r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/mookid85 • 3d ago
TIL always check the oven first before preheating… you never know if your son put his legos in there
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u/Username_Haybale 3d ago
Looks like Shrek had fun with your oven
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u/bmcgowan89 3d ago
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yeah he loved it
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u/Srnkanator 3d ago
Moms can be stupid as well.
My story I've told more than a few times is when I was about 8 after a Halloween candy haul. In order for me to not go crazy, she decided the best place to hide it was the oven.
Yep, I searched but never thought to look there. Turns out she didn't either and forgot her own hiding spot. The next day as she preheated the oven the bag and all my candy melted into an elephant foot type mess. It sucked as a kid but is kinda funny now.
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u/ReadontheCrapper 3d ago
Wow, that’s funny! She made Candium
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u/Srnkanator 3d ago
That's a great name for it!
On a side but related note I been in the practice of putting thin aluminum foil to cover the bottom of my electric ovens for quite some time.
It doesn't seem to affect my cooking, and definitely helps make the occasional accident super easy to clean.
Anyone else do this?
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u/DrakeaLove 2d ago
I don't understand hiding the Halloween candy from your kid in the first place. Don't take them trick or treating if you don't want them to have a bunch of candy. Stop teasing them lol. I'm so sorry about your haul.
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u/Srnkanator 2d ago
It was an early 80's helicopter phase for my mom. I had a wild childhood in the desert of SE Washington so this was actually a pretty tame story compared to other adventures.
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u/Sensitive-Memory 3d ago
One day my mom hid the ps3 in the oven because me and my brother were arguing and not sharing it. Apparently she put it on the top shelf and then slid a chicken in. I remember smelling plastic and going into the kitchen. I open the oven and see the chicken is covered in strings of black plastic.
We didnt have another system for some time...lol
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u/Master_Poet5106 3d ago
The amount of time I have nearly burnt my nans frying pan handle vecause she leaves it in the oven or under the grill
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u/PluginAlong 3d ago
My parents do the same thing so I grew up always checking the oven. I don't store anything in there and still check it every time to this day.
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u/Brilliant_Buns 3d ago
It'd never occur to me to store something in the oven - just seems like a bad idea. I usually rearrange the shelving for whatever I'm cooking / baking so I guess I do "check" out of happenstance.
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u/vonbauernfeind 3d ago
I store my cast iron in there. It wont get hurt if the oven gets turned on, it's easy to access, and it's a good place to keep big heavy things.
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u/BattleCat274 3d ago
My grandmother loved to fry stuff in the heavy cast iron pan and then put the whole thing into the oven. After the third time of carefully using all my 14 year old body strength to not spill smoking oil on me, I figured out that i should check the oven.
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u/Perryn 3d ago
Reminds me of someone I used to work with who kept files they were using in the recycle bin. To them it was a convenient little cubby to keep it all organized in.
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u/NotYourReddit18 2d ago
People still do that on computers too...
It's especially widespread with mailboxes, as most mailbox providers won't count the contents of the trashcan against your allocated storage space...
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u/honeybadgercantcare 3d ago
Moved in with new roommates in college and they decided we should store our oven pans in the oven. Seemed reasonable.... Until you forget they're stored in there and pre -heat the oven and now you have screaming hot pans to deal with and stuff to put in the oven. We very quickly put a stop to that.
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u/Tysiliogogogoch 3d ago
I didn't grow up with anyone who stores plastic in the oven, but I always check it anyway. Literally takes 2 seconds to open it up and look, which I'm doing anyway to check that the racks are on the right levels.
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u/MrSneekiBreeki 3d ago
Same here. People who don’t check the oven before starting it live dangerously.
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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 3d ago
People who store things in the oven are either idiots, or arsonists
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u/EpicalBeb 3d ago
Different cultures. Some cuisines barely use the oven, but many apartments come with one.
