Indoor Barbecue
At what point do failed culinary creations stop being considered under the "culinary" category? I think I found it.
A couple days ago, my mom was making soup - it's one of those soups where you put in a whole mesh of raw food (meat, vegetables, etc.) into a pot of boiling water and hope that the combination tastes good. Then she forgot about it for about an hour and a half, two hours. I was in the next room over when I started smelling something burning. I walked into the kitchen and the entire room was engulfed in smoke. Thick masses of smoke that were hard to see through. I made my way to the stove, turned it off, then looked into the pot - all the water was gone and all that remained was a disfigured hunk of meat that was half charred, half raw. Oh, and also the remains of a cooking spoon (one of those that have metal handles while the actual spoon part is plastic). It looked pretty similar to a clay sculpture a kindergartener would make, with the crushed, melted black mess attached to a long, smooth handle. I have to say, that was the first time I'd ever seen a kitchen utensil melt inside the pot; I'd only ever seen it melt when actually in direct contact to the stove.
The one satisfying thing that came out of this was that I was allowed to yell at my mom for forgetting about her "cooking" for such a long time that the kitchen became like an indoor barbecue.
This was two days ago. The pot's been soaking in water ever since to rid the bottom of the burns. No change so far.
