot created a hot spot which burned right through. The water leaked out into the stove element, flooded it and BANG. Sparks flew and the stove died.Twittering helped calm my frazzles, laughing about shit like this helps ease the pain. I was, however, actually quite distressed, as I'd planned to make duck confit on Saturday, for the annual seasonal feast with my parents.Nothing worked and nothing seemed to fix it. At first glance it appeared it wasn't the fuse and I had pictures of violently-expensive-weekend-emergency electrician visits and/or stove shopping the week before xmas! I do not like the shops at this time of year.I did not sleep well that night.Still, tomorrow is always another day and closer inspection led Mr Brown to believe the 16-million-year-old fuse may actually be the problem after all. A call though to my dad and a visit to the evil that is Bunnings, and HUZZAH, the stove lives to cook another day.The moral to this story? Marry a chap who's good with his hands *wink*

6 comments:

Zoomie said...

Wow! How long have you had that pot? Thank heavens you weren't in the kitchen when it blew! I've never seen anything like that. Glad the stove wasn't a write-off, anyway.

cookiecrumb said...

I like the ceramic pot you've been looking at... But that's a different story.
(I won't bother asking if I can borrow Mr. Brown. I know the answer.)

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Zoomie, not that long, it was Mr Brown's mum's pot. New, according to the sister who insisted I take the pots home, because "you cook". Not what I'd buy for myself but .... *sigh*
Cookie, the Bendigo Pottery one? So do I. I don't think I'll get for this round of confit though!

S said...

And a handy Dad too eh? ...I love duck confit, think it is my all time favourite thing to eat.

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Yes, Mr Brown needed to pick his brain about ancient electronics :)

Pink Granite said...

Excellent moral!
;o)