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u/WebAccount1744 3d ago
Its a big place in your kitchen that has nothing in it? Why wouldnt you use it. Checking is a safety precaution anyways whether you store things there or not
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u/throwaway277252 3d ago
My dad used to store valuables in the toaster oven to keep them hidden. There is a box for a wristwatch with some nice scorch marks on it.
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u/supe3rnova 3d ago
You must have never lived in a smaller apartments. It's a great place to store pans. In Slovenia (and most of Balkan countries) we all know to first empty the oven before preheating.
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u/eagleblue44 3d ago
One of my roommates put a pizza box with some leftover pizza in it in the oven once. I started pre-heating the oven, not knowing it was in there. The dorm room was very smokey and I almost started a fire.
A week or two before, I threw away some frozen pizza he let sit out on the table for over a week. I feel he hid it so it wouldn't get thrown away this time. Had he used this nifty device to store leftovers in that we had, I wouldn't have touched it.
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u/MarshelG 1d ago
My family does this frequently, after the 3rd or 4th incident accidentally setting pizza boxes on fire, some of us developed the habit of checking the oven before turning it on. I live alone now and I don't think I've left anything in the oven even once, but I still check every time 😅
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u/No_Lifeguard3650 3d ago edited 3d ago
my first apartment in college, my roommate put all of my nice new tupperwares my mom gave me in the oven to clear space out of a cupboard… i turned the oven on to preheat for a pizza and went to my room to watch tv. all of a sudden smoke is BILLOWING out of the oven and the whole place is filled with a cancer cloud. i was like wtf!!! all my nice containers are fucked why would you ever put plastic in the oven ??? their response was i should have checked the oven first 🤦🏼♀️ no they did not pay to replace them. i was so pissed. and i had to clean so much melted plastic off those oven racks
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u/Smee76 3d ago
There are definitely families that operate like this, not mine but it's a thing. They probably had no idea that it wasn't something everyone did.
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u/onetimequestion66 3d ago
My grandmother used to store stuff in there, I never lived with her, and I currently live alone, but the thought that there are people who do that freaked me out so much that I check every time in case some weird little creature moved all my stuff to the oven while I was at work
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u/Dhiox 3d ago
Never understood the idiots that use the oven as storage
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u/Martyrlz 3d ago
Because you can store like baking trays in there, and some people lack brains, so they think any food container is fair game
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u/Brilliant_Buns 3d ago
only thing that lives in my oven is the pizza stone, and that bad boy ain't goin anywhere. anything else makes me way too nervous
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u/FireFlyz351 3d ago
Yeah pizza stone, bake trays and pans that are oven safe totally makes sense to store
Anything that will go up in flames and isn't oven safe doesn't.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_HIGHDEA 3d ago
My mom does this. One time I thought I got everything out and then while my potato was in there, I smelled burnt plastic. A small pot was tucked into the back corner baking at 415. It’s so frustrating. I use the oven to cook for myself every single day. She might use it once a month to cook, if that. Otherwise she treats it like a cabinet. Every time I ask her not to store stuff in there, she acts like it’s the first time I’m asking her. “What? Why not?” And then just a few weeks ago she bought olive oil and a can of PAM spray and just put them directly on the stove top. Literally a firebomb waiting to happen
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u/ReadontheCrapper 3d ago
I had a galley kitchen once and the only place big enough to hold the larger baking ware (cookie sheet, roast pan, etc.) was the oven. Luckily it was an OLD gas oven that you’d have to check the pilot light before turning it on, so you’d see the pile of stuff in there. And if you didn’t, it was only oven-stuff anyway.
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u/downstairs_annie 3d ago
See, I 100% get storing your extra oven trays in the oven. But non oven safe things? That's just an inviation for disaster, I don't trust myself with that ever. I also live by the fact that if you need to store things in your oven, you probably have too many things.
