I AM THE WORLD'S MOST AMAZING CHEF.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

i caught my cup o noodle on fire once...i dunno how its just a styrofoam cup 
but i was watching it rotate in the microwave and suddenly POOF! EN FUEGO!

[East Coast Hustle]

Seriously. It takes talent you can't even imagine to burn top ramen.

Really?

Then you have a rival. My former college roommate. You know, the one I almost threw off of a balcony? Yeah, she had this thing with making sure you boiled ALL THE WATER out of the pot of ramen. More often than not, she forgot about it, and ruined my fucking pots.

I kind of do that, but I lower the heat near the end to let whats remaining reduce. Also, I cant afford to ruin my own pots.
Also I use peanut-butter sometimes, and cayenne pepper... sometimes carrots.

peanut butter in top ramen is the shit.

no wonder we're friends.

[Z³]

Seriously. It takes talent you can't even imagine to burn top ramen.

Really?

Then you have a rival. My former college roommate. You know, the one I almost threw off of a balcony? Yeah, she had this thing with making sure you boiled ALL THE WATER out of the pot of ramen. More often than not, she forgot about it, and ruined my fucking pots.

I kind of do that, but I lower the heat near the end to let whats remaining reduce. Also, I cant afford to ruin my own pots.
Also I use peanut-butter sometimes, and cayenne pepper... sometimes carrots.

peanut butter in top ramen is the shit.

no wonder we're friends.

Actually, reduction is the shit...
Peanut Butter is a bonus.

[LMNO]

I made an 18" pyrex casserole dish explode. As I was deglazing with red wine at the time, I also set the kitchen on fire.

Flaming needles of glass?  Just another Tuesday.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I have blown up my kitchen a time or two.  Hell I've burned poptarts...

[Cain]

I managed to destroy an extractor fan in our home kitchen....while making prawn crackers.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I made an 18" pyrex casserole dish explode. As I was deglazing with red wine at the time, I also set the kitchen on fire.

Flaming needles of glass?  Just another Tuesday.

I must ask you about this.

I have read that the new (last few years) Pyrex baking dishes are NOT borosilicate, which boggles my mind, yet is corroborated by what research I have done. What exactly were you doing when the dish exploded, and how old was the dish?

I am curious because I have heard several anecdotes about the new dishes shattering or exploding, which of course would simply not happen with borosilicate. I am wondering how on earth the profit margin could make it worth it to Pyrex, whose name is virtually synonymous with borosilicate glass, to switch to producing bakeware made out of soda-lime glass.

[LMNO]

You know, I'm really glad you said that. I thought I was going crazy.

I was roasting some short ribs in order to make a beef posole.  I had seen this on TV where my man Alton Brown took a Pyrex dish from the oven, put it directly on the gas range, and deglazed it with red wine.

So, I take the dish from the oven, remove the ribs, turn the heat on low, and pour in the wine.


BOOM.


Literally, the entire 18" dish explodes in all directions.  No piece is larger than a few millimeters in diameter, but the lengths range from a tiny piece of shrapnel to an inch-long needle.  I get cut in several places, and am lucky I was wearing my glasses at the time.  But that's not all!  The explosion doesn't dump the wine onto the burner, which would extinguish it, it vaporizes some of it and sends the rest scattering in a fine mist, which catches on fire very easily.  A fireball fills the space above the stove, while the remaining wine from the bottle which I dropped when everything went kablooey starts a lovely little inferno at my feet.






Yeah, so I use metal or ceramic baking dishes now.

[Suu]

Christ!

I've never had a problem with Pyrex, but that's scaring the hell out of me.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

There used to be this stuff called "visionware" or something that was like a purple glass.
Pots, pans, baking dishes.

yeah. I've watched those go BOOM on my ex mother-in-law more than a few times.

[Rumckle]

 
Holy Fuck, that's insane.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I believe I've already mentioned my father's glorious adventures with autoclaves, cryofreezers, and Thanksgiving turkeys.

For such a smart guy, he can do some HEROICALLY stupid things.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You know, I'm really glad you said that. I thought I was going crazy.

I was roasting some short ribs in order to make a beef posole.  I had seen this on TV where my man Alton Brown took a Pyrex dish from the oven, put it directly on the gas range, and deglazed it with red wine.

So, I take the dish from the oven, remove the ribs, turn the heat on low, and pour in the wine.


BOOM.


Literally, the entire 18" dish explodes in all directions.  No piece is larger than a few millimeters in diameter, but the lengths range from a tiny piece of shrapnel to an inch-long needle.  I get cut in several places, and am lucky I was wearing my glasses at the time.  But that's not all!  The explosion doesn't dump the wine onto the burner, which would extinguish it, it vaporizes some of it and sends the rest scattering in a fine mist, which catches on fire very easily.  A fireball fills the space above the stove, while the remaining wine from the bottle which I dropped when everything went kablooey starts a lovely little inferno at my feet.






Yeah, so I use metal or ceramic baking dishes now.

Fucking CHRIST. I absolutely do not understand what the hell is going on with that company. Sheer idiocy.

In related news, I used to use ceramic baking dishes, but then this happened:

http://sinmonkey.com/?q=node/27

Now I only use metal ones, other than my ancient Pyrex casserole dish.

[Dimocritus]

Fucking CHRIST. I absolutely do not understand what the hell is going on with that company. Sheer idiocy.

In related news, I used to use ceramic baking dishes, but then this happened:

http://sinmonkey.com/?q=node/27

Now I only use metal ones, other than my ancient Pyrex casserole dish.

Holy crap! That's one helluva cut, it looked pretty deep. I can't beleive they didn't do anything about it. S'fucked up...

[Roaring Biscuit!]

as an aside, your t-shirt makes me think of Bret from Flight of the Conchords.