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Well now where was this sound advice when I needed it? Not put glass in the microwave? And here I've been coveting those glass things with plastic lids that go from freezer to microwave ... that I know I'd break the day after I bought them ...

Best stick to my yogourt and margarine containers for the freezer, and thaw everything before heating in non-glass objects.

And never run with scissors, and always wear my mittens when I go out ...


How about a contest.

What's the worst injury anybody's done to themself so far this year? Or all-time worst, if you're feeling boastful.

The worst one I've had done *to* me so far this year is for No.1 to bring his mother's pneumonia bug home from Christmas, take over the chesterfield with it for two weeks (and stop doing the dishes and laundry), and then share it.

Just out of interest Janey, do you ever put flat-pack furniture together ;) lol and if so do you faithfully make sure you have all the right items in the packs before starting.. 8 x 2 " bolt headed wotsits and the like...or do you rush in regardless:))

hope your finger gets better soon, I've found honey helps it heal quicker.

Edit, sorry that sounded a bit uncaring lol, but it's only that it is the sort of thing that I do, impatient to get things done , no time to waste lol.

Hearing this makes me so very glad that I don't have a microwave ... I always suspected that they where dangerous .

Hope your finger is healed soon Janey .

Does sound that you faired better than the Pyrex dish, must admit I never put anything glass like in microwave. Hope the pain does not kick in.
Carol

Oh dear Janey.....

S x

Do you mean -- do I not have any patience? ;)

(I know you didn't mean -- do I not have any sense!)

I'm usually too hungry when I go home at night to futz with defrosting!

Speaking of which, time for today's hard unripe tasteless banana ...

Do you not have a defrost button on your microwave Janey? Defrost then heat and the jug should be OK. Well Pyrex would be!!

It's vicious. No, I didn't trip on it and fall on my face. That's what pyjama bottoms are for.

You know how Pyrex is safe for freezer, oven, dishwasher ... well, I just hope it doesn't say microwave, or I may have to sue.

Disclaimer: I have no one to blame but myself (as usual) since I had already done this three or four times, although to less disastrous effect. (I think manufacturers are supposed to account for stupid people, though.)

I have a giant 8-cup Pyrex measuring cup that I often use to heat up pre-cooked casseroles in the microwave for dinner. The problem happens when I've forgotten to thaw them. The measuring cup, with the litre container of frozen spaghetti sauce or lentils & veg standing up in it, then thinks it's empty. So it heats up itself, which non-empty containers aren't supposed to do.

And then when you reach in and grasp the handle ... you are grasping molten glass. And the entire inside of your pointer finger ... you know, the one you use for typing and mousing, which in my case means for working ... is immediately medium rare. Me, I prefer my fingers tartare.

Amazingly, it hardly hurt, and there's almost no actual broken skin. Just a kind of leather effect. Cortisone cream and hand lotion are keeping it fairly supple.

The measuring cup fared less well. It now has a sort of decorative handle where the thick glass meets in the middle and is held together in one spot by a fine strand.

I'll have to find something else to make microwave peanut brittle for the menfolk in now.

Come to think of it, you know, I may have bought a cheap Woolco imitation all those years ago, and not Pyrex at all.

I remember buying it. The Woolco was closing down to make way for a Walmart and my BFF and I were picking up bargains. She got me the measuring cup for my birthday. Being environmentally conscious, we eschewed bags and she was carrying it close to her chest as we sauntered through the mall. Suddenly she stopped. She had lost a contact lens. She was quite blind. So I was the one crawling around on the floor hunting for it. And then ... she looked down into the measuring cup, and there was her contact lens.

So all in all, I guess it's been a good friend. Reasonably.

Anyway.

Watch out for glass containers in the microwave that might have got the idea they're empty. They are not good things to take a firm grasp of.