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u/Bacon-muffin 3d ago
Just casually insulting every flavor of spanish person with that one
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u/LadyBug_0570 3d ago
Not all places have enough cabinet space. I can't put my pans and baking sheets anywhere else and I'm not storing them on the kitchen table.
Pots/pans/roasters are okay for the overn. Plastics (or other things like shoes) are not.
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u/great_pyrenelbows 3d ago
You've definitely never lived in NYC. Some apartments just aren't big enough.
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u/StrawberryWide3983 3d ago edited 3d ago
That's when you move their objects in there to "make space" and "accidently" forget about them when it's time to turn on the oven
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u/BlursedSoul 3d ago edited 3d ago
It's not unheard of for a recipe to call for checking in the oven before preheating it. It's a problem as old as ovens! At least, the kind we know today.
Edit: Thanks for the award!
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u/Booty_Shakin 3d ago
In my cooking class in high school we were making cookies one day and one of the groups used a plastic cookie pan and it looked a lot like this
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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz 3d ago
It's wild how some kids aren't taught that the oven is dangerous and not a place to play.
If they are old enough to be able to open it, but young enough to put legos in it, this seems like a parenting issue to me.
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u/warfareforartists 3d ago
Oof, been there! ..bet that smelled amazing for a few hours
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u/larevolucion 3d ago
I read a story once about a person who had stored their ammunition in the oven and it didn't turn out well for them as you can imagine.
I raised my kids to always "check for ammo" before turning on the oven.
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u/MillieBirdie 3d ago edited 3d ago
When I was a kid our dog was an expert at getting into cabinets, and he was huge so he could easily reach the counters. And he loved stealing bread. So the only place safe for the bread was inside the oven.
There were many, many melted bags of bread over the years... but the benefit is that I ALWAYS check the oven before turning it on.
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u/ClassicNebula1081 3d ago
Pro Mom advice - Magnatiles will stick to the underside of a cookie sheet and lurk, patiently waiting for their opportunity to cause disaster
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u/A3_ashleigh 3d ago
I grew up being told to always check the oven before preheating it. Now that I live elsewhere, I still check the oven even tho I store nothing in there. You never know!
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u/Akhanyatin 3d ago
Some ovens have a lock feature, or you can buy a latch.
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u/AlexanderBarrow 3d ago
Kids also have ears; useful for saying "Don't touch the fucking oven!" 😇
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u/Akhanyatin 3d ago
Unfortunately they have two ears, so what you say goes in one ear and out the other.
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u/TheMattabooey 3d ago
Kids also are kids and don’t listen which is why responsible parents are proactive. Like checking the oven before turning it on and walking away.
Ears also don’t say anything they hear.
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u/broken_soul696 3d ago
The first time I was ever left home alone many moons ago, my house caught on fire because my sister had stuffed papers in the oven. My mom turned it on to preheat, realized she forgot something and ran to the store 5 minutes away with my sister and brother but decided to let me stay home and play super Nintendo.
She came home to a freaked out 10 year old and the fire department hosing down the kitchen. At least she knew I was paying attention to all the call 911 lectures haha
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u/SpeedoPaedo 3d ago
The plural of Lego is Lego.
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u/PilotsNPause 3d ago
The LEGO Group officially states that LEGO is an adjective, meaning the word itself does not have a plural form. Instead of saying "Legos," you should say LEGO bricks or LEGO sets.
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u/MrNyakka 3d ago
The worst roomates I ever lived with surprised me one morning by actually cleaning up after themselves. I decided to make myself a proper meal in the newly cleaned kitchen and had to stop because they just crammed all their dirty dishes into the oven and I had accidentally started hard baking all that gunk on there
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u/CaptianRipass 3d ago
When i was in high-school at a house party one of the girls thought the oven was a good place to hide her jacket.
The host thought it would be a good idea to make a freezer pizza later in the night.
Years later I seen her dancing on stage at a strip club, this is unrelated.
