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

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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?

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.

Just reading through some of these responses. Brilliant. Thank you Op, I really like your thread.

Pineapple flavored sex lube Whatever next? 🍍🍍🍍

Sex lube and a fish slice is up there with a penis beaker. For sure.

sex lube and a fish slice is my favourite sentence ever! :)

I'd warm it up again, and use lots of hot soapy water around the welded-on sections.

I don't think it'd break the glass if you tried to twist it and ease it around until it came off in your hands. Eek, everything I write on this thread sounds rude.

It will come off when cool

"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

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.

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

Just got a 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.

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Hppefully MNHQ will not promote this like Penis Beaker

Best sentence ever!

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

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.

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!

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

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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.