Ok, Important safety tip time

[gracedpalmer]

Do not bake an eggplant without poking a hole in it. Really.

Now how am I going to get the eggplant off my ceiling?

Also, ow.

Comments

[jenny_evergreen]

I have eggplants in my fridge at this very moment. I wasn't really planning to bake them whole, but, nevertheless, the tip is actually valuable to me!

*offers some aloe for the ow*

[sister-bluebird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I need to get an aloe plant. But first I'll need to find some place to keep it where it won't freeze to deal (not very well insulated windows).

It was like a fat purple grenade.

[lady-alyria.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Wet paper towels on the end of a boom handle?

[sister-bluebird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm thinking I might end up rubber banding a dishrag around my spare broom handle. The mop is a string mop, and it's just not working.

[lady-alyria.livejournal.com]

Nah, string mops are terrible for cleaning upside down.

[kaylithin.livejournal.com]

I believe you have invented the explosive grenegg.

[evergrey.livejournal.com]

Eeek, good to know! Hope you will be okay.

[sister-bluebird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not burnt very badly. And the startlement is fading.

[zimboptoo.livejournal.com]

The hypothetical look on your face is wondrous. I don't even know what look was actually on your face. But the mental image of someone, plastered head to toe in eggplant innards, just standing with a hand stopped half-way to the oven door, which is partially open, and just being surprised. And then, after a second, a bit of eggplant drips from this hypothetical person's hair onto the floor with a loud splat.

I am sorry that you got burned. But the situation makes such a great 2 second startlement clip. In fact, it would make a good mood icon, if mood icons could be 2 second full frame videos instead of tiny little gifs.

Also, a good thing to remember, and something that I will think about should I ever bake a whole eggplant.

[sister-bluebird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was the startlement, but it was actually more like "Claw off glasses, strip off shirt, rub face quickly and run to bathroom where they have the cold water." The noise was almost exactly like a balloon popping, and when I came back, I had two dry, empty near-halves of eggplant skin.