Smoked carrot

I put a carrot in the vegetable steamer on the stove, not thinking how long it would take. Pick up baby for a nursie, ask husband to keep an eye on the carrot. He checks on it, it's fine, not done yet. Puts eyes back on the TV. I check on it a few minutes later, to find the pot smoking, no water left in the bottom, and blazing hot. It belted out steam as I poured cold water onto it, and I come up with black water every time I scour it.

Now I can't even use the carrot, because it smells burnt, and I don't know if a carrot cooked by a burning saucepan is entirely safe.

I think it's time I take a walk outside, get this acrid odour out of my nose.