Tales of the stupid

[Chaotic42]

I was preparing the brine for a turkey that I'm going to cook tomorrow, so I poured all of my delicious ingredients into a sauce pan that had just come out of the dishwasher, though I did rince the inside of the pan out. Salt, garlic, molasses, hot sauce, brown sugar, the list goes on. I placed the little pan onto my stove and started about cleaning the bucket that I'm going to use for brining the turkey. All of the sudden, it got really bright in the kitchen.

I turned around at the pan was on fire! Not the stove, mind you, but the pan. It wasn't a huge fire or anything, so I decided to take about an ounce of water and pour on it. That was a bad idea. The flames jumped up about 18 inches. At this point, naturally, all of the smoke detectors in the house started going off. I grabbed an oven mitt and pulled the pan off of the stove, causing the fire to burn out.

Here I sit with the windows open, the fans on full bore, and the brine in a large two-gallon pot on a different burned. The sauce pan is completely black, as is the burner it was on. My only assumption is that there was some dish-washing detergent residue on the sauce pan, since it was the pan itself that was uniformly on fire. It hadn't touched anything besides the counter that I had just wiped down.

The moral of the story: Rinse off your dishes or get a good dishwasher.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I was preparing the brine for a turkey that I'm going to cook tomorrow, so I poured all of my delicious ingredients into a sauce pan that had just come out of the dishwasher. Salt, garlic, molasses, hot sauce, brown sugar, lighter fluid, the list goes on. I placed the little pan onto my stove and started about cleaning the bucket that I'm going to use for brining the turkey. All of the sudden, it got really bright in the kitchen.

I turned around at the pan was on fire! Not the stove, mind you, but the pan. It wasn't a huge fire or anything, so I decided to take about an ounce of water and pour on it. That was a bad idea. The flames jumped up about 18 inches. At this point, naturally, all of the smoke detectors in the house started going off. I grabbed an oven mitt and pulled the pan off of the stove, causing the fire to burn out.

Here I sit with the windows open, the fans on full bore, and the brine in a large two-gallon pot on a different burned. The sauce pan is completely black, as is the burner it was on. My only assumption is that there was some dish-washing detergent residue on the sauce pan, since it was the pan itself that was uniformly on fire. It hadn't touched anything besides the counter that I had just wiped down.

The moral of the story: Rinse off your dishes or get a good dishwasher.

Well there's your problem.

 

[Oscar1613]

you're still gonna use the brine even though it was in a pan that presumably had detergent residue all over it?

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Oscar1613
you're still gonna use the brine even though it was in a pan that presumably had detergent residue all over it?

I've apparently been eating it for several months...

I guess that I forgot to mention that I had washed the pan out before adding the brine, so I suppose it wasn't *directly* out of the dishwasher.

 

[d33pt]

yes, pour water on an oil fire..always the best thing to do.

didn't you mom teach you anything?

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: d33pt
yes, pour water on an oil fire..always the best thing to do.

didn't you mom teach you anything?

Oil fire? Would dishwashing detergent be considered an oil? At any rate, at the time I thought that there was some food or something stuck to the pan.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: d33pt
yes, pour water on an oil fire..always the best thing to do.

didn't you mom teach you anything?

I thought you were supposed to pour gasoline on an oil fire...

 

[pyonir]

PYRO!

 

[sierrita]

So, you're saying that dishwasher detergent is flammable?

I'm not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work there, Lou.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: sierrita
So, you're saying that dishwasher detergent is flammable?

I'm not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work there, Lou.

Well, it's the only thing I can think of. Like I said, nothing touched the sides of the pan. I honestly don't know.

 

[Darwin333]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: sierrita
So, you're saying that dishwasher detergent is flammable?

I'm not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work there, Lou.

Well, it's the only thing I can think of. Like I said, nothing touched the sides of the pan. I honestly don't know.

I don't know the chemical composition of dishwasher soap nor do I care to look it up to see if its actually flammable in your situation.


If dishwasher soap not being completely rinsed off of pan = kitchen fire ..... I am quite sure the trial lawyers would have informed us of it by now.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Darwin333

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: sierrita
So, you're saying that dishwasher detergent is flammable?

I'm not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work there, Lou.

Well, it's the only thing I can think of. Like I said, nothing touched the sides of the pan. I honestly don't know.

If dishwasher soap not being completely rinsed off of pan = kitchen fire ..... I am quite sure the trial lawyers would have informed us of it by now.

Plus I would assume the regularity of such an incident would become fairly high.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Plus I would assume the regularity of such an incident would become fairly high.

Yeah, that's a good point. I wonder what the hell was on that pan.

 

[Mrvile]

What happened to the lighter fluid?

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I was preparing the brine for a turkey that I'm going to cook tomorrow, so I poured all of my delicious ingredients into a sauce pan that had just come out of the dishwasher. Salt, garlic, molasses, hot sauce, brown sugar, lighter fluid, the list goes on. I placed the little pan onto my stove and started about cleaning the bucket that I'm going to use for brining the turkey. All of the sudden, it got really bright in the kitchen.

I turned around at the pan was on fire! Not the stove, mind you, but the pan. It wasn't a huge fire or anything, so I decided to take about an ounce of water and pour on it. That was a bad idea. The flames jumped up about 18 inches. At this point, naturally, all of the smoke detectors in the house started going off. I grabbed an oven mitt and pulled the pan off of the stove, causing the fire to burn out.

Here I sit with the windows open, the fans on full bore, and the brine in a large two-gallon pot on a different burned. The sauce pan is completely black, as is the burner it was on. My only assumption is that there was some dish-washing detergent residue on the sauce pan, since it was the pan itself that was uniformly on fire. It hadn't touched anything besides the counter that I had just wiped down.

The moral of the story: Rinse off your dishes or get a good dishwasher.

Well there's your problem.

I LOL'd

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
What happened to the lighter fluid?

it cooked off during the fire.