You should never post on your blog that things are going fine. Because then something is bound to happen, right? Right. After I put up my last post I headed to the kitchen to make some peach muffins.
I had the first batch in the oven and they were almost done when I smelled the funniest smell. Since we just got this stove over the weekend I thought maybe I just needed to adjust to it.
I took my muffins out and noticed something green sticking to the oven rack. Then I looked at the bottom of the oven and noticed a PILE of green liquid.
At first I thought one of my sons had put something in the oven. Then I realized the culprit was ME. Seriously, can you believe it? It was my OWN fault and I can't even blame the children. Well, I could but that doesn't seem right. In my own defense, it was an accident. It really was.
After mixing up the muffins I took some flour out of the freezer to refill my flour canister. The flour was clipped with a green clip. It is one of those clips that has a magnet on it so you can stick it to your fridge and hold papers.
The magnet must have stuck to my pan and I didn't even notice. Then I put the muffins in the oven and it melted all over the bottom of the oven. But that is okay because who doesn't love throwing away an entire batch of muffins, which they really wanted to eat because they were really hungry, and then trying to figure out how to get plastic off the bottom of their oven.
Thanks to my dear friend, Google, I scraped it off and put the oven on broil for about half an hour. The plastic is gone, the smell is gone, and luckily it was only the first batch of muffins so I got to bake the rest of the muffins.
I hope everybody else is having an uneventful Friday. :)
9 comments:
Sounds like something I would do! I'm glad everything turned out good in the end!
That's kind of funny. :) Hope the rest of your Friday turned out better. Muffins sound really good right now.
I have never heard of peach muffins Mel....are they as yummy as they sound?
Glad you didn't hurt the oven to much...love your tips on how to fix things!
Xx
Yikes! That reminds me of Thanksgiving a couple years ago: I had set a platter of sliced quick breads in the oven to keep them away from my dog (who, as you know, likes to eat ANYTHING) and preheated the oven without thinking. When we went to put the turkey in, the plastic wrap had melted all over the breads. It was a mess!
I HATE the smell of burnt plastic. We had a spoon slip in the dishwasher and land on the heat coil. Smoke and stink for two days. Just nasty!
Oh that sounds like something I would do!
At least you managed to get it all off!
That's terrible - but totally understandable and sounds like it was easily done.
Glad it didn't ruin your new oven or anything - that would have been trajic
Peach muffins? That sounds really good, you should post the recipie. I do things like that constantly, glad your oven is ok.
Remember the Thanksgiving circa 1978 when the little yellow plastic wind up chicken got melted in the oven with the turkey and I had to call poison control to see if we could still eat the turkey? Luckily we could. By the way, who put that chicken in there???? Mom
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