to expect BAKING PAPER to refrain from catching fire, thus causing my lunch to go all wet and soggy??

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Baking paper should not catch fire.

I feel sick from having eaten water logged toasties. They were my last piececs of bread.

The flames were really difficult to put out, and now I am put off.

I was going to bake buns later. But due to the fire hazard, I wont risk it. I shall have ice cream instead.

In the oven.

I dont have a toaster/ grill.

I've never used baking paper to make Toasties

Is it a gas oven with flames?

I put the baking paper on the tray (to keep it clean) and the toasts on top (with ketchup, ham and cheese) I am a classy bird, me.

When I took them out, the paper was all in flames!

electric oven. No "live" flames.

My fire alarm didnt even go off either....

That's really odd. I wonder what caused it?

So do I. I was very surpised.

Was the paper overlapping the tray and touching the side or the top of the oven? That may have been hot enough to light it.

I have been sitting here for a considerable number of minutes trying to work out why paper catching fire would make your toasties wet and soggy.

I'm a bit slow, (and shattered and sleep-deprived) me.

Anyway, YANBU. Very weird. I probably would've placed said food item on the grill, but regardless, baking paper shouldn't catch fire in an electric oven!

(Just to clarify, I DID eventually work out why they were soggy).

but baking paper is supposed to be bake-able.......it is in the name!!!

nope, YANBU, altho I am stunned you were that starved you ate the waterlogged toasties.......

There's a difference between being able to withstand the heat of an oven, and being put in direct contact with the source of the heat though!

If you put your baking in direct contact with the side/top of the oven it would turn black and possibly catch fire very quickly too!

YANBU - i had exactly the same happen to me the other day! No idea quite what happened as the oven is electric but had quite a merry blaze going when i finally noticed the funny smell (oops!)

Have a slight distrust of baking paper now...

Use tin foil next time

Perhaps oven was over 451 degrees Fahrenheit (230/240 Centigrade?) which is temperature at which paper ignites?

I dont know what the heat setting was, it is a modern oven with many options, this was a special setting for "toast", the display said level 3, and it was combining heat coil above and blowing hot air from the fan at the back.

Maybe the paper, which was slightly too large, and "pre used", as I used it to wrap around fajitas for yesterday dinner.....(prior to filling them) caught the heating coil at the top?

Yes, I think aluminum foil next time.

I have decided to make a go at buns. So, am heating oven for the "dough - warm up setting" now....