On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 03:03:43 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

Talk about not paying close attention. I was heating some sausage in our
smallest microwave and unlike some folks I know, I will adjust the power
level to keep something from splattering all over the inside of the
microwave oven. I set the control for 7 minutes at 40% power, or so I
thought. I was concentrating on some Email when I heard an odd noise
from the kitchen. The microwave was full of smoke and the sausage burned
to a crisp. It turns out that I had inadvertently hit an extra zero when
setting the time and it was 70 minutes instead of 7 minutes. Because I
had set the power level to 40%, there was no back draft and flames when
I opened the frigging oven but there was a lot of smoke. I can still
smell Polish Kielbasa throughout the house after 3 days from the time of
blastoff. The lesson I learned was to pay better attention to those
mundane tasks I take on every day. o_O

TDD


In the days before Microwave Ovens I (attempted) to heat a can of soup
in my regular oven. Turn the oven to 250, put the can in with intent
to take it out in a few minutes. Promptly forgot about the can and
went on about other stuff and 40 minutes later there was a VERY loud
explosion, the door of the oven shot WAY OPEN and then slammed shut
and there was a smell of burnt soup everywhere within a few
seconds...... I repeated this a week later with almost the same
results except I remembered about the soup after only 25 minutes of
cooking. When I opened the oven, with one arm in front of my face, the
can was bulged out like a basketball and I carefully lifted it out and
placed it in the sink to cool off. That was the last of my attempts
to heat soup in the oven.