{"id":2107,"date":"2015-02-08T20:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T02:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:51:48","slug":"my-isla-kitchen-is-trying-to-kill-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/my-isla-kitchen-is-trying-to-kill-me\/","title":{"rendered":"My Isla Kitchen Is Trying to Kill Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had a rather dramatic time making dinner tonight, even more so than the first (and last) time I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/well-that-was-exciting\/\">tried to light my oven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had the cast iron pan on the stove and it was hot seeing as I was searing red peppers (since I don&#8217;t have an oven I trust).<\/p>\n<p>Next thing I knew, there was a boom and the counter and <em>my left forearm<\/em> were on fire. The BBQ lighter I use to light the burner, resting a full foot away from the stove, had exploded!!!<\/p>\n<p>I cook like this at home all the time &#8212; propane stove, BBQ lighter a foot (and even less) from the stove, extremely hot cast iron pan, etc., so I can&#8217;t figure out what went wrong tonight. The only thing I can imagine at this point is that the counters here are made of tile and get hotter than my laminate counter top at home.<\/p>\n<p>I actually have no idea how I put the fire out. I think I might have used a dishcloth. There&#8217;s absolutely no evidence that anything got cooked, except for the lighter casing being melted.<\/p>\n<p>I am absolutely fine. I lost all the hair on the left forearm and it feels like I got a mild sunburn on it, but that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m not even anywhere near close to a first degree burn. I am just annoyed that I don&#8217;t have a way to light the stove tomorrow morning to heat water for coffee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had a rather dramatic time making dinner tonight, even more so than the first (and last) time I tried to light my oven. I had the cast iron pan on the stove and it was hot seeing as I was searing red peppers (since I don&#8217;t have an oven I trust). Next thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,815,14,635,5,814,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-rving","category-sinaloa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}