Tonight, Madison (my
11-year-old) and I were going to do a girls night complete with home pedicures.
We got out our foot spa. We have to heat water on the stove to have
water that's warm enough for soaking our tootsies, so I told Madison to fill
the tea kettle and put it on the stove, on high. Next thing I know, she
(and the kitchen) are covered in water and my son is standing in the kitchen
doorway with our glass pitcher in his hand - minus its bottom. Ummm,
whaaaaat.......?
Instead of the tea
kettle, Madison had filled our glass water pitcher and put IT on the stove on
high. Well it didn't take long for the glass to overheat and **POP** the
bottom broke off the pitcher and water exploded all over the stove, the kitchen
floor, and Madison.
We mopped up the puddle on the floor. Then we
used paper towel to sop up the water on the stove (it needed to be cleaned
anyway LOL). Then we opened the top of the stove to get to where the
pilot lights are. One was out. Ugh. I tried to just relight
it, but....nothing. So I turned on one of the burners, and tried again.
Not only did the pilot light and the burner light, but so did the area
AROUND and UNDER the burner.
EEEEEK! I quickly turned the gas off
again and everything went out. I'm not sure if it was excess propane (is
propane a heavy or light gas? Does it sink or rise in relation to air?) or if
the water was just mixed with flammable greasy gross-ness of the under-stove.
I can't exactly get a
towel under there to soak up the water because the other pilot light IS still
burning. I don't want to start a towel on fire. So I turned on the
oven, in hopes that the heat from the oven will help the water to evaporate.
Then we can figure out the whole "water in the pilot light"
issue once everything is dry again.
Lesson here? Madison
isn't quite ready yet to boil water without supervision.
