Well, damn
May. 1st, 2004 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxI set the kitchen on fire.
No, nothing major. I was boiling some eggs and walked back into the study. A few minutes later some crackling and popping and the fire alarm goes off. Walked back into the kitchen and there was an itty, bitty fire. I had turned on the wrong eye on the stove. Lost to the "inferno" was one wooden spoon (the spoon part is gone), one bowl whose glaze had turned black, one dishtowel (what was actually on fire) and one plastic lid (that had caused the fire). Now have windows and garage door open airing out the smoke (and it's an unseasonably cool day here. Kinda nice, actually). No real damage. Cleaned the stove and the soot off the backsplash.
Stupid Lisa. That was careless.
No, nothing major. I was boiling some eggs and walked back into the study. A few minutes later some crackling and popping and the fire alarm goes off. Walked back into the kitchen and there was an itty, bitty fire. I had turned on the wrong eye on the stove. Lost to the "inferno" was one wooden spoon (the spoon part is gone), one bowl whose glaze had turned black, one dishtowel (what was actually on fire) and one plastic lid (that had caused the fire). Now have windows and garage door open airing out the smoke (and it's an unseasonably cool day here. Kinda nice, actually). No real damage. Cleaned the stove and the soot off the backsplash.
Stupid Lisa. That was careless.
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Date: 2004-05-02 09:03 pm (UTC)The first time wasn't as dangerous - my mother had insisted on buying me stovetop "covers", round thin metal thingies that covered the elements on the stove, with painted patterns. She thought they were good for keeping the other elements free from splash whenever I was cooking. I, of course, managed to melt one of them within a week by turning on the wrong element.
The second time was even more stupid - I had a smallish kitchen in the apartment I was living in at the time, and I kept my coffee maker sitting on the stove itself to spare counterspace, and would plug it into the outlet right next to the stove. I must have been really spaced out one morning, because I put the coffee, filter and water in, and then went into the shower. What I didn't realize is that instead of switching the "on" switch on the coffee maker, I had turned the element on the stove on instead. Very stupid, and very dangerous, and good thing I heard the fire alarm go off while in the shower. It was a disgusting plastic fire mess. So I can relate. *g*