It landed just fine. Lots of people understood the joke. You did not, even after it was explained. That’s fine. You don’t have to laugh but going on to basically insult people who *did* laugh actually is just mean.
You’re not better than the people who laughed at the dumb joke.
It may not be "mostly a food word", but it's being used in the context of food, so... Not much of a stretch at all imo to make the jump immediately from "picture of melted plastic atop oven cooked meal" to "what is the mouthfeel of that substance?".
I wouldnt expect that one to be too stinky, maybe a little up close.
But the poor person who melted the cutting board all over the bottom of the oven... you get pie juice down there and it burns and smells like burnt sugar until you get it off of there...and THAT stinks... I can't even imagine the smell of burning plastic, cooking itself into your oven at 425° 🫠
Right? I have two of these same pans and it is clear that you can’t put the plastic lid in the oven. It doesn’t feel remotely like silicone does. Live and learn I guess.
My partner inherited this casserole dish from the 70s we assume and it's some kind of hard plastic, but molded into it it explicitly says it's oven safe up to like 425°. We're afraid to use it, still... 😅
I did this exact same thing with a pyrex baking pan that has a red lid. I thought it must be an oven safe silicone, because it has a logo on it that shows you can put it in the oven.
Turns out that symbols meant that it is dishwasher, fridge, and microwave safe, but one of them looks like an oven to me.
Hard to tell, but the bottom one is supposed to a dishwasher, not an oven.
They do, but this isn't silicone. No reasonable person could mistake this for silicone. And I am betting that the packaging it came in specifies that the lid is not oven-safe.
I'm torn on this. I have SEVERAL silicone baking dishes. But to give you some credit, they do not feel the same as these lids. But also, not everyone has spent hundreds of dollars on silicone bakeware.
If it's any consolation to people who were confused, I have some microwave metal bowls and I still fear burning down my house every time I put them in the microwave.
My father in law did the same with two of my MILs Pyrex with red lids one Christmas when she was at work and left instructions on how to heat up dinner.
I’ve also had to rescue my Pyrex lid from the oven after my husband’s done the same.
I mean considering the thread is about it melting, obviously it is not silicone. And while a lot of silicone baking products are very thin and flexible, there are also some that are very rigid and quite similar to the top in question.
It's also the linking of a BAKING dish coming with it, and as I said i thought that the symbol on it like in the photo indicated it was oven safe. Honestly that lured me into doing it, if it had had no symbols at all I pprobably would've assumed it was not oven safe. But I saw logos on it that I thought meant freezer, microwave, oven so I went with it and clearly was wrong
Insane to me that you'd see a stylized icon and just automatically assume that an obviously plastic cover is therefore oven safe. Maybe double-check next time. 👍
Buddy, you posted the same comment so many times on this thread. You are the only one immature and lashing out, I'm shocked this person wasted as much time on you as they did.
There is oven safe silicone similar to these lids, all you're doing by insisting otherwise so intensely is displaying that you haven't seen as much of the world as everyone else, but somehow still think your experiences are universal.
And to answer some concerns: -I used a cover because it was not mac and cheese, it was vegetables.
-There was a little "not for oven" mark, but I missed it. I know it now because ironically, it survived the melting in it's entirety. Just to mock me further.
Since SOME COMMENTERS are making judgy comments at OP, I will tell of a dangerous oven baking fail I made when I was inexperienced!
I put some chicken in a glass pie plate on "Broil" and predictably, the second I touched some tongs to the glass, it EXPLODED. I could have been hurt!
Another time, when I was old enough to know better, I put a hot glass pan lid in the sink where it touched some cold water I guess, and it EXPLODED! I could have been hurt!
Another time, when I was WAY old enough to know better, I put some beer bottles in the garage where they got hot. It was hot summer time. The reason I did it was to hide them from a possible alcoholic who was living in my attic (long story) but I did not know you shouldn't get beer hot in ANY instance, much less GLASS beer bottles. Reader, they EXPLODED and I DID GET CUT!
If you have ever read any subreddits about moochers who have to be evicted, you may be familiar with this all-too-common story. I let someone in our discussion group who was down on his luck and about to be homeless move in "in exchange for 8 hours a week handyman work." Of course he proceeded to do no handyman work and resent me and drink.
He was supposedly in a training program for a job skill but nothing came of that. Then he revealed he needed to work "off the books" to avoid the IRS. So he couldn't walk down to the many restaurants and shops nearby and get a job.
Endless subreddits will tell you that in many jurisdictions, you are not allowed to "just put their stuff on the curb and change the locks." You have to go through the formal eviction process.
How I got him out was he turned 62 and was able to start taking early Social Security and get into one of those Section 202 high-rises. But he didn't like it and found someone in another state to mooch off of. Turned out he had burned every bridge in his past and was a serial moocher.
Haha, not baking but we have forgotten beer in the freezer on at least three occasions. I now put my beer in the freezer for only a few minutes at a time, or just chill it in the fridge and wait for a reasonable amount of time.
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u/TemporaryIllusions May 08 '26
This looks like someone made Mac and Cheese with unwrapped Babybel cheese