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On Nov 23, 11:17 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> Here's mine.
>
> I made that potato and onion casserole recipe by Chef Gordon Ramsey. I made
> a huge pan of it, checking first to see if it would fit in my little old
> side by side fridge. Baked it the night before, not quite to brown. Was
> going to take it to my parent's house the next day.
>
> So I baked it and cooled it enough to wrap. There was still some wet
> chicken broth in it and I needed to make sure it didn't leak into my
> vehicle.
>
> So I wrapped it and proceeded to put it in the fridge. Only now it didn't
> want to fit. I forced it. Tried to shut the door. Heard glass breaking.
> Uh oh!
>
> Opened the door to see that the light fixture had flown off. The bulb had
> broken and the live wires were coming in contact with the foil on the pan.
>
> Managed to move the pan and stop the sparking. Until I attempted to take
> the broken bulb out. I do have a tool for that but the instructions were
> bad and I was doing it the wrong way. I then just broke it all the way out,
> sparking as I went, then extracted the socket part.
>
> Cleaned up the glass as best I could. Couldn't get the bottom drawer to
> come out at all. Gave up on that. There may be glass under there. Who
> knows? Got the rest of it out, put in a new bulb.... Thank goodness I had
> one!
>
> Then managed to carefully slide the pan in there and get the door shut. Had
> terrible trouble getting the pan back out the next day. It was totally
> wedged. But the potatoes were a hit. Everyone liked them.


argh that sounds bad!

I woke up on Wed and found my thawing turkey had leaked alll over my
fridge and had to clean it out completely. ugh

Karen