We just had a cooking disaster!!!
I call it "Boiling oil and exploding glass"
The title sounds more exciting than the adventure was. No ambulence, no injuries, nothing ruined but 3 cups of oil and an old grease jar.

I should have known better because I saw hot grease break a jar when I was a kid. After that my parents always put a metal spoon against the jar when they poured the grease into it...now that I think about it I'm not sure what that was supposed to accomplish.

My husband was trying out a recipe from Cook's Illustrated--Orange Chicken. We don't have a deep fryer. We don't have a candy thermometer. We have an instant read meat thermometer. And a sauce pan. And a stove. He turned the burner on high and stood over the pan, putting the thermometer in periodically waiting for it to go up. Naturally it skyrocketed and he turned the stove down and waited for it to go down. And waited. And waited. The oil by this time was brown and smelled funny. I said "It's burnt. You need to start over."

He got out a jar. I said "Put it in the sink." Holding the pan as far away from me as I could, I started to pour the oil into the jar.

KABLAM

I stopped pouring the oil quick and backed away. Then I put the pan into the other sink and surveyed the mess. There was oil everywhere. There was broken glass but only in the sink. No one even got burnt.

Eventually the smoke cleared from the room. The sink and the oil and the glass cooled enough that we could pick the glass out of it. The wood cabinets looked better than ever after I wiped the oil off them. Apparently burnt peanut oil is good for wood cabinets. I highly recommend it. The floor hadn't been mopped in an embarrassingly long time so it was all the better for getting cleaned up too.

The Orange Chicken tasted awfully good. I suggested however that we not attempt that recipe again. At least not until we acquire a deep fryer, which I really don't want because we don't need to be eating deep fried food that often and we don't have room for yet another kitchen appliance.