Dawg, I hear you about those ugly lady beetles. We get a huge crop of them every spring in a family room window. It faces east, but it's as close as you can get to the south side of the house without going around the corner. And in my bathroom. I've found one laying in the bottom of my water cup more than once.
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Decades ago, Himself gave me a really nice le Creuset frypan like this one:
After I used it yesterday, I set it bottoms-up on the stove top...and, apparently, too close to the edge. It slid past the edge and bounced off of the floor.
At least it wasn't my foot, and I did have a throw rug in front of the stove. However, the drop cracked the pan straight through the metal down one side of the handle and partway across the underside of the handle.
Himself said it's still OK to use, but I'm the one handling it with hot foods in it! I think I'll go with his suggestion of relegating it to grill duty. He said after he cooks on it he'll just leave it in place until it cools.
I'm really bummed about this. Until I started reading stuff about CI here at DC and also Serious Eats, this pan had hid in the cupboard. I didn't use/clean it correctly when I first got it and the interior of the pan looked like something you wouldn't want to cook on. Now it's nice and shiny, black as new...and, now, broken.