An Omen?
Captain Jack over there <--- has summed up my day pretty damn well.
It wasn't even 7:30 this morning when I managed to catch my stove on fire. Not the cooktop... the oven. There was a fire in my oven when I was using it to do exactly what I was doing with it last night that did *not* cause a fire. So I don't even...
It seemed to be that whatever junk that had accumulated on the aluminum foil on the bottom of the oven caught fire. But it wasn't a grease fire, because I tossed water on it and it went out.
The bitch of it was, I turned it on, I started making breakfast and I noticed smoke. So I opened the oven, and sure enough there was smoke in there. So I closed the oven, turned off and opened the back door to get the smoke out. Three minutes later I realized that the smoke wasn't disapating, it was getting worse. So I opened the oven again and NOW there was actual orange-flame-fire in the oven. It was NOT THERE the first time. WTF??? So now I keep compulsively checking to make sure nothing else has ignited while my back was turned, even though the floor of the oven has standing water in it.
So obviously I have to clean the oven today.
And then I have to figure out if I damaged anything by throwing a quart of water in an oven. And you know... by having a fire in it.
And it's not even 8:00 a.m. on a vacation day. I'm thinking I should crawl back in bed and try again tomorrow.
In other news, my LJ paid account has expired. I don't want to continue to feed that particularly poorly run organization any more money, but I'm finding out that a lot of stuff I still need that I took for granted doesn't happen on a free account... so I may have to pony up. Blergh.
It wasn't even 7:30 this morning when I managed to catch my stove on fire. Not the cooktop... the oven. There was a fire in my oven when I was using it to do exactly what I was doing with it last night that did *not* cause a fire. So I don't even...
It seemed to be that whatever junk that had accumulated on the aluminum foil on the bottom of the oven caught fire. But it wasn't a grease fire, because I tossed water on it and it went out.
The bitch of it was, I turned it on, I started making breakfast and I noticed smoke. So I opened the oven, and sure enough there was smoke in there. So I closed the oven, turned off and opened the back door to get the smoke out. Three minutes later I realized that the smoke wasn't disapating, it was getting worse. So I opened the oven again and NOW there was actual orange-flame-fire in the oven. It was NOT THERE the first time. WTF??? So now I keep compulsively checking to make sure nothing else has ignited while my back was turned, even though the floor of the oven has standing water in it.
So obviously I have to clean the oven today.
And then I have to figure out if I damaged anything by throwing a quart of water in an oven. And you know... by having a fire in it.
And it's not even 8:00 a.m. on a vacation day. I'm thinking I should crawl back in bed and try again tomorrow.
In other news, my LJ paid account has expired. I don't want to continue to feed that particularly poorly run organization any more money, but I'm finding out that a lot of stuff I still need that I took for granted doesn't happen on a free account... so I may have to pony up. Blergh.