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I (25 M) was making a croquembouche AKA cream puff tower for a friend’s potluck. We live in the same apartment building, so I was to bring my dessert downstairs. I had a longer day than I normally do during the week; after 7:30 AM lecture, I went to play tennis for a couple of hours, club meeting at noon, and trained a friend at my gym at 2:00. I didn’t really get to start working on my croquembouche until around 5:00.
By this time, I am rushing quite a bit. Eventually at 9:30, I finished gluing all the cream puffs together with hot caramel into a tower and proceeded to move downstairs to the potluck. I was greeted amicably and in amazement from all my friends and hanged out for a bit. I get a frantic call from my roommate saying where the fuck am I and if I forgot something on the stove. Shit. I rushed upstairs and there it was- my pot of sugar turned into a fossil and apartment in post-smoke apocalypse. I felt so bad that I spent six hours today to clean it, but it still has a lot of burnt gunk on it, so I decided to buy him a new one. He was definitely mad initially, but he seems understanding. I was so tired from the day’s event that I completely forgot to simply turn off the stove. I’m still beating myself up over this, but I’m glad I’m the end no one was hurt and that I replaced his pot.
TL;DR: Forgot to turn off stove and pot of sugar burned and almost burned apt down.
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