This is my oven. Innocent looking isn't it? But looks are deceiving!!
This morning, I decided to clean my oven. It's a self-cleaning oven, which means, once you start the process, it takes an act of Congress to stop it! I had made two cheesecakes over the weekend and the butter used for the crusts decided to let loose and leak all over the bottom of my oven. So after that, everything I tried to bake came out with a.....shall we say.....smoked butter flavor. Not the best addition to ALL dishes. Now comes the fun part. I thought, "Ok, I'll start the cleaning process this morning so I can use my oven later today if I want to bake something."....
I wish I had a picture of what actually took place. You, as the reader, will just have to picture the scene. I decided to get online while the oven cleaned. As the oven reached it's highest temperature for cleaning, I noticed something flicker out of the corner of my eye. To my shock and great surprise, there were FLAMES in my oven!!! They were shooting about 3/4ths of the way up the oven!! I thought I had a fireplace for a minute! Then reality struck and I remembered, "I don't HAVE a fireplace!" I didn't quite know what to do, as I've never experienced that before, so as I was deciding what to do, the flames were gone! It lasted about 20 seconds, but that was 20 seconds that my life flashed before my eyes as I envisioned my oven exploding and how I was going to have to explain to our landlords that it really WAS the ovens fault! "Honest you guys, the oven changed it's mind because it wanted to be a fireplace!" The house was so full of smoke that my eyes stung! So I had to turn off the heater, open the windows and turn on the fans!As you can see, my oven is ok now. No explosions. No more fire. Everything is fine. And I think my heart has returned to its normal pace.....
4 comments:
LOL I actually have had that happen!! Scared the begeesus out of me. Nice to have it happen to someone else.
I've had an oven decide it was a fireplace as well. I just let it burn (I secretly wanted a new range). The result was a piece of the heating element burning completely through. **new range? new range?** It was an easy and inexpensive fix. Dang it.
I did this once. I mean I had it happen to me once. The fire burned through one of the heating elements. Sadly, and inexpensive and easy fix. No new range. **sigh** Better luck next try. I mean you wouldn't do it again on purpose. I mean better luck not starting a fire next time.
OK. I better just be still, huh.
That happened to my dad's oven in Sunset, too. I'm the one that nearly had a heart attack! I just want to thank you as a happy recipient of one of those marvelous cheesecakes! Now, aren't you glad you got that smell out of your oven?
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