I decided to make myself some bananas foster french toast and bacon yesterday morning for a nice lazy Sunday brunch. I cooked the bacon on the back burner, the french toast on the electric griddle, and put a small sauce pot on the front burner for the caramelized bananas. As the bacon finished and began to burn I moved it off of the burner and then went to add brown sugar to the melting butter in the sauce pan. In a brief moment of sheer stupidity I actually plopped the plastic bag containing a full pound of brown sugar on the hot burner where I just had cooked my bacon. I realized my mistake before I even fully set the bag down but the damage was done. The bottom of the bag instantly melted, pouring a pound of brown sugar onto a 10-inch wide hot surface. The smell of burning plastic and sugar was awfully but the cleanup was surprisingly easy. I would have taken pictures, but time was of the essence as I hustled to salvage most of the sugar.

Maybe I was still a wee bit too tired to be cooking. Maybe I’m just dumb.