1 – Since you are running behind, in an attempt to cook supper faster than usual, turn up the [electric] burner under your milk-based soup.
2 – With the oven timer beeping, forget about the soup as you try to clear a spot on the counter for the bread that done in the oven.
3 – Smile at the beauty of the bread you just pulled out of the oven… and then immediately forget it as you grab a spoon to stir the soup.
4 – Groan with dismay as you feel the telltale layer of cooked milk along the bottom of your pan.
5 – Calmly, without panicking, remove the soup from the burner and retrieve another pot (which, thankfully, is clean!). Pour the soup into the new pot.
6 – Turn the burner DOWN as you continue to cook the soup.
7 – Glance at the bottom of the now empty pot and again groan with dismay, since you cannot see even a tiny bit of metal. No, it is completely covered with black burned milk.
8 – Taste the soup, in hope that you salvaged it. Sigh with thanksgiving and relief that the soup is still yummy.
9 – Back to the blackened pot: Fill ¾ full of water and begin to heat it. Realize that you have too much water, and distractedly pour off one third of the water (the pot is now ½ full)
10 – Bring water in blackened pot to a boil.
11 – Observe with fleeting reservation the rapidly boiling water then, ingoring the tiny voice of caution in your head, pour in about ½ - ¾ c of baking soda.
12 – Stand like a fool as a volcano erupts all over your stove. Turn the burner down, only to recall that you still have a horrid electric burner that retains its heat.
13 – With no thought for your safety, grab the pot and lift it off the burner, being EVER so careful not to let any spillage contaminate the gently cooking salvaged soup.
14 – Look with horror at your VERY messy stove (it is usually just generally messy)
15 – Ignore it til after supper when…
16 – You wipe it down and, to your utter amazement, discover that all the burned on grime that you were ignoring miraculously wipes clean!
I’ve not had a cleaner stove in months! And it required not a bit of elbow grease!!!
motherhood is anything but boring, isn't it? Your a good mom, even if you do burn the bottom of the milk kettle!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brenda. Here's the kicker - Last night I did the same thing but with the spaghetti sauce! Fortunately, I again caught it before it spoiled the whole batch. And, this time I only but a little water in the pot. I am utterly amazed at the Baking Soda trick!!!
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