Why The Flaming Mitt??

We do a lot of baking here. For years we have baked brownies and cookies for our trashmen. It was during one of those baking times that I became affectionately known to my family as "THE FLAMING MITT".

I was baking cookies alone in the kitchen. My mother came in and asked me what was burning. I told her I didn't burn the cookies. But she just looked at me. In my hand was an oven mitt. My mother noticed the mitt had smoke coming from it. I was still insisting I had not burned the cookies. She asked me to open the mitt. It had a little flame going, and a hole burnt through it. I didn't burn the cookies, but I had burnt the mitt. My mother decided that when I had pulled a pan of cookies out, I must have grabbed the element in the bottom of the oven, which caught my mitt on fire. That was the reason she smelled something burning from her bedroom.

I did not BURN the cookies! :) My mother saved the mitt. I think there might be more than 1 burned mitt at our house..........