To nip out to the shop while I have something on the hob?

[Furrybootsyecomfy]

Halogen hob, vegetarian chilli so plenty of liquid, shop less than three minutes walk away, would be back in ten. No children or pets in the flat.
I’ve just realised I’ve run out of salt. My quandary basically comes out of being a gannet and not wanting to wait any longer for my tea. AIBU

I once left a pan of potatoes par boiling for roasts while I nipped to the shop 3 minutes away as a daft 23 year old.

Something must have happened to the space time continuum as when I returned I had made a pan of weak potato soup.

Dinner ruined.

Salt is immaterial to a chilli anyway

A lot of holier than thou people on here about salt.

I have low blood pressure, and a meal without salt, regardless of how spicy it is would still lack oomph.

Gosh there are some risk averse people here. I've often left things on my hob or in the oven. As long as it's on low with a lid and plenty of liquid it would be fine for hours.

You absolutely need salt in chilli!

Turn it off. It'll carry on cooking with the residual heat.

I don’t leave with the washing machine on (just in case of some flooding mishap).
I did once go away for 2 weeks and left my iron on. Came back and the kitchen was warm but I got away with it. Since then I only buy irons with auto switch off (but frankly now obsessively check ive unplugged anyway).

Yabvu it's senseless really, why risk it for 10 minutes, anything could happen.
I agree with pp to just turn off as it won't lose loads of heat.
And it isn't being risk adverse, just stupid
I wouldn't like you as my neighbour....

This:

www.london-fire.gov.uk/safety/the-home/

Our previous NDN was a firefighter and put the fear of God into me about all the disasters he'd seen.

I would never leave anything cooking if I had to go out, and the stories he used to tell about tumble dryers... 😱

I’m not a complete twat

The jury is still out on that one OP....

No definitely not YABU

I would have done it on low but leave doors unlocked. Will not do in future!

So is the fridge & freezer the only things trusted to be allowed to be on if you're out?

Chilli has been eaten and digested for quite some time now.

I absolutely accept that I underestimated the risk of a fire at leaving something on a flameless hob at a low heat (you can put your hand on the hob when it’s at the lower temperatures). It wasn’t much more than a passing thought at the time of posting so hadn’t really germinated beyond that.

I have been tempted to do this in the past, but my reasoning generally was that if it really was such a quick nip out, then turning the hob off and covering the pot with a lid wouldn't lose so much heat that it would make any difference to the final cooking time.

YANBU to nip out for salt though. Salt is life. Never could figure out why my otherwise excellent MIL's food tasted weirdly flat until I realised her idea of a pinch of salt was literally a few grains.

You don’t want to be ‘that’ cautionary tale @Furrybootsyecomfy

Oh Mumsnet, what a place
Should I leave my child and baby for a moment in the car or asleep in living room as the shop is just next door? Yes, of course what do you think will happen..it's no different than the garden
Shall I leave my hob on? YABU, anything could happen

For what it's worth I wouldn't leave a hob or kids while I went out

Also feel the need to clarify, when I said “no children or pets” I meant, “nobody is in the flat that might knock something on to the cooker”, not “Other people’s babies and animals are of little consequence to me, let them burn while I enjoy my adequately seasoned rice.”

Obviously that would have been a twat’s way of thinking.