In my first year of teaching, I was in a building that had opened only a semester before I started at that school. They were still taking publicity photos and I was still learning my way around there. In one of my advanced foods classes, the students were making puff pastry. I demonstrated how to butter it, fold it, roll it thin, repeat, and repeat. The end result was expected to be a fine, flaky, tasty pastry. However, if it isn't folded right, the butter will leak out the sides. Knowing this, I told the students to bake it in jelly-roll pans, even though the textbook said to use regular baking sheets.
What's the worst that can happen?
Some of the students used the baking sheets, the butter dripped out and hit the heating coils in the ovens, and billows of smoke poured out just in time to be caught by a film crew. (I was still hearing about it 3 years later.)
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