Would you leave an oven unattended ?

Err yes. I think it's Macintyre does the standup sketch about why we only 'trust' the fridge and freezer to not blow up. I'd leave everything on and go out if I needed to. In fact we always put the washing machine on a delay so it finishes just as we get home from work.
 
Dimple said:

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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Of course the Kitchen is going to be where most fires occur in residential homes, it would be moronic to even think otherwise.

That breakdown you posted though doesn't have any actual figures on specific causes, I would imagine that fires from hobs left on and chip pans are far more likely than a modern oven to cause such an issue.... aside from user error or it being a really old oven, I would think genuine failures are pretty rare.
 
Plus of the few caused by ovens, how many were unattended on purpose (ie went out whilst cooking) vs left on accidentally (ie knocked the switch and went on holiday for a week). I would imagine very few and the stat will be less than fires caused by attended ovens.
 
I have a dry powder fire extinguisher the only one really should be used around the home. At the end of the day its not been used in 2 years and has lost pressure. Also unless you have room for a 6 or 9 kilogram one then its almost useless. By the time someone notices a fire from another room a 2kg one wont cut it and youre best just getting out and calling the pros. (buy them some beer whilst youre at it :D)
 
Russinating said:
Plus of the few caused by ovens, how many were unattended on purpose (ie went out whilst cooking) vs left on accidentally (ie knocked the switch and went on holiday for a week). I would imagine very few and the stat will be less than fires caused by attended ovens.
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You can also take my own personal statistics and use it for yourself.
Let's say in 27 years I've witnessed 1 'major' fault per month which totals 324, now compare that with the millions of products gone out of the warehouse and you have a very low statistic of a domestic appliance catching fire in your home.
I still wouldn't leave one on though.
 
me and my oven don't get on. i flinch every time i light the hob and i grit my teeth every time i ignite the oven.

i would not leave it unattended but i would run out of the house if anything went wrong with it. which i'm convinced will happen every time i turn the ****er on.
 
I have house insurance so yes I would leave the oven on. Definitely safer to have it burn down while you are not in the house as well.
 
Isn't that the whole point of timers on your cooker so you can set it up before work and it's then cooked ready for when you get in.....Providing you set it correctly of course :D
 
spookywillow said:
Isn't that the whole point of timers on your cooker so you can set it up before work and it's then cooked ready for when you get in.....Providing you set it correctly of course :D
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It wasn't with the appliances at our factory but times change.
Our instruction books used to say 'It is advisable not to leave unattended' or words to that effect.
 
I imagine that's just covering their backsides isn't it?

Out of interest by testing appliances do you mean pat? Fault finding? Or certification?
 
I do it all the time.

I come home from work, put the grill/oven on a timer to cook my sons dinner and then go out to pick him up from nursery, so it's ready for him when we get back.
 
Mynight said:
I imagine that's just covering their backsides isn't it?
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Of course but when you see accidents happen then you know why.

Mynight said:
Out of interest by testing appliances do you mean pat? Fault finding? Or certification?
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The fault and PAT tests would be done on the assembly line.
Certicication is done elsewhere.

In the labs we'd do full fidatezza testing.
Every day the appliance would be turned on for 1 hour, tests done, off for 1 hour and repeated another 3 times for a month.
 
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