It used to be unplugged. It still is, but it used to be too.
(Apologies to Mitch)
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Fucking with my ex, example #47:
We’d start a road trip, get about a mile or so down the road, and I’d say, “Did I leave the oven on?”
When I read about people worrying about that, I always wonder how many people don't turn their oven off immediately before or after taking out the food they prepared in it?! Assuming that it's been a while since the last time you used it, why would it ever be on?
Now forgetting to properly turn the oven on (turning only one of the two knobs necessary to turn it on) when preparing food, that has definitely happened to me too a few times. :(
Because some of us are so forgetty that we lose the thought to turn off the oven between grab food and set food down.
I personally haven't forgotten the oven-off, but for other things, many times.
Just yesterday i forgot to put the coupon in my pocket after reading it and so got to the place and realized i didn't have it. It was sitting right nect to where i pit my keys, but didn't make it into my pocket.
Brain no worky.
I believe it’s a holdover from older oven technologies. Like gas ranges with an always-on pilot light and manual gas on off pipe valves you were supposed to close before travel. IIRC those were the origin many historic city fires in dense housing, and the reason for a lot of current gas safety like the sulfur/bad-eggs additive that makes unburned gas an lot easier to detect.
But nowadays the worst that awaits those who return after forgetting the oven is generally… just a bigger utility bill instead of losing everything and maybe killing people.
I've never forgotten to turn it on, but definitely forget to turn it off at times. Usually notice when I finish eating.
The reason why it gets left on is I usually am taking something out of the oven before I'm certain it's done, then an serving up a plate and forget to turn it off.
You could try the timer function to turn it off at whatever time it was supposed to be done? That way even if it finishes sooner and you forget, you know it’ll be off shortly. :)
Not all ovens have that. Pretty sure mine doesn't, though my induction hot plate does. And tbh it's kinda annoying because the timer finishing doesn't always mean it's done cooking, it might just mean time to add the next batch of ingredients or flip whatever is baking. But I've got two other timers on other devices within reach, so I just pick the most convenient one for the current objective (or just look at the time and try to remember on my own).
Sometimes when I'm sick and the brain fog is worse, I'll forget to turn off a burner, especially if I was using multiple burners, as I'll have turned off some at least.
But my husband knows and usually we see after an hour or so. Because of this though nothing flammable is ever even close to the stove. I also check before bed in case. I think he does as well.
That's why I love induction - this happened a few times to me as well, but since I always move the pots & pans off the hot plates, they turn off automatically.
Fucking with my ex
Gotta admit I was expecting a joke about plugging in and out
I use the oven for storage so it's never a question for me. How often do you people bake that you'd have to wonder that?
Hair iron? Is that another name for hair straighteners?
idk what it is. it's got two flat metal plates that get hot. and u put ur hair through it ...
Curling iron or hair straightener are the two terms I know for those things.
Aren't those two different pieces of equipment? (Or at least two different parts you swap in a very basic piece of equipment?)
Those are two completely opposite changes, and the format the iron would have to have for each seems completely incompatible.
They are different tools, but fun fact, you can make curls or waves with a straightener depending on technique. A curling iron will only do curls.
Boys...
Nowadays, almost every hair iron has attachments for both straightening (with it a big clamp with two flat plates) and curling (various diameters of metal rod).
What about the wavy ones, not as tight as a crisper but similar.
My wife has separate ones for each because the one she tried where you can change out were mediocre at everything.
Yeah, curling iron is a tube with a curved plate that wraps part way around it.
Straightener is two flat plates.
... Or maybe you just use it backwards and it does the opposite‽
If you use a curling iron backwards, you burn your hands
Slightly different things I believe actually.
Like a framing vs finishing hammer.
Framing hammer gives more "grip" when striking a nail.
Finishing hammer won't mess up a delicate surface when struck.
They both drive a nail but used at different times. Could you just use one hammer? Sure, but it is harder to drive in large nails with a finishing hammer and a framing hammer will mess up your trim. You'll mess up your finishing hammer if you strike framing nails with a finishing hammer.
A flat iron or a hairstyling iron is a specific tool to straighten hair
A "hair straightener" could be a flat hairstyling iron but it could also be something that doesn't "iron" to straighten. It encompasses more.
The last nail I hammered in was hammered in with a rock.
Hand toaster
Personally, without the 'hair' context, I would have checked the iron that you use with an ironing board to get wrinkles out of clothes.
I knew a girl that ironed her hair in hs, well her mom did it
Destroyer of hairs.
Generic term for hair styling device with a direct contact heating element that’s not a hair dryer/blower. It’s not always obvious that the unit is on except for a small light, and can remain hot after use and a source for small burns to the body.
So straightener/curling iron (that doesn’t use air like Dyson etc).
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