Leaving the oven on when you're out. IIU?

[WelshMaenad]

Fucksticks, crapbuckets and wankbadgers. My fucking slow cooker has died halfway through cooking tonight's dinner. (Slow roast lean pork shoulder with leeks, roast potatoes, stuffing and 907760 types of veg, all welcome, bring wine, I fucking need it). Got home from the park to find it riggweltered and pork half raw. Fuck.

My problem - DD has Taekwondo from 6 till 7 in next village. DH works till 5 in city, trains home, drives from train station to meet me there at 6.20, he stays till end, toddler and I go home, finish cooking dinner, DH and DD get home at 7.15, we eat.

I now have the pork shoulder on a lowish heat in the oven but if I turn it off when we leave, it won't be cooked. I have this idea that leaving the oven on when you're out is the height of irresponsibility, but IS IT, or am I just weird? I'm really afraid of house fires and my mate's house burned down six weeks ago so I might be irrational. What do you do?

Am aware this is incredibly minorin the scheme of things, but wibble.

If my oven is planning on spontaneously setting alight I'd rather be out of the house tbh. OK the damage will be worse, but there will be no fear bout how to get DC out of the house safely.

Our oven can come on (and off) on a timer. I also run the slow cooker, bread machine, washing machine and tumble dryer while we are out/asleep. I even leave the V+ box on so it can record stuff [still here]

I want to live life on the edge like Naghoul.

OP is leaving the oven on any different to leaving the slow cooker on?

Arf. You're safe. This time

I wouldn't if it's gas. My electric oven has an automatic timer and is designed to be cooking when no-one is around and is no different to leaving a slow cooker on. I'm wary of leaving stuff on the hob but happily leave stuff inside.

I never leave any equipment on that heats up.

Many years ago, the sensor on my dishwasher that detects it has enough water in, got stuck in the "full" position. It them proceeded to heat the water that wasn't in it, iyswim.

I was supposed to have gone out straight after turning it on but I got held up, which was just as well, as I was still there when it caught fire. I was able to kill the power, and smother the flames. - The alternative was my house and contents including my pets being destroyed.

So, no I wouldn't leave an oven on, or a slow cooker for that matter. I also don't do it overnight.

Or at least, this was the rule until I moved to a house with an Aga! Can't do alot about that but I still won't leave dishwasher, washing machine or tumble dryer on.

I'd leave an electric oven on, but not a gas one (as a slight interruption in supply will put out he fire and you'll ten just have gas building up).

I really don't know if it's any different to leaving a slow cooker on, it just feels different. I'm weird though, so there you are.

Home, house and pets still uncharred. Pork smells good!

I've has this (electric) oven for ten years and it has never once caught fire, so I reckon the odds of it happening are less than one in two thousand.