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How about

......holding on to the hinge side of a back door frame while stepping outside.

Then, while still hanging on in case the back door step is icy, try to close the door to keep the heat in.

Ouch!

"try to get through a door way about 3" to the right of where the doorway actually is."

Or ... almost make it ... but aim so precisely as to attach self to thingy in the doorway for the doorknob bolt, by beltloop.

I've always been amazed at how architects and such have managed to design doors and doorways so perfectly that those thingies are at the precise height of my beltloops.

Corningware lids ... yeah, it's never the lids that break. I think this characteristic is common to most household items in the world.

But these aren't household items of which we speak. They are boobytraps, plainly.

Most of my Pyrex and Corningware were wedding presents, or bought over here in North America soon after the wedding ................. in 1967

I've broken 2 of the casseroles by dropping them on the kitchen floor ........ fortunately empty, they just slipped out of my hands ......... 1 week apart. I still have the lids

They were of course the most useful size, and the most used!


That led to diagnosis of arthritis in right hand, and multi visits to the Arthritis Clinic



Stand up under open cupboard door

Yep, done that


Open cupboard door, turn around to get something, and walk into open cupboard door

Yep, done that


turn a corner too sharply, and find the edge of the shelf that has been 2' in from the corner for many years

Yep, done that



My favourite, ie most frequent


try to get through a door way about 3" to the right of where the doorway actually is.



s

What a domesticated little group we are - discussing our pyrex and other household stuff:-))

S x

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And ... the horse's mouth:

http://www.arc-international-cookware.com/en/products/Frequently-Asked-Questions.php

I have some Pyrex dishes that are a number of years old. Could I use them in a microwave?

Most certainly.

Are all Pyrex dishes microwave-friendly?

All dishes from all ranges are suitable for use in a microwave.


(Liz -- Arc -- Arcopal -- ?)


I'm thinking I have Woolco, not Pyrex.

I'll be checking tonight. If it turns out it's Pyrex -- you''re all my witnesses!

No, no silver leaves in the microwave, that's for sure!

And no plastic tahini jar you're trying to get the last dregs stuck to the bottom out of, because it has metallic gold on the label for some stupid reason.

Sylvia -- Corningware. Perfect microwave material. Except I only have one piece of my set left. But then I did get it in, oh, 1970.

Well that's interesting! I cooked some broccoli and sprouts an hour ago, in a brown smoky glass casserole dish that was a wedding gift to o.h, - his wife left them here when she moved out. They must be around 30 years old. There are two in different sizes. I use the bowls everyday to cook veg in the microwave, always assumed they were Pyrex and boy, they get hot when boiling or steaming veg in them. I have to lift them out with an oven glove.
Just checked and they are Arcopal. Not sure if that's the French version of Pyrex or a different company.

I have always used glass containers in the microwave, both here and at home altho I did used to use a large plastic jug for my veg at home, with clingfilm over it.

There are some plastics that shouldn't be used in microwaves I think, but many are safe.

Hope your finger heals soon Janey.

Lizx

Sylvia,I used to have aloe plants on the kitchen windowsill but o.h. put them outside for the summer and then moved them into the greenhouse to overwinter, didn't put bubble wrap in quickly enough so some plants froze, but I think we still have some left. I mean, if I need some gel I can always trek to the greenhouse eh? He keeps the meagre first aid kit up in the bottom of his wardrobe, well he did when I met him, we now have plasters and Savlon at least, in a kitchen drawer! Couldn't see the sense in trailing blood from the kitchen to the bedroom lol

Poundland have those shelf edge guards, I keep meaning to get some, as I too don't bend enough at the knees to get things safely from the oven and stripe my arms too.

I'm a women's size 11 (a men's size 8 here) and No.1 is a men's 12 -- and even I have not been lazy enough to try wearing his shoes!

The kittens have no such compunctions.

Me, I just go barefoot as soon as the snow goes. And no, that isn't as foolhardy as it sounds -- it's a whole lot harder to fall off the edge of a driveway and break your foot (or a curb ... yes, same bone, same foot, 5 years apart ..) when you're barefoot. Take my advice!

I've done that one Ann:-))

Another good one was putting OH's garden shoes to go to the veggie garden for tomatoes. Tried to walk down the steps at the back door and ended up at the bottom of the steps quicker than I expected. I'm a size 8 ladies and OH is a size 12 mens so it really was a stupid thing to do...and lazy. I got a badly bruised foot for my stupidity.

S x

Ah yes, who would have suspected that she could go from 0 to 60 in the space of the two feet from top of bottom cupboard to bottom of top cupboard?

I've often thought one should be able to harness all that force or velocity or whatever it is, to heat the house and run the lights.

I have been putting two small casserole dishes (actually they were presents from a pen friend in Canada in the mid sixties) into my microwave since I first had one, I suppose that would be over 30 years and have not had any problems. I put pyrex casseroles dishes in there all the time.

Actually Janey I did mean have you got a defrost button? not sure all microwaves do but maybe they do these days. But I can see it was just lack of patience.
My favourite trick is opening the top cupboard in the kitchen then finding I need something in the lower cupboard or drawer, then standing up!!!

