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Could have burned the house down

tccox
For some reason today I heated something up in a large skillet. Luckily, I empted skillet but I left eye on and put empty skillet on eye. I then went to town for couple of hours. When I opened front door, I knew something was wrong.

Went immediately to stove and saw problem. No harm done except ruined a perfectly good non stick skillet. I mean the non stick was bubbled up. Don't know if teflon burns but it sure stinks when very hot.

I made a very stupid mistake today that could have very easily cost me my house. Everybody, beware, It could also happen to you. Tom
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  • Jacob2008
    You ruined a pretty expensive pan.

    Good job



    [:D][:D][:D][}:)][:D][;)]Glad it ended like it did.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    I'm glad that it did not turn out to be worse than that! My wife almost burned our house down a couple weeks ago. She left one of those big candles with 4 wicks burning all night long and it had burned completely down by morning.
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  • 46270
    I left a cast iron on the stove, it fuzed to the element.
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  • Jacob2008
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    I'm glad that it did not turn out to be worse than that! My wife almost burned our house down a couple weeks ago. She left one of those big candles with 4 wicks burning all night long and it had burned completely down by morning.
    Those is supposed to last over 48 hours i thought...
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  • Sav99
    Glad to hear that all turned out alright TC. Did the same thing years ago. Scared the heck outta me. Now I won't even leave the house if the dryer is running.
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  • cce1302
    quote:Originally posted by Jacob2008
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    I'm glad that it did not turn out to be worse than that! My wife almost burned our house down a couple weeks ago. She left one of those big candles with 4 wicks burning all night long and it had burned completely down by morning.
    Those is supposed to last over 48 hours i thought...


    Did you forget your grammar over Christmas?

    Sorry Jake, I have a degree in English.
    [:p][:p][:p]
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  • jimdeere
    quote:Originally posted by cce1302
    quote:Originally posted by Jacob2008
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    I'm glad that it did not turn out to be worse than that! My wife almost burned our house down a couple weeks ago. She left one of those big candles with 4 wicks burning all night long and it had burned completely down by morning.
    Those is supposed to last over 48 hours i thought...


    Did you forget your grammar over Christmas?

    Sorry Jake, I have a degree in English.
    [:p][:p][:p]

    Give him a break, he's only 14. They haven't studied prepositions yet. (Those/that are prepositions, aren't they?)
    I passed out on the couch one afternoon with a cast iron skillet full of bacon grease cooking on the stove. My estranged wife's brother in law just happened to drop buy that day, else I'd have been a gonner.
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  • bobski
    everyones done it at least once in life. you just had yours. wait until your washing machine hose pops while on vacation and you flood the basement...or second floor.....then the first....THEN flood the basement.[:o)]

    need we go to the fireplace stories?[:0]
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  • tccox
    OK here's one on a candle deal. I used to have one of the large ones burning most of the time. I left one burning in the kitchen and it was in a LARGE metal container. Somehow there was a draft across said candle and it melted down one side. Filled up metal container on one side and continued to drip on floor.

    The two wicks that were exposed burned like mad and smoked up whole house. The air conditioner system sucked up soot and blew it in every room in the house. Basically, half the candle burned in a couple of hours and would probably have burned the house down had not the wax cooled as it dripped two feet to the floor.

    I don't leave candles burning while I am gone now. Tom
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  • iluvguns
    Count your blessings! That happened to my parents when I was about 2. They weren't that blessed. House burned down. Lost everything they owned. 13 years later we went through ANOTHER house fire. Lost everything again. To this day I am super cautious with fire around the house. My wife say's I'm anal about it. But after going through two (although I don't remember the first), it makes you that way!
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  • He Dog
    I have heard a stove burner called an "eye" before a few times, but rarely. I wonder if that is a regional expression, a rural expression or just what. I heard it only a couple of times in the mid-west and only once in the Southwest. Wonder where it comes from?
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  • Marc1301
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    I have heard a stove burner called an "eye" before a few times, but rarely. I wonder if that is a regional expression, a rural expression or just what. I heard it only a couple of times in the mid-west and only once in the Southwest. Wonder where it comes from?

    I've never heard it!
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  • FWAddit
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    I have heard a stove burner called an "eye" before a few times, but rarely. I wonder if that is a regional expression, a rural expression or just what. I heard it only a couple of times in the mid-west and only once in the Southwest. Wonder where it comes from?


    According to the Dictionary of American Regional English, "eye" can mean either the round lid on a wood stove or the hole the lid fits on. It is used mostly in the South and South Midland, and a map with the entry shows it from Virginia west to southeastern Arkansas and then down to the eastern two thirds of central Texas, with a gap in southern Louisiana where it's not used. There are scattered occurrences in other parts of the country.

    So what happened, apparently, is that the wood-stove usage transferred over to the element on electric stoves when people switched ranges. Interesting. I'm going to send excerpts from this thread to the editors of the Dictionary so they can add this definition in the next edition.
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  • zipperzap
    quote:tccox:

    For some reason

    ... are we getting on in years? Maybe time to give up the car keys? A homecare
    provider not far away?

    I've been immune from those kinds of issues - I just blame them on the kids and
    grandkids!
    [:o)]
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  • D1
    That's all we call 'em down here. Stove eyes.
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  • He Dog
    Thanks FWA, I think it an interesting bit of language. A woman I met here in the south west camps in a fifth wheel and says in the winter she just leaves one eye buring to keep it warm.
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  • Cubslover
    I left eggs boiling once and went outside. Windows were open and I heard a few "gunshots" inside the house. Went running in and saw the kitchen was covered. Scraped egg for a few hours.
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  • vicg1
    #1 cause of home fires: candles.
    #2 cause: cooking/unattended cooking.
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  • Gibbs505
    Lucky!!
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  • Queen of Swords
    Glad all you did was ruin a skillet!

    I pulled a bone-head move like that a few months ago. I also put on couple of eggs in water to boil, forgot about them and left the house.
    I did not know that an egg could explode with such force. I was cleaning up peices of egg from across the room, the next room, the ceiling....glad to hear I'm not the only bone-head!
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