FIRE!

lynn nearly set the house on fire yesterday.

I KID YOU NOT.

some serious flambé action going on in the kitchen. too much, in fact.

allow me to elaborate:

lynn is heating up the pan on the stove to dry off all the water on the surface.
after a few mins, lynn adds oil
lynn does not realise that on the sides of the pan there is still some water
lynn realises she has poured too much oil into her pan
lynn decides to pour some of it out into my pan

water + HOT oil = very bad combination

+ because she has tilted the pan, the fire from the stove leaps onto the pan and starts burning up the cooking oil

HELLO flambé!

and flambé in my really small kitchen is really not that cool. replace 'cool' with 'scary'.

thank goodness for fast thinking (i.e. taking the pan off the stove and letting the fire burn out in the pan, and closing the kitchen door) or else we'd have the fire alarm going off. and from experience, that would have been another adventure trying to turn it off.