Flaming oven mitt! (A repost)

[tsaiko]

For skylark97 who asked if I'd really set an oven mitt on fire.

I'm happy to say that the French Onion Soup was not a loss. Very sweet but good with some blue cheese and salt in it. Miome and I decided to toast some bread to go with our soup. We turn the oven on, pop the bread in, and are talking until it's done. It's time for the bread to come out, so my roomie grabs two oven mitts and attempts to take it out. She almost burns a finger, jerks back, and sticks the finger under cold water.

Now here's where things get interesting. When my roomie jerked her hand back she dropped the oven mitt she was holding into the oven and onto the hot coils. So of course it catches on fire. Nice bright orange flames about three inches high. I stare at it for a few seconds in shock, ask if Miome is okay, then promptly ask the stupidest question ever.

Tsaiko: Do you think I should turn the oven off?

Duh! Proof that Tsaiko does not do well in stressful situations. Miome made some affirmative noise then told me to shut the oven. I guess she thought that it would smother the fire. It didn't. Smoke started leaking out of the oven. I turn around and open the drawer. Tongs! We have tongs? Grab the tongs, open the oven, and grab the burning oven mitt. Then I tun to the sink and plunge it into the water. Beat it down for a few seconds to put out all of the fire. Fire iss out, crisis over.

At which point my roomie and I look at each other and promptly fall out laughing.

So now there is a wonderful picture waiting to be developed of me holding the burnt oven mitt triumphantly over the sink with the pair of tongs. When we get it developed I will scan and post this thing. I also swear up and down we are not usually this bad in the kitchen. Really. This is not normal behavior for us.

Now if you excuse me, I have to go burn some chicken nuggets in the microwave ^_^.

Comments

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

I caught my kitchen on fire in much the same way, not so long ago. I have a gas stove and when I was cooking, I tossed an oven mitt on top of it without thinking.

Gas stove = real fire coming out of those burners = oven mitt lit like a candle. I snatched it up by a non-burning portion and dumped it in the sink.

My husband came in and after smelling that, he literally banned me from the kitchen, not that this bothered me since he has cooked for the two of us since we got married. I didn't cook again for probably a month. *G*

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

My mother did precisely the same thing. I was, amusingly enough, telling her why I used only the glove now, instead of just a pad, because I often dropped the pad and touched the hot metal as a result.

She was assuring me that she didn't need it when it fell on the coils.

[lycoris.livejournal.com]

My Mum did that once. She put the oven gloves on top of the still-lit gas grill though and then wandered away. I walk into the house, just back from a friends house say "What's cooking Mum?" go into the kitchen and shriek "MUM! THE KITCHEN'S ON FIRE!"

And she didn't believe me! I've no idea what she thought I was seeing! I turned the gas off, she came in, looked at the leaping flames and then chucked them in the sink with tongs as you did. I didn't think of that so you and I are obviously the same. :)

[mashiroikaze.livejournal.com]

Since we're sharing attack-of-the-kitchen stories, I thought I'd share one from my childhood.

You know those Betty Crocker icing tubs? The little plastic ones with lids and foil to keep the icing fresh in the store? Well, my mom used to use the empty ones to keep leftovers. Good as Tupperware, but cheap and disposable.

So here's where the problem starts... can you see it already? Those little plastic tubs have foil on them. If you're not careful, you leave foil on them when you open the tubs. Not a big deal for getting the icing out, but a problem if you want to microwave leftovers in the tubs.

My mom is microwaving something in them shortly after I get home from school one day. She's doing something at the oven, and I look and see strange sparking in the microwave. Then a small flame. I hit the "Stop" button and the flames die away. My mom is annoyed now. I tell her that the small tub was on fire. She doesn't believe me. She restarts the microwave. Fire promptly returns. I grab her arm, point and say "Mom, look! It's on fire. I'm turning it off now."

She couldn't believe it. I pulled the little tub out of the microwave and show her the foil and burn marks. She quit using those for leftovers after that. I was in elementary school at the time.

What amuses me even more than these stories is the fact that while reading these and typing this, the Mythbusters on TV have been trying to make a fire without using matches. And failing miserably.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. I did something similar with a taco wrapped in foil. In my defense, I was only six or seven at the time and no one had informed me that metal + microwave = bad. I melted the inside of the microwave.

Now see? The Mythbusters just aren't being creative enough. XD

[mashiroikaze.livejournal.com]

Well, they were going under the premise that they were stranded because of a plane wreck. I somehow doubt that they could get a working microwave from the wreckage. :-P

[skylark97.livejournal.com]

*dies, just dies laughing* Oh my god, have I mentioned lately how insanely happy I am that you're on my friends list? XD

Dude, no words....

You win and you totally rock. XD

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I think this incident happened sometime in 2002. I had to go dig through my old entries on my old blog to find it. ^^

[sugahlei.livejournal.com]

^_^ that happened in my highschool home-ec class, but not to me. but it was funny. :D

sent off fics to you, btw--

and as a random thing...have i told you i'm still hard-up for Love/Hate?

you know you wanna. XD *grinsnugsflees*

[postaljen.livejournal.com]

I once tried to bake blueberry muffins in a plastic muffin pan-needless to say blueberries and melted plastic are not tasty. Had to make myself scarce for a while after that cooking fiasco.
Can not wait to see the pic of you and the burned oven mitt! :-)