Adam and I moved recently and we've been getting all settled into our new apartment, and we haven't been doing much cooking (plus, I really love frying pans, so almost everything I have cooked has been a stove top meal). We did do a trial run with a batch of muffins a week or so ago just to test the oven. Well, it worked fine, other than that something appeared to be burning and we set off the smoke alarm. Well, we figured the previous tenants had spilled something up and not cleaned up very well--especially since they didn't exactly clean the rest of the apartment very well. We didn't see any large spills, so I dismissed as being something small that would be taken care of in this one experience.
However, this morning, I decided to throw some food in the oven, figuring I'd get something cooking while I blow-dried my hair. However, as the oven was preheating, the smoke detector went off again, much to my frustration. After opening windows, taking the battery out of the smoke detector, and being incredibly frustrated, I turned to investigate the oven. I still couldn't see anything inside the oven, so then I pulled out the drawer beneath the oven--and was quite surprised to see a red glow. Every oven I've ever used before has some sort of plate or something below the coils of the oven...but apparently not this one! My silicone pans were starting to burn, so, as I tried not to freak out, I turned off the oven and started pulling them out of the drawer. In the process, I managed to touch one of the pans to the coil and set my pan on fire! Luckily, it was small and the sink is two feet away, so things all worked out in the end...other than the fact that I scared myself nearly to death and have no desire to use my oven ever again.
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Did your pan get ruined, too?
The pan actually survived...and I have used the oven (somewhat nervously) since, so there has been no lasting damage.
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