I guess you can't cook anything in the oven...period....If you leave and the oven is on...... your house will burn down....if you stay...the stew bubbles will explode in your face and kill you !..........just don't cook anything while you are out of the house........and always observe the cooking process periodically......

I never drive, completely not worth the risk. Do you even know how many people die in car accidents a year?

Anonymous wrote:I would never, ever leave the oven on when I leave the house. Completely not worth the risk.

I never ever leave the house. Completely not worth the risk.

Anonymous wrote:I would never, ever leave the oven on when I leave the house. Completely not worth the risk.

You can't really say that unless you've tasted the ribs.

I would never, ever leave the oven on when I leave the house. Completely not worth the risk.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG...haven't any of you ever used the clean function on your oven? Haven't you ever noticed the flames inside as it burns off the gunk? Even if there WERE a fire, it is contained. For fucks sake, do any of you remove the tags from your pillows?

When you clean your oven, the oven locks. If you can lock your oven while using it on a regular non-cleaning setting, you're okay. But I'm sure those 155000 per year people who all left ovens on unattended all thought they were okay too.

Yes, if the oven locks, you'll be locking the fire in, should such a situation arise. If the door doesn't lock, the stew can simply push the oven door open, and it's free to wreak havoc throughout your house.

As to the original question, it is within the realm of physical possibility that the oven could fail catastrophically--say, if the thermostat failed. Of course, it's more likely that some random wiring issue would burn down your house, oven or no oven. It's several orders of magnitude more likely that lightning could strike your house and burn it to the ground.

If your oven is even reasonably clean, you're using low heat, and the oven is less than, say, 50 years old, you won't have a problem. Or rather, your chances of having a problem are significantly less than the chance you'll be killed by a rollerblader while walking to your office.

This is why people should drive to work.

ITA--as my undiagnosed OCD mother is fond of saying as she unplugs the clock radio before leaving the house, "Better safe than sorry!"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG...haven't any of you ever used the clean function on your oven? Haven't you ever noticed the flames inside as it burns off the gunk? Even if there WERE a fire, it is contained. For fucks sake, do any of you remove the tags from your pillows?

When you clean your oven, the oven locks. If you can lock your oven while using it on a regular non-cleaning setting, you're okay. But I'm sure those 155000 per year people who all left ovens on unattended all thought they were okay too.

Yes, if the oven locks, you'll be locking the fire in, should such a situation arise. If the door doesn't lock, the stew can simply push the oven door open, and it's free to wreak havoc throughout your house.

As to the original question, it is within the realm of physical possibility that the oven could fail catastrophically--say, if the thermostat failed. Of course, it's more likely that some random wiring issue would burn down your house, oven or no oven. It's several orders of magnitude more likely that lightning could strike your house and burn it to the ground.

If your oven is even reasonably clean, you're using low heat, and the oven is less than, say, 50 years old, you won't have a problem. Or rather, your chances of having a problem are significantly less than the chance you'll be killed by a rollerblader while walking to your office.

This is why people should drive to work.

OMG, NO!

lol

"the stew can simply push the oven door open, and it's free to wreak havoc throughout your house."

really? does the stew have legs? what kind of stew is going to torpedo through the oven door? I wouldn't eat it!

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Anonymous wrote:OMG...haven't any of you ever used the clean function on your oven? Haven't you ever noticed the flames inside as it burns off the gunk? Even if there WERE a fire, it is contained. For fucks sake, do any of you remove the tags from your pillows?

When you clean your oven, the oven locks. If you can lock your oven while using it on a regular non-cleaning setting, you're okay. But I'm sure those 155000 per year people who all left ovens on unattended all thought they were okay too.

Yes, if the oven locks, you'll be locking the fire in, should such a situation arise. If the door doesn't lock, the stew can simply push the oven door open, and it's free to wreak havoc throughout your house.

As to the original question, it is within the realm of physical possibility that the oven could fail catastrophically--say, if the thermostat failed. Of course, it's more likely that some random wiring issue would burn down your house, oven or no oven. It's several orders of magnitude more likely that lightning could strike your house and burn it to the ground.

If your oven is even reasonably clean, you're using low heat, and the oven is less than, say, 50 years old, you won't have a problem. Or rather, your chances of having a problem are significantly less than the chance you'll be killed by a rollerblader while walking to your office.

Anonymous wrote:I do it! I don't leave it on over night, though, because I am paranoid of fire and my kid is asleep upstairs. I'd rather burn down the house while he is at school, you know?

word!

I would do it.

I do it! I don't leave it on over night, though, because I am paranoid of fire and my kid is asleep upstairs. I'd rather burn down the house while he is at school, you know?

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Anonymous wrote:OMG...haven't any of you ever used the clean function on your oven? Haven't you ever noticed the flames inside as it burns off the gunk? Even if there WERE a fire, it is contained. For fucks sake, do any of you remove the tags from your pillows?

When you clean your oven, the oven locks. If you can lock your oven while using it on a regular non-cleaning setting, you're okay. But I'm sure those 155000 per year people who all left ovens on unattended all thought they were okay too.

Reading comprehension FAIL.

Anonymous wrote:OMG...haven't any of you ever used the clean function on your oven? Haven't you ever noticed the flames inside as it burns off the gunk? Even if there WERE a fire, it is contained. For fucks sake, do any of you remove the tags from your pillows?

LOL. Pretty funny, but I admit that I still get annoyed with my husband when he forgets to turn the oven off and it is on all night. I swear this has happened about 10 times...