In article om>,
"levelwave" > wrote:

> I ruined dinner. I not only ruined dinner, I injured myself and most
> likely anyone who walks barefoot into the kitchen for the next three
> months. I was on my first flip of Marcella Hazan's "Roast Chicken with
> Two Lemons". After 30 minutes you're supposed to take the bird out of
> the oven and flip her on her back so the breast is facing up. Well the
> damn bird slips through my hands and drops into the pan splashing hot
> chicken grease all over me which in turn knocks the heavy Le Cruset
> roasting pan completely off the stove. Stupid me drops the bird to
> save the... wait for it... wait for it.... 400 degree pan. OUCH. Eight
> burnt fingers. The pan lands with a thud on the kitchen floor just as
> the falling partially roasted bird plops down beside it with a splat.
> Covered in nasty kitchen floor fuzzies I toss the bird

I would have rinsed it off in the sink and returned it to the (wiped
off) pan. What the water didn't take care of, the 400 degree oven would
have. It would have been fine.

Isaac