I nearly blew the kitchen up !!!
By Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (11252)
United Kingdom
April 19, 2026 3:29pm CST
I have to make a mountain of sandwiches on a Sunday evening. Some for The Mister to take away to work with him, and some for me ….
The Mister likes a particular butter ….it is so hard to spread that he has taken to putting it in front of the fire to soften it.
However, tonight he says to me …..just put it in the microwave , it will be quicker …..
Yes, I thought, I will do that ….
Next thing I know there are sparks in the microwave and a funny zizzling sound.
I switched it off and opened the door, and was greeted by a burning pong !
Oh yes, dear MyLotters …..the butter was wrapped in paper …it had a metallic strip on it ….i didn’t realise !
Oh the joys !
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@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
19 Apr
@rakski luckily I realised in time and switched the microwave off ….it could have been worse !
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@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
19 Apr
That's pretty scary.
Good thing it wasn't worse.
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@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
19 Apr
@Marilynda it was scary ….I usually check all these things …..I don’t know where my brain was !
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@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
19 Apr
@AmbiePam ….me too ….im just pleased I had only put it on for a minute , and I hadn’t left the kitchen …..I dread to think what could have happened ! …..I’m usually the health and safety person out of the two of us !
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
19 Apr
One of those things, you'll know better next time
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@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
19 Apr
@snowy22315
I am getting a proper butter dish and it can go in that …..
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
20 Apr
I'm glad you hadn't left the kitchen yet. I bet you'll pay more attention to what you put in the microwave next time, too.
@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
20 Apr
@DaddyEvil …..I am usually pretty good ….i am going to get a butter dish and put his flipping butter in that ….
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@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
22 Apr
@LindaOHio no, I have used it since and everything seems to be okay with it ....thank goodness !
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@sallypup (69156)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Apr
That's tons too much excitement. I am glad nobody was hurt.
@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
20 Apr
@sallypup not sure I would call it excitement ! lol…..
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@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
20 Apr
@JudyEv no they don’t ….and I knew that ….what I didn’t think about was the coating on the paper wrapper …. I did feel silly ….
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@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Apr
@Traceyjayne It would be easy to miss something like that.
