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Oh Christ I have done something incredibly stupid, please can I have some advice?

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CripplinglyStupid · 17/01/2016 19:22

Cooking this evening. I am not a big cook. Made a delicious dinner, and then went to move the pot off the glass hob.

The cast iron casserole dish won't move. It appears to have welded to the glass. It overboiled a tiny bit when cooking and I thought nothing of it but now I cannot fucking get it off.

I live with flatmates in a rented house. A quick google warns me the glass will probably shatter if I just wrench it, not that I think I can anyway because it is stuck fast. A website recommended a long thin razor and some aerosol lubricant - which I do not have and can't easily get on a Sunday evening, but I have had a try with a sachet of sex lube and a fish slice.

Please help me! I absolutely cannot shatter the glass and the pot belongs to my flatmates so I can't just leave it there. We all use each other's things so she won't mind that I've used it, but I can see her becoming alarmed if I have to admit I can't get it off the glass. Pot cost nearly £90 and I do not want to have to replace it.

What should I do? What might work?

OP posts:
Pobspits · 17/01/2016 19:25

Amazed that sex Lube and a fish slice didn't work - that's always my go to combination for kitchen emergencies!

Try hairspray? Do you have a palate knife? Or maybe a kirby grip unfolded to pick round the edges?

steakpunararemediumwelldone · 17/01/2016 19:24

Is it welded because something has dripped and dried or because of the pot itself ?

TheSpottedZebra · 17/01/2016 19:24

Dental floss and sort of saw it off?

MrsH1989 · 17/01/2016 19:24

I think you need to leave it to cool down. Then try washing up liquid to get it off.

Princecharlesfirstwife · 17/01/2016 19:23

WD40? Perhaps? I have no idea tbh.

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