The great mistake

Many mistakes lead to great things: Roy Plunkett tried to improve refrigeration and came up with Teflon; Ruth Wakefield thought that chocolate chips would melt into the dough and make chocolate cookies instead of the much better chocolate chip cookies she came up with; and Professor Utonium accidentally knocked some Chemical X into a formula and created the Powerpuff Girls.

On Saturday night, while making the lasagna for shadesong's birthday party, I added to that list.

See, the final step in my lasagna involves sprinkling a six-cheese mix on top, covering the dish with foil, and putting it in the oven for an hour.

Last night, I forgot the "cover with foil" step.

When I took the lasagna out of the oven, the cheese was a solid, crispy mass on top.

So I pulled the slab of cheese off the lasagna, leaving a little bit of melted cheese remaining on top. I took the remaining cheese and sprinkled it over the lasagna; during the ten minutes I normally let it cool, it was still enough time to melt the cheese nicely (even if it didn't have the slight crust baking normally does. The lasagna, as far as I can tell, tasted as good as always (there were certainly no half-eaten plates). And as a bonus, a bunch of us munched down on the crispy slab o' cheese, which was every bit as tasty as you'd imagine.

I suspect I might have to make this "mistake" again.

The great mistake

Many mistakes lead to great things: Roy Plunkett tried to improve refrigeration and came up with Teflon; Ruth Wakefield thought that chocolate chips would melt into the dough and make chocolate cookies instead of the much better chocolate chip cookies she came up with; and Professor Utonium accidentally knocked some Chemical X into a formula and created the Powerpuff Girls.

On Saturday night, while making the lasagna for shadesong's birthday party, I added to that list.

See, the final step in my lasagna involves sprinkling a six-cheese mix on top, covering the dish with foil, and putting it in the oven for an hour.

Last night, I forgot the "cover with foil" step.

When I took the lasagna out of the oven, the cheese was a solid, crispy mass on top.

So I pulled the slab of cheese off the lasagna, leaving a little bit of melted cheese remaining on top. I took the remaining cheese and sprinkled it over the lasagna; during the ten minutes I normally let it cool, it was still enough time to melt the cheese nicely (even if it didn't have the slight crust baking normally does. The lasagna, as far as I can tell, tasted as good as always (there were certainly no half-eaten plates). And as a bonus, a bunch of us munched down on the crispy slab o' cheese, which was every bit as tasty as you'd imagine.

I suspect I might have to make this "mistake" again.