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azurelunatic) wrote2005-04-23 01:26 am
azurelunatic) wrote2005-04-23 01:26 am
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No Two Ovens Are Not On Fire. (Happy St. George's Day.)
After work, I stopped by the store, really to take advantage of the sale on area rugs (to save me precious deposit money later), but I got distracted by the pizza. So I brought home some frozen pizza. This will be great, I thought. I can stick the pizza in the oven, take a shower, eat my pizza and read LJ, then go straight to bed. So I came home, put away groceries, hauled the pizza stone out of the bottom drawer of the stove (it's the model that hasn't got a broiler below the oven, but a storage drawer instead), and that's where the presence of blue mold on the pizza stone should have clued me in as to how the rest of it was going to go. I should have given the whole thing up as a bad job and gone to bed. But no, I had to decide that I wanted pizza, dammit, and I wanted it now. I cleaned the pizza stone, preheated the oven, and carefully arranged the pizza on the stone while I waited for the oven to warm up...
My conversation with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wibbble some half an hour later recounts the subsequent sequence of events fairly decently. (Edited for relevance & clarity.)
wibbble: I saw your post, and was considering if it would be wise to enquire further...
azurelunatic: Pizza, preheating oven. You can imagine what happened?
wibbble: Not so much with the 'pre' heating, as with the 'over' heating, leading to 'burning'?
azurelunatic: Worse/better. Note the "brand new" modifier.
wibbble: It needed to be broken in?
azurelunatic: ... What does one find inside brand-new, never-been-used, never-been-opened cookers?
wibbble: Bit of cardboard and plastic crap. Instruction manuals. If you're especially unfortunately, expanded polystyrene foam.
azurelunatic: I note in passing that it's deuced hard to RTFM when it's on fire.
azurelunatic: Read The Flaming Manual, perhaps.
wibbble: Read the Smouldering Remains of the Manual.
azurelunatic: No, the actual manual did not catch fire. It sounds funnier that way, though. It was actually just the little cardboard insert between the heating element and the floor of the oven. But that was bad enough. So when I opened it up to put the pizza in, I wound up doing the Unhappy Dance Of Juggling Pizza And Smouldering Paper Products.
azurelunatic: and the dance of OMFG It's On Fire.
azurelunatic: And the dance of OMFG It's 11:30PM And I Can't Let The Smoke Alarm Go Off.
azurelunatic: Which is directly related to the thing where I don't want my neighbors to kill me...
azurelunatic: So. Now that I've verified that I have an oven, and also verified that I really need to avoid putting the pizza stone away wet next time (good job I'm not allergic to penicillin), I can start cooking the pizza...
The pizza was, eventually, good. But probably not worth things catching on fire. D'oh.
My conversation with
wibbble some half an hour later recounts the subsequent sequence of events fairly decently. (Edited for relevance & clarity.) wibbble: I saw your post, and was considering if it would be wise to enquire further...azurelunatic: Pizza, preheating oven. You can imagine what happened? wibbble: Not so much with the 'pre' heating, as with the 'over' heating, leading to 'burning'?azurelunatic: Worse/better. Note the "brand new" modifier. wibbble: It needed to be broken in?azurelunatic: ... What does one find inside brand-new, never-been-used, never-been-opened cookers? wibbble: Bit of cardboard and plastic crap. Instruction manuals. If you're especially unfortunately, expanded polystyrene foam.azurelunatic: I note in passing that it's deuced hard to RTFM when it's on fire. azurelunatic: Read The Flaming Manual, perhaps. wibbble: Read the Smouldering Remains of the Manual.azurelunatic: No, the actual manual did not catch fire. It sounds funnier that way, though. It was actually just the little cardboard insert between the heating element and the floor of the oven. But that was bad enough. So when I opened it up to put the pizza in, I wound up doing the Unhappy Dance Of Juggling Pizza And Smouldering Paper Products. azurelunatic: and the dance of OMFG It's On Fire. azurelunatic: And the dance of OMFG It's 11:30PM And I Can't Let The Smoke Alarm Go Off. azurelunatic: Which is directly related to the thing where I don't want my neighbors to kill me... azurelunatic: So. Now that I've verified that I have an oven, and also verified that I really need to avoid putting the pizza stone away wet next time (good job I'm not allergic to penicillin), I can start cooking the pizza... The pizza was, eventually, good. But probably not worth things catching on fire. D'oh.