I wonder how many fires have been started because people left the pizza box in the oven while trying to keep it warm

Corroded@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 95 points –

I've seen a few people put their delivered pizza in the oven after everyone grabs a piece to keep it warm. I've also seen a lot of those people forget the pizza is in there and either have to throw it out or only noticed after they preheated their oven.

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I'm not sure about pizza but I've heard a guy putting a casserole in his oven and forgot about it because his coworker was begging him to hang out with him. When he walked back home, his house was burned down to the ground and the firefighters told him "Some knucklehead left a casserole in the oven." He was super devastated after that.

Well, sir/ma'am:

  • my father once put a pizza box into the oven then turned the oven on to keep it warm, intending to turn it off quickly but forgot. Fire ensued
  • I was 18 in a terrible apartment and needed to run over to my buddies place to borrow something. I had stock on the stove but figured it had to reduce and I could go and be back quickly. We had one of those sandwiches that they have on How I Met Your Mother and I forgot all about the stock. The guy across the hall and I had swapped spare keys. He saw smoke pouring out of my kitchen window and let himself in and threw the pot in the sink and turned the water on. Crisis averted other than me thinking about it and being filled with shame every time I put a pot on a stove.

That's always been a fear of mine. I think at worst I've left it preheating with nothing inside

I was about to comment about how familiar this sounds lol

Did the guy get his vacuum cleaner back at least?