Worst Brownies

We often go to the Thursday night dinner and program at church.  Lately, because of food issues,  I've opted to go to the program, but not the potluck. Gerry enjoys going to the dinner, so he was in the process of making brownies.   Somewhere in that process, we discovered that the oven was not heating up properly.  It took fifteen minutes for it to get up to 110 degrees, so that did not look very promising.  Further examination revealed that the broiler burner at the top of the stove was working, but the bottom element at the bottom was producing no heat.  So we turned on the broiler to see if we could cook the brownies that way.   Pretty soon, I smelled something burning and saw right away that the top of the brownies were burned to a crisp, so I turned the oven off.

Then we got the bright idea of cooking them in the microwave.  I never dreamed that Gerry would want to take them to the dinner, but he did. They were grim!  I did insist that he stop by the store for ice cream on the way there.  My deepest apologies to anyone who might have picked up one of the world's absolutely worst brownies!  (Clearly, not many people did.  The word probably got out quickly!  Most of them came back home, thankfully).  Of course, Gerry did not get to make an announcement that the problem was the stove!

Despite the fact that they were truly awful, my husband who has a sweet tooth,  ate every one over the next two days!

After that, he took the stove apart and fixed the oven all by himself!  My hero.