They were cooking some M&S roast parsnips as part of their meal. They had some left over and so brought them round in a plastic tray for us to have as an addition to our meals. Sue had bought some vegetable cannelloni ready meals for us. I put the parsnips into a hot oven in their plastic tray, which I had assumed to be the oven proof tray they are sold in. The cannelloni went into another oven at a lower temperature.
Half way through cooking the parsnips, I thought I should turn them over. I opened the oven and was confused by what I saw. I quickly realised that the parsnips were sitting in molten plastic, luckily on top of a metal baking tray. I managed to remove the parsnips from the molten plastic and gently prised the plastic from the metal tray. By now the plastic was becoming solid again and on turning it over I could make out the word 'IKEA'. This was obviously not the oven proof plastic which these foods are sold in as I had thought, but one of Suzanne and Howard's kitchen containers, which now looked like this:
When they arrived for drinks, we all had a good laugh about my mistake (I think) and I vowed to visit IKEA soon in search of a replacement.
