By MsMedea - 11/08/2015 12:02 - Australia - Sydney
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Hi, OP here, to answer your question, the slow cooker was sitting on the bench, underneath a shelf in our kitchen. As I took the lid off, the roach came from above, literally jumping into the pot! So I definitely did not see it before I took the lid off!
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Roach suicide, apart from ruining the casserole, I wish all roaches would do this.
the steam probably burnt the roach and caused it to lose its footing. Thus falling into your dinner. you should have just took out the spoon full surrounding it and ate your dinner. if it was boiling, it was hot enough to kill the germs.
5 second rule works in reverse, too! Something falling into food instead of food falling into something.
Hey, extra protein.
Despite having the ability to survive a nuclear apocalypse, that poor cockroach was taken down by an unfortunate casserole incident. Seems like a waste of perfectly good nuclear survivability to me.
Not gonna lie, if the casserole was pretty solid I would have fished it out, removed the area around it, and called it a day. If it was soupy I wouldn't have though :/
I'm with you on that. Five second rule applies here.
The casserole was very saucey! My first thought was to fish it out, then we watched as the roach slipped slowly below the surface. At that point, a salvage effort was futile!
it's just a bug. if they were swarming in it I'd understand but it was just one. I'd eat it anyway.
I wonder if the cockroach survived, possible considering they're insects that outlived the dinosaurs and lived through the ice age unscathed and even thrive in the urban jungle; the major metropolitan cities that humans dwell in.They'll probably still exist long after humans are extinct.
Who cares? It's just one bug. That's what our immune systems are for, and it's not like it was cooked into the food, it just dived in right after it was done.
After having squished many roaches and see those gross yellow gooey insides ooze out, there is absolutely no way I would play bug roulette with that casserole. Fishing it out is one thing, but that is entirely another!
well duh. fish it out and eat the damn casserole. ESPECIALLY one that took 12 hours to make.
Now do you have an exterminator coming soon so you can have a casserole in the future?
Am I the only one that pictured the roach climbing up on the edge of the slow cooker, standing up on it's back legs and then executing a perfect swan dive into the casserole?
Not anymore ^^
To help with the visual, it jumped from a shelf above the bench. I am pretty sure I saw it complete a double somersault in the pike position as it tumbled in slow motion right before my eyes!
With it's little swimming cap on.
I'd have fished out the cockroach, plated up the casserole and just given it a good couple of minutes' zap in the microwave to deal with germs. No bug is going to stand between me and 12 hours' worth of cooking!
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Here's a cockroach trivia for you, OP. When you see a cockroach, it is most certainly not alone. Who you gonna call?! The exterminators. You should call the exterminators.
Aren't you a tad bit concerned that there are **** roaches in your house??