An adventure.

[owlectomy]

Well, that's one more checkmark I can put in the column of "hilarious kitchen fires" and "reasons why Emily should not be trusted to complete basic household tasks without adult supervision."

Lit up a burner so that I could heat up my cast-iron skillet to fry some onions. Turned around to chop said onions. Turned back to the stove and noticed:

-Black smoke, that's a bad thing, right?
-That smell, that's a bad thing, right?
-HOOOOOOKAI THERE SHOULD NOT BE SO MUCH FLAME COMING FROM MY BURNER.

It was my spatula handle that was on fire. Because somehow I had left my spatula on the stove with the handle over the burner, and I managed not to notice it.

SEE GUYS I TOLD YOU I WAS RIGHT TO BE SCARED OF GAS STOVES.

Turned on the water in the sink, grabbed the spatula by the spatula end, and stuck the flaming part under the water, so it was over fast enough, and now I have some cornbread in the oven and I do hope it will come out not smelling of plastic smoke.

The spatula is still perfectly usable.

Comments

[raanve]

I provided my spouse with a dramatic reading of this entry, thus prompting this spousal response: "What is she, a fucking Sim?"

The LOLs are love-filled, Emily, I promise.

[owlectomy]

Hey, I'm always happy to provide entertainment!

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

I certainly can't argue that gas stoves - open flame - aren't dangerous, or that one is wrong to be scared of them.

But, having grown up with gas stoves, I've always been more wary of electric stovetops. Unless they're literally red-hot (glowing), you can't really know if it's on, or if it's hot. Sure, there's that little light, but that's nothing like seeing an actual flame in front of your eyes. I have yet to ever accidentally touch an electric stove - hot or cold - for whatever reason, but somehow I just am really nervous about that situation. Maybe it's especially because I live in a dorm and share the kitchen with roughly 100 other people. So if you walk in the kitchen and no one is there, you don't know, maybe the stove actually was just on five minutes ago, and is still hot. Not that I have any reason to go around touching stovetops (even cold ones) with my bare flesh, but... I dunno...

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

I think it probably depends a lot on what you grew up with. I never had to use a gas stove until I was in my mid-twenties, and I got to be pretty well-trained about never touching a burner except to clean it.

The thing is, I had almost exactly the same accident with a spatula about ten years ago, but it was an electric stove so the handle just melted, rather than actually going up in flames...