Seriously, what a weird happening. Last night I made meatballs to go with our pasta, and in an effort to contain the meatball's splattering sauce, I covered them with a lid--that was too small. The meatballs were done, I turned off the burner, went to prepare a yummy cucumber dill salad, came back to said meatballs, but......... the lid was stuck. So stuck that I broke the lid's handle trying to get it off. By some law of physics that I didn't feel like looking into, I had inadvertently created a vacuum seal. We tried prying, heating, cooling, freezing, etc all to no avail. Ended up that Subway would get our business that night because of those stubborn meatballs.
At 11:20 pm Eastern Standard Time during one last rescue effort before bed, our meatballs were freed! The miracle tool was a Pampered Chef metal spatula and a super, muscular husband!
