Thread: Should I go home to make sure I turned the stove off?

This morning I was cooking eggs and turkey bacon on low heat (#3, I think) and I'm trying to remember whether I turned off the burner. I think I did, but I'm not absolutely sure. Is this something that could cause a fire? Should I ask my supervisor if I can go home and check?

I don't know if it would cause a fire with nothing on or near it but being on all day would worry me and I'd be going nuts. So I would go home and check on it as fast as I could and get back to work; or have someone check it if someone else has a key.

Have someone else check it, that way if the flame has gone out it won't be you that gets hurt.

Just don't enter holding a

Originally Posted by govols

Have someone else check it, that way if the flame has gone out it won't be you that gets hurt.

Just don't enter holding a

Luckily it's an electric stove.

I usually find if I worry about not turning somthing off then I usually did turn it off. Without meaning to alarm you but the fat could ignite, more so if it was under the grill than a pan. If it gives you peace of mind then ask to go home to check. If he lets you go you could bring him back a bacon sandwich.

Originally Posted by Davidius

This morning I was cooking eggs and turkey bacon on low heat (#3, I think) and I'm trying to remember whether I turned off the burner. I think I did, but I'm not absolutely sure. Is this something that could cause a fire? Should I ask my supervisor if I can go home and check?

David, I am OCD so I would check, (that's just me, our housekeeper calls me Monk!)

Originally Posted by jambo

I usually find if I worry about not turning somthing off then I usually did turn it off. Without meaning to alarm you but the fat could ignite, more so if it was under the grill than a pan. If it gives you peace of mind then ask to go home to check. If he lets you go you could bring him back a bacon sandwich.

Mmmmm. Good point!

Another case of the virtue, but not law, of waiting till you can afford to have your wife stay home ;-)

And I see that since you're not a theonomist, your ethnic Jewish background is coming through in your choice of bacon

Originally Posted by NaphtaliPress

I don't know if it would cause a fire with nothing on or near it but being on all day would worry me and I'd be going nuts. So I would go home and check on it as fast as I could and get back to work; or have someone check it if someone else has a key.

Or you could just watch your house all day on Google earth to look for signs of smoke. (yes, I know it's not real time )

Originally Posted by TimV

Another case of the virtue, but not law, of waiting till you can afford to have your wife stay home ;-)

And I see that since you're not a theonomist, your ethnic Jewish background is coming through in your choice of bacon

I am a theonomist, and turkey bacon is good stuff! (although, and this is getting way , but: the best bacon ever was when I was a kid and my dad, brother and I would go backpacking, we would take canned bacon. Delicious! But, I can't find it anywhere any more. I think they stopped making it.)

From: http://www.canned-bacon.com/

NEWS/UPDATE*** 5/28/08
We're happy to announce that the new canned bacon is now available for sale. Bear with us while we update this site to show both products in a side-by-side comparison, but meanwhile you can find the Yoder's Canned Bacon for sale here;

Yum...

I'd rather be worried about a stove than what that stuff does to your arteries.

Originally Posted by Seb

From: http://www.canned-bacon.com/

NEWS/UPDATE*** 5/28/08
We're happy to announce that the new canned bacon is now available for sale. Bear with us while we update this site to show both products in a side-by-side comparison, but meanwhile you can find the Yoder's Canned Bacon for sale here;

Yum...

Wow! That is amazing! Thanks for the link, although I think I'll wait for the price to come down a bit before I buy some to try. It's at about $9/can right now.

Originally Posted by sastark

Originally Posted by Seb

From: http://www.canned-bacon.com/

NEWS/UPDATE*** 5/28/08
We're happy to announce that the new canned bacon is now available for sale. Bear with us while we update this site to show both products in a side-by-side comparison, but meanwhile you can find the Yoder's Canned Bacon for sale here;

Yum...

Wow! That is amazing! Thanks for the link, although I think I'll wait for the price to come down a bit before I buy some to try. It's at about $9/can right now.

That brought back memories. I used to buy that stuff in the 80s when I worked over in Iraq (yes, the Iraqis back then were free to buy pork and the government even made beer for general sale). "Product of Hungary" in English and Arabic--it was great comfort food, a bit of western culture in a strange land. You just had to look out for the occasional bone fragment.

Well, Davidius, I hope you got the stove situtation resolved. Long ago I once left the stove on with an aluminum coffee pot on it. I did not have second thoughts, or any thoughts at all.

When I came home I could not figure out the white haze in the kitchen. When I finally got to the stove and found the molten aluminum in the drip pan I realized I was inhaling aluminum oxide--which is not a good thing. What a mess. At the very least, I learned to stick with cast iron cookwear after that.

Originally Posted by TimV

Another case of the virtue, but not law, of waiting till you can afford to have your wife stay home ;-)

And I see that since you're not a theonomist, your ethnic Jewish background is coming through in your choice of bacon

Indeed, that's an advantage that I hadn't thought of. As to your second comment, at this point at least, I prefer to blame my choice of bacon on my weight background.

