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

230 replies

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:
Darvany · 17/01/2016 23:17

WizardOfToss Sun 17-Jan-16 22:58:47
Sex lube, sex lube, you're my sex lube..

Tom Jones' legal team will be in touch WOT, mark my words...

BoffinMum · 17/01/2016 23:15

Sparkles, I had to explain the enzyme situation to DH eariler while informing him that a purely petroleum based product would be unlikely to work in the case of a ceramic hob/casserole fusion scenario, and despite his Chemistry A Level he looked very puzzled. But then again he looks at me funny when I boil up bio soap powder in burnt pans and so on. He probably things I am some kind of kitchen witch.

SparklesRedHotChileLeather · 17/01/2016 23:08

I'm glad it's been resolved. I was going to say well done on choosing pineapple sex lube - because it is a known fact that one shouldn't put pineapple in trifle because the enzymes will prevent the jelly from setting. So no doubt those enzymes worked their magic on the congealed casserole. I have only taught DS1 (17) this important life lesson this very afternoon. The trifle one I mean, not the sex lube.

LuisCarol · 17/01/2016 23:04

Acids dissolve protein, so the vinegar ideas should work.

WizardOfToss · 17/01/2016 22:58

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

TheFormidableMrsC · 17/01/2016 22:57

Skips back to wank thread.........

TheFormidableMrsC · 17/01/2016 22:56

Sex lube and a fish knife.

Pineapple (oh I can't begin to tell you how funny that is)

Instinct told me not to turn the ring on.

Suddenly it slid all the way in.

Lube is flammable (WTAF?!)

Wiggled in a circular motion

I am in pieces here........Grin

Tootssweet · 17/01/2016 22:53

What about a useful how-to guide on '101 uses for Sex Lube & a Fish Slice'? Sure it's a niche market but it could be your money-maker op!Wink

GiddyOnZackHunt · 17/01/2016 22:51

Surely the thread has climaxed now?

Pipbin · 17/01/2016 22:48

I think that sex lube and a fish slice perfectly sums up MN.

kaitlinktm · 17/01/2016 22:42

Sex lube and fish slice, Clit bang, wiping away the rears

This thread just keeps on giving! Grin

TSSDNCOP · 17/01/2016 22:41

Very excellent thread. What's with the plane thread? Going to read now but have a feeling from the title that whilst that oP could do with lube and a slice, we won't get one.

BoffinMum · 17/01/2016 22:34

This is why they make jokes about things smelling of fish, to be sure. Grin

Error404usernamenotfound · 17/01/2016 22:34

^MairzyDoats Sun 17-Jan-16 22:16:03
Oh my, wiping away the rears.^

arf!

Fluffyears · 17/01/2016 22:34

Why the surprise? I thought a fish slice and sex lube would be the first thing to try in this situation Grin

SideOrderofChip · 17/01/2016 22:33

I can't stop laughing at the sex lube and fish slice.

Im sorry i can't be more help op

NeedsAsockamnesty · 17/01/2016 22:25

Do not forget to clean the sex lube from the oven top.

Otherwise you may have some very surprised housemates

puckingfixies · 17/01/2016 22:25

got the Cillit bang but read aerosol lube too quickly - it's not even Friday.

Inertia · 17/01/2016 22:23

Has anyone yet asked MNHQ for a fish-slice-and-sex-lube emoticon?

AcrossthePond55 · 17/01/2016 22:19

See, the thing that really had me puzzled was that to me a 'fish slice' is a slice of fish. So here I'm imagining OP having a go at this welded on pot with some KY Jelly and a naice slice of turbot. Created some interesting mental pictures!

HannahHobbins · 17/01/2016 22:18

Hahahahah! You are a cool cat OP!
Love this.

LaContessaDiPlump · 17/01/2016 22:17

What a satisfying conclusion. Well done op, now you can relax with a cigarette Grin

MairzyDoats · 17/01/2016 22:16

TEARS

MairzyDoats · 17/01/2016 22:16

Oh my, wiping away the rears. This thread has made my night!

lunar1 · 17/01/2016 22:11

Their, not there!