I can now assert with confidence that you should take those little paper things off the cheese slices before making a grilled cheese sandwich.
And if you are baking a quiche with a ready-made pie crust, don’t forget to take the paper liner out of the pie shell first…
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And sometimes when you put a pizza in the oven, the plastic stiffener disk underneath sneaks in as well.
But on the plus side, if you find indoor fireworks difficult to get hold of, just put one of those foil container ready-meals in the microwave.
A couple years back I decided that I wanted to make some popcorn, I cannot remember if
A) It was before we owned an air popper.
B) I wanted to make more than what the air popper could and decided to make it in that pan
OR
C) tried to find a way to make the heritage popcorn that was too small to properly pop in the air popper,
but the end result was about half way through the popping, the cast iron pan was filled with popcorn. Being cast iron, you cannot just turn off the heat and expect it to stop popping the corn, on the other hand, you cannot leave the lid on, or the popcorn will start burning. So as quickly as I could I tried to pour the popcorn into bowl. It was like opening a box of grasshoppers, pieces of popping corn flying everywhere. My wife got a good laugh out of it.
A couple of years ago I went to defrost a bagel. I microwaved it for a minute and it was still frozen. Two more minutes, still frozen. Three more minutes, still frozen. About two more minutes later (I put it in for four more minutes) if caught fire. Completely burned.
Then there was the time I went to toast a bagel and put it in the toaster oven on a styrofoam plate. I was about eight. I also put a porcelain plate in once.
What lesson did I learn? Me + bagel = FIRE! and melted plate.