Is my stove putting me in MORTAL DANGER?

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I've lived in my apartment for two years now and I've noticed that every time I bake a pizza* in my old-skool Nixon-age gas oven range thing that every so often I will hear a loud "WHAM" as though an elf were trapped inside and clobbering the insides of the oven with a wiffle bat. Is this a sign of some impending gas explosion doom? Because I cook pizzas frequenly and nothing's happened yet.

*or a cookie sheet of tater tots

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

nate i used to get this in my old place too. its proably just the heat warping the cookie sheet until it pops.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It is just the gas igniting. The stove fills up with gas and then it explodes when it catches. This is especially fun with the oven door open.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought it was the element expanding and/or contracting?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oh gas right, ignore my addled stupidity

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

all this and more, in your new dream home!!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe this was just my stove.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

it isn't an elf, it is an oven troll. he wants you to vary your cooking.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

*or a cookie sheet of tater tots

If it's a WHAM, it's most likely got nothing to do with gas or electric or your oven at all: it's a thin piece of metal rapidly cooled by frozen tater tots or pizza, then rapidly heated. The metal sort of goes ... well, WHAM.

You're safe as long as you're outside the oven.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Or what jess said in the first damn post, which I somehow missed. He probably used his moderator powers to put it in just now to screw with me. Damn that jess.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

so i was semi-correct! that's not so bad

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You're safe as long as you're outside the oven.

OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

the calls are coming from inside the house

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have gas burners that won't light any more. Should I try to rekindle them with a match or will I burn my face off?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

call your landlord!!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, i scortched my whole face one time...NEVER AGAIN

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

use those extra long matches!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, always delegate. I've got a piece of string stuck in my garbage disposal right now that's jamming it up so it won't actually ... dispose. How I'm fixing it: calling the landlord tomorrow. There's sharp stuff in there that cuts up oranges. Why would I put my hand in?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

okay i'll call my super...but the last time i contacted him for faulty (room) heating his advice to me was to simply turn on then leave open the door of my (then working) oven

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe this time he'll tell you to turn your heat up until it ignites the stove!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the best was my first apartment in olympia which was so small you couldnt even open the oven door all the way without it hitting the fridge, so you had to remove stuff from the oven while holding the door open and hoping you didnt slip and have it snap back on your arm.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

If it's a WHAM

http://www.ilocalizes.com/xmachine/image/wham.jpg

Bake at 350.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

george looks like he's been baking at a higher temperature

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah dude, 420 degrees, man

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Extra frosting for him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh christ, now I'm having vomit-inducing-cinnamon-roll flashbacks

hurk hurk

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Actual question here - I keep grilling sossidges close to the grill and the fat whizzes up and bounces off the scorching hot grill, creating lots of mini explosions. I AM SURE THIS IS NOT SAFE. However, the next lowest setting is really far down from the grill! I am sure this is a relatively new problem to me so god knows what I'm doing. I'm going to try the lower rack next time and see what happens.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

you have particularly fatty sausages*

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

*perhaps not a euphamism

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps it happens with bacon too! Grilling = lazy persons option cos no washing up hurrah hurrah!

(Put foil on the tray, marvellous. No greasy pan horror! Hurrah!)

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The answer is a frying pan. Oh, but can't put tin foil in it.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Scotland has got to you, Madchen.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

But then you've got to actually wash the pan, viewing all that lard in the pan doesn't make one feel good about their "health kick" if you leave it til the next day. GRILL SHILL!

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three words

Deep - Fat - Fryer

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Cor that reminds me, I want to make proper bombay mix like super-qizz Madhur Jaffrey! Has anyone got one of those smashing mincer/noodle making toys they want to lend me? :)

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my fridge is slowly killing me. It smells like a freeon leak. I don't know how to spell it, but it smells awful.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You want a FRIDGE LEMONG!

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm convinced that all the incredibly old gas appliances (stove, heater) in my house are leaking and are going to kill me.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the fatty spitty grill bit is the best thing abt sossidges!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

you need a george foreman gril

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I used to love watching the grill flame when mum did sossies. They'd spit fat and it'd go FLOOM all orange flamey, and also the sossies sqealed which always made me hate to eat them coz I thought they were screaming :/

My oven wont light with its auto-spark thing either. I have to reach into it and light it with one of those gas match-lighter things, all Sylvia Plath style. One of these days I'm sure I'll set fire to myself.

Tell the landlord? I have, about FOUR TIMES. Grr.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah I have to reach into my oven too! it's scary!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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