Only surpassed by the time I tried to grab a falling soldering iron by the tip this is the source of the worst burn I've ever received. I cannot stress how vicious an ignited alcohol mixture in a container can be.
LOL, I can empathize quite a bit, as someone that has a nasty burn scar on my hand caused by a glob of melted saltpeter and sugar from an accidental ignition of a concoction I was cooking one fourth of July in my youth.
Not sure how we made it through our youth without learning what the inside of a jail cell looked like, but I suppose things were different before 9/11.
That was, indeed, an aspect of the problem I alluded to before. I have made it a few times before, and I was going to use the gas grill outside, but it seemed to be acting up, and I didn't trust it, so I thought it would be "safer" to move inside.
Combine that with me iterating on a few different batches with "improvements", such as lining the bottom of the pan with tinfoil so I could lift it out, and then next making an extra large batch... well multiple lessons were learned that day, including how to deal with insurance companies from some shrewd negotiating from my parents, given most the entire kitchen needed to be replaces and the entire house needed to be scrubbed floor to ceiling.
> Not sure how we made it through our youth without learning what the inside of a jail cell looked like, but I suppose things were different before 9/11.
Ha, probably true, especially since my recipe came from a copy of the anarchist cookbook my older brother happened to have (and I wouldn't be surprised if you happened upon it the same way). It's got a lot of dangerous stuff in it, but honestly, as a tool for sparking curiosity it works pretty well.
Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.