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submitted 1 year ago by Farksnatcher@lemmy.one to c/food@beehaw.org

I was finishing a jar of extremely hot peppers (7 pot primos) that I had fermenting on Thanksgiving day. I made a hot sauce with them and cantaloupe. I had them in a pan at a low simmer to meld the flavors. The problem was the steam coming off was potent as hell. It filled the house when everyone was arriving and coughing from the hot sauce in the air, me included. We had to open all the windows, dig out the fans to get it out of the house, freezing everyone in the process.

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[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 47 points 1 year ago

Decided to make fried chicken. We rarely ever eat fried foods, and so I don't have fancy things like deep fryers. What I had was a large cast aluminum pot.

Filled it about half way with oil, made amazing delicious fried chicken.

I also don't have a stop top. Use a single eye burner. Needed the burner for something else, so sat the pot on the counter next to the sink.

Moved wrong, knocked the pot into the sink. Boiling oil goes down the drain.

Know what's at the bottom of the drain? A trap full of water.

Water met boiling oil as I matrix dodged our of the way and a geysey worthy of yellow stone came flying out of the sink, both sides, shooting boiling oil and steam everywhere. Covering the ceiling, the walls, the floor. Even the dog got hit (thank God for long, thick fur!). I had splatter burns on my legs, which was the only part of me not under the counter when it landed. It came up with so much force it threw the pot out of the sink.

[-] 0101010001110100@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Yours is my favourite. I've witnessed several grease fires, but never one that geysered out of the sinkhole. Nice job, lol.

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

It was a scary moment. For added funny: I am 6'2, 285lbs (188cm, 130kg), and I'm not lying when I say I matrix dodged that shit.

[-] curiosityLynx@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the metric conversion 🥰

[-] 8bitguy@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I think you win. Glad you and doggo are okay.

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Haha. Thanks. Lol.

There was another time I burnt down the whole kitchen making tacos. But that's less fun a story. Lol.

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