Originally Posted by Seb

Originally Posted by NaphtaliPress

I don't know if it would cause a fire with nothing on or near it but being on all day would worry me and I'd be going nuts. So I would go home and check on it as fast as I could and get back to work; or have someone check it if someone else has a key.

Or you could just watch your house all day on Google earth to look for signs of smoke. (yes, I know it's not real time )

That's the funniest thing I've heard (read) all day.


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Oh, and I just got back from the apartment. The stove was off.

Originally Posted by etexas

Originally Posted by Davidius

This morning I was cooking eggs and turkey bacon on low heat (#3, I think) and I'm trying to remember whether I turned off the burner. I think I did, but I'm not absolutely sure. Is this something that could cause a fire? Should I ask my supervisor if I can go home and check?

David, I am OCD so I would check, (that's just me, our housekeeper calls me Monk!)

Etexas,
You have OCD and a housekeeper?!?
Jim

Maybe Etexas can generate a poll to see what you should do (hmmm....15 of 20 think I should go home...)

Originally Posted by Pergamum

Maybe Etexas can generate a poll to see what you should do (hmmm....15 of 20 think I should go home...)

Originally Posted by sastark

I am a theonomist,

Say it ain't so Seth!

Originally Posted by Jon Peters

Originally Posted by sastark

I am a theonomist,

Say it ain't so Seth!

I call myself a theonomist, though I haven't worked out all the "kinks" yet. God's law ought to be the model upon which all human governments operate. That is how I take the "general equity" of the WCF to be interpreted.

Does that make me a theonomist?

Originally Posted by sastark

Originally Posted by TimV

Another case of the virtue, but not law, of waiting till you can afford to have your wife stay home ;-)

And I see that since you're not a theonomist, your ethnic Jewish background is coming through in your choice of bacon

I am a theonomist, and turkey bacon is good stuff! (although, and this is getting way , but: the best bacon ever was when I was a kid and my dad, brother and I would go backpacking, we would take canned bacon. Delicious! But, I can't find it anywhere any more. I think they stopped making it.)

Naw, they still make bacon. You may have to can it yourself, though.

Originally Posted by Thomas2007

Naw, they still make bacon. You may have to can it yourself, though.

Are you telling me to "can it"?

Forgive my tardiness in reply. Before noting that you did go home, I was planning to advise you not to do so. Those nagging "feelings" of not having done something are more characteristic of OCD than prudence. Say no to the voices in your head! Life will be more pleasant . . . at least after you get over the panic attacks, compulsive behaviors, irrational fears, persistent worries, nagging suspicions, thoughts that you cannot banish from your mind, etc. Hmmmmmm. On second thought, what does it hurt to check it out . . . just this time?

Originally Posted by DMcFadden

Forgive my tardiness in reply. Before noting that you did go home, I was planning to advise you not to do so. Those nagging "feelings" of not having done something are more characteristic of OCD than prudence. Say no to the voices in your head! Life will be more pleasant . . . at least after you get over the panic attacks, compulsive behaviors, irrational fears, persistent worries, nagging suspicions, thoughts that you cannot banish from your mind, etc. Hmmmmmm. On second thought, what does it hurt to check it out . . . just this time?

It would have been funny if I had read this before leaving, taken your advice, and come home to the smoldering ashes of my apartment building.

Originally Posted by sastark

I call myself a theonomist, though I haven't worked out all the "kinks" yet. God's law ought to be the model upon which all human governments operate. That is how I take the "general equity" of the WCF to be interpreted.

Does that make me a theonomist?

It at least means you tilt in that direction, but please, please don't tell me you think the South was right also???

Alas, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Originally Posted by Jon Peters

Originally Posted by sastark

I call myself a theonomist, though I haven't worked out all the "kinks" yet. God's law ought to be the model upon which all human governments operate. That is how I take the "general equity" of the WCF to be interpreted.

Does that make me a theonomist?

It at least means you tilt in that direction, but please, please don't tell me you think the South was right also???

Alas, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Listen here, yankee!

Did I mention I voted for Ron Paul, too?

Originally Posted by Theogenes

Originally Posted by etexas

Originally Posted by Davidius

This morning I was cooking eggs and turkey bacon on low heat (#3, I think) and I'm trying to remember whether I turned off the burner. I think I did, but I'm not absolutely sure. Is this something that could cause a fire? Should I ask my supervisor if I can go home and check?

David, I am OCD so I would check, (that's just me, our housekeeper calls me Monk!)

Etexas,
You have OCD and a housekeeper?!?
Jim

She is a VERY detailed Housekeeper! She replaces magazines, lamps, Bacarat, and Waterford pieces EXACTLY where they were after she does her dusting.

Originally Posted by etexas

Originally Posted by Theogenes

Originally Posted by etexas

David, I am OCD so I would check, (that's just me, our housekeeper calls me Monk!)

