The Saucepan Lid Mystery.....

[gness]

Last week a friend cooked a Burns Night supper for a group of us.....

We sat down to eat at 7.45.....enjoyed a fantastic meal...some chaps are really good cooks....

...then retired to the sitting room for port and cigars.... ;-)....

At about 10.45 there was a little explosion from the kitchen.....the girls went to investigate....the chaps took a long time to get up from the sofa....wimps.....

We discovered a shattered saucepan lid.....still sort of in place but the worktop and floor covered in tiny pieces of glass.....could have ruined the neeps and tatties....

Now, does any clever bod know why, after sitting on a plate at room temperature and nowhere near a heat source for about three hours, the lid would have shattered then?

The saucepans are new, Stellar pans.......never been dropped or otherwise abused.....

I could understand if there was a sudden, extreme change of temperature.... but this has us puzzled.....

Gx


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[murraymints]

twas the ghost of Rabbie Burns disapproving of sassenachs cooking haggis !

[gness]

You could be right, Minty......'twas our birding group and for Christmas we had a musical Secret Santa....I bought a ukulele for one and we used that to "pipe" in the haggis......must have been that.... :-(

But it worked better than the birder on the spoons.....☺

[woofgang]

At school we had duralex toughened drinking glasses. It wasn't that uncommon (maybe once a year) for one to spontaneously shatter. Apparently it happens as they get scratched with use and eventually the scratch triggers a collapse of the glass.

[murraymints]

well there ye go !! the skirl of the ukulele is not quite the same !!!

[DTCwordfan]

all part of the Pots and Pans symphony......

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ota-thjhvDM

[murraymints]

DT ..thought you would be in the bar with the 280 whiskies !

[tonyav]

280 whiskeys !, jammy git.

[douglas9401]

Wee round and shiny saucepan lid
Ye've surely mystified the gid
Fowk o' Answerbank

The ghaist o' haggis consumed wi' gusto
Resulted in ye gangin' busto
Oan the counter

A mystery has now resulted
Is this thing somehow occulted?
Calm doon, 'tis only physics


I'll get me sark. :-P

[murraymints]

ah dinnae ken whits gawin oan
that there lid has gone an' blawn
wi haggis neeps and tatties in
tae lose it wid be sic a sin

an whit aboot the morrow noo
withoot ma porridge whit will ah do
nae lid nae pan in which tae cook
ah hae tae go and tak a look
an see whit else there ah can eat
porridge wil be hard tae beat
ahl tak a hunk o' breed and toast
ower the fire a guid auld roast
twill dae for noo till ah kin bid
fer a brand new spankin' saucepan lid

[Togo]

Saucepan Beats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBZn16fYu6c

[Togo]

LOL minty you sound just like my mams Aunt Annie there.

[murraymints]

och Togo.ye ken hoo tae get tae a lassies heart !

[gness]

Oh glory be!!!! Music and poems.....☺

Hard pushed for a best answer......not to the lid puzzle but for the fun......x

Gx

[tonyav]

Hang on !, could someone translate minty's post for me please I only understood Togo, lassie and heart.

[gness]

Oh Togo......my dear chap....you certainly know how to win the heart of a young lady......

Thought that last bit is pushing it somewhat.......☺

[tonyav]

Thanks, gness.
Well things get lost in translation I believe.

[murraymints]

nooo noo gness..ye ken ah am but a young wee sprig o' heather...!!

[tonyav]

Oi minty, stop this speaking in tongues ;-)

[murraymints]

whits that ah hear from doon the glen
a peabroch soondin' , ah dinnae ken
it soons tae me like goats a brayin'
could that be Tone..whits he dain'
tae Billy noo he has been telt
tae leave them goats or git the belt !
"

[tonyav]

Oi, I understood that ya minx.