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oyceterAm 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.
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.
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Sat, Sep. 8th, 2007 05:14 pm (UTC)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)*(no subject)
Sat, Sep. 8th, 2007 09:32 pm (UTC)Also, mmmm virtual samosas...