Last week a friend cooked a Burns Night supper for a group of us.....
We sat down to eat at 7.45.....enjoyed a fantastic meal...some chaps are really good cooks....
...then retired to the sitting room for port and cigars.... ;-)....
At about 10.45 there was a little explosion from the kitchen.....the girls went to investigate....the chaps took a long time to get up from the sofa....wimps.....
We discovered a shattered saucepan lid.....still sort of in place but the worktop and floor covered in tiny pieces of glass.....could have ruined the neeps and tatties....
Now, does any clever bod know why, after sitting on a plate at room temperature and nowhere near a heat source for about three hours, the lid would have shattered then?
The saucepans are new, Stellar pans.......never been dropped or otherwise abused.....
I could understand if there was a sudden, extreme change of temperature.... but this has us puzzled.....
Gx
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