I'm glad I didn't check the stove when I heard the weird noise.A few minutes earlier I had turned on a burner to boil some water for tea, then went upstairs to get ready for my commute to work. I heard some popping from the stove downstairs and though about checking, but figured something probably just spilled on the burner and was popping as it heated up.
A then I heard the glass shattering.
I had turned on the wrong burner.
On this other burner was a large glass dish, which had heated up and exploded, shooting glass shrapnel across to all corners of the kitchen. If I had gone down to check when I heard the popping noises, I would have gotten shot with red-hot splinters of glass.
Oh my gosh, Jon! I'm so glad you didn't check your stove. You probably would have ended up in the ER instead of your office. Scary...