"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:43:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Gary" > wrote in message
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>>> 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.
That's not what I did at all. It was a cheap, lightweight cookie sheet with
only three little half chicken breasts on it. It wasn't heavy at all. The
Rachael Ray pan is heavy by itself and heavier still when full of water. It
was the front burner. Electric, not flat top.
>
> 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.
Nonsense. It's a large, oval pan. Here's a pic. And no, I did not buy it
there.
http://www1.macys.com/shop/product/r...7C-%7C3jMGUWkr
>
>> 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.
There is no way that a lightweight cookie sheet with three dinky chicken
pieces could have put that off balance. Especially when full of water. It
is so heavy that I struggle to get it to the sink to empty it. Most of the
time when I fill it, I have to partially fill it, put it on the burner, then
use a large measuring cup to fill it the rest of the way.
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