Kitchen Fire!

I have not used a convection oven, I would first suspect Alzheimers or another form of dementia, in his mother. If the oven turned on by itself he probably has faulty electrical wiring in his home.

I'd guess that mom might've turned it on, by accident maybe, and not remembered. When I was much younger the little old lady in the apartment down the way from us waved me in to her place in a panic. Her burner was red hot and she didn't know why. Some how she had turned it on high and forgotten how to turn it off. We really liked her, but her idiot son put her in a nursing home.

Actually it is easy sometimes to turn a oven or stove on if it has knobs on the front and you brush up against them. I actually turned my grannies gas stove on many time doing this and never realizing it till we smelled gas. I have had fires start it is usually because of grease though. I have also accidently melted things on my stove top but it never caught fire.I am just glad it was caught in time and he had a home and mom to go home to.

Wow--- glad they found it before it got worse. Could have lost their whole house right? Good thing he came in when he did. I haven’t ever had a kitchen fire- I’ve had my towel catch on fire when I wiped off the burner- Duh me. I’ve never known an oven to turn on by itself. Could be she just forget she did.

Whew1 that was close. I am glad everyone is okay. Send both of them my love. I have only had regular gas ovens. Convection ovens seem scary now.

I am emberessed to say I had an oven fire before. The bigest problem was I kept a pot of frying oil in my oven and my frying pans. I was in a hurry and locked the oven and put it on to clean. Well when the oven reached a certain degree the handles on the frying pans started a fire. I was so scared of the oil in the oven. I tried to open it and couldnt, good job because the air would have fueled it more. I turned the oven off and caled the fire dept. It was actually almost out by the time they came but didnt want to take the chance with the oil inside. My kitchen walls were black and greasy. What a mess. At your boyfriends probaly his mom switched it on and forgot, but you wont really know. Good luck.

I have never had a fire start like that before.Is the knob on the oven on the bottom? I have had instances when I or someone else has accidentally bumped it and it turned on and we did not realize it till later.I have never had my oven catch on fire.One time on my electric stove top,some vegetable oil had spilled down the side of the pan and the pan caught fire.Luckily I happened to walk back in the kitchen when I did and I quickly filled a large cup with water and just put it out.Thank God that no one was hurt and there was not more damage.Your boyfriend should be thankful,he only had 2 hours of mess to clean-up,it definitley could of been worse.

I'm glad everything turned out OK, I mean I'm glad no one was hurt. I have never heard of an oven turning itself on. Unless the wiring short circuited I would imagine his mother thought she turned it off, but maybe she didn't turn it completely off. I don't know what her oven looks like, but a lot of ovens have knobs that if you aren't careful, it won't be turned off completely, even though it appears to be shut off.

Wow, Good thing they were able to help it right away and it didn't cause a lot of damaged! I have not heard about that winterose but, I experienced almost burning our kitchen too..I didn't notice that I set 25 minutes in warming up a BBQ and it was smoking a lot and good thing my husband was able to notice it...I was in the room ironing his clothes, trying to do 2 things at the same time..LOL!

Hi Sweet I have never heard of it but they could have been a short or something could have been pushed against it enough to start it. The smell must have been awful with that plastic! I hope they didn't breath alot of it..especially bad for elderly. xoxoxoxoxo

Seems rather odd to me. If the convection oven did just start a fire on its own, I'd be getting in touch with the manufacturer to report it.

I have a convection oven, which is great for baking potatoes and grilled cheese open face sandwich. I keep it plugged in at the outlet. The dials have to be set for the time and temperature needed, and a buzzer goes on after the food is broiled or baked. It should be turned to "Off." I have occasionally taken out the rolls or pizza and forgot to turn the temperature knob off. Nothing has happened, thank G-d. I don't let my father (94 next week) use the oven or the stove because he is forgetful, and I'm afraid he might burn up a pot, pan, food, or himself. Whenever I go out I pre-arrange for an "elder nanny" come in to make him lunch or dinner.

I have never heard of a covection oven turning on by itself. You manually have to turn it on. It sound like she was trying to cover thigs up by saying that. I don't want to sound mean here by any means but if she is doing stuff like this and claiming she's not it's very possible altimehers is setting in for this is what happens with this disease. Has this happend with other things in the past that things have happend and she said it did it by itself? Your boyfriend is very lucky to have caught that in time for god only knows what would have happend if he wasn't their and the whole place caught in flames. He should have her looked into for that. I know he cares about his mom and takes care of her but he also can't be haveing this kind of stuff go on like this either. I haven't had a fire with any kind of oven that I have had.

good day..well, not in an oven exactly but on a stove. i forgot that I was boiling water in a pot and it almost evaporated altogether. Such a waste and very hazardous.

oh my. No a stove cant turn its self on! and things on top of stove sounds reasonable that they could start a fire after a long time of the oven being on!

Oh my, I never heard of a convection oven turning on by itself, especially if it's plugged in. At that lovely age, your memory slips. Heck, I'm 32, and my memory isn't the best anymore. I honestly feel bad for your boyfriend. That had to be a pain to clean up the peanut butter. Hopefully, it didn't ruin the oven. Only time I had a fire was with the stove top. Luckily, I remembered that salt puts out a fire. His mom has to face facts that it's time to stay out of the kitchen and let her son run things. My grandmother is 86, and lord forbid any of us tell her how she does things. She broke her arm one year, because she thought she could stand on a swing to hang a plant. I do hope I have her spunk at that age. I thought from reading your discussions, that you and your boyfriend lived together. Boy was I ever wrong.

Is the oven controlled by knobs? Another possibility is something bumped into it and turned it on unintentionally. I think that would be harder to do with digit al controls, where you have to firmly push buttons - though something inside my microwave oven popped one time when I pushed the start button

I haven't had a fire start like that before but at least he got home in time before it got really bad. I haven't heard of a converction oven starting up on it own before, but there is a first time for everything. Anyway I'm glad that things are fine and his mother it ok. That is the good part of the whole thing.

Hi! I have an electric oven. Left it on the whole night. Nothing happend, but it was very warm in the kitchen,LOL! I take it there are no ghosts in the house?

I have never heard of one turning on by itself.. Mybe his mom had forgotten to turn it off, if so, could she be getting forgetful.. I hope he will keep an eye on her just in case she is getting forgetful, as it could be dangerous.. I am so glad that the only bad thing was the 2 hour cleanup..