We Make Brownies?

It was yet another boring day in Rexburg, and we were desperate for a distraction from our endless piles of homework. Our sweet tooths were starting to go crazy, so, we decided to cook! Cooking is always our answer to distract ourselves, because it takes time to make whatever it is we decide to attempt to make, and then even more time to eat it!!! So as we were looking through all the possible desserts that we could make and we realized we had a problem. You see, living on the third floor of our apartment complex our apartment was always super hot. Turning the oven on seemed like an unbearable option because our apartment was already smolderingly hot and that would only make it worse. But we refused to give up our dessert idea, mainly because by then we were both crazily craving brownies. After trying to figure out some way to endure the hot oven, Larissa got a bright idea. She remembered that she had had those cute little microwavable brownies before, and they were really good. As she passed this thought to Kelly, we both agreed it was a brilliant idea that solved all of our problems. We would simply make the brownie mix, and put it in a cheap version of a Tupperware container, and pop it in the microwave for a bit. First of course we ate as much of the mix as we possibly could until we started feeling sick. Then we dumped the rest in the Tupperware container. We really had no idea how long we should let the brownies cook for, so we just set the timer for like 10 minutes and decided we would keep an eye on it. At first it was pretty exciting to watch, because it kind of looked like the brownies were growing and then boiling. After awhile of having our faces shoved up to the microwave window it started becoming less exciting to watch, and so of course we got to talking. Well about 3 minutes after we got distracted we glanced over, and realized there was smoke billowing out of the microwave. Oops. Of course our gut reactions were to open the door and get the brownies out of there… what we hadn’t thought through was that opening the door then allowed the wonderful burned brownie/plastic smell to escape the microwave and invade the entire apartment. Once we cleared the apartment of the smoke as best we could, we took a closer look at the brownies and discovered that they were indeed completely burned and rock hard. Not only that, but they had actually melted the Tupperware container into the batter making it literally impossible to get the brownies out. We tried soaking it, but soaking charcoal doesn’t break it down. We had to throw the whole thing away, container at all. Once that was disposed of we tried to come up with some ways to mask the horrible smell. Nothing worked so we did the next best thing we could think of… we put all the fans in the front room, opened the doors and windows, and left the apartment for the rest of the day. Yes we know…denial.
Not only did we have to endure that unique smell for the next few days, we also had to go out and buy chocolate to satisfy the annoying craving that sadly still hadn’t gone away. Kelly is sure that if we tried it again and actually watched the brownies the whole time it would work... Larissa is a little more leery though. She has no desire whatsoever to smell that smell ever again. Stay tuned to find out who wins that battle.