exploding peas

This came up on G+ in comments after a bad cooking experience. Cut and paste of my responses:

I commiserate. I can't count how many times I destroyed a meal either forgetting it or being sloppy with spices. And then there were the exploding peas...

And someone asked about the exploding peas, to which I answered:

Um, yes, I can be brilliantly stupid in the kitchen. A long time ago, in a kitchen that hopes never to see me again, there was an incident with a double boiler and an attempt to cook two different vegetables separately. Somehow the pressure of the bottom container resulted in the launching of the top container, and the peas were everywhere. Heh heh. Never did that again.

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