Have you ever started a fire on the kitchen?
@LoveMyGuinness (69)
United States
February 12, 2007 10:34pm CST
I am pretty cautious about that. I remember when I was nine, my brother was in charge of preparing my lunch. He was trying to fry something and he left the kitchen to talk on the phone with his girlfriend. He forgot he had food on the stove, and the small pan he was using caught fire, so did all the kitchen. Luckily, our neighbours helped us immediately, nobody got hurt and it was nothing but just a story to tell. How about you? Any kind of "accidents" in the kitchen?
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@mayenskie (1307)
• Philippines
13 Feb 07
Accidentally, i almost. I decide to cooked beef steak one very late night because i don't want to wake up early the next day to prepare my youngest sisters packed meal to school for the next day. I dunno what happened i dozed off the next thing i knew the kitchen is full of smoke already and mom was shaking me to wake up. The beef all burned up and gone to waste. If the gas range hadnt been turned off for another few minutes it could have burn down the house.
I happened to burn part of my room before, accidentally trip over a candle and burned the curtains. It left a dark mark on the wall.
@LoveMyGuinness (69)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Candles...I love them, but it's true, you have to be careful with those too. When I was still living at my parents' house, I used to have candles burning in my room every single day. My mother came and checked every time to see if it was at a safe place and always kept an eye on them.
Good thing that fire situation didn' t go further than that!
@mjgarcia (725)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Ugh. Yes. A couple of months ago I had put oil in a pan to fry something. My daughter came in crying and I got side tracked. I heard a Whoosh and when I turned around the flames were a couple of feet high and hitting the bottom of the oven hood. I tried to remove the pan from the heat. It was too hot to take it outside so I set it on the floor. The flames had already ignited the grease trap in the oven hood. My kids were outside screaming and the neighbor man came in and put it out while I was calling 911. We did manage to get the pan outside. I ended up melting the linoleum floor. I scorched the surrounding cabinets. The white kitchen walls were smoke sooted. The flames had just begun to reach the ceililng when he put out the fire. By the time the fire department got there, it was out - but because I have cathederal ceilings and a loft - the smoke damage was clear upstairs. So far we have the walls painted, the flooring replaced, the smoke damage cleaned up. But we are having trouble finding cabinets. Ours are so old that we can't find any to match. So the company that the insurance hired wants to replace all of my upper cabinets instead of just the section that burned. I'm just ready for it all to be done and over with.
@LoveMyGuinness (69)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Oh my god! That must have been so scary!!! Good thing that the neighbors were there to help too, on situations like this sometimes we get kind of paralized and don't know what's best to do.
I remember when the fire at my house happened, all the rooms got smokey too, and everything on the kitchen has to be replaced: tiles, fridge cabinets... the good thing is that it looked better than what it was!
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@LoveMyGuinness (69)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Where you trying to play with the fire on the stove? It's true, when you are a little kid you don't really realize how dangerous thigs like that are.
@mikeymango (13)
• Canada
14 Feb 07
I have the habit of leaving the stove for an x amount of time sometimes and i totally forget i was cooking lol good thing there is always somebody in the house to remind me...but once there was nobody home and i set eggs on fire. The whole house was fillled with black smoke and i felt so stupid lol.
