Kitchen aid and bread hook

Well, we got the bread hook off Becca's kitchen aid this morning. I soaked it overnight in water, with no visible effect. Then I soaked it in olive oil today, with no visible effect. Then I started pounding on it with a hammer wrapped in a napkin. Then Josh came and held it for me while I pounded and it started moving. Then Josh started pounding. Finally we got it into the down position and just needed to rotate it. That required prying with screwdrivers and pounding on prying screwdrivers. Then more pounding to get it straight off. So maybe the soaking in water and oil helped... maybe not.

Along the way, I noticed that there were bits of napkin thread showing up on things... and we found that the napkin had been ruined. I shouldn't have used on of those napkins... should have used some fabric I didn't care about. But I didn't consider that it might get damaged. I rather like those napkins and only had 8 of them. I can't buy a replacement napkin of the same exact pattern, but I can go back to Linen's and Things, where it came from in the first place, and compare it with the napkins of a very similar pattern which they seem to have on clearance. I think that will be a good activity for Friday when we have theater tickets in Skokie at a theater across the street from the nearest LNT.

So anyhow, collateral damage: 1 ugly-ified bread hook, and 1 well-loved napkin.