... Well, I fancied toasted teacakes, but the butter was a little hard. Now, I've learnt the lesson about warming butter in the microwave, at least the bit about taking the wrapping off first. So today I thought I'd let my knife rest across the toaster rack -b "hot knife through butter" and all that. Sadly, the heat didn't spread evenly, so when I put my finger along ...

...> Well, I fancied toasted teacakes, but the butter was a little hard. Now, I've learnt the lesson about warming butter in the microwave, at least the bit about taking the wrapping off first. So today I thought I'd let my knife rest across the toaster rack -b "hot knife through butter" and all that. Sadly, the heat didn't spread evenly, so when I put my finger along ...

...> Well, I fancied toasted teacakes, but the butter was a little hard. Now, I've learnt the lesson about warming butter in the microwave, at least the bit about taking the wrapping off first. So today I thought I'd let my knife rest across the toaster rack -b "hot knife through butter" and all that. Sadly, the heat didn't spread evenly, so when I put my finger along the spine...

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:32:53 +0100, Peter Ward <me@privacy.net> wrote: My new microwave can turn a stick of butter into a puddle in ten seconds. Very annoying. That's sort of the idea of a microwave. It won't happen if you don't put the butter in it. True, but my last m'wave would merely soften it up nicely in the same amount of time. Butter is making me fat. sigh<