On night shift once

Was it quick? ;-)

Tim

Not quiche, steak and kidney pie.

Thats not an oven, thats a cremator!

No, it wasn't quick. The whole oven (size of a single garage) had to come up to temperature first. No other provision was made for heating food. Another person had a Primus stove and would place an unpierced tin of beans on it and go for a shave.

My wife tends to heat up cans of beans or spaghetti in the oven of our Aga, rather than pouring the contents into a pan and heating it on the hob. Once time she forgot to take the lid off...

It takes a while to heat a can in the oven (which is OK if you're cooking something else which takes time to cook). About 15 minutes later there was a loud bang from the kitchen. We found the over door hanging open and baked beans splattered over the inside of the oven, the floor, the cupboard doors and even a few splashes on the window about 15 feet away. The can had burst somewhere along the curved side - it hadn't failed where the flat circular lid is scored to make it easy to pull it off with the ring-pull, as I'd have thought. That took a *lot* of clearing up.

The oven door is cast iron and is latched by pulling the weight of it upwards against a hook on the body of the Aga - so the sudden pressure had pushed the door in such a way that it had lifted the door to unlatch it - which takes significant effort if you do it by hand.

We've never made that mistake again!!!

So not as bad as this:

PMSL with tears in my eyes!

Friends of mine were having a bonfire to keep warm at night, while visiting Santa Pod for the drag racing. One of them put a can of beans on the fire, without opening it. A while later there was a bang and he calmly said, "Beans are done."

:-) One of the few things I remember from ONC applied mechanics (60 years ago) is that the *circumferential stress is twice the longitudinal stress* in a cylindrical container!

Go larger!

"The mill workers needed high calorie food for the heavy work and had only 30 minutes for lunch. The blast furnaces were heated to over 2,000 °F (1,100 °C). They would throw a steak on the side of the blast furnace (which was sterile due to the high heat), leave it for a few moments, and then turn it. The steak was seared but raw inside."

from

Thomas Prufer

Probably a low-bake oven used for drying freshly sprayed cars.

Once the building manager in our research lab took away all the microwaves in the name of 'health and safety'. I suggested our response should be to commence research into kilowatt 2.4GHz wifi.

Theo