Burning smell

I awoke this morning to the smell of burning. There was no smoke immediately visible, so I walked through the house, sniffing.

The smell wasn't quite like an open fire; it was more like smoldering plastic. I checked every plug in every outlet... nothing.

At that point, I decided that unless I saw smoke or flame, I was probably hallucinating. I went over to the dishwasher to get out a clean spoon and found this on the heating element inside.



I had no idea it got so hot in there. Scary. Kittehs need a new can cover.

.