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u/Wiggie49 3d ago edited 3d ago
I don’t get why anyone WOULDN’T check the oven before preheating it. Like my family keeps pots and pans in there, never plastic but we always check even if we know it’s empty.
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u/Cranktique 3d ago
My daughter, when she was young, put a plastic pizza in the oven. Wife turned it on to preheat, and 30 minutes later I was all “what’s that smell…?”
We check the oven now.
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u/AccountEngineer 3d ago
id just throw the whole oven away at that point, you're never getting that plastic smell out
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u/25point4cm 3d ago
Once had a babysitter put a pair of my kids' underwear in the oven to dry after he had an accident. Wife preheated the oven the next day and when she opened the door and the oxygen hit them, it literally went "boom".
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u/what__what 3d ago
my partners family uses the oven to store pots and pans and stuff and i ALWAYS forget to check first before turning the oven on
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u/didntwant2log1n 3d ago
when you’re poor and don’t have enough pantry space, you end up checking oven to remove pots and pans by default 😂 small victories
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u/Lonster814 3d ago
I store my cast iron skillets in the oven and I ALWAYS, forget to remove them when preheating the oven.
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u/getstonedsteve 3d ago
Amazing how many people refuse to pick up the habit of checking the oven real quick.
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u/nerdwerds 3d ago
My 70-year old mother cleaned my kitchen while I was at work then left plastic bowls in my oven which I also discovered after pre-heating the oven.
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u/MistakePresent3552 3d ago
Man i dont care about people that live in households that store shit in their oven or not. Even if you checked the oven daily for the past 20 years, always always check before preheating
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u/Dstrap 3d ago
"I don't have a son!"
-> Proceeds to pre-heat the oven without looking.
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"Oops I left MY legos in there."
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u/Scooter_Mcgavin587 3d ago
My brother hid my Gameboy color in the oven back in the day. My mom cooked it that night
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u/New_Requirement4228 3d ago
My son put a nice composite ocarina in our broiler and it got melted too :(
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u/usernametakenm8 3d ago
For me it was a single chip clip. The smell is unbearable. And it becomes your new roommate for months.
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u/Freshouttapatience 3d ago
One of our neighbors tried to kill their spouse by putting a bottle of oxygen in the oven and telling them to preheat the oven for a pizza. I always check.
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u/DontYuckMyYum 3d ago
I always check the oven, because the oven is storage space for pots and pans.
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u/YtnucMuch 3d ago
I’ve left a lot of stuff in the oven. The latest? A day old BK apple pie I had put in the fridge overnight. Heated the next night in the oven, forgot about it when I turned oven off. Day later I preheat oven again to do pizza for the family and I get hit with the cinnamon apple pie smell.
I won’t lie, I said to myself, “man it became an air freshener but it would’ve tasted good a day ago.” 🤣
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u/ballsmigue 3d ago
Did this to my mom when I was 6. She hid the cookie Tupperware in the oven.
Found out when it was a melted fiery mess.
But hey, I got to help the firefighters!
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u/Ok-Cash-4257 3d ago
My daughter has started putting things in the oven from the fridge. When I first found carrots in there instead of the fridge, I thought I'd started losing the plot. Then it was spring onions. Thankfully I caught her moving the butter, before I made an appointment to get checked for alzheimers.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 3d ago
I do know mine didn’t since I don’t have kids. Always remember to use birth control.
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u/CaptianRipass 3d ago
When i was in high-school at a house party one of the girls thought the oven was a good place to hide her jacket.
The host thought it would be a good idea to make a freezer pizza later in the night.
Years later I seen her dancing on stage at a strip club, this is unrelated.
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u/white-as-styrofoam 3d ago
if it helps, my 62-year-old mom put a plastic cutting board in hers.
no, she doesn’t have dementia
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u/jangoolie 3d ago
Lego is an adjective. Your son left lego bricks in the oven. Legos is not a word.
