I burnt my toast. I haven't seen it, but I can smell it. Smells very burnt. Why am I not rushing to the kitchen to save it? Hubby was in the same room and he took care of it... after I smelled it burning from another room.
I should really watch my toast once I start it. But to me, watching toast is like watching a pot until it boils. Nothing happens for a long time and then suddenly.... action! And though this is definitely not true, I always feels like a watched piece of bread never toasts. But, I don't have a pop-up toaster. I use the little gas fish-grill that is underneath my gas burner. Makes very nice toast... but I keep forgetting to watch it.
I end up wanting toast and cherry or apricot jam, slide some toast into the grill and wait. Then I start thinking, "Oh well, I have enough time to start running the bath." And then on my way back to the grill, I stop to put away some shoes, sometimes turn on my computer to check my email later. Then I'm thinking, "what am I gonna do now?" and the aroma of charcoal toast reminds me. Other times I am making breakfast and I remember about my toast just as the eggs need to be taken off the stove.
I have a long history of burning toast and toaster pasteries. The worst was a blueberry poptart. At least this was in a pop-up toaster. Well, it was supposed to be pop-up and therefore safe, but the pastery got stuck and it didn't pop up and the filaments kept toasting.
Silly me was reading a book thiking, "My poptarts will pop up and get a chance to cool a bit and then I will eat and finish this chapter." Hmmm.... yeah, right. I walked into the kitchen to see flames coming out of my toaster and almost licking the bottom of the cupboards above it. But did I panic? Yes. But at least I had the presence of mind to grab a wooden spoon to pull out the electric cord before shoving the toaster into a dry sink. Maybe I wouldn't have been electricuted, but the thing was on fire! How can I know?
I was finally able to retrieve the pop-tarts. The had morphed from flat rectangles to those curiously rounded cubic shapes of briquettes for the barbeque. Makes you wonder where briquettes come from doesn't it?
Well. I still want a piece of toast. Maybe a cup of tea as well. This time I'm going to hang out in front of the grill.