Thursday, December 13, 2007

Dear Mom,
Life lesson #496, as learned by Ron (or, another reason not to watch a boiling pot):
If you forget to put the screen back in the stove-top Italian espresso maker, when it gets up to pressure, it will be a Vesuvius of coffee and grinds, and will explode all over the kitchen. It will get on every surface, including the ceiling.
Love,
Ruth

p.s. No one was hurt, and now we have an extremely clean kitchen.

1 comment:

mom said...

Dear Ruth,

First of all, I am glad no one was hurt.

Second of all, I am glad it was not a chicken in the pot, like happened to your aunt tessie, who blew a chicken all over her kitchen while using a pressure cooker. She never used one again.

That's the difference between blowing coffee, and blowing chickens.... the smell of clean up.

Heck fire, I'm glad it wasn't hamburger or you would need aroma therapy!

Love, mom