Etexas,
You have OCD and a housekeeper?!?
Jim

She is a VERY detailed Housekeeper! She replaces magazines, lamps, Bacarat, and Waterford pieces EXACTLY where they were after she does her dusting.

Does she have OCD as well?

Originally Posted by Theogenes

Originally Posted by etexas

Originally Posted by Theogenes

Etexas,
You have OCD and a housekeeper?!?
Jim

She is a VERY detailed Housekeeper! She replaces magazines, lamps, Bacarat, and Waterford pieces EXACTLY where they were after she does her dusting.

Does she have OCD as well?

I would never ask her that! She might quit! I DEPEND on her to go after cobwebs and dust-bunnies! (She once killed a spider for me,when Megan got home, well, I took credit.) Sorry that was my Sacrament Of Confession. What is my Penance PB.

Originally Posted by etexas

Originally Posted by Theogenes

Originally Posted by etexas

She is a VERY detailed Housekeeper! She replaces magazines, lamps, Bacarat, and Waterford pieces EXACTLY where they were after she does her dusting.

Does she have OCD as well?

I would never ask her that! She might quit! I DEPEND on her to go after cobwebs and dust-bunnies! (She once killed a spider for me,when Megan got home, well, I took credit.) Sorry that was my Sacrament Of Confession. What is my Penance PB.

Catch and kill five spiders barehanded, saying 'Hail Mary'

Originally Posted by etexas

(She once killed a spider for me,when Megan got home, well, I took credit.) Sorry that was my Sacrament Of Confession. What is my Penance PB.

For which one?

Taking the credit? or for having a girl kill a spider for you?

What I would like to know is if his house burned down or not?

Originally Posted by Seb

Originally Posted by etexas

(She once killed a spider for me,when Megan got home, well, I took credit.) Sorry that was my Sacrament Of Confession. What is my Penance PB.

For which one?

Taking the credit? or for having a girl kill a spider for you?

OUCH! That hurt so bad I feel absolved of further penance! In FAIRNESS I have a pet cat, she LOVES me, puts up with the dog, tolerates my wife, but LOATHES Viv. (our housekeeper), anyway Viv. was once running the vacuum upstairs and began to SCREAM , Upshot: She had bumped Kami with the vacuum, and Kami was chasing her around my desk! I had to scoop her (the cat not Viv. ) up in my arm and carry Kami (feisty, hissing, and spitting) downstairs to our bedroom suite. For you non-cat owners this may not seem like much, for cat owners here, tip your hats to me! That was rather brave: an angry cat in the arms is like a buzz-saw! (My best friend used to date a vet, she told me: "You can control a big dog, just handle the head and neck and keep a hand on that collar. Cats are different! They use their whole bodies, they are like eels! I have been chased around the exam table by cats before!"

My vet calls my cat Crankerina!

Originally Posted by turmeric

My vet calls my cat Crankerina!

We call Kami Madam Feisty.

Originally Posted by etexas

Originally Posted by Seb

Originally Posted by etexas

(She once killed a spider for me,when Megan got home, well, I took credit.) Sorry that was my Sacrament Of Confession. What is my Penance PB.

For which one?

Taking the credit? or for having a girl kill a spider for you?

OUCH! That hurt so bad I feel absolved of further penance! In FAIRNESS I have a pet cat, she LOVES me, puts up with the dog, tolerates my wife, but LOATHES Viv. (our housekeeper), anyway Viv. was once running the vacuum upstairs and began to SCREAM , Upshot: She had bumped Kami with the vacuum, and Kami was chasing her around my desk! I had to scoop her (the cat not Viv. ) up in my arm and carry Kami (feisty, hissing, and spitting) downstairs to our bedroom suite. For you non-cat owners this may not seem like much, for cat owners here, tip your hats to me! That was rather brave: an angry cat in the arms is like a buzz-saw! (My best friend used to date a vet, she told me: "You can control a big dog, just handle the head and neck and keep a hand on that collar. Cats are different! They use their whole bodies, they are like eels! I have been chased around the exam table by cats before!"

Even when they don't have claws, a mad cat can be very scary.

I made a note at the bottom of an earlier post in this thread, but I should've given it its own post for visibility' sake. So here it is.

THE APARTMENT DID NOT BURN DOWN! THE BURNER WAS OFF!

Originally Posted by Davidius

I made a note at the bottom of an earlier post in this thread, but I should've given it its own post for visibility' sake. So here it is.

THE APARTMENT DID NOT BURN DOWN! THE BURNER WAS OFF!

Originally Posted by Davidius

I made a note at the bottom of an earlier post in this thread, but I should've given it its own post for visibility' sake. So here it is.

THE APARTMENT DID NOT BURN DOWN! THE BURNER WAS OFF!

Hurray David! (you lucked out! as a newlywed, this COULD have been your first "Crisis Management" situation. You other married men know what I'm talking about! David, marriage is a GREAT thing, the crisis management....NOT much fun!