Oven on Fire
- Melted plastic tray in the oven. Saved by baking soda!
This is why you should NEVER - EVER - store plastic in your oven. Metal or heat-proof glass containers, yes, but plastic? Repeat after me: Do not store anything plastic in the oven. Don’t. You think you’ll remember, but one time - and it only takes one time - you won’t.
This is also why you should ALWAYS keep a big container of baking soda handy. Large handfuls of baking soda will smother a fire with a lot less of a mess than a fire extinguisher. While the fire might have burned out by itself – eventually - in the (electric) oven, the fumes might have be poisonous - they were pretty obnoxious even though we caught the fire early. I am sure it would have been a real mess (and a 911 call) if that had been a gas oven though…
And if you must ask. No, those photos were not taken at my house. They were taken at the house of a lady - who shall remain nameless - and of whom we were guests for a couple of days recently.
I was told that once the plastic cooled off and hardened, it just lifted off the floor of the oven and off the rack.
Nonetheless, say after me: “don’t store plastic in the oven and go buy a really large box of baking soda NOW”
Well, that the kind of thing I’m able to do…:( that’s good to know about the baking soda.
Hi Sylvie,
Happy holidays to you! and thank you for the baking soda tip. I’m one of those “stores stuff in the oven” types” (I once shattered a whole platter of cookies while temporarily storing them on the oven rack (and on a non-oven-proof dish!!!) for dinner guests.
Gas ovens, something I noticed there being alot of here in France, have always made me nervous. Now I know why!
Here we put chickens in our ovens. Sometimes potatoes. Repeat after me, pluck those chickens …
Bonne idee, Jean-Paul. D’abord tuer le poulet, apres plumer le poulet…
Joyeux Noel Sylvie
Merry Christmas
Ho Ho Ho…