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dear lazyweb
Jan. 6th, 2006 10:17 pmmost of y'all are science geeks -- someone explain this to me.
just now, i was about to apply the last dregs of some tasty BBQ sauce (try the spicy kind) to a chicken leg quarter in the oven. the bottle, a 20-oz. glass one with a wide bottom but relatively narrow neck, had been sitting upside down (at the high end of normal room temperature) for a half-hour so i could get all the sauce out.
i opened the oven (at 325F), pulled out the rack with the chicken on it, and, holding the bottle at about a 135 degree angle, twisted off the cap.
*SPLAT*
the accumulated sauce burst out of the bottle like it had been pressurized, and splattered over a four foot wide area, mostly onto the cabinets.
fortunately, i was able to get enough out of the cap to sufficiently enhance the already-sauced chicken, so dinner is still cooking. but i'm curious about what happened because i wouldn't have thought the temperature differential would be so strong, or that the sauce was close enough to the oven for long enough to make a difference. i've done the same thing before and never had this happen. i am bemused.
you have the floor.
just now, i was about to apply the last dregs of some tasty BBQ sauce (try the spicy kind) to a chicken leg quarter in the oven. the bottle, a 20-oz. glass one with a wide bottom but relatively narrow neck, had been sitting upside down (at the high end of normal room temperature) for a half-hour so i could get all the sauce out.
i opened the oven (at 325F), pulled out the rack with the chicken on it, and, holding the bottle at about a 135 degree angle, twisted off the cap.
*SPLAT*
the accumulated sauce burst out of the bottle like it had been pressurized, and splattered over a four foot wide area, mostly onto the cabinets.
fortunately, i was able to get enough out of the cap to sufficiently enhance the already-sauced chicken, so dinner is still cooking. but i'm curious about what happened because i wouldn't have thought the temperature differential would be so strong, or that the sauce was close enough to the oven for long enough to make a difference. i've done the same thing before and never had this happen. i am bemused.
you have the floor.
