We ordered a pizza last night

[Tab]

(my son and I)

I put the rest (3 pieces) and the box in the fridge.

My wife gets home and eats the last three pieces. Not a problem.

I go to roast a chicken tonight and preheat the oven.

For some reason, instead of tossing the empty box into the recycling bin, she put it in the oven. I can only guess she put it in after the first piece to keep it away from one of our thieving bastard dogs.

Anyway, the oven heats up and starts smoking. Of course, guess what's nearly on fire.

(sigh)

[Inchworm]

1. They need garage door sensors in there

I've had a few close calls like that. Fortunately, I'm the only one here now and remember these incidents so I'm a strict "nothing that melts or burns allowed on or in stove" kind of guy.

(well except some of my cooking experiments)

;)

[Tesha]

2. A very large club, I imagine...

mine was a full Tupperware cake-taker.....


ack! what a smell!

[AwakeAtLast]

3. My mother is the queen when it comes to this

that is why I will put NOTHING in the oven when not in use. Absolutely nothing.

We learned the hard way I guess, LOL!

:hi:

[Tab]

7. I never used to

but there are only so many places I can keep things from this dog.

In this case, I had put it in the fridge. I saw the box was gone in the morning and figured she just ate the last 3 pieces and tossed the box in the recycling bin. We don't normally put cold stuff into the oven, but she must have put it in there to protect the pieces. Why she didn't toss the box when she was done, I don't know. All I know is I'm glad I glanced over and saw this smoking white pizza box in the oven I was preheating.

Cardboard gets pretty hot, when you think about it - particularly pizza cardboard, which is built to retain heat.

[kestrel91316]

4. I live alone, so I don't have to deal with little surprises like this, lol.

Although I must admit that many years ago I did put an opened jar of mayonnaise away in the cupboard and not the fridge............

[Blues Heron]

5. We used to put the leftovers in the oven - box and all- when I was a kid

I'll never forget that hot cardboard infused with pepperoni fat kitchen smell! Glad you caught it in time!

[hippywife]

6. I just did it a couple of weeks ago.

Was trying to get bread to rise in a kitchen that was too cold. Put it in the oven and totally forgot when I preheated it to bake cookies. :rofl:

Good thing you all caught it before it went up in flames.

[pengillian101]

12. Try this tip if you have a crockpot.

"Was trying to get bread to rise in a kitchen that was too cold."

Somewhere I read about getting bread dough to rise quickly in a crock pot. I tried it. It worked great on super low setting. My crockpot is not a true crockpot, but oblong shaped, and the bread pan just barely fit. I would guess (as a non-bread baker might surmise) that a bowl in a round crockpot would work. Once it rises in a round bowl is beyond me.

:hi:

[pengillian101]

13. I tried to edit it to say...

I tried to edit it to say...I started out with FROZEN bread dough.

:hi:

[Coyote_Bandit]

8. I always look inside the oven

before I turn it on - a habit formed after a similar incident.

[japple]

9. I have a friend whose wife nearly burned up a pair of his golf shoes

that way. They weren't ruined, but the house smelled like burnt rubber for awhile.

[Lorax]

14. Ewwww!

What were golf shoes doing in the oven?

[mtnester]

10. If I do popcorn in the pan, I like mine..."the second day" and a little stale

I know, weird...ANYWAY

The best place to hold popcorn over to the second day is inside the oven. In a metal pan.

Guess what happens if you forget it is in there and turn on the oven to preheat? Buttered popcorn too, so all that extra "grease" too.

It is really embarrasing if your current hubs at the time is a firefighter at the fire station down from your house...AND Air Force, and in base housing...the explaining you have to do

Thankfully it was mostly smoke, but the oven was ruined. And it was a delighful way to find out where all my cobwebs were as they lit up all black from the smoke.

I have had three near fires in my lifetime. I am a BELIEVER in too many smoke detectors and tons of extinguishers laying around everywhere.

[Tab]

11. "Your current hubs at the time"....

Grammar aside, how many hubs do you go through?

What really sucks if you have a plastic or rubber handle on the pan.

I do like day-old buttered popcorn too, for some reason.

The other mistake, although I try to avoid it, is grabbing a handle, forgetting the handle has heated as well. I haven't burned myself in that fashion for a while, so maybe I'm learning.

[Lorax]

15. We ALWAYS check the oven before turning it on.

With three thieving bastard dogs, we now refer to the oven as "the pie safe". We can't turn our backs for a single second, we are constantly putting food in there to protect it. I try to turn the light on inside the oven when I put food in there so I won't forget. If I do forget, I'll notice the light then remember the food.

Sometimes we'll use the microwave as the pie safe. That is especially gross if we forget because we don't use the microwave frequently. I'll see your smokey burnt pizza and raise you a bowl of two day old broccoli.

[Tab]

16. Microwave, oven, top of the refrigerator

Oven is most helpful for stuff, top of the fridge is good, but space is limited. Microwave temporarily.

The thing about the microwave is you usually open it to put something in before heating it, so mistakes are uncommon. The oven, on the other hand, you preheat.

In this case, the pizza box had been in the fridge and then disappeared, so I thought it had been tossed. I didn't realize she had placed it back INTO the oven, and not removed it when emptied. It just was lucky that I was standing there and glanced over and saw a box in the oven and was "what the hell is that"?

It was pretty frickin' hot as it was.

The bottom warmer drawer of the oven theoretically would be of utile, but some little mouse made its winter stash in there, so I'm reluctant to store food in it.