BOOM!

My roommate has an unnatural obsession with Brussels sprouts. I swear she cooks them every single day for lunch. The problem is that she's a bit of a forgetful klutz in the kitchen... While I was standing in the doorway talking to her, she took the (glass) top half of the double boiler off of the bottom half and put it down on an adjacent burner. A few minutes later...

BOOM!

The top half of the double boiler exploded. Luckily, I was out in the hall, but my roommate got showered in glass. There was glass all over the stove, in the sink, in the recycling bin, on the table, on the chairs, and all across the floor...

Closer inspection revealed, of course, that the burner in question was on. What remained of the base of the double boiler was scorched black, and huge bubbles had formed in the glass. Fortunately, the glass didn't melt to the burner.

In the midst of all this excitement, my roommate's first concern was for her Brussels sprouts. Unfortunately for her, they, too, had been showered with glass and were entirely inedible. She picked through them quite thoroughly, but not a single one had been spared.

Maybe next time she should buy a double boiler that's not made out of glass...