The dreaded Microwave disaster...

Mrs. Robinson said:
About the biggest microwave disaster I can think of was that many years ago (in the 50s I think)my dad came home from a business trip all excited. Someone he knew wanted him to partner with him to promote his new oven-it was a microwave oven. My dad decided that it would probably never sell and passed on it...
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Mrs. Robinson said:
But as to real disasters....burnt popcorn. Once it was my son,once it was one of the foster kiddos. I still can`t remember what finally got rid of the smell but I really thought I was going to have to just throw out the oven...
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Yup.

Every job I had included the obligatory "No Popcorn" sign above the microwave.
Too many people "Set It and Forget It."
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
But as to real disasters....burnt popcorn. Once it was my son,once it was one of the foster kiddos. I still can`t remember what finally got rid of the smell but I really thought I was going to have to just throw out the oven...
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Yup.

Every job I had included the obligatory "No Popcorn" sign above the microwave.
Too many people "Set It and Forget It."
 

While visiting us, my older son put one green grape in the MO....as we all watched the thing caught on fire with sparks flying then shriveled up....he said the skin is highly combustible.....
And years ago I was at the office making popcorn and the whole MO exploded inside, caught on fire with smoke bellowing out everywhere.....was sooo embarrasing and of course the place kept that burnt smell for weeks.....the joke was 'dont let her near the oven' 😄
 
Had a microwave oven fail on Thanksgiving! Everyone was over at my place. The unit started smoking, outside the cooking chamber. We had to rush over to Walmart and buy a new one. Luckily all turned out well. The aroma of my great dishes blocked the burnt wiring smell that was initially in the air. A good time was had by all.....
 
OK, here is the most horrible microwave mishap of all time. A guy talks his girl friend into setting fire to her house to collect insurance. He and his brother (Dumb and Dumber) turn on the gas in the house for HOURS. They had set the microwave to turn on at 11PM or so. In the microwave they had place a pipe knowing sparks would set off the gas. The young couple in the house next door were sadly killed. Rescuers could hear them begging for help as they were being crushed by their collapsed house. Seven others were injured. We had a friend who live three doors down the street who was blown out of her bed. Her house was condemned as it had been blown off it's foundation. We heard the explosion which was SIX MILES away. $4.4 million in damages. Had it not been for the deaths it would have been comical. The morons will spend the rest of their miserable lives in prison. The trail of clues these clowns left was amazing! You can google it: Richmond Hills explosion Indianapolis.
 
treeguy64 said:
Had a microwave oven fail on Thanksgiving! Everyone was over at my place. The unit started smoking, outside the cooking chamber. We had to rush over to Walmart and buy a new one. Luckily all turned out well. The aroma of my great dishes blocked the burnt wiring smell that was initially in the air. A good time was had by all.....
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I have a question for you about this.
 
Ok so since everyone else shared...

When I worked at the nursing home, we had all these policies and procedures in place on what to do in the event of a fire. What we didn't have was what to do when there was no fire. And then I come along. LOL!

One night the old gal I was working with in the kitchen brought one of those microwave noodle dinners with the pkt of dried veggies and the oily soy sauce in another pkt. Well she got one pkt out but the other still lurked. She's nuking it and it's starting to burn but no flames.


She throws open the microwave door which sets the smoke alarm off and I had no idea what to do since there was no fire. So I called the front desk to let them know it was a false alarm and I had to get on the intercom and tell people there was no fire. By the second time I said it I was laughing and they heard me snort on the intercom and then the whole facility was laughing.

A couple months later one of the kids was warming a frozen cookie for a resident and it began to smoke. I told him DON'T OPEN THAT MICROWAVE! I unplugged it and ran out to the courtyard with it...popped it open outside and this little (puh) of smoke came out and I took it back in.

We ended up with a new policy and procedural plan for when there's no fire. 😁
 
MarciKS said:
What do vegans have for thanksgiving dinner?
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Everything everyone else has, but vegan versions. My Tofu Turkey and stuffing is wayyyyyy better than what folks get in the stores. Then, there's sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, mushroom gravy, pecan and pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, tossed salad, mashed potatoes, etc.,etc. Even the carnivores go home stuffed...... with great food, I hasten to add! 😃
 
treeguy64 said:
Everything everyone else has, but vegan versions. My Tofu Turkey and stuffing is wayyyyyy better than what folks get in the stores. Then, there's sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, mushroom gravy, pecan and pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, tossed salad, mashed potatoes, etc.,etc. Even the carnivores go home stuffed...... with great food, I hasten to add! 😃
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Tofu turkey? I don't suppose you have a recipe for that? I'm curious now. :)
It all sounds yummy to me.
 
