Don't do what I just did

**ricksrealpitbbq** · 03-22-2010, 05:01 PM

I managed to ruin dinner tonight. We were having a boneless pork loin roast. The wife made the mashed potatoes, roast and corn. All of it sitting on the stove top. I looked at the glass baking dish and saw all those gorgeous drippings and decided to make a gravy. I put warm water in the baking dish to loosen up those tasty bits and made the mistake of turning the burner on thinking I'd just make the gravy in the glass dish.

It exploded and glass went everywhere. All over me, the kitchen floor, the counters, the potatoes, the roast and the corn. The gravy went all inside the stove top and we have one huge mess right now. Thankfully no cuts.

This is one night we'll be having take out

**Mama Mangia** · 03-22-2010, 07:43 PM

Time for you to take a break - I think you've got too much on your mind!

Thank heaven no one was hurt - glass, Pyrex, and stoneware doesn't stand up to an open flame.

The mess...........well - I'm sorry you had to go thru that. And sorry you lost a good dinner.

Several things I have seen some of my friends or famiy do -

1 - exactly what you did
2 - using the liner from a crockpot on the stove top - same mess
3 - placing a pan/pot in the oven with either plastic handles or the plastic handle on the lid (not as big a mess - but a horrid smell of burning plastic!)
4 - same friend that tried the crockpot liner on the stove top was stupid enough to try to cook in the crockpot without the liner
5 - baking/roasting in glass bakeware over 325* F.
6 - placing a glass baking dish straight from the oven on the stove top burner instead of a cutting board
7 - best one yet - spritzing (using a spray bottle) water on bread every 5 minutes to make a nice crust - and the water hits the glass in the oven door and it shatters

just to name a few

**CanMan** · 03-23-2010, 10:31 AM

I just finished watching an episode on America's Test Kitchen on TV where they commented about dishes that were 'broiler safe' (same for stovetop) and others that weren't, which led to the discussion and results mentioned. The mess made, besides the danger, was very significant.

**ricksrealpitbbq** · 03-23-2010, 10:39 AM

I can't even begin to describe the mess it made. And thinking of it now, I'm amazed I didn't get cut to shreds. I had glass embedded in my pants and shirt

**Mama Mangia** · 03-23-2010, 11:54 AM

I hope yu vaccum your clothes before tossing in the laundry! Glass shreds can do a lot of damage to your washer and get into other clothing!

**Mama Mangia** · 03-23-2010, 11:58 AM

my honest opinion - (I love being opinionated!)

all those from freezer or fridge to oven or stove top cooking vessels they can keep - oh I will use them to bake or roast - but I won't do the big temperature change thing with them - I don't care what they say - it's not worth the mess and aggrevation

**ricksrealpitbbq** · 03-23-2010, 12:29 PM

They all got thrown out Mama. I thought of the same thing. Clothes, towels everything we used got tossed

**Mama Mangia** · 03-23-2010, 02:47 PM

that's good - you have to think of the little one and the baby

the only thing that I ever did was break a milkglass casserole in the oven at 350 - which of course I had the oven too high for it and my mind was heavy that day - I wasn't thinking - but it was a cheap set with a lot of nice pieces so what I use it for now is just serving after I've heated or cooked in the oven or stovetop - makes a pretty table

I lost a casserole that day - and it made a mess in the oven - so I guess I was lucky