My friend Cos sends this with the note, “Someone must have had super negative energy around this tofu pan and it exploded in a vegan rage.”
Fire investigators in Portland, Ore., are trying to figure out how cleaning a pan of tofu could cause an explosion that broke out a window and resulted in $15,000 of damage.
Fire Bureau spokesman Paul Corah tells The Oregonian that a woman in the Old Town district said she cooked tofu Sunday night, and as she washed the pan, a blast knocked a 4-by-6-foot window into the street.
Corah says the 25-year-old woman could tell investigators only that the hot pan “flashed” as she rinsed it. She suffered a slight hand burn.
“as she washed the pan, a blast knocked a 4-by-6 window into the street. She suffered a slight hand burn.” Riiiiiigght.
you should never put a hot pan in water.
What was she cooking the tofu with??? The mind boggles.
Sure sounds like a gas leak and a coincidence that she started to wash the pan just before the explosion.
[Portland Fire Dept. did some calling around about thishttp://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/tofu_explosion_caused_by_sudde.html]. The word is the grease in the pan reacting with the water into which it was plunged caused the explosion.