More fiery death *sigh*
Feb. 7th, 2009 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgEarlier this evening I got all adventurous and tried to oven-roast some chickpeas. Although the recipe called for up to an hour in the oven I took a peek after about 10 minutes. In my smoke-filled kitchen with frightening orange light in the oven. Eeek.
ETA: Now with added image, because last night all the camera batteries were flat.
Turns out the scary light was only the oven light, but there was a fair old bit of smoke going down. Turned things off, opened windows, set extractor fan to warp speed and waited.
Once everything had cooled down I looked in the oven and saw some gunge down the bottom, and assumed I'd failed to clean up a spill from one of the rare occasions we've actually used the thing (Beige food and new kitchen happened at about the same time, so most of the things I'd previously baked or roasted were no longer on the menu). So, in the mood for action I pulled out the shelves and prepared to wipe it up.
And then noticed that the gunge appeared to be inorganic, and in a strangely regular pattern, not unlike the heating element inside the base of the oven. Which I've never really got the hang of. Perhaps I've violated some arcane rule of usage (wrong permutation of temperature/mode/shelf/tray type?) but I'm not using that thing again until it's been seen by a professional. Another one :-(
I really wish my house wasn't trying to kill me with quite such enthusiasm.
BTW Roast chickpeas, nice.
ETA: Now with added image, because last night all the camera batteries were flat.
Turns out the scary light was only the oven light, but there was a fair old bit of smoke going down. Turned things off, opened windows, set extractor fan to warp speed and waited.
Once everything had cooled down I looked in the oven and saw some gunge down the bottom, and assumed I'd failed to clean up a spill from one of the rare occasions we've actually used the thing (Beige food and new kitchen happened at about the same time, so most of the things I'd previously baked or roasted were no longer on the menu). So, in the mood for action I pulled out the shelves and prepared to wipe it up.
And then noticed that the gunge appeared to be inorganic, and in a strangely regular pattern, not unlike the heating element inside the base of the oven. Which I've never really got the hang of. Perhaps I've violated some arcane rule of usage (wrong permutation of temperature/mode/shelf/tray type?) but I'm not using that thing again until it's been seen by a professional. Another one :-(
I really wish my house wasn't trying to kill me with quite such enthusiasm.
BTW Roast chickpeas, nice.
