Reply #17: Hey, does anyone own a plastic colander? [View All]

[babylonsister]

When in my teens, I decided to bake something, don't remember what. So, like a good little cook, I preheated the oven and went about my biz. Well, you can imagine what happened. My mom, who never stored anything in that oven, had stored the colander in there. When I went to start baking, there was melted green plastic all over the bottom of said oven. Took me quite a while to chip the plastic off once the oven cooled. But that was a lesson well learned.
Another HUGE childhood memory was the old lady a few doors down who lived alone. She was using a potholder or kitchen towel to remove food from her oven and it caught on fire. The fire dept. where I lived was about 20 minutes away on the other side of the bridge; we lived on the beach with strong winds. That little mishap caused about 7 homes to burn completely down. There's another lesson that's always in the back of my brain.