MarciKS said:
Tofu turkey? I don't suppose you have a recipe for that? I'm curious now. :)
It all sounds yummy to me.
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Depending on how big a colander you have, get about 4-6 pounds of firm tofu. Mash it up. Add some granulated garlic and turmeric. Line the colander with cheesecloth. Add the tofu, packing it tightly, with your hands. Cover the top of the tofu with the cheesecloth. Put an inverted plate on the tofu. The plate should just fit inside the colander, so it can compress the tofu. Put the colander on a plate. Put a couple of ten pounds weights on top of the plate in the colander. Let it sit for two hours, or so.

Make your stuffing. Get the colander. Carefully peel back the cheesecloth from the top. Hollow out the tofu, seeing that it's a uniform thickness of around an inch. Put your stuffing in the hollow. Close off the top with the tofu you removed. Put the cheesecloth and weights back on. Give it another hour. Peel back the cheesecloth. Center a deep dish pizza pan on top of the colander, making sure the cheesecloth is to the sides. Carefully turn everything over. If you've done everything correctly, you'll now have a dome of tofu, your tofu Turkey, sitting on the underside of your pizza pan. Peel off the cheesecloth.

Carefully place the overturned deep dish pan, with the tofu Turkey on it, onto a wider pizza pan with high sides. Using a tamari and toasted sesame oil mixture, baste the bird thoroughly. Cover with aluminum foil. Place in a hot oven for an hour.

After that, remove the foil. Keep basting, over the next hour, until the bird is golden brown. Remove from the oven. Allow to cool for about a fifteen minutes. Slice and serve with mushroom gravy and cranberries. Yummmmmmmmy!
 
I put a frozen dinner in the oven. I'm not sure how I messed up, but when I came back there was a fire inside the oven, smoke coming out the vent. The food and the plastic dish were on fire. Didn't hurt the oven. Yeah!

As far as a conventional oven. When I came out of the Navy, a group of young unmarrieds decided to have Thanksgiving dinner together. I was supposed to cook the turkey-something I never did. I had no idea how much grease came out of a turkey, so I put it on a cooky sheet and stuck it in an electric stove. I went to watch a game. The fire alarm went off. There were huge flames coming from around the door and the back of the oven. The grease was hitting the red hot element, and bursting into flames. I pulled the turkey out, it stopped the flames. I came so close to burning down the place. BTW, everybody liked the "smokey" flavor.
I never noticed how fire prone I am.
 
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Radish Rose,
The Richmond Hill explosion destroyed five homes one of which was our friend who was blown out of bed. It was lucky she was because a huge picture she had over the bed would have fallen on her. Over eighty others were damaged. Our friend and many of her neighbors formed a sort of survivor's group that the police and investigator's kept in the loop. The group treated Monnserrate Shirley's daughter Brooke with great compassion.
 
DGM said:
Radish Rose,
The Richmond Hill explosion destroyed five homes one of which was our friend who was blown out of bed. It was lucky she was because a huge picture she had over the bed would have fallen on her. Over eighty others were damaged. Our friend and many of her neighbors formed a sort of survivor's group that the police and investigator's kept in the loop. The group treated Monnserrate Shirley's daughter Brooke with great compassion.
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by a microwave?
 
DGM said:
Radish Rose,
The Richmond Hill explosion destroyed five homes one of which was our friend who was blown out of bed. It was lucky she was because a huge picture she had over the bed would have fallen on her. Over eighty others were damaged. Our friend and many of her neighbors formed a sort of survivor's group that the police and investigator's kept in the loop. The group treated Monnserrate Shirley's daughter Brooke with great compassion.
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@DGM, happy to hear they were a comfort to each other.... your poor friend was lucky to have lived.

Thanks for the correction on the damage; 5 homes destroyed, 80 damaged.
 
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