Karma's Hero?

As Karma would have it when hubs and I moved to our new home we inherited some not so new appliance's to be exact the color palette of said appliances was Harvest Gold, if that tells you anything. Also among these lovely appliances was karma's official fickle electric stove.
The stove while not in too bad shape seemed to burn everything, or maybe it was the cook i.e. me. While I have  cooked and enjoyed cooking most of my life I have never cooked on an electric stove always a gas stove. So I thought maybe I needed to take to the net and look up a tutorial on gas stove cooking for the inept.
It went so far one evening as I was preparing our meal a fire broke out. I thought I had it under control I put the lid on the pan and turned off the heat source but instead of going out the fire continued to burn the flames getting higher and higher the source of the fire was the burner itself so I was at a loss as to how to stop it the wyld child with her quick thinking said "Quick, dad the fire extinguisher!" Hubs grabbed the fire extinguisher and saved the day, but not out dinner so it was sandwiches for us that night.
After viewing several tutorials I felt I had a grasp of what I was doing wrong so I proceeded to prepare our dinner that evening something simple I decided on rolls, green beans, pork chops things seemed to be going along great when a wee fire broke out in the oven, a single roll caught fire. After I huffed and puffed and blew the roll out I threw in the towel and proclaimed that I would hereby only cook beans for dinner and only then on the grill outside. But that was not easy to do so I went back to cooking on the stove from hell.  
Several weeks later I sweet talked hubs into helping me in the kitchen, as our dinner was bubbling away on the stovetop hubs and I turn to the kids telling them to set the table for din...... when POP, KAPOW, KABOOM, ok so maybe not KABOOM but it was a POP, a KAPOW and a sizzle all in a quick second I jumped out of my skin, glanced over at the stove waiting for it to burst into flames. The back burner sparked and fizzled out never to work again meanwhile ..........
Hubs,My hero jumped behind me and proceeded to use me as a human shield.


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