BURNIN’ down the house
You might have read where I thought I crashed and almost burned my house down a couple of days ago. If you haven’t, go ahead and read it. I’ll wait ……..
Tonight, I removed all doubted as to what happen when I cooked using the convection oven function of my microwave. Tonight’s recipe: Take one dish, place in the microwave oven (because we’re in a hurry to eat), set to 350 and press [start]. So far, so good. Fifteen minutes later, I smell something burning and thinking it is the remains of my previous adventure. But no! I find the kitchen full of smoke and the oven has a dim, reddish glow about it. MMMMMMMMM! Dinner flambe but without the alcohol! Luckily, I shut everything down and got a fan going to clear out the house. Just the thing to do on a chilly, December night.
My Sharp microwave oven has served me well for over fifteen years. It has even resisted the urge to combust these past couple of cooking sprees! I can still use the microwave function but I believe the convection part will do me in should I use it again. All I can say for the moment is that I’m glad I was awake this time. I’m not to happy to learn that the smoke alarm is dead as well …. Fortunately, I didn’t make an ash of myself this time!
