Re: Nero fiddled while Rome burned

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sdwa: Wow, I can really relate to that based on my scary experience!

My husband (self-diagnosed with ADD) TWICE turned on the wrong element on high to heat something up and ruined a cheap pasta pot and a very expensive Swiss pressure cooker (we replaced the latter as we use it a lot). The aluminum bottoms turn into really neat blobs.

When he called me about the pressure cooker incident, I was at work late, I told him to open it but that was the wrong thing to do as the plastic gadgets on top (which were upside down inside the pot) had melted and when he opened it, these little black flecks of plastic went everywhere in the house. It took us weeks to clean them off.

I got home and said “we can’t sleep here, it smells like a chemical factory” so we tried to get a motel room in our small city but they were all booked due to a math teachers’ convention. We had to drive a half an hour to another small town, found a really nice suite, went out to get something for dinner and everything was closed (it was midnight) and ended up at the casino about 20 minutes away to eat a hamburger in a sports bar.

We won’t forget that night, but he still is bad with the stovetop element controls, he often leaves one on after cooking – I can hear the click so I turn it off.

nellie: Some of the pizza we order in often tastes like cardboard to begin with! We order frequently because we just can’t get organized to do grocery shopping and make meals. It’s harder too because we are vegetarian, so the order-in or eat-out options are quite limited in our small city.

I am glad to hear that this happens far less to you. I’m hoping meds will help for me, and if things work well for me, my husband will get a proper assessment and hopefully take some appropriate meds too.

In the meantime, I am trying to get us to not store pots or leave anything on top of the stove, but it’s really hard!

My mom was really bad for wanting to spend time at family gatherings talking or listening to everyone rather than cooking the meal. So my husband and I used to go in and watch the pots for her. She would have them cranked on high and there would be cooking liquid spurting all over the stovetop. We just resigned ourselves to the fact that she was totally distracted and impatient (kind of like me at times) and took on the task of monitoring the stovetop for her.

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