belated PSA

[psocoptera]

If you are cooking at someone else's house, check their oven before preheating to make sure they don't use it for storage. Especially, say, things in plastic bags. ::facepalm::

(We're all okay! And there wasn't even a fire or anything!)

Less urgently, large casserole dishes take a *long* time to fully reheat. And gallon ziplocs would have made the division and repacking of the leftovers much simpler.

Overall, though, I declare glorious Thanksgiving victory: food was et, family was seen, Junie requested and received a zillion bites of "mashed tayos" and may or may not have learned the word "shankful".

(I am shankful there was no actual fire. Oh. My. God.)

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[tirerim.livejournal.com]

There was an actual fire in our building today, as one of our neighbors spilled some grease in her oven. No harm done, though, other than to our ears from the alarm, and a good bit of smoke in the back stairway. Also, we have learned that the Somerville fire department is quite prompt.

[crystalpyramid]

People tell me I'm not supposed to store extra cookie sheets and pie pans in my oven, and I listen or ignore them, depending on available cabinet space. The worst that happens with cookie sheets, though, is I burn my fingers removing them from an oven I forgot they were in. Who stores plastic in an oven?

[irilyth]

In this case, my 90-year-old grandmother, who never uses the oven to actually cook anything...