Recipe...

... for Disaster

- or -

How Not to Cook

Ingredients: one bagel

Place in microwave on carefully folded piece of paper towel.

Close door.

Press Cook.

Press Power - 30%.

Press Time - 1.. 0... 0...

and just for good measure... another 0...

Approximately 6:30 mins later, realize you haven't heard the microwave bell ring yet.

Peek into the kitchen. Observe the following:

• horrid scorched smell


• smoke seeping out of the microwaves vents


• flickering light, i.e. flames, through microwave door window.

Open the microwave door. Observe the following:

• microwave is FILLED with roiling, oddly yellow-coloured smoke


• which rolls out of the microwave at lightening speed, and


• expands to fill entire kitchen and living room to a depth of 4' down from the ceiling.

Perform following tasks:

• Turn on kitchen wall exhaust fan


• Open many windows


• Carefully preserve scorched bagel for photographing for blogging purposes.

Toasted bagel, anyone?