Would you leave an oven unattended ?

While **** can and does happen, I see no reason to worry too much about it unless it's just been waiting for me to leave so it can commit suicide in private.
 
millsy888 said:
I'm not covered by my insurance if an appliance is left on in an empty house, so my answer is no, I wouldn't leave the oven on.
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So what happens if your router develops a fault and starts a fire? Do you really turn this off every time you leave the house?
 
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I suppose this has some logic to it, every other appliance will turn itself off, cookers just carry on burning the chicken.
I've just never had a situation that involves being hungry but simultaneously deciding to walk out of the door, this is surely the niche that McDonalds cater for?
 
bitslice said:
I suppose this has some logic to it, every other appliance will turn itself off, cookers just carry on burning the chicken.
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Ovens have programmable timers to stop cooking when you want.

Food would not burn if programmed correctly.

I'd not leave the cooker on and go out but you won't get burnt food.
 
Only once recently.

Actually thats a lie, the food was cooked and I turned the oven off, but that did not stop me going back to double check it was really off. Did not even like leaving it being so warm.

was cooking a meal and had to roast two peppers. Then had to collect the mrs from work in town and did not get back in until after 9, if I had cooked it when I returned I would have had tea at like 10 or half 10.
 
We use a halogen oven nowdays, it cooks things so much nicer than normal ovens.

Have no issues leaving it on unattended at all.
 
What? our oven can be programmed to come on while you are out so you get home to a lovely cooked dinner.
Of course you could leave your oven on.
 
No.

PC, fridge/freezer are the only things we leave 'running'

I only use the following when we're up and around.
Oven
Dishwasher
Washing machine
Tumble dryer
Christmas lights!
 
A nearby family's house burned down recently in Wokingham due to leaving a washing machine unattended, poor things. Since then, I don't go out with it on, but I did before that incident. I've never gone out with the oven on, though. I am probably overly cautious with such things, but I'm never really in enough of a rush to warrant having to leave stuff on anyway.
 
I wash told by the fire warden at work that they were told during their training that washing machines were the main cause of house fires.
 
brummie said:
What? our oven can be programmed to come on while you are out so you get home to a lovely cooked dinner.
Of course you could leave your oven on.
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Of course they have timers but like I said, after working on a domestic appliance factory for nearly 3 decades and watching some of these products catch fire I would never leave one on when going out.
I know for 100% certainty that on our products it was advised against leaving them on while unattended.

Neil777 said:
I wash told by the fire warden at work that they were told during their training that washing machines were the main cause of house fires.
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That doesn't surprise me because I've seen quite a few condensors blow.
 
150 degrees is also a low cooking temperature, so for a big piece of meat stuck in there for hours, the chances of it reducing to nothing and catching fire are pretty slim.

I also believe most modern ovens are fairly well contained if something does flare up and I can't recall many stories about houses burning down because the oven timer was on.
 
Nexus said:
I also believe most modern ovens are fairly well contained if something does flare up and I can't recall many stories about houses burning down because the oven timer was on.
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In the United Kingdom alone, there are an estimated 300,000 dwelling fires each year, of which 180,000 start in the kitchen.
Kitchen fires account for more than half of accidental fires in the home and around 70 per cent of these are cooking related. The cause is often ovens or hobs being accidentally left on, as well as chip pans and flammable items being left too close to cookers.
 
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