That Time I Set the Stove on Fire

Poor Whirly Pop.

Last night I made some Creamy Cheesy Broccoli Soup. Unfortunately that soup boiled over onto the stove at one point. I mopped up what I could and continued on with the evening with every intention of thoroughly cleaning the stove at a later time. Well 20 minutes later I had a hankering for popcorn. We have a Whirly Pop which means to make popcorn we have to set the Whirly Pop on the stove and crank it until the kernels spring into popped goodness. Well 3 minutes in just as the kernels were starting to pop the element starts smoking like a couch is on fire. 30 seconds later the soup that ran over and down underneath the element is on fire. I needed to finish popping my popcorn but I also needed to put out the fire. So I popped my pop corn over and open fire and then did what everyone on TV does to put out a fire I through a tea towel over it. That didn't work. So I blew on it. That kind of worked. So I wrecked a tea towel and had a bowl of popcorn. Morel of the story is: clean up soup when it runs over into the element and research new ways to put out stove top fires.