Oh my good god

[tamago23]

Younger Spawn thought it would be a brilliant idea to hide a plastic bin in the oven. Since I'm an idiot who keeps forgetting about his obnoxious new habit, I started preheating the oven for dinner without checking inside first. Fifteen or twenty minutes later, I started hearing that distinctive thfweeee! sound of burning plastic as it drips down,

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[nimbrethil]

Oh jeez, I'm sorry. I hate that stench, and it gives me a nasty headache, too.

To get the crap out of mine, I scraped it off the sides with a metal flipper.

[tamago23]

Chemical stink is the damn worst, isn't it? :(

[pink_siamese]

You should tape a big sign on the oven door: CHECK FOR KIBBLES/RANDOM PLASTIC SHIT BEFORE PREHEATING. It might work. You never know.

[tamago23]

He'd steal the sign if I put it on the front, but I can put a Post-It up by the oven knobs (they're at the top of the stove, not just above the oven door like on some stoves), because I have to look at those anyway to turn the oven on. Great idea, and thank you. :)

[pink_siamese]

No problem.

[mr_sharkey]

I'd let the plastic cool, then chip it out manually - there's not much that will disolve plastics that aren't worse than the plastics themselves. After chipping, I'd scrub the oven to get the soot / residual volatiles off of the surface - then I'd open the windows, turn the fan on, and turn the oven on high to burn off whatever you couldn't get by hand. Maybe go out while that's happening and have someone less-asthma prone keep an eye on it.

M.

[tamago23]

Damn. That's what I figured. I haven't even been able to use Oven-Off type stuff because of the epic asthma that it brings on, so there's going to be a lot of straight-up chipping and scrubbing. :/

[kettunainen]

http://www.essortment.com/all/ovencleaning_rdjw.htm

maybe one of these cleaning solutions might be useful. if not now, then maybe at some future, non-plastic-influenced cleaning need.

FYI

[mr_sharkey]

An oven lock:

http://www.amazon.com/SAFETY-1st-DOREL-JUVENILE-00241/dp/B0000482FN

M.

Re: FYI

[tamago23]

I've tried. Our oven door doesn't exactly line up with the side of the oven, so one type of the locks don't work; with the other type, he just pulled it off because it's only held on with a bit of adhesive. Keep in mind that this child has also already figured out how to destroy the childproofing on the cabinets (not just open, but literally make them useless), which Gavin *never* figured out. I may just have to put a rope around the whole oven and keep it tied shut, which is what I'm currently doing with the fridge.

Re: FYI

[nimbrethil]

Quite an enterprising little demonsprog you have there. =)

Re: FYI

[tamago23]

I keep telling myself that someday it will serve him really well. Determination, cleverness, perserverance, thinking outside the box, and understanding mechanics are all admirable qualities, and someday they will be positives rather than CONTINUALLY DRIVING ME BATSHIT WITH HIS SHENANIGANS.

[cosmic_glitter]

It seems to be a fairly common disaster:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22melted+plastic%22+oven&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

hopefully there's some good advice. sucky thing to have to deal with though.

[nimbrethil]

Yeah, us humans are really good at putting plastic and other meltables in an oven for some damn reason and forgetting about it to disastrous effect later.