Another Kitchen Fire
By Bytemi
@Bytemi (1553)
United States
December 21, 2008 8:09pm CST
OK I think I am going to have to take cooking duties away from my husband. For the third time he has caught the stove on fire.
The first time was after we had been dating for 2 months. He decided to make dinner for my daughter (18 months old at the time and the first time he had met her). He placed pork chops in the frying pan it flamed up. I remember I was watching Barney with my daughter while he was cooking and I looked into the kitchen and he was running around with the flaming pan. It was funny now that I am looking back on it.
The second time was about a year ago, right after we had bought our house together. He was making Pork Chops again and did the same thing. I was watching TV with my daughter and I looked into the kitchen and saw the flaming pan again. I started laughing instantly, talk about history repeating itself.
This time it was cookies (Rosettes) which are like funnel cake but cookies. He placed one in the pan of oil, the oil spilled over and up came the flames. I walked into the kitchen just in time to see him, the 11 year old and the 4 year old, all staring at the fire.
Thank god our kitchen is made of bricks.
How about you, have you ever caught your kitchen on fire?
5 responses
@windchimebooks (314)
• United States
22 Dec 08
This is too funny. I can cook now but, like your husband, I had my share of mishaps in the kitchen in earlier days. Once I lived with roommates and one of them got the bright idea that we would take turns cooking dinner in the evenings.
Too bad she didn't think to ask if all of us could cook.
When it came my time I chose hot dogs, not a big challenge and I pulled that off. Where I went wrong was deciding to make a lemon cake with lemon icing, from boxes. How hard could it be? I followed the instructions on the box of cake mix precisely but when I opened the oven it looked like a big yellow souffle. I tried to test it with a fork, only to watch the fork sink into the hot soft mixture.
I decided to let it cook a while longer, hoping it would get done, and turned to read how to mix up the icing. Only to find the box of unopened cake mix only on the counter. I'd made a mistake and cooked the icing instead!
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@MizzWilliams33 (74)
• United States
22 Dec 08
This is hilarious...now I finally have something to tease Mr. Bytemi with!! Growing up we had more than a couple kitchen fires at our house. Two of them were started by my grandmother who was visiting...she put bacon on to make breakfast and then, because she probably has attention deficit disorder (like me, my mom and daughter all do---now I realize where we got it from!) she decided "I'm gonna go take a shower" and forgot about the bacon...nearly burned the house down. This happened twice and the other times I can't recall many of the details...except that my mom had this "Kitchen Witch" hanging---supposedly for good luck---and over the years she just got blacker and blacker from layers of grease and soot from those fires. Apparently nobody figured out she wasn't bringing much luck to our kitchen after all. LOL
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@Bytemi (1553)
• United States
22 Dec 08
I have to honestly say, knock on wood, I have never caught the kitchen on fire and I don't plan on doing it any time soon. The funny think is around 11:30 last night, Mr. Bytemi jumped out of bed slapping the bed and hopping around.
I rolled over and said "catch yourself on fire?" his response, "Yes". I just laughed and rolled back over and went back to sleep.
@stejhas (209)
• United States
22 Dec 08
Ha Ha Ha - This is a hilarious story! Maybe you should take skillets and cooking oil away from him... make him do his cooking INSIDE the stove from now on... at least then the fire will be contained to inside the oven! LOL
Speaking of that, I actually had a fire inside MY oven a couple weeks ago... the night before I had cooked pork chops in mushroom sauce and some of the sauce had boiled over, into the bottom of the stove... I didn't know it until the next day when I was cooking a pizza for my daughter... I went into the kitchen only to find smoke pouring out of the oven... opened it up and the bottom of the stove was on fire!
I was freaking out a bit and went to the pantry and grabbed corn starch to put it out... DUH!!!! Guess that's not the right "white powder" - oops! Only made the fire worse! Thank goodness my husband was home and could take over by pouring Baking Soda on it to put it out! (Geez, what a day that was!)
@FabHairWeave (197)
• United States
22 Dec 08
Thank goodness I never have. I would bug out. I'm not a cook and that would be enough to keep me out of the kitchen for good.
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