It Pays to Pay Attention
By MARILYN
@Marilynda1225 (83103)
United States
March 22, 2016 9:25am CST
Last night I wrote about not wanting to cook. But, since my family would be staving when they got home I really couldn't sit here guilt free and chat with you guys.
So, I put the chicken in the oven and came back here to the computer. Of course I got absorbed in what I was doing and wasn't paying attention to what was going on in the kitchen.
It seems that the chicken was spitting grease on the walls and bottom of the oven and the oven started smoking. By the time I realized what was happening the house was filled (both upstairs and downstairs) with smoke and the smoke alarms started blaring.
My family came home to baring smoke alarms, a smoke filled house and a half cooked dinner.
I learned my lesson and will have to pay more attention to what I am cooking while myLotting.
I'm sure there are many of you who can relate to being so involved in the computer that you are totally unaware of what is going on around you.
Lesson learned!
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43 responses
@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
Those alarms are good for fire but not so much when you know everything is under control and they won't shut off. I'm glad the fire dept didn't show up
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@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
22 Mar 16
I have not had any cooking disasters while myLotting ... mostly because I avoid cooking whenever possible.
I have had to reheat food in the microwave several times, though, because I was so absorbed in conversations on here that I forgot to eat what I had heated.
Maybe we should ask Top ( @topffer ) if he has any cooking while myLotting stories he would like to share.
I have had to reheat food in the microwave several times, though, because I was so absorbed in conversations on here that I forgot to eat what I had heated.
Maybe we should ask Top ( @topffer ) if he has any cooking while myLotting stories he would like to share.2 people like this
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
22 Mar 16
Set a timer any time you turn on the stove or oven. If you become distracted, the timer will yell at you before anything bad happens. You've cooked long enough to know how long things take, subtract a minute or two when you pick the time on the timer. Works for me!
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
23 Mar 16
@ElizabethWallace you're lucky you don't have to cook for anyone but yourself these days. I"m back to having a full house once again so dinner is usually cooked every night now
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
A timer wouldn't have helped in this instance @elizabethwallace as it was only halfway done when it started to smoke up the oven. Guess the skin was extra fatty and splattered on the oven walls
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
23 Mar 16
@Marilynda1225 Ouch. I don't bake like that in the oven anymore. There is only one of me living here, and I eat messy foods in restaurants. Let them deal with it. I only cook easy things now.
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The other day I wasn't even myLotting and I managed to blacken the bacon that was in the oven 
!@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
At least I'm not the only one who has burned food while myLotting
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
From now on I'll have to pay more attention to what I am doing
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@LadyDuck (472087)
• Switzerland
23 Mar 16
@Marilynda1225 I set the timer to 10 minutes and I check the food every ten minutes. In ten minutes the smoke do not invade the kitchen, you are in time to fix everything.
@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
I don't think a timer would have helped in this situation as the grease from the chicken splattered the oven and caused the smoke. It did give me a scare and I'll have to pay more attention from now on
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
Yes, the chicken was fine and we had a good dinner once we got the alarms to stop blaring and opened the windows to get the smoke out. Duh on me 
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
22 Mar 16
@Marilynda1225 One thing at a time there.Space it out
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
It's just too easy to get caught up here when reading interesting discussions
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
I don't have a laptop so I have to go into the living room where my desk is set up. Usually I'm aware when I'm cooking but last night was a wake-up call
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
Me too as it was a loud and blaring alert to my inattention to the oven. Believe it or not I'm deathly afraid of fire
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
22 Mar 16
When the smoke reaches the computer I react. Sad about the chicken! I was very hungry for chicken last night and all I found was one chicken leg in the freezer. I heated up the whole oven to cook that one little frozen chicken leg. I did add a sweet potato but it was one of those that never got soft even after an hour in the oven so I tossed it in the trash.I had my chicken leg and some cookies for dinner.
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
It's disappointing when dinner doesn't turn out good but I guess the cookies helped??
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
24 Mar 16
@Marilynda1225 Haha. Yep. The cookies helped. I was not too sorry to toss the sweet potato. I'm getting tired of those healthy spuds and really want a regular unhealthy white potato anyway!
@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
Actually the chicken was super crispy @asylum as it was only about half done when the grease started spitting on the inside of the oven and caused the smoke, So we had smoked chicken rather than crispy
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@LdeL0318 (6400)
• Philippines
22 Mar 16
@Marilynda1225 That's right. Good thing you have that in your house. Be very extra careful next time.
@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
22 Mar 16
I am very lucky and count my blessings that the smoke alarms alerted me before something terrible happened
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@allknowing (137905)
• India
22 Mar 16
I just put up a post about accidents in the kitchen. Yours is the 'mother' of all accidents
If we do not pay much attention to what we are doing in the kitchen there are bound to be accidents. It happend to me last night. I was watching tv and going...
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@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
23 Mar 16
That is a very smart thing to do, because then you avoid any temptation.
