We had a surprise 'melt down' at our house the other evening. Thank goodness Zack was here—his Boy Scout skills and a cool head under pressure helped him figure out the problematic fire extinguisher (cracked handle...not good) quickly to put out the fire!
But wait a second, Zack was the one who turned on the oven in the first place (without looking in, I might add.... ALWAYS look in. Someone, whom I will not mention, likes to momentarily store things in the oven... and then forget about them). If Zack hadn’t been here…. he wouldn’t have turned on the oven in the first place, and my favorite (and new) Tupperware bowl wouldn’t have melted and then combusted (in a BIG way!).
Ooooh, melted Tupperware (combined with salt and fire extinguisher) is hard to scrap off the oven! And what a smell! (Toxic, I’m sure…) And then, when we had scraped off all we could, we put the oven on the cleaning cycle—and more toxic fumes billowed out! We had five fans going in the kitchen (and one more on the stairs, aimed at the pesky smoke alarm that just wouldn’t stop, and wouldn’t unscrew so that we could shut it off…, balanced on half a stair and a box of instant mashed potatoes) just to keep the fumes from going into other parts of the house. (I wonder what the neighbors thought? We were blowing so much nonsense out the windows that their smoke alarms should have been going off!).
(This image is not actually my tupperware... which was green and viscous.... and on fire! This one is from Google images-but it helps you get the idea. I wish I had had the presence of mind to make a video of our gooey ignition, but we were too preoccupied to think of the movie-making opportunities...tsk, tsk.)
2 comments:
That is kind of weird, I mean who stores Tupperware in the oven with food in it for days on end? =)
Wow, what a commotion! Hope now that some time has passed your house has returned to normal. By the way, thanks for dropping in and visiting my blog and leaving comments. I loved to get them. I've been such an irregular blogger, I want to get back into it. Somehow I've become a terrible blogger especially since I returned to college for all those classes I'm taking! Take care and I'll check back in. I'll work on leaving some entries for you to check in on as well! :)
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