Egg sandwiches anyone?

[happy daze john in oz]

We have all at some time or other done something stupid, sometimes with catastrophic results. Today I set a new record, I did something that
many have said is impossible, I burned boiled water!
Her indoors is overseas visiting the outlaws on both sides. I am more than capable of looking after myself having had to do it so many times before. This morning I decided to boil three eggs for use in sandwiches, not rocket science, put the eggs in a small pot add water and place on stove, light gas and retire. Having put the pot on I then went to do some outside painting up a ladder. I had been at it for over an hour when I stepped back to view my accomplishmenst. Thankfully I only fell from the second rung, but as I did I heard the sound. This is it I thought ,the sound of armegedon. Picking myself up I realised the sound was the house fire alarm going off at a rate of knots.
Entering the house I began to think breathing aparartus may be the order of the day. Through the fog I could see in the corner a dull glow, the pot on the stove beging to change shape. I made my way to the stove to find the pot in a very bad state of repair, and in the bottom the cremated remains of three eggs. The local crematorium would have been proud of my efforts I mused. It took about three hours to clear the smoke and smell from the house. Think I might go for ham sandwiches next time.
How did you set the world on fire?

[john sutton]

many years ago my first wife was boiling 2 eggs ,the water dried up and the eggs exploded onto the kitchen ceiling
see,you are not alone
john sutton

[john walker]

Quite a few years ago I was reading a story in one of the national tabloids about two motorway traffic policemen. They were taking a quick lunch-break in a porter cabin that was their rest area, one of them had two boiled eggs that his wife had supplied for his lunch. Having peeled one egg and found it to be to soft, He put the other egg in a microwave oven to try and cook it more to his taste. When the two cops surfaced from beneath the dining table they discovered that they had not come under attack from I.R.A. terrorists. It was the egg that had exploded. blowing the door of the microwave.
It seems to me boiled eggs are more trouble than they are worth.

[John Arton]

John in OZ
Join the club, I managed to set fire to our kitchen years ago when I was boiling an egg for my eldest daughter. Think she was about 4 or 5 at the time and loved a soft boiled egg with toast soldiers to dip into the egg. Got the pan boiling when she called me from the living room wanting something else so I went through. Minutes later smoke all over and dashing back into the kitchen I discovered in my haste to attend to her I had left the tea towel too close to the cooker and it had caught fire. Fortunatley just a bit of scorching on the cooker and surrounding unit was the only result but the egg was ruined.
rgds
JA

[leratty]

never done that but did once forget about some frying oil heating up which caught fire & I stupidly when realising threw bloody water on it in panic. JC what difference that makes it goes from an acceptable blaze which can be controlled to a five star one in short order fire everywhere as the oil splashed everywhere thus requiring extinguishers. Lesson learnt & it was a rented apartment too.

[John Albert Evans]

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jae

[Tony Morcom]

21 years old and just moved into my newly built estate house. The only contents I had in were one of those huge tapestry mats from Turkey on the lounge floor, a brand new TV and electric cooker and a bed. Rather stupidly I put the old fashioned type chip pans on to heat and off I went to wash my hair ready for a night out on the town. I could hear the crackling a little later but assumed it was the TV. Started to come down stairs to be met by black smoke: Oh **** I thought as I remembered the damn chip pan. Grabbing what i thought was the most appropriate thing, I threw the rug over the cooker which rather neatly served to knock the slowly melting chip pan over completely spreading the fire. Ran out of the house and frantically began knocking on doors looking for someone who had their phone line connected. Eventually a fire engine arrived and put the fire out but not before it had melted all the plastic fittings and smoke damaged every wall and ceiling in my new house! My fiance was not best pleased when I told her we had to move out while the house was totally deep cleaned and redecorated. To add insult to injury, a couple of days later when we went to buy yet another TV and cooker the shop assistant thought it was hysterical when she asked if we had an old one to be taken away and I said "yes, the ones you delivered last week which the firemen destroyed!" True story and one I never heard the last of!

[John Arton]

First breakfast on aU.K. ship with the first ever main land communist chinese crew.
Asked for a boiled egg, steward went to the pantry, filled a soup dish with hot water and put an uncooked egg in it.
Hey presto..boiled eggs, chinese style.
Perhaps the fact that all the cutlery was just piled in the middle of the table as non of them knew what a knife and fork was for, should have alerted us to the fact that we were entering a new era of catering on board.
Mind you the deck and engine room ratings were even worse.
rgds
JA