I really willl have to check the bottom of that monster when I go home ... I fear I've been making unfounded allegations against Pyrex!

I do boil water in the microwave in a smaller Pyrex measuring cup (for making puke salad, yay!) and man, sometimes that water is violent when you take it out. But the cup never attacks me.

Carol - I have some old pyrex casserole dishes and they've been used in the microwave - they certainly weren't made with microwaves in mind but they've survived. Now the modern Pyrex should be microwave safe - but I've gone through a couple of bowls so I'm thinking they don't make them like they used to.

S x

Point of interest, after I stated did not put glass in microwave. I put a dish in my microwave which is about 45 yrs old, it is white opaque with pretty flowers, guess what it says on bottom, surprise surprise Pyrex. Point of this comment they obviously don't make them like they used to.
Carol

Okay, SueMaid, that's just gross.

My dad took off the tip (just the fleshy bit) of his thumb while using an industrial electric slicer to slice lettuce at his restaurant once. Now, me, I'm not *intentionally* reckless!

Cynthia, I can't quite picture your injury process, but the guards seem like a wise idea. Me, I do that on the electric broiler elements in the stove. I don't think they make guards for that.

My favourite is: take the pot out of the oven, take off the oven mitts, take the lid off the pot ........

Sylvia, I've often had aloe plants in my kitchen. Sadly, I kill them before they are any use.

I've seen those shelf protectors in catalogues from a company we have over here


now if I could only remember which catalogue




BUT


you're not now supposed to put ANYTHING plastic in the microwave 'cos nasty stuff can leach out into the food



it's ceramic or nothing.




sylvia

Okay, RR, you asked.

Flat-pack furniture? Like .. IKEA!

Back in ... lemme see, it was the summer of 1984. It was a Sunday morning in June. I remember this because I was about to have my first meeting later that day with the local election campaign team. I was in my office, on the third floor of an old downtown row house that I shared with some community groups. I was alone in the building and the door was locked.

And I was putting together flat-pack furniture. Bate your breath ...

It was three low cabinets with shelving units on top of them. I got one put together, set the shelf thing on top, and realized I wanted it about 2 inches farther to the right. So I pushed the bottom cabinet. I looked up to see the shelf thing heading for my head. You know what that stuff is made of, and how heavy it is.

I formed a plan as I watched it happen. I would dive across the room and dial "0" on the phone (this was before the days of 911/999). I didn't want to be getting knocked out alone on the top floor of a vacant locked building on a Sunday morning.

So once I got out from under the shelf thing, I did. I said to the operator "I've just been hit on the head and wanted to be on the phone in case I got unconscious". There was blood running down my face. For reasons that eluded me, she said "I'll connect you to the police". So the police phone rang about 10 times ... lucky I wasn't really being beaten up or anything ... and by the time the cop answered, I figured out what she'd thought was going on, and I explained it to him nobody was assaulting me, I'd just been self-harming, and decided the blood was just standard scalp wound stuff, and we all went about our business.

A couple of hours later, I went to the campaign meeting, and got the manager, a childcare centre manager, to look at the top of my head. She demanded that I go to hospital immediately. So I did.

The shelf thing had landed flat smack on the top of my head, head-on. I'm a person with a ridge in my middle of my skull, front to back. The smack caused my scalp to split, apparently about an inch, along the ridge right on top. This was apparently an unusual effect and the ER staff seemed puzzled by it, but in any event it called for a stitch to hold the edges of the split together.

As the nice young doctor was doing that, he chit chatted and eventually asked me whether I was married. I opened my mouth and was about to say "mind your own * business, what has this got to do with my medical care, would you ask a man this??" (we were still in the days when women got asked their marital status on every form ever designed for anything).

And it hit me. He had to ask. I might be a battered spouse. So of course I protested too much. No, no, I said, really, I pulled a bookshelf over on my head, I'm glad you asked and cross my heart, I would tell you if anyone had hit me, but I did it to myself with an IKEA bookshelf!

And then I went home. I don't know what my records say ...


So that, RR, is what happens when I put together flat-pack furniture.

Next, we'll do playground equipment ...

How about remembering to defrost your evening meal beforehand??


Now have visions of Janey sitting with her finger in a jar of honey!


Treat yourself to a large plastic microwave jug!


I usually have an array of 'sergeant's stripes' up my forearm from catching on the oven racks whilst moving things in and out of the oven. However, I spotted some protectors which you can put on oven rack to stop that happening. From that good gadget shop....Lakeland. Some super stuff in there!



Cx.

My OH has one of those fancy vegetable slicer things that he uses with great dexterity. Had our son visiting for a few days and decided to do a salad for lunch. OH went out for some cold meat so I decided to tackle the veggies. I didn't use the finger guard and sliced a big chunk out of one of my fingers including the finger nail. It didn't hurt and I didn't notice until my son pointed out the pouring blood and that's when the pain set in - and I fainted. Stitches and now a finger nail that has never really grown back properly:-(

S x

sorry JC


just had to have a little giggle


as it's the kind of daft thing I do.



Tha's why I have a large aloe plant in the sunniest room in the house.




although I must admit that I have never put Pyrex in the microwave

..... most of mine are soooooooooooooooooo old that they pre-date microwaves!