On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:43:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Gary" > wrote in message ...
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> "Roy" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>> > On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 9:55:46 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> >> Although this did leave a hideous mess...
>>> >
>>> > <deletion for brevity's sake>
>>> >
>>> > March 21 2016 Julie Bovie - Tale of Woe - No charge - Condensed
>>> > version.
>>> >
>>> > I accidentally tipped over a pot of hot water that I had cooked some
>>> > pasta
>>> > in.
>>> >
>>> No. I didn't tip anything over. The pot shot off of the stove. This is
>>> what I can not explain. I was standing at the cutting board which is
>>> about
>>> 3 feet from the stove.
>>
>> ummmm....no? The pot of hot water just "shot off the stove" while you
>> were
>> standing 3 feet away?
>
>Nobody else was in there. And it happened so fast. I just turned around
>with the cheese in my hand and saw it fall.

Here's what happened:

> Although the oven was off, I didn't feel like sticking my head in there to
> put the cheese on because I was feeling a bit warm from all of the garage
> activity.

You were feeling a bit fuzzy-headed, and possibly were having blood
sugar issues at the time. So an accident of some type wouldn't be
unusual.

> So I removed the pan and set it on top of the pasta pot. Should
> have been fine as I didn't really take the time to get the correct sized pan
> and had used a large, lipped cookie sheet because it was already sitting in
> the dish drainer.

You had a pot of boiling water on the stove, and you put a random
cookie sheet full of chicken pieces on top of it. Did you check to see
that your chicken pieces were centered on the sheet and over the
center of your pan? If they weren't, they might cause your Rachel Ray
pan to become unbalanced. Was the pan on a front burner? And do you
have a gas or electric stove? If a gas range, I can easily imagine
this scenario causing a disaster.

At this point, I should mention that I have absolutely no idea what
the Rachael Ray pan looks like. If it is a bit top-heavy, and you
hurriedly put an unbalanced load on top of it, then there is a good
chance that it might tip over.

> I turned to get the cheese. Turned back when three slices of the Provolone
> when it all went very badly. Happened so very fast! Saw the Rachael Ray
> pan come flying at me along with the pan that the chicken was on.

It didn't "come flying at you." It tipped over and spilled because you
put something on top of it that shouldn't have been there. Perhaps you
*thought* it was flying at you, but this also might have been because
your blood sugar was a bit off and you weren't seeing correctly.

> This is what I do not understand. What would have caused that nearly full pan of
> water to come off of of the stove?

See above.

> Now I suppose it is possible that in my haste, I somehow didn't have it squarely on the burner but I can't see how.
> I have a big scoop that I use to remove the pasta from the water so the pan
> never left the stove.

You didn't have it squarely on the burner. Take my word for it.

Doris