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!

[justinelavaworm.livejournal.com]

Um, well, at least Pembleton exists . . .

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

*hugs*

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

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey. *sends virtual blueberries*

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Yeep! I'm glad you're okay!

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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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)*

[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. =)