AIBU to be horrified by this?

[Ovenoff]

Friend has just revealed that when she makes a stew/curry/casserole, anything that can be put in the oven for a few hours and cook on low heat, she would do that and go out for a few hours.

I can’t imagine doing that, anything could happen. What if you got caught up, run over/injured honestly anything could happen and nobody would know you have the oven on 😳.

YABVU

Have you ever been run over, OP?

I do this, always have. I don’t think I’m alone!

Have you ever heard of a slow cooker...

YANBU I wouldn’t be able to relax

Well I do it with the slow cooker, for some reason I wouldn’t with my oven though!

I do it occasionally. It doesn’t worry me.

If I got run over I think the oven (almost certainly on low for a few hours) would be the least of my worries! 😂🤦‍♀️

This wouldn’t worry me.

My ovens got a timer 🤷🏻‍♀️

Really? I know huge numbers of people who use slow cookers or else go out with their dishwasher or washing machine on which is the same principle. YABU.

It's the whole point of an Oven timer... to turn on the oven when you aren't there to do it!

I do it all the time, nothing nicer than coming home after a winter's walk to the smell of a roast in the oven

Hmm I do this with my slow cooker but wouldn’t with my oven

Dont do it with the oven, but do with slow cooker. Put slow cooker on then go to work for 8 hours!

I do this. The oven turns itself off after the tome is up.

You'd hate me, I probably do this once a week or so! On the occasions I get run over, the food just cooks a bit longer and is lovely and flavourful.

That would be horrendous, OP! 😱 That poor dinner would be totally ruined! 😭

I wouldn’t go out and leave my oven on- mine once set on fire when I was cooking something long and low.

I would go out and leave the washing machine or dishwasher on though... and the slow cooker.

I’m generally not too concerned about being run over- I’m quite a cautious crosser.

Eh? Doesn’t everybody do this?

I wouldn't have done this when we had a gas oven but I wouldn't now we have an electricity oven. Strange, I know!

Why do you think most ovens have timers? Maybe so that they can go on while you’re out?
What about slow cookers?
I think you need to chill on this issue.

The oven probably has a timer? Mine does, I put stuff in it and leave the house all the time.

I’d leave a slow cooker on or the washer but never an oven.

Yes I've put the washing on and gone out, and I can understand leaving the slowcooker on, but honestly leaving the oven on makes me so uneasy 🤷‍♀️