• Volkditty@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Want to make a “firing range” pun, but nothing’s coming to me…leaving this as a placeholder in case inspiration strikes later.

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    10 days ago

    (I don’t have time to make an image right now, but anyway)

    Hey America, how you doing?

    Don’t keep your gun in the oven.

    Oh.

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    9 days ago

    Constantly shocked by people that don’t open the oven door at look every time prior to preheating the oven.

    How else will you find:

    • no pilot light
    • a blanket
    • cast iron cookware cooling
    • loaded guns
    • forgotten food

    Look in the oven people! It takes 1 second.

    Edit: I am amazed how many people don’t look in the oven before turning it on.

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      I do not understand ever storing anything in the oven, its a cooking tool not a storage tool.

      I will agree if you have a gas stove that checking the pilot light is a good idea, but those are becoming less common as we are discovering just how bad they are for your health - that, and induction is amazing for anything that doesn’t require an open flame (and that’s what bbqs are for!).

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        we are discovering just how bad they are for your health

        It turns out that burning a highly flammable carcinogen in your living environment isn’t the best idea.

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            Disagree…induction is far better to cook on. It has much better temperature control, heats up faster, and when you’re done it’s easier to clean.

            And it doesn’t do as much to heat up the kitchen because the heat stays concentrated in the pan.

            I wish they’d installed an electric stove in my current place…now I have to get an electrician to come upgrade the circuit. 🙄

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              I am dying to try cooking on an induction with my favorite iron pans to see how much I like it vs. the gas I have now. I know if/when this thing dies, it will absolutely be replaced with an electric induction with a convection oven. [That almost rhymes…]

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              I don’t know any chefs who agree with you but I know four who disagree. And I disagree. But admittedly that’s a small sample size. I paid to have the gas line extended to reach my kitchen.

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                I’m not trying to flambe in my kitchen. I don’t need what gas provides.

                I have a gas stove right now. It sucks. It likely helped give my wife asthma, and the temperature control is for shit. I bought an induction plate to play around with and it lets you set the temperature in the pan in terms of degrees in 10 degree increments. It detects when the pan has been removed from the cook top for a while and automatically shuts off. It’s cool to the touch a minute or so after it shuts off.

                Induction is like cooking in the future, gas is like cooking in the Fred Flintstone past (using dinosaur farts).

                I have a gas grill, and it’s good for its use as well (yabba dabba do), but if I want control over the heating element it’s induction all the way.

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                  Which induction plate did you get? I’ve been meaning to try one out as well, after watching Technology Connections’ video about them.

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            Disagree. Electric the heat goes into the pan. Gas you get heat fucking everywhere, it’s so uncomfortable. And loud if you’re doing it right and have the fan on full blast. I don’t understand how people think it’s hard to cook on electric.

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        I know people who store valuable documents, items of devices in their ovens. Usually the reasoning is “if a burglar breaks in they wouldn’t think to check the oven for valuables”. Honestly, pretty stupid reasoning because I’d imagine any burglar worth their salt has heard that old chestnut and will probably place the oven fairly high on their checklist.

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        If you’re in a small place, you store where you can. I get the impression most people never use their oven.

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        10 days ago

        Right. My oven has a few roasting dishes in it that live on the bottom, and that’s it. Who the fuck puts non-cookware in an oven when it’s not in use?

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          My grandfather never really used his oven for anything, only the stovetop, so he stored boxes of cereal in his oven. You know, cardboard ones.

          But when he hosted for the holidays, other people would show up and use the oven… We figured that out PDQ, but not before at least one box of cereal went up in flames.

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      10 days ago

      Why would you expect anything to be in the oven? Maybe the cast iron is the exception but only because it can take the heat

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        10 days ago

        Fun fact: Some ovens have a storage drawer at the bottom (drawer under main door.) Some ovens have a broiler at the bottom (drawer under main door. Maybe only gas ovens, maybe not.)

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          And some call that storage a “warming drawer”.

          Hopefully you know what you have, plus why would you put anything in storage at someone’s house, if not the place it came from?

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            That’s because on some ranges the drawer is a dedicated warming drawer, with its own heating element and independent temperature control from the oven. But some people see that once and then assume every range in the world is like that, but they aren’t. The feature appears to have been more common historically than it is now, as well.

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          Gas ovens pretty much exclusively these days, and that’s a cost cutting thing for anyone wondering. On cheap models, the manufacturer uses the same burner for both broiling and baking so they don’t have to pony up to include two separate burners, valves, and igniters. In broil “mode,” you just put the food item immediately below the burner in the drawer so it’s much closer to the source of the heat which is now also conveniently above it rather than below it.

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      10 days ago

      Because I know that I didn’t put any random things in there. I’m not insane.

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    Mythbusters S05E16. Loose bullets fire off but do not have energy to pierce the metal. A gun will fire a lethal bullet

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    Amazed to see this. New old house. Used oven for first time. Some sort of stench and black gunk dripping from top heat shield. Gas stove. Investigate. Pull out pieces of a gun. Glock or something. Previous owner stops by for mail (unusual situation). I had over the melted pieces, “you forget something in the oven?” “Oh shit. No problem, I can fix it.” "uh… Okaaaaay… "

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    At least here in Missouri, no licensing or training is required to own one of these deadly weapons.

    And it shows.

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    the article also tells me not to store anything else in there, but that’s where I keep my pizza stones (I usually cook pizza on the grill) and fuck you I’ma keep them in the oven.