Unfortunate broccoli accident
Jan. 8th, 2005 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackToday I decided to steam some broccoli for supper.
So I put it in a bowl, add a little water, stick cling-film over the top, microwave for three minutes.
I then pull off the cling-film, not realising that a bowl with cling-film over the top satisfies all the definitions of a pressure vessel, and 750W applied to 50g of water for 180s converts it into something satisfying many of the definitions of live steam.
Now I have a blister on my right thumb, which I have covered in a sticky goo made from herbs and lanolin. This is as messy a substance as can be contrived, and makes typing, as well as the use of mice and spoons, inconvenient.
Though the broccoli (with baked potatoes and a little steak-and-kidney pudding from Tesco) was nice.
So I put it in a bowl, add a little water, stick cling-film over the top, microwave for three minutes.
I then pull off the cling-film, not realising that a bowl with cling-film over the top satisfies all the definitions of a pressure vessel, and 750W applied to 50g of water for 180s converts it into something satisfying many of the definitions of live steam.
Now I have a blister on my right thumb, which I have covered in a sticky goo made from herbs and lanolin. This is as messy a substance as can be contrived, and makes typing, as well as the use of mice and spoons, inconvenient.
Though the broccoli (with baked potatoes and a little steak-and-kidney pudding from Tesco) was nice.
Full Steam Ahead
Date: 2005-01-09 10:01 pm (UTC)I always leave a small gap in the cling film at the edge of the bowl. Better still is to buy a dedicated steamer bowl which fits in the microwave (complete with water bowl, veg tray and vented lid).
Your thumb will probably be ok in a few years.
Here is a poem :
Womack burned his finger on some veg,
whilst trying to some dinner.
To cook some broccoli without a gap in the film,
is surely not the act of a winner.