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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:
ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 17/01/2016 21:35

is it still stuck op 2hours later? Can your partner try. Mines is usually better at things like that he loves the challenge and I'm sure he'd be a dab hand with sex lube and a fish slice 😂

OverScentedFanjo · 17/01/2016 21:33

I think you should turn the hob back on, the pot will become unstuck. Burn off any remaining lube and all will be well.

Gazelda · 17/01/2016 21:31

Pineapple always curdles everything I mix it with.

Bloodybridget · 17/01/2016 21:31

This is so going to appear in the round-up!

Ludoole · 17/01/2016 21:26

Pineapple gives me heartburn

kippersyllabub · 17/01/2016 21:25

Dh wonders if you got both the lube and the fish slice from the bedroom.

I recommend baking soda mixed with a little hot water from the kettle if it's burned on food you're dealing with.

AllOutOfNaiceHam · 17/01/2016 21:25

Do you have a wire cheese slicer? Might go with the pineapple sex lube.

Elephant24 · 17/01/2016 21:22

Why did someone suggest hairspray earlier? Is the pot going out after this?!

wickedlazy · 17/01/2016 21:20

Op I say let it cool then start twisting back and forth. Maybe a tad of washing up liquid in luke warm water dripped round.

And agree check the lube isn't flamable. Not the kind of flames of passion the manufacturer had in mind Grin

Whataboutnodetox · 17/01/2016 21:19

Do you have a more acidic flavoured lube? Sicilian Lemon perhaps? Malt vinegar?

imwithspud · 17/01/2016 21:17

Sorry, got nothing to add. But Grin at sex lube and a fish slice.

NotOneIota · 17/01/2016 21:10

My DIY skills are limited to: WD40 if it should be moving and it's not, or duct tape if it is moving and it shouldn't. Hammer and a screwdriver complete the toolbox. I'll add sex lube and a fish slice to the list. DP will be pleased.

sex lube and a fish slice Grin

BoffinMum · 17/01/2016 21:09

Sophia1984 Homage to the other thread about the plane: "Is it OK if we use Coco de Mer sex lube and make the nanny use Anne Summers?"

BoffinMum · 17/01/2016 21:07

Even BoffinDad laughed at this and he is very sniffy about MN sometimes. Grin

HypodeemicNerdle · 17/01/2016 21:05

Made the mistake of reading out the OP to my DH and had to watch him try not to inhale the biscuit he was about to bite into. Once he had recovered he tried to repeat the highlight back to me but got muddled and ended up asking about the "fish lube and sex slice"

I love mumsnet!

Inertia · 17/01/2016 21:05

I'm astonished to discover that there are problems that cannot be solved by a sachet of sex lube and a fish slice- Mrs Beeton recommended them as a solution to many 19th century housekeeping difficulties.

Paperblank · 17/01/2016 21:02
Grin

Best sentence ever!

In fact I am going to change my password to "sex lube and a fish slice" first thing tomorrow.

SexLubeAndAFishSlice · 17/01/2016 21:00

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Darvany · 17/01/2016 21:00

Hppefully MNHQ will not promote this like Penis Beaker

ShhhBeQuiet · 17/01/2016 20:59

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Oh Christ I have done something incredibly stupid, please can I have some advice?
YoniMitchell · 17/01/2016 20:58

Just got a Hmm from DH for sniggering at sex lube and fish slice.

I'd warn the pot again to soften it up or burn it to bugger my then twist it off, btw.

ConesOfDunshire · 17/01/2016 20:58

OP, please call your memoirs Sex Lube and a Fish Slice

Pigeonpost · 17/01/2016 20:58

I like this thread. Just what you need on a Sunday afternoon. The laughs, not the sex lube it's not Friday and we're not at Centre Parcs.

PseudoBadger · 17/01/2016 20:58

"DH says wait for it to go cold. If you have a steamer, steam round to loosen. If not, pour hot water from a kettle round it until the gravy has softened. Use a twisting action,not liftng, to try and get it off."

OP - DO NOT transfer this advice to the bedroom Shock

LagoonaBlu · 17/01/2016 20:57

It will come off when cool