If you've ever wondered what happens when a spaghetti squash explodes in your oven:
That oven needed a good cleaning anyway, right?
This happened Saturday night after a very LONG week and a very LONG day of cleaning and preparing for our LONG Sunday/Valentine's Day full of meetings and company for dinner...
We did not eat the squash for dinner that night. Instead we cleaned it off of the oven, the wall, and the floor. You'd be amazed at how a spaghetti squash can go off like a bomb. We were in the office when it happened. We heard a boom - Mar and Bill went to check it out - I heard their oooooos and ahhhhhhs and had to come see what had happened. It had actually blown the oven door open.
Today I checked my source to see if I had missed something... of course, most of the things that popped up on google immediately say to prick the squash all over with a fork. Surely I hadn't missed that, I thought, so I looked for the exact source I used that fateful Saturday evening and found it here (scroll down to the bottom of the post IF you're curious). No mention of pricking with a fork or a knife on this site. Things I've learned: prick a spaghetti squash with a fork before trying to roast whole in the oven. It will save you hours of time, I promise.
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