I wonder how many fires have been started because people left the pizza box in the oven while trying to keep it warm
I wonder how many fires have been started because people left the pizza box in the oven while trying to keep it warm
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.
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.
Weed and cooking is very dangerous. Don't mix pots and pot
I was about to comment about how familiar this sounds lol
Did the guy get his vacuum cleaner back at least?
That's always been a fear of mine. I think at worst I've left it preheating with nothing inside
My ex used to hide dirty dishes in the oven. One time I was going to make something and started pre-heating the oven not realizing she was squirreling dishes away in it. We lost a bunch of tupperware containers that day, which essentially melted down through the racks and onto the element.
To this day I always check the oven before turning it on now, even though we haven't been together for nearly 20 years.
Some people deliberately store things - like towels or place mats - in the oven.
Usually older people.
Someone not aware of that goes to bake something - big problem
My cousin kept bags of chips and pretzels in the oven, and got really mad at me for preheating the oven without checking it. It was 20 years ago and we still fight over who's fault that was.
My grandparents used to store cereal in the oven. As a kid I never understood, but it was just something weird cpsince I never cooked. Now I’m horrified that anyone would do that but suspect they bought it just for our visit and had nowhere to put the huge quantities of food they’d need.
Picture the groceries for a nice, quiet elderly couple. Now picture the groceries for a family with four boys eating everything in sight …. Yeah, our visits must have been the apocalypse for their budget, based on groceries alone
Preheated the Oven at 280°C Grandma! Everything will soon be as they should be!
what kind of bozo puts a pizza not on literally anything less flammable before putting it into the oven for any reason
Cardboards are actually quite good at heat insulation. If you have an electric oven (no flame) and put the temperature below 200°C (ignition is at a slighly higher temperature but oven aren't precise), there is no risk. So you can totally reheat pizza at 180°C on its cardboard.
Kids I’m guessing
Why would you put a pizza box in the oven? Never in my life have I needed to do this.
When I get pizza I bring it home and eat a few slices. Afterwords it goes into the fridge. Same with any other food I eat. It’s still warm as it’s going into the fridge because I don’t waste any time eating pizza.
Putting it into the oven after only getting one slice makes no sense.
Yeah. Even if the pizza is still warm I don't think a room temperature oven is going to make that much of a difference
Room temperature or not it’s a pretty useless exercise
"after everyone grabs a piece". I'm sorry what size are your pizzas that multiple people share a pizza, and take that long to eat it, that you need to keep it warm in between?
I usually have a whole pizza for myself. Just like my friends. So everyone just has their box and usually eats out of it (depending on the setting, we might put it on plates).
Some absolute pizza lightweights in this thread! 😄
It's the whole pizza politics thing. Everyone wants some but no one wants to eat more than their fair share so you end up with straggler pieces
Reheating in cast-iron is the way to go.
Even better is cold pizza straight from the fridge.
Cardboard burns up pretty quickly. I would think the fire would be contained in the oven no?
Look at Mister Moneybags over here with his heat proof oven.
What's next, you're going to tell us your freezer keeps ice from melting?!
Last time I set an oven fire there were flames licking up and out of the vents on the top, along with a lot of smoke. I wasn't sure if opening it to get the flaming nachos out would give it more oxygen and bigger flames. It did not, but I had the fire extinguisher ready when I opened the door.
As long as the temperature is below 451F/233C, there should be no danger of fire.
Pro Tip: Keep masking tape in the kitchen. If you do something weird like storing a pizza in the oven, put a piece of masking tape over the oven dial as a reminder. Masking tape is good for putting a date on things going into the fridge too.