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Went back to my grandma's old kitchen and noticed the burn marks tell the real story
My cousin sold my grandma's house last month after she passed in 2022. I stopped by before the closing to grab a few things and stood in that tiny kitchen for like 20 minutes. The countertop has this one dark scorch mark right near the stove, from when she tried to melt butter directly in a plastic measuring cup back in 2009. And the oven door has this foggy patch on the glass, she never cleaned it after a casserole boiled over during Christmas dinner one year. I used to think she was just messy. Now I realize that kitchen was basically a museum of every cooking disaster she ever had, and she never once acted embarrassed about any of them. She'd just say 'that's what happens when you cook with heart' and scrape the burnt bits off. I walked out of there with her old wooden spoon that has a chunk missing from where she used it to stir too-hot jam. Anyway, do any of you still have a relative's kitchen fail artifact? Like a warped pan or a chipped measuring cup you kept on purpose?
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