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Thank you Janey for directing me here.........I haven't laughed so much for ages (sorry folks, I know I shouldn't but you know how it is! lol) :-)))

Mary

Heeheehee.........look at me using the Edit button ;-))) I forgot to ask......how's your finger JC, hope it's getting better.

Gwyn you reminded me of a bad mishap son had with tupperware in the microwave. We had not had a microwave for very long (in the 70s) I was at work, son aged 11 home with his sister aged 17/18. Son decided, unbeknown to his sister, to melt a jelly sweet in the microwave. As he took the dish out the sugar (very hot is sugar when boiling) melted the plastic which, instinctively he 'caught' with his hand. frantic phone call to me from daughter, son had huge blister on his hand so i had to go home from work (5 minutes) and take him to A&E to have it dressed. Really felt like a bad Mum. He didn't do anything like that again he couldn't play cricket for weeks.

Ouch that sounds very painful Ann.

I can't believe this thread has reached 4 pages on the mishaps involved using plastic, pyrex and microwaves:-)))

S x

Just shows what a clumsy accident prone lot we and our families are!

Oooh Ann... That sounds nasty.
Why did we always feel guilty for their mishaps?

Gwyn

Well, I'm still hoping somebody will feel guilty for *my* mishap. ;)

It isn't quite so funny when it's the kids it happens to though, is it?

SueMaid


I wonder how many pages a thread on accidents with knives, or falling over would have?????????//

Well, we know the answer that that second one, SiC:

... oh, no dang, I misremembered. The thread itself was about new reasons to clout one's powslq; falling on one's face on the living room rug was a mere sidelight. ;)

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/chat/thread/1226817?page=2


I haven't noticed Rambling Rose noticing that I answered her question about flat-pack furniture.

C'mon now, anybody else ever gotten written up as a victim of spousal abuse after going a couple of rounds with an IKEA bookshelf?

Committed spousal abuse, maybe ...

Oh Janey ...guilty about your finger? Sympathetic winces perhaps! At least you are still able to type about it so presumably on the mend thank goodness. :0))

We have small plastic decorative rings which fit over candle sticks which are brought out at Chistmas to 'dress' the table. This year, one of the candles dribbled. In an effort to remove the wax, I thought it might be an idea to melt the wax off in the micowave at defrost for one minute. You've guessed - one mini bonfire and no more decorative ring.

Poor Madmegs antics have certainly underlined the dangers of caravaning - that's another holiday idea crossed of the list ! And Suzian's hilarious recount of IKEA construction!!!!!!!

No, no, not you, DET! Anchor Hocking!

Somewhat seriously. Glass that melts in a microwave ought not to be marked "Microwave safe", if you ask me.


Now, if I'd actually done something like put a plastic candle ring in the microwave for a minute -- a minute!!

It took about 8 minutes to melt the handle on an 8-cup batter bowl. Divide that by a plastic candle ring ...

Runs in >>>>

Sorry Janey! I had read your reply re flat pack but before i could reply I was assailed by a strange and inconvenient sensation which I found could only be controlled by hiding my face in a pillow until the involuntary spasms which shook my body uncontrollably had subsided somewhat.

It took a before I felt it safe to venture back, and fearing a recurrence of the symptoms, avoided any possible trigger by staying off your thread till tonight :) however I still feel a twitching sensation about the mouth so may have to run off again >>>>>>>

I HAVE been known to heat up cold plates in the michealwave........

if they.ve got metallic decoration..........All the better for the fireworks!!

have you ever watch richard hammond's program? they do stupid things like putting fairy lights in michealwaves,

Bob

I've missed something. Why does Bobtanian keep calling it a michaelwave?

My new caravan (did I tell you about my new caravan? Sure I did - say YES or I will bore you again), has a microwave. So I need some light and friendly dishes to use in there. Suggestions please. Plastics preferred, but they melt, don't they? Guess its got to be Pyrex.

Hubby has just realised that the new caravan is a lot heavier than the old one. I TOLD him that. I ASKED his opinion. It is exactly what he agreed to. So I can see some problems ahead.

hmmmmm

does that mean that something will have to be taken out to lighten the load


OR



a new car??????????

I have a microwave but hav'nt cooked anything for so long have no idea how it works.
I had an accident with a dozen boiled eggs some years ago when I ran a pub, forgot all about them in the kitchen downstairs and played happily on my computer in the flat upstairs...pebble dashed egg every where.

I now have a neat toaster with and egg cooker attached that turns off when egg is cooked......sorted

jax

Madmeg, sigh, I gave you the answer to your caravan cookware question back on page 2, straight from the Pyrex mouth:

Q: I need to buy some dishes to use on regular caravan holidays. We have a small oven and a microwave but limited storage space. What would you recommend?

A: The Pronto range would probably be fine, unless you are planning to cook many family meals in which case incorporate several items from the Classic range.


What I want to know is: whatever became of Melamine?


I've just been reminded of a little ditty I wrote a few years ago. (Sylvia -- the ditty you queried was, of course, The Maple Leaf Forever. It's just that when I learned it in grade 2, I had no idea who Wolfe was, and I heard it as "Oaf the dauntless hero" ... which, when I sang it in the car one day and my mother had to get me to sing it over to be sure, caused her no end of merriment.)

Anyhow. My then BFF got married to her Japanese partner, and a while later had a wedding party. When they lived in my next-door flat, she was forever borrowing everything I had that could be used as a platter, to serve sushi to her students. So I got her a couple of big round ones, and printed out this timeless verse in flowery font to go in the card:

Crystal may shatter,
China will chip.
But an acrylic platter
Won't give you the slip ...
Will always be hip ...
Holds the chips for the dip ...

She thought I'd found exactly the right card for the present.


Now, who is Richard Hammond, please?

And how on earth does a toaster boil eggs?

Just google Tefal toast and egg

jax

Ah, it poaches eggs. No good for me! We don't eat toast, and I only eat eggs hard-boiled and made into egg salad sandwiches, or occasionally well-done scrambled.

I'll stick with my tried, true and completely failsafe method: put eggs in pot with water to cover, bring to boil, turn off immediately and leave for about 12 minutes, and bingo, hard boiled eggs and 12 minutes of electricity/gas saved!

I'm sure it works with soft-boiled eggs if timed differently, but yuck. One of those things, like all the stuff that lives underwater, that I wish I ate but makes me gag.

Richard Hammond is on TV day and night Jayney.
He has two mates Jeremy Clarkson and James Mays and there is not a night or day of the week when one or all of them are not on a TV channel here.

They started life as a trio of 40 somthing men on a motoring show called Top Gear, but if that isnt bad enough they are everywhere else as well in different combinations.
They seem to appeal to the male of the species from the cradle to the grave.

We went to Beauli Abbey Motor museum in Devon and low and behold there they were again, a whole section of the exhibition dedicated to them.

You are fortumate not to know who this hapless trio are and have been very very lucky not to have come across them in any shape or form

I read your post after a microwave incident this afternoon when I was melting chocolate in a bowl which was clearly not designed for the microwave!

Teresa

Yes it does poach eggs...one at a time so usless but it boils eggs max of four depending how much water you add to soft, medium or hard. I don't use the toaster but HID does

jax