burned saucepans

[Weka]

Thanks for that Kate! I didn't know that and had a devil of a job getting burnt water off a saucepan a couple of years ago. I'm always forgetting to turn things off. My jug has to turn off automatically (I've melted elements on hose that don't). I once left the gas hob on for 6 hours with nothing on it.

Today I discovered that my cook top, each element has a timer and it turns the element off after that time. I used it to cook the chickpeas as remembering today to turn them off after an hour and a half was never going to happen.

[KateLMead]

It is a pain Weka is it not, I have never had a good memory.. I drove to Beirut en route for Baghdad when I was young with two children and a tent to camp en route. What a journey.... "I lost my way three times before I got to Dover!! landed up in Pireus" where we got on a Russian trawler with some difficulty as they refused to accept that Yasmin was my daughter, any way we made it to Beirut where an anxious spouse was being rowed around the ship, he did not need a loud speaker when shouting Katie Katie!!

[Weka]

Lol! What a trip!
ADD describes me well. Hubby calls them my stories. He "reads" the house too see what we have been up to all day, as its all full if half finished things.

Something happened around 2002 and I could no longer be trusted with things like passports as I was leaving them at the customs desk, in the back of airplane seats......

[shazsha]

Kate you must get a small timer!

I have a great memory for certain things but when it comes to cooking my memory disappears.

My latest memory lapse meant I burnt chicken breasts I was cooking.

Now I just put on my timer and when it rings I know the food needs my attention

[pederito1]

I sometimes forget too when distracted, the classic was putting an aluminium pan with water on a ring hotplate to boil and when I remembered about an hour later I went back fearfully but it looked OK. When however I picked the pan up it had no bottom.

[meriad]

Kate, I've been dithering quite a bit about posting this because the article refers to people with dementia etc... which I obviously really do not think is the case with you (and others who have posted on here) - and I'm not sure exactly how it would connect to the oven / hob - but I think this is a really good concept and may just help put your minds at ease when you're out and about; especially as one can set the auto switch off time. I sincerely hope my posting this doesn't offend and I can only apologise if it does / did

http://www.thiscaringhome.org/virtual_h ... imers.aspx

But I really think this is a very clever device

[Kaz]

That looks like a great device Ria, and one that might well have saved me a few burnt pans

Kate I found this too - not sure if it would be of any use?

http://www.technotrend.co.uk/pages/n_prod/tcs40.html

[Diflower]

Blimey they're brilliant, I had no idea you could get something like that!

Every time I went to a friend's flat you could guarantee there would be 'something' in the oven that had been incinerated several days before. She'd be scared to open it once she realised whatever was burning, turn the oven off and then forget all about it.
I'd have bought her one of those if I'd known

[Weka]

They are fantastic! My friends flat needed one. We used to go there for lunch each day, the first thing I did was walk over to the iron and turn it off.

I love the motion sensor one and I'm thinking of all sorts if other places in the house that technology could be used

[Diflower]

Ah, my iron turns itself off after a few minutes of not being used, that seems quite a common feature now
Obviously it should still be switched off properly but it helps