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These flat baking trays are dangerous

170 replies

Hagrod · 01/02/2023 13:14

This only happened in the last hour and I am still shaking. I decided to make some cookies and used a Lakeland baking tray I got as a Christmas present. It is flat, with one side raised for you to grip and seemed oversized and awkward for the oven shelf. Similar to the one below. Anyway, after ten minutes in the oven I decided to check on my biscuits and wasn't concentrating fully as I did so, causing about three of the biscuits to slide off the edge of the tray. One fell right into the flame of the gas oven and caught fire. I managed to turn the oven off and somehow (god knows how I didn't burn myself) swatted at the flame with a tea towel, it went out but then reignited. I managed to grab some tongs and get the bsicuit out of the oven. It was very scary and I feel awfully shook up. That baking tray has gone straight in the bin. Please beware of these edgeless trays, I don't think they are safe to make small goods on at all.

These flat baking trays are dangerous
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TonTonMacoute · 01/02/2023 15:46

I had no idea that people still had gas ovens!

JudgeJ · 01/02/2023 16:01

Vegetablesupreme · 01/02/2023 13:24

I caught some pork chops on fire by cooking them under the grill (and getting distracted). I don't think we should ban grills because of my lack of attention. . .

Also need to ban MN, I put something into the over for 40 minutes on Sunday, got engrossed in a thread about things we didn't know and burned the cake. Can I sue MN for their role in this?

Natsku · 01/02/2023 16:05

Squiblet · 01/02/2023 15:01

Ooh - where did you get those, please?

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No idea, they came with the house, presumably came as a package with the oven.

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PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 01/02/2023 16:06

Don't throw it away. If you're not confident cooking biscuits on it, just use it for large things that won't fall off, such as pizzas or 'family size' naan breads.

MichaelFabricantWig · 01/02/2023 16:12

My husband who is a chef uses baking sheets in a professional kitchen without issue.

the biscuit will have burned away to nothing it was hardly likely to set your house on fire.

ForTheLoveOfSleep · 01/02/2023 16:13

and wasn't concentrating fully as I did so

There's your problem, not the tray OP.

MichaelFabricantWig · 01/02/2023 16:13

If you’d closed the oven the burning biscuit would have soon gone out due to the lack of oxygen

SisterAgatha · 01/02/2023 16:16

I know this is one of those “in my day” comments but as kids we were often left alone to cook dinner. I remember setting fire to the oven when I was about 10, just me and my brother home. We just 😬 at each other and moved on thinking oh shit, better be careful next time! Maybe gas mark 9 isn’t the way! Hahaha!

Some pizzas on directly on the rack so the tray isn’t at fault really, this could happen anytime a chip or piece of cheese falls off.

Gas ovens do have a flame, that’s the nature of an oven. It is inherently dangerous. Doesn’t need to be banned. Just needs care.

Biscuits1011 · 01/02/2023 16:16

I agree with everyone else that you should have been concentrating but I wouldn’t buy a flat one. Seems like a daft idea to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

MissMaple82 · 01/02/2023 16:21

People are tw@#s.. Ithis thread is a good reason as to why I loathe most humans

TiredyMcTired · 01/02/2023 16:24

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 01/02/2023 14:06

Not just after dinner speaking, Netflix may want to turn it into a film. 🤞

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😂

Inyournewdress · 01/02/2023 16:29

I appreciate the warning OP, it’s the sort of thing I’d do so I will avoid them. Hope you are feeling a bit recovered.

N00bz · 01/02/2023 16:30

MissMaple82 · 01/02/2023 16:21

People are tw@#s.. Ithis thread is a good reason as to why I loathe most humans

Are you the biscuit?

WolfFoxHare · 01/02/2023 16:32

I set fire to a frying pan last week, adding wine to what I was cooking - I slopped it in carelessly and the gas hob ignited it. I just put a lid on the pan to starve it of oxygen, it went out in seconds. Dinner wasn’t even burned.

OP, in future if you set fire to something in the oven, close the oven door and turn the gas off, it will go out quickly as the oxygen in the oven runs out. Don’t sweat it with a towel, you could have set fire to yourself.

Ludo19 · 01/02/2023 16:33

Love this thread. I have a gas oven, I'll invest in one of those trays and hope I don't burn my kitchen.

bluebellmay2020 · 01/02/2023 16:36

O dear the OPs being flamed!

Greaseproof paper might make things easier.

whatausername · 01/02/2023 16:36

HOLD ON. You cannot post and run @Hagrod! What kind of biscuits were they??

Wetblanket78 · 01/02/2023 16:37

The side with the edge on is supposed to face the back of the oven for this reason. You should really have been paying more attention to what you were doing.

amonsteronthehill · 01/02/2023 16:38

Love our baking trays; perfect for cookies and have been using them for years.

You seem rather dramatic about an accident that wasn't the tray's fault...

FlissyPaps · 01/02/2023 16:42

The tray isn’t dangerous.

Not concentrating on taking things out of the oven is dangerous.

Jacopo · 01/02/2023 16:44

Aw OP you’re getting a lot of stick, but I bet most people on this thread have done similar things when not paying full attention. For example I readily confess to having once made delicious stock from bones, herbs, vegetables etc, and then carefully straining it though a colander. Into the sink. Like your biscuit conflagration this was a lesson learned and never repeated.
On topic, I will be looking online for the three-sided sheet mentioned by another poster. That sounds great.

N00bz · 01/02/2023 16:50

Aw OP you’re getting a lot of stick, but I bet most people on this thread have done similar things when not paying full attention

Oh definitely. I once had to have my kitchen repainted after an incident involving a casserole dish that was too hot and oily, salt, and some red wine. It basically exploded and I spent hours cleaning lumps of lamb and carrot off the ceiling.

It was a silly mistake, but I didn’t blame the casserole dish, or the wine. It was 100% my fault.

BloodAndFire · 01/02/2023 16:50

Jacopo · 01/02/2023 16:44

Aw OP you’re getting a lot of stick, but I bet most people on this thread have done similar things when not paying full attention. For example I readily confess to having once made delicious stock from bones, herbs, vegetables etc, and then carefully straining it though a colander. Into the sink. Like your biscuit conflagration this was a lesson learned and never repeated.
On topic, I will be looking online for the three-sided sheet mentioned by another poster. That sounds great.

I've done many, many, many stupid things when not paying attention, including tripping over the hoover cable, melting my kettle, and cutting into my hand (for example).

I think the reason op is getting stick is because instead of saying "doh!! What a stupid thing to do", she's tried to blame the object itself and suggested that it should be banned.

It's the lack of self awareness or self deprecation that has meant she's got sarcastic, rather than sympathetic, responses.

Girlgift97 · 01/02/2023 16:54

whatausername · 01/02/2023 16:36

HOLD ON. You cannot post and run @Hagrod! What kind of biscuits were they??

Flame grilled?

MortimerTheCat · 01/02/2023 16:56

You tried to put out a fire with a highly flammable bit of fabric?