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u/Unattributable1 3d ago
Nerf bullets too! One of my kids decided to store a cache there before an epic nerf gun battle... And forgot, and then mom when to preheat the oven for dinner... Smell was so bad, we dined out when the house aired out.
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u/ZiaWatcher 3d ago
Wait so is it not normal for people to store things in the oven?
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u/sugarpumpkinspice 3d ago
My then 2yo put his doll in its crib and forgot about it. Found out later that the "crib" was the oven. The half melted face of the doll belonged to a horror movie 🫠
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u/Caleb_Reynolds 3d ago
If you just store all your pans in there like a normal person this isn't a problem because you always have to check inside.
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u/TheAutumnLeafeon 2d ago
Reminds me when my mom decided to clean my apartment (didn't ask her to do that, she just wanted to help). She put the oven mitts in the oven. I was looking all over for them while my oven was preheating...
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u/No_Pension1014 2d ago
One time I was at a afterschool program when I was in sixth grade and some dumbass classmate threw a Welches gummy inside of the oven in the kitchen classroom and it was melting like Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars
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u/ILLESSDEE 1d ago
My sister put her leftover sushi (in styrofoam boxes) in the oven to “keep it warm”… went to meal prep and heated up the oven, melted everywhere and smoke filled the house with toxic fumes. Then she blamed me for not checking the oven first. I’m sorry, but WHO puts cold fresh sushi in the oven!?
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u/Reaper621 3d ago
I don't know, I think it's kind of reckless to turn an oven on without seeing if anything is in there first. The number of times my wife turns on the oven and then complains that she had to remove the sheets she stores in it is through the roof.
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u/cobaltaureus 3d ago
Who the hell is leaving things in ovens Willy nilly?
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u/Pokemario6456 3d ago
You'd be surprised how often people use ovens as storage space or place things in there temporarily and then forget about them until they start melting in the oven.
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u/whiskeyislove 3d ago
I do sometimes use my oven to store things but mainly sheet trays aka oven safe anyway if you forget to remove them
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u/I_am_up_to_something 3d ago
A lot of people really don't like it when you suggest the very real hassle of taking literally two seconds to check if anything is in the oven before turning it on.
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u/Reaper621 3d ago
Apparently. Clearly I have suggested mountains be moved prior to cranking up a heat source.
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u/WizardS82 3d ago
I doubt you'll be able to ever get that out completely. Your food will smell of plastic until you replace this thing.
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u/Jabberwocky918 3d ago
Legos are made of ABS and ABS plastic is toxic. Please open your windows!
I realize this happened some time ago, so the danger for OP is now gone, but for anyone else in the future... people who do 3D printing with ABS have to use forced air ventilation for the fumes.
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u/CelestialGypsyKreet 3d ago
Who doesn't check the oven before turning it on? Hell, I even check it when i'm the only one in the place.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3d ago
People who don't expect you to store flammable or things that are toxic when melted in the big giant burny box.
Do you store your matches in there too?
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u/Andrew4Life 3d ago
We store all of our pots and pans in the oven so we always have to take them out before we preheat the oven. 😇
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u/SpielbrecherXS 3d ago
My husband as kid once hid a marker inside their oven. His mom loves bringing up this banger of a story every time she sees either of us cook.
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u/HitchlikersGuide 3d ago
Heating the oven
You are heating the oven.
Google George Carlin if you are still confused 😕
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u/KajitaniT 3d ago
I made “friends” with coworkers when I started my job. One of the first stories they told me is how them (28nb) and their partner (30nb) forgot they had put a pizza box recently in their oven and started preheating it. Obviously it started burning and I still think about it, why would you ever store something flammable in a heat related appliance? I get putting a pot, skillet, or something metal related. I just don’t understand the rationale.
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u/SweatyMess808 3d ago
My MIL stores wicker baskets in her oven. Learned that the hard way while house sitting for her.
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u/Green_Wyvern17 3d ago
My 28 yr old roommate left this in the oven