nan
[cooking] guess who found out that the household oven is broken! when it didn't warm up even after forty minutes of waiting, while prepping up the crusts, and sauce, and toppings for pizzas!
nan
Could we fix it easily?
nan
no, we could not
nan
for lo, the range tops have pilot lights!
nan
but the oven has an electronic starter
nan
After some brainstorming with Mom, I made the pizzas on the stovetop, in skillets
nan
they turned out really well
nan
And this is not a survival thing to worry about, because as cold as it is tonight, and as cold as it's supposed to continue being, the gas lines are working, the furnace is trucking away, and the water lines are fine and not frozen
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improvise. adapt. overcome!
nan
And Mom and I thought it through, and because we have those big counter top electric roasters that can be ovens! it's in their manual
nan
we can still make all the food we had planned for till Tuesday, bc it's supposed to be safer to venture out by then
nan
I... don't know if I want to try cookies in the roaster ovens tho
nan
maybe? Maybe worth trying?
nan
Maybe just stick with no bake drop cookies. Cakes? in the ovens???
nan
hmmmmmm
nan
Many mistakes
Life (and pizza) finds a way!
punani-dasani
Glad you found a workaround for the pizza, but the timing SUCKS
nan
punani-dasani
- it really, really does. We can't make any calls for the next few days to even get in the queue to get it looked at, and baking is such a big part of the festitivities and such a good way to warm the common rooms up!
punani-dasani
Family nearby (or a really generous neighbor?) who will let you cop their oven for like an hour? 😭
nan
We can make the food we had planned work with the roaster ovens though, which is a relief. We've baked with them before, even! we did potatoes and - - - I forget which casserole it was, maybe green bean?
punani-dasani
That helps! But I'm sure it is annoying as heck
nan
I mean, we have a neighbor friend at the end of the block, we could probably ask her and she'd probably be delighted to be able to help, but it's so cold brrrr
nan
Now that I am thinking about cookies more, when we replaced all our oven mitts bc I kept burning myself using them, bc they were too old -
nan
the silicon and batting mitts mom bought... they're actually up to my elbows....
nan
cookies are totally doable in the roaster ovens
nan
Even if I didn't have plenty of no bake recipes
nan
well, maybe just upper forearms
nan
But, like, gauntelts
nan
Falconers gloves
nan
Mom was having none of this "ow!"
punani-dasani
It is UNBELIEVABLY cold I hate it
punani-dasani
Idk if you guys got slapped with that polar vortex nonsense too but
punani-dasani
It's been a wild 24hrs, weather wise lol
nan
It really has
nan
and yeah, we did! We've got this interesting combo of snow, gusts of wind up to fifty miles an hour, and freezing cold going on
nan
The windchill was negative thirty F at a few points today, and it's supposed to be negative forty tomorrow
nan
Currently the Weather Service expects to be able to lift the actual winter storm warning by Sunday, but uh. the advisory bodies are saying it probably won't be really safe to move around until maybe Monday
punani-dasani
It's like, all over the country, the weather said eff your holiday plans 🤣
nan
REMEMBEr said the weather IT IS STILL THE DEEPS! THE SILENCE OF WINTER WILL BE ENFORCED
nan
very Rankin and Bass
nan
buuuuuurrrr
nan
sounds super cold out where you are too
punani-dasani
And it was 50 degrees just this morning!!!
nan
WILD
punani-dasani
When I say I have not ever experienced this big a plummet in temperature this fast
punani-dasani
And then we had snow with thunder and lightning behind it, Nan we were trapped in a Lewis Black joke!
nan
yeah, they're saying we're going to have unseasonably warm tempatures again by the end of next week! It might be Fifty F on Thursday! What is THAT
nan
OH MY GOSH LIGHTNING SNOW
nan
that stuff is beautiful but also so eerie
nan
and uh, potentially dangerous
punani-dasani
The snow didn't stick, because it wasn't that cold yet in that part of the day, but there was like... tiny ice pellets covering everything 🤷🏻♀️
nan
So weird!
punani-dasani
I think the temp is supposed to jump back up here, too. I'm just praying I don't get sick. Because whenever the temperature bounces around like this, my immune system checks out
nan
draws disease warding hearts around you Yeah, that really will wreck havoc!
nan
your body says THIS. Is More Stress Than I Can Be Expected to Deal With!
unoiled snake
oh no D:
unoiled snake
I'm glad you still managed to make the pizzas!
nan
UPDATE: Oh, right! I forgot to mention - Dad was able to replace the broken part the next day, because the folks at the appliance part store were open, even though it was so cold and Christmas eve, and it was a part they had in stock that was easy to swap out
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WELL THAT'S A RELIEF
punani-dasani
That's GREAT news!!!
unoiled snake
oh noooo T_T