It started well enough. Put oil on pepper, put pepper in 500-degree oven. (Break rule about not using olive oil because its smoke point is too low, ignore advice. Also try to ignore the absence of a normal broiler flame and hope that it won't matter.)
Sit forward and enjoy the show. Listen to the pepper pop and sing and dance around the cookie sheet. Giggle amusedly when it slides around in its oil and ends up in the far corner of the cookie sheet. Sweat too much to worry. Turn off the oven when the pepper begins to blacken, and forget about it. Cook dinner, complain about the heat, sweat some more. Prepare for bed.
Right before turning off the lights, remember there's a roasted pepper in the oven. Well, there's supposed to be one in the oven. Feel silly for ignoring the many recent lessons to follow recipes and instructions when doing something for the first time.
Take pictures to send to the insurance company. Document the innards as well, just in case.
At least I only collapsed a pepper, not an economy!
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