Mike is convinced that I will someday burn the house down and the fire will start in the kitchen. And he’s probably right. Not because I’m a bad cook but because I’m a bit absent minded and don’t always think things through the way I should.
Last night I realized that while the stove top looked great the oven was really, really dirty. And we’re having a couple people walk through the house today. So I decided to clean it. But since it was 11:00 at night I thought instead of scrubbing it out I would just turn it on to self clean. Now I’ve never used the self cleaning function on any oven ever. And I probably should have read the directions.
About 30 minutes after I started it the entire house was filled with really noxious smoke, the smoke detector was going off and we were both coughing in the kitchen. I shut it off and turned on the kitchen fan. Didn’t help.
In the end we slept with all the windows open last night and both the bathroom and kitchen fans going. And our house still stank this morning. I didn’t have time this morning to go get an air freshener and plug it in (desperately needed) and so I’ll have to do that tonight. In desperation I called our agent who went by to see how bad it really was (I think my sinuses will take days to recover) and he intercepted the first agent/client through to tell them the smell was from the oven.
Gah!
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