The Devil's Juice.

[Dinner]

I'm kind of embarased to admite it but I've messed up. Last night, I figured I'd have a little Scotch on the rocks. At first I just wanted a glass but a glass turned into three or four and before I know it I am well into Lucifer's grasp. This wouldn't have been so bad except for, while drunk, I got the late night munchies and decided to put a pot of water on the stove so I could make some pasta.

You guys know how long it takes for water to boil. So for some odd reason my drunk self thought it would be a great idea to go and lay down on my bed while the water gets hot enough. The next thing I know I'm waking up to the sound of the fire alarm going off. I run into the kitchen and there is the pot still sitting on the stove only all of the water has boiled off and the pot has gotten so hot the alumnium has melted. That's right there is a giant hole in the pot and the aluminium has melted and fussed itself on to my stove!

Thank god there was just alot of smoke and no fire. I could just see myself trying to explain to the landlord why his house had burned down. As it is I'm going to try and scrape the remains of my pot off of the stove and see if I can't pretend this little incident never happened.

So let that be a leason to you kids; beware of the Devil's Juice. Above all make sure you don't drink and cook. Hmmm, or drive or post here at 'poly or... well... just don't drink.

[MRT144]

lol, one of my friends moms did the same thing!

[Dauphin]

What would have been wrong with simply popping out for a kebab?

[JohnT]

I thought you only drank water, Oderin?

[Dinner]

That would have been the smart thing to do. So far I still haven't been able to get the aluminium off of the stove.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by JohnT
I thought you only drank water, Oderin?

That's rich!

[Starchild]

It's so much easier to just get an order of chips in pita bread with tomato and burger sauce. Or lamb doner with garlic and chilli sauce.

Barring that, I'm sure you could have dug up some cold curry. Maybe spicy chinese noodles.

I mean, if you're desperate, a toasted cheese and onion sandwich is easy to prepare while drunk. Just becareful of the hot cheese.

but honestly man, who makes pasta while drunk? that's, like, work.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Oerdin


That's rich!

Oops! My bad... it was Osweld who only drinks water ( http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=74625 ).

[Dinner]

Well boys I've learned my lesson. From now on it is strickly microwavable foods or take out while drunk.

[Jack the Bodiless]

...Ack. There is almost certainly a chemical solution to your problem, but I can't remember what it is.

Aluminum is highly reactive. It even reacts with air, but this forms an oxide layer which is chemically rather inert and forms a coating. You need to chemically strip off the oxide layer.

Caustic soda, maybe? Something like that. Crack that problem, and you can dissolve the stuff.

[Wittlich]

Or failing that, you may have to replace the coil on your stovetop. The replacement coils are not that expensive and they just pull out....since I don't think you will ever remove all of the melted aluminum from your old electric coil.

[Dinner]

That's what I had to end up doing. I'll head out to the Home Depot today to get a replacment coil. BTW melted metal made so really cool designs and I think I'm going to keep a few of the igots.