Woe

[oyceter]

Am still at work and not sure when I will be heading home. Am also going to have to work through the weekend, sigh. Well, I knew this was happening, but it is still not fun.

Also, I have discovered today that samosas are flammable.

In other words: I would highly advise against reheating samosas in your toaster oven at 200 deg F while you go restart your computer. I finally noticed that the small popping noises and the faintly acrid smell of smoke wafting through the halls could not mean anything of the good. I ran to the kitchen, only to find the front glass door of my toaster oven completely blackened, smoke pouring everywhere. I'm rather amazed that no fire alarms were set off.

After staring slack-jawed, I vaguely remembered that you're not supposed to pour water on an electrical fire and reached over to unplug it. Popping noises continued to come from the sooty innards of the toaster oven. I freaked out. I didn't have anything large enough to cover the toaster oven with to cut off the air supply, and despite Alton Brown's multiple extortions to keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen... you all know the end to that sentence.

I then timidly opened the door of the toaster oven to find two very blackened samosas, one of which was merrily blazing away. I put it out with some water and thereby saved the house from burning down and me from having to answer embarrassing questions: "So, how exactly did the fire start?" "Well, you see, there was a samosa..."

In conclusion: samosas = flammable.

Comments

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Oh no!!!!

That completely sucks. *hugs you*

For future reference, baking soda works great for smothering fires like that. I always keep an extra large box or two around. It's safe to use on greasy items because it's dry. I've used baking soda on toaster fires and also small saucepan incidents and oven issues, etc. (My dad has unbelievably bad fire karma.)

Also, still at work? Yikes!

[oyceter]

I was rather startled, but now I'm just laughing. Because really! Samosa! On fire!

My co-worker found a newspaper with a front page story of a wildfire with tons of smoke and wrote "samosa" on top and left it on my desk, heeee.

Still at work today too.... And thanks for the baking soda tip! I have to remember that.

[justinelavaworm.livejournal.com]

Um, well, at least Pembleton exists . . .

[oyceter]

Mmmmm, Pembleton...

[justinelavaworm.livejournal.com]

I'm introducing Scott to the joys of Homicide right now. We're nearing the end of Season 3. He understands my Pembleton love.

[oyceter]

Oh yay! You guys are ahead of me now ^_^.

It is good that he understands the Pembleton love. I feel Pembleton should get much appreciation.

[justinelavaworm.livejournal.com]

He's so smart and beautiful and cantankerous and righteous and yummy. I loves him.

It's been glorious rewatching. I saw them when they first aired in Australia way back when and hadn't seen them since. Wow they stand up! Not as good as The Wire but still magnificent.

[oyceter]

I really need to watch The Wire! Maybe after I make my way through Homicide...

[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

*hugs*

I've got no words. Kitchen disasters terrify me.

[oyceter]

It was sort of scary! But now it's mostly funny, just because the image of a samosa on fire! O_o

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey. *sends virtual blueberries*

[oyceter]

Virtual blueberries!

Mostly I am amused now -- the smoke smell is gone, and I am left only with the indelible image of a samosa in flames.

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Yeep! I'm glad you're okay!

(Gross to hear about working through the weekend, too. >.<)

[oyceter]

Me too! And I think my toaster oven is also ok, despite being slightly blacker than it used to be.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the ranks of explosive toaster ovens. It gets kind of amusing after a while, but that's how I finally got a microwave. :-p

[oyceter]

Hee! It is rather amusing... I've exploded things in microwaves before (foil != good), but this is the first time I've actually had non-intentional flames int he kitchen.

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

flammale samosas,,,,, Well I have a similar experience with curry-pan (curry stuffed fried bread). I actually threw water inside the toaster oven but totally forgot to unplug it.

Just wanted to let you know, you ain't the only one...Oven toasters and fried goods don't go well, I suppose.

[oyceter]

Hee!!

OMG curry-pan! I miss Asian bakeries now... I used to have one for lunch every other day at the eki bakery when I was doing homestay.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

I have a similar story of toaster-oven-related stupidity resulting in flames. Fortunately, I didn't burn anything down, and that's all I'm going to say about that.

That's strange, though, 200˚ is a pretty safe temperature for reheating.

[oyceter]

Hee!

I thought 200 was ok too! And I swear, I was only gone for a little while..

[estara.livejournal.com]

At least you weren't stupid enough to read at night with the duvet over your head and draped artisticall over the metal lampshade so your parents couldn't see you were reading.


... I was lucky it was some sort of polyester filled stuff and it simply smurgled through the duvet cover and the duvet itself.

[oyceter]

Oh no! We had someone do something similar to that back in college, except it involved a comforter and a candle left burning while the guy went off to do his laundry.

We got the whole fire truck and everything, with the climax being the firefighters taking a smoldering, smoking blanket and dumping it ou.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my duvet and its slip smoldered, too, and I didn't realise until my mum came into the room and dragged it off me: She had smelled the polyester stuff smoldering, I hadn't even realised.

It was in an appartment holiday hotel in Italy. We still own that duvet, as my parents had to pay for the damages.

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Woe!

I tend to reheat my samosas in a frypan on the stove on low heat with a lid overtop, and I manage to forget and blacken them regularly, but I have not yet managed to catch them on fire. Which is good, because I do not have a fire extinguisher in my kitchen either. I think there's one a few steps outside the apartment door in the hallway of the building, but I'm not actually sure!

One time I had a stove fire while boiling water, because I hadn't realized that some oily stuff had ended up below the electric element. I kind of just stood there watching flames leap up around the sides of the pot and said in a very calm monotone to Tav: "Oh. Hey. There is fire." (It burnt itself out and we were all okay, we just had a blackened pot.)

*sends you some nice warm fresh samosas from the snack bar in the office building across the street (because they're virtual samosas and it doesn't actually matter that it's the weekend and I can't buy them today)*

[oyceter]

Hee! More samosa accidents!

Also, mmmm virtual samosas...

[cychi.livejournal.com]

Woah, craziness. I am glad you are okay. Buy some more at the farmer's market if work isn't too crazy.... actually if work is crazy, you really should go! Take a break. =)

[oyceter]

Hee, yes! I ended up getting five at the farmers' market and managed to eat two yesterday without setting anything aflame! I count this as a victory.