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HarmanMogul
Reminds me of a kitchen mishap I had a few years ago. We were on holiday in Iceland and staying in an apartment in a hotel. It was lovely, outdoor hotub with view of the fjord which was amazing as you watched snow drifts moving along the ground in blizzards. The place had a kitchen and we thought we’d cook a meal for ourselves, however the local shops were poorly stocked, not much fresh food, and my Icelandic language skills are zero so we couldn’t even work out what was in the frozen packages we had bought.
Got back to the cabin and put a pan of water on to preheat while I started to prepare the food. I loathe ceramic hobs but it was what we had to work with. I needed a pee so went to the bathroom. Suddenly there was a huge bang followed by the sound of large hundreds and thousands falling to the floor and scattering all over the place. Turns out I had missed the fact that the hob had a glass lid, I had heated it to the point of destruction.
The apartment was open plan and every surface had shards of glass, I was in bare feet and had bits embedded. Took over an hour to vacuum up most of the glass but for the rest of the stay we kept finding more glass everywhere.
The meal when we eventually had it was appalling, the random things when cooked didn’t make any cohesive dish, we had lost a load of food due to the seasoning of ground glass. It was our wedding anniversary and this was the worst meal we have ever had that I have cooked.