The Gun Shot
After cooking a pizza on our pizza stone, I left the stone on the stove top. Hours later, Claire and I wanted to have our evening cup of tea. So I turned on what I thought was the burner with the kettle on it. Minutes later we heard a loud crack in the kitchen. It turns out I had turned on the wrong burner. The pizza stone had heated rapidly, unevenly and cracked. It wasn't gunshots coming from our kitchen after all! In my frustration, I neglected to turn off the burner, and minutes later heard a second crack. It is a good thing that I am generally not left to my own devices in the kitchen.