FIRE!

okay so it was nothing big...but there were flames. I was cooking some meat in a big stock pot and some water boiled over...usually this is no big deal but for some reason it ignited a fire and it wouldn't go out! Why we didn't think of smothering it with salt I don't know...logical thought just wasn't happening. Being an electrical stove/oven, we didn't know if water would be a good idea but eventually got out the squirt bottle and gave it a good spray. The big burner is pretty much done in and unusable. The thing that plugs into the electrical thingy (cool technical words) is charred and the two parts don't fit it eachother now. I'm afraid to cook on the other three now. Maybe we'll get a new oven out of the event...and I was just getting used to the 70's yellow and starting to actually grow fond of it.