In article >,
Tara > wrote:

> I began to preheat the oven to make some banana blueberry muffins on
> Saturday. A moment later, smoke started rising out of the stove
> eyes. I thought something had spilled on the eyes and was burning
> off. The smoke got worse. I opened the oven. Surprise! Max had put
> a plastic toy pan cover in the oven and it was on fire. I heroically
> pulled it out with tongs and tossed it in the sink. Then I dumped
> some water on the remaining flames on the oven floor.

I'm glad you were able to stop it.

When we first got married, we visited a friend who had a huge garden out
in the country. We came home with some beautiful veggies including
these misleadingly pretty Hungarian red cherry peppers which we decided
to use in some chili. Neither of us had any experience with fresh hot
red peppers at that point and we both had burning eyes, noses, and
mouths for a couple of days. The "chili" was like liquid fire and
neither of us could eat it.

Emma