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These flat baking trays are dangerous

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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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Geordie01 · 01/02/2023 16:59

Wait till she discovers knives 🙄

LaPerduta · 01/02/2023 17:06

Are you Elvis?

alwayscheery · 01/02/2023 17:12

Treat yourself to a Neff oven with telescopic shelves.

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whatausername · 01/02/2023 17:27

Girlgift97 · 01/02/2023 16:54

Flame grilled?

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Double-baked 😂

TheBigWangTheory · 01/02/2023 17:32

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.

Sure, but we didn't cry and shake and throw things in the bin and tell everyone that it was the inanimate objects fault that we fucked up.

SaveMeFromMyBoobs · 01/02/2023 17:32

Who the fuck doesn't pay attention when operating something that's at 180ish degrees with an active flame? You know there is fire, you know you're cooking something flammable, you know you put it in in such a way that there were no sides. Your fault entirely, you should have paid attention.

In an electric oven that wouldn't be a big deal, it would have just fallen off the back (and I would have probably fished it out and eaten anyway 😂)

nxa · 01/02/2023 17:36

This thread is amazing. I'll never be able to look at these trays in the same way, knowing that there's a grown woman out there who doesn't understand that if you tip them, things fall off.

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 01/02/2023 17:43

I set my wok on fire the other day.

plumduck · 01/02/2023 18:10

ouch321 · 01/02/2023 14:06

Accidents happen. I made a tarte Tatin the other day and used a loose bottomed flan dish.

Big mistake.

When I removed it from the oven I spilled hot caramel over my arm, the worktop and the floor.

But that was my fault for using a silly pan.

Ow! Hope you're ok

Cadburysucks · 01/02/2023 18:15

They do look dodgy although I am a crap baker.

Tamarindtree · 01/02/2023 18:23

OP - wasn't concentrating fully’

Also OP - blames tray for being dangerous.

Is this a joke?

whatausername · 01/02/2023 19:27

nxa · 01/02/2023 17:36

This thread is amazing. I'll never be able to look at these trays in the same way, knowing that there's a grown woman out there who doesn't understand that if you tip them, things fall off.

🤣🤣

Notplayingball · 01/02/2023 19:33

Not an issue if you have an electric oven. These trays are fine to use.
Hopefully you are okay.

mymycherrypie · 01/02/2023 19:35

We have this tray. I just explained this to my 12 year old and he said maybe don’t use the oven, have a salad.

longtompot · 02/02/2023 11:40

mymycherrypie · 01/02/2023 19:35

We have this tray. I just explained this to my 12 year old and he said maybe don’t use the oven, have a salad.

😂 out of the mouth of babes!

WeAreTheHeroes · 02/02/2023 12:34

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 01/02/2023 17:43

I set my wok on fire the other day.

I once deep fried in a wok and singed the cooker hood as the heat was so intense.

Deathbyfluffy · 02/02/2023 12:38

You dropped something into a flame and it caught fire - shocker.
These baking sheets are older than any of us here, just accept you cocked up.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 02/02/2023 14:04

I’ve got two, which I use now and then for cheese straws. A tray with raised edges wouldn’t be nearly as useful - I slide the cooked straws on to cooling racks.
I’ve never had a problem with them. Obviously you need to take care, though.

Princesspollyyy · 02/02/2023 14:40

I'm not sure which I'm more concerned about, the fact you don't know how a edgeless baking sheet works, or the fact you had one for Christmas.

TheOrigRights · 02/02/2023 17:07

Princesspollyyy · 02/02/2023 14:40

I'm not sure which I'm more concerned about, the fact you don't know how a edgeless baking sheet works, or the fact you had one for Christmas.

not forgetting swatting fanning the flames with a tea towel.......

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