***Oh My Goodness! Do You Know What I Did Last Night?***

Well, how odd. I guess it wasn't a good day for carrots...because I did the exact same thing! My hubby and I were eating in front of the TV - chicken cordon bleu and mashed potatoes and pickled corn and the carrots were still cooking on the stove. Strange that we did the same thing on the same night.

On Thanksgiving day I was cooking a homemade Apple and Cherry Pie! I went to put the Cherry Pie into the oven and was talking to my mom on the phone at the same time. I took a oven mit and opened up the oven to move the rack up one space. I push the rack in and set the oven mit on the door so I could grab the cherry pie. I put the pie in and closed the oven door forgetting that I set the oven mit on the door. About 10 mins had gone by and my dogs started barking because there was smoke coming from the kitchen. I ran over and opened up the oven and there was the oven mit on fire in the oven. Well needless to say, I called my mom and she was laughing so hard at me she couldn't talk. Thank god my dogs alerted me....The joke at Thanksgiving dinner was everyone was excited to try some of my Chared Cotton Cherry Pie!! Both the pies were delicious!!! Shihtzumama

My former roomie's mom lived with us for a while and really pissed me off one day . I got into the shower after putting some rice on to cook and off goes the smoke detector, burned the rice!

No it's only you...Just kidding. I do this all the time myself. I usually start fixing some kind of dinner around 6, then while everything is cooking up, I putter on the computer (like I'm doing right now...and yes my dinner is cooking now)---I get so involved with being in front of the computer I loose track of time and......next thing you know I hear....sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...meaning the water in my veggies has reduced and my veggies are burning--thank goodness I have good hearing..LOL. My mother was a disaster...and dangerous. Since you read my other discussion you know the crap I went through with her. Don't ask how many times I be out for awhile and come home to something seriously burning. One night for instance I was coming home from the library. I'm walking up the stairs to the second floor to my apt, and I'm thinking to myself, gee, it smells like something is burning. I opened the door and it was so smoky you couldn't even see in. My mother had put on a large stock pot filled with water to boil up chicken..the water completely reduced and the chicken was a charcoal mess...this happened in the middle of winter, yet I rushed in and opened all the windows to let the smoke out. What was my mother doing while this was happening...sound asleep. She only woke up when I started yelling at her about what had happened..Had I not come in when I did, no doubt a real fire could have started...ah, more fun with mom...NOT

it happens when you are young too! back in my wilder, single days i came home drunk as a skunk and stuck a pizza in the oven. 8 hours later i woke up with a stench of burning. when i opened the oven door it had reduced in size by 2/3rds and was black and solid. made a great frisbee! i got lucky that night. i have a scare on my leg from 16 years ago when i fell asleep in front of the gas fire after drinking all day. luckily the gas meter ran out of money and had went out as my leg was burnt through several layers of skin. c'est la vie!

Oh my goodness well at least everything ok, and no one was hurt, thankfully Iv never had that happen to me, but accidents do happen from time to time, but the important thing is that your ok. dont feel to bad because everyone makes mistakes.

i'm so sorry to hear about your carrot... but don't worry too much because i had done it in the past as well... that's why now i always set up the timer when i am cooking if i have to leave the kitchen to remind me... it really helps me a lot because i never burn the food that i cook anymore ever since i use the timer... take care and have a nice day...

I never have burned something on the stove yet.. not food anyways. but i have a habit of turning the wrong element on when i turn on the stove.. i'm burner dislexic or something. . I have placed something on the burner and then turned the burner on and made a giant mess.. most recently a plastic lid to a tupperware container. . gross. you thought your carrots smelled bad.. i'm wondering if my plastic smelled worse.. lol it was smoking. and its probably still melted onto the burner i moved out and a friend mvoed in haha.

In the winter I boild water in a teapot (metal one) on the stove to get moisture in the air...seems to keep the house warmer....there has been a few times when I have been self absorbed and forgot and let it burn dry....the worst is the hot smell of metal...so no...you are not alone....but my detector hasn't went off yet...I can usually smell the hotness before it gets that far! LOL....so...how were the carrots? LOL

I was going to boil some eggs one time and I put the water on to boil and got side tracked by a TV show I was watching. The pot was scortched really bad and it stunk really bad. Ever since then my family teases me that I am the only one who can burn boiling water.

Never fear Kashmere! It happens to all of us. I just stay in the kitchen or set the timer so I don't forget. Otherwise I would have burned my house down several times over! I suppose it could be a sign that I should give up cooking and hire a personal chef! Have a great one!

I actually do stuff like this every now and then. I am forgetful sometimes. I have forgotten about simple things like toast or boiling eggs.

so....it seems most people have the experience that forgot the cooking or boiling at the kithcen meanwhile do other things at the living room. we can't remember what we've done a half at the kitchen until we come back to the kithen again. i also have lots of times that forget the boiling water when i found it again, the water has boiled up and then boiled the pan hot to red...it's horrible to remember that...be careful next time.

I actually burned up a water kettle on the burner once. That was scary. Everybody does something stupid once in awhile. You're not alone.

im only 34 and i do that every great once in a while! the last time i did it was a year ago and it was rice. i didnt even try to clean the pot it was so burnt, i just cooled it with water and threw the whole thing out! i also have a bad habit of forgetting the cast iron skillet on the stove under a low flame when im drying it after washing. if i dont stand there and stare at it until all the water evaporates then i forget..i mean just putting it on the flame and then stepping 1 foot to the sink to finish rinsing whatever dishes are left and it just goes flying right out of my head!

I've done the same thing in the past but in my case there was FIRE coming out of the pan and around the pan so my daughter called the fire department. Since she was a new volunteer they sent every truck they had, sirens blaring so I was truly embarassed when they pulled up in front of my house and the entire neighborhood came out to see what was going on. The fire was out by then and I've tried to be more careful ever since....but.....

When I was married to my first husband he got home really late. I always liked to have dinner hot, so I would cook late. One night I was making a meatloaf, and since I did not have to tend to it too much, I decided to take a little nap. Well, I woke up to a house full of smoke two hours later. The meatloaf was ashes, and the casserole dish was totally black. Needless to say, no one had meatloaf that night

When I seen this topic my first thought was...I bet her house smelled good! LOL I left a pot roast on the stove one time that cooked dry while I was cutting grass outside. My kids came screaming "The house is on fire" and I took off running (something I hadn't done in 15 years at least) to find my pot roast burnt to a crisp. There was plenty of smoke with my incident and I like to have never got that smell out of the house. Finaly ended up setting glass bowls of bleach all throguh the house to get rid of it! LOL Good thing it was summer so I could open th doors and windows.LOL Be careful and hope you get to enjoy the carrots next time! LOL

dont worry ur not the only one who has done this my cae was even worse and i am not lieing..i left the pot on the gas and went with the kids to the park when we came back after 1hour we saw a firebrigade near our house and i said "how stupid someones probably left the pot on" i was only joking but when i saw my front door being broken down and all the smoke coming out well i am sure u gussed who the joke was on...so next day i cooked more chicken curry not the same pot and took it to my local fire station...