OT : checking the oven

[69rangerf100]

ok guys i need to vent on this one. so my mom asked me and the wife to watch her house while she goeson her trip to Europe. so my wife decided that shewanted to bake some cookies. so logically i figure she would check the oven before turning it on. knowing my mom i know she stores cake pans with the cover in the oven. so my wife runs up stairs to where i am working and says i need you to come here when i get down stairs and the [censored] is filled with smoke. she had melted the top of the cake panand the plastic is melted allover the over and the house smells like burnt plastic.

here is my question: how many of you would check the oven before turning it on.

[Caseys71]

, Sounds like you're going to need some fans and a Sam's Club sized box of Fe-breeze to get rid of the smell . With that said whether or not I checked the oven would depend.. at our house my mom has a rack for all of her frying pans, and we have a drawer that slides out under the oven for baking sheets so I wouldn't check ours before turning it on because we never leave anything in there. But if I were at someone else's house like in your's and your wife's situation I'd check because it's there house and you never know if they (your mother in this case) left anything sitting in the oven. With that said my grandma leaves cake pans with the plastic covers on them in the oven at her house too, small world huh . Good luck getting rid of the smell, Burnt plastic doesn't smell all that great .

[fordman]

women do store stuff in the oven why becasue they dont want to clean it or woudl rather pile it on the counter when they use the oven. my wife does store stuff in the oven. and once i turned on the oven without looking. but i caught it before it was too late. ever since then i do look so i can throw the stuff in the sink where it belongs.

[BobbyFord]

Well, I'm the cook in my house and I ALWAYS check the oven before turning it on, simply because some things are easier stored in the oven as opposed to taking up valuable cupboard space.

[papabug71]

I always check, everytime. We have a 4 year old that loves to hide things, & even tho she knows better than to even touch the stove without me or the wife around, better safe than sorry.

Yes, I always check.

The only way to get that smell out of a home is to open every window in the house & let it air out. Melted plastic can be a real PITA to clean up.

[1971ford]

I'm pretty sure melted plastic is a very bad smell and poisonous to be breathing in.

[brandon.k]

I would check but just because i keep a pan of drained off hamburger meat grease in mine. With that said, I would check anybody's. Theres no telling what people will keep in there.

[wildcard]

Whe I rarely turn our oven on, I never check it. Since I don't use it or anything else in the [censored]. Besides, my wife would never use it for storage. Somehow, even with me and my GRANDdaughter around, she's a neat freak. EVERYTHING has to be in it's place. She even puts me in my place once in a while.

[DuckRyder]

O.K. remember you asked...

I wouldn't check it because it is an OVEN not a cabinet, stuff you want to cook goes in the oven and stuff you want to store goes in a cabinet.

[Ranchero50]

Always check, great place to store pans etc., especially when yourkitchen is small.

Jamie

[two-bit]

I always check the oven!
I burned up a pizza box one time because i didn't.

"whats all that smoke from???"
open the oven door, see smoldering pizza box
"oh crap, i just gave it oxygen"
Running through house with flaming pizza box, and out the front door.

Live and learn and get crap the rest of your life for it!


Two-bit

[thrush544]

Quite honestly I think it totally depends on the person. If your young, have your own place and don't store anything in the oven, your mother never stored anything in her oven. Then you probably would never think to check.
If you store things there or once you are a bit older and know a lot of people who do, or unfortunately melt something in someones else's oven, you know to check the oven.

If that's the worse thing that happens you are doing ok! I just turned 50 and the Good Lord still lets me humble myself all the time !!!

Life Happens

[fordman]

I always check the oven!
I burned up a pizza box one time because i didn't.

"whats all that smoke from???"
open the oven door, see smoldering pizza box
"oh crap, i just gave it oxygen"
Running through house with flaming pizza box, and out the front door.

Live and learn and get crap the rest of your life for it!


Two-bit

ha ha. my wife just remided me of the time i brought home pizza and put box and all in the oven to keep it warm. and the pizza box caught fire with the pizza still in it.

[Sparx Macgyver]

I check most fo the time. I forget from time to time. The only reason I check is because of my grandma. I believe they were setting off bug bombs in the apt. she was in at the time. To protect her toaster and afew other devices from being bombed, she put them in the oven. Now, I don't remember who, but somebody turned on the oven, and melted the wires and all the plastic bits.


So, occasiuonally I will. But I never cook at anybody else's place, so I don't. I only check if it's not my oven. My oven is not a storage place. It's for cooking or baking.

[Bumpside Collector]

I always check, everytime. We have a 4 year old that loves to hide things, & even tho she knows better than to even touch the stove without me or the wife around, better safe than sorry.

Yes, I always check.

The only way to get that smell out of a home is to open every window in the house & let it air out. Melted plastic can be a real PITA to clean up.

HAHA!!! I got burned by the kids hiding plastic toys in the oven once too. I always check now!