Last week was nice and cold and rainy, perfect weather for soup so a made a big pot of pork soup. Unfortunately it warmed up a few days later and the flies came back. I went away for the weekend and came back to a pot of rotten fermenting soup since my housemate was too lazy to empty and clean the pot and also didn't close the lid properly so sure enough, there were young maggots crawling about. Thankfully they didn't get out of the pot.
So today I'm cleaning the pot. I would have thrown it away if it wasn't one of my expensive pots and worth the trouble and effort. Now, I absolutely hate maggots, it's one of my phobias so this is a big deal for me, I'm quite annoyed at my housemate since she wouldn't clean it and I feel that it was her job since I not only made the food but bought all the ingredients and she ate more than her share. But she won't and I want to keep the pot so I'm going to have to do it :(
So this is how I went about it. Enclosed shoes and rubber gloves on, kettle of boiling water ready, I took the pot into the bathroom and poured hot water all over the lid until it was too hot to touch (so the maggots clinging onto the lid dropped back in) and all around the sides (so the ones crawling around the sides also dropped in) then placed the pot back on the stove until I could hear the liquid boiling for a good 10-15mins so all the little squirming buggers were good and dead (or so I think, I haven't checked). I have more freshly boiled water ready and will pour more over the lid and around the sides before I start pouring the rotten muck, little by little, into the toilet and flush it away. Will keep some extra hot water to rinse whatever is left clinging inside the pot.
Hopefully it all works out. At least they should be dead so I don't have to deal with live squirming things. A dead maggot will always be better than a live one to me!
