Post by Thia Halmades on Mar 3, 2014 12:20:24 GMT
This morning, a local Reston resident attempted to burn his own house down with a pizza box while thinking he was seasoning his cast iron. This reporter believes that this is actually either a case of arson, or cause for recall of all dual ovens.
"I didn't try to burn my house down! It was early and I didn't realize I turned on the top oven with last night's pizza in it!" he said in a statement earlier. This reporter knows better, so I asked him, did he smell the smoke?
"Of course I smelled the smoke, my house was filled with it -- I checked the lower over, and of course, it was not the cause, so I thought, errantly, in the way one only thinks before their second cup of coffee, that turning the heat from 400 to 350 had solved the problem. About that time the cats were starting to squint and it was getting pretty heinous." Why didn't he address it earlier, I asked?
"I covered this, I was trying to reseason my cast iron; which requires vegetable oil, or flaxseed oil, and a very hot oven. Not having done it before, I was uncertain what to expect. I thought I'd just crossed the smoke point for the oil, but instead, I discovered that I had incinerated a pizza box. When I opened the top oven, smoke billowed out, and the box was on fire. I was exceedingly lucky that I keep my cast iron griddle in there, so instead of trying to remove a burning box, I only had to remove the griddle, apply water for the paper fire, and then start cleaning up. All in all, traumatic, but not harmful."
"So you deny being an arsonist?"
"WHAT?!"
Yeah. Moral of the story: If you use a double oven, check which one you're engaging before wandering off to play videogames and wondering, distantly, where that smoke is coming from. Everyone is fine, the oven is fine, I'm fine, but it was not the best part of waking up.
"I didn't try to burn my house down! It was early and I didn't realize I turned on the top oven with last night's pizza in it!" he said in a statement earlier. This reporter knows better, so I asked him, did he smell the smoke?
"Of course I smelled the smoke, my house was filled with it -- I checked the lower over, and of course, it was not the cause, so I thought, errantly, in the way one only thinks before their second cup of coffee, that turning the heat from 400 to 350 had solved the problem. About that time the cats were starting to squint and it was getting pretty heinous." Why didn't he address it earlier, I asked?
"I covered this, I was trying to reseason my cast iron; which requires vegetable oil, or flaxseed oil, and a very hot oven. Not having done it before, I was uncertain what to expect. I thought I'd just crossed the smoke point for the oil, but instead, I discovered that I had incinerated a pizza box. When I opened the top oven, smoke billowed out, and the box was on fire. I was exceedingly lucky that I keep my cast iron griddle in there, so instead of trying to remove a burning box, I only had to remove the griddle, apply water for the paper fire, and then start cleaning up. All in all, traumatic, but not harmful."
"So you deny being an arsonist?"
"WHAT?!"
Yeah. Moral of the story: If you use a double oven, check which one you're engaging before wandering off to play videogames and wondering, distantly, where that smoke is coming from. Everyone is fine, the oven is fine, I'm fine, but it was not the best part of waking up.
