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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
12/03/2004 10:54 pm
Whatever ya do, don't ever buy a Philips toaster oven.
I figured, what the heck, get a toaster oven for the studio so we can heat up leftover pizza's and stuff.
Trouble is, when you turn it off with the door open, it automatically goes into toaster mode when you close it up again, and lights up full blast in toaster mode.
So today, my intern girl heats up a pizza...takes it out...closes the door and walks away.
I'm sitting here thinking "man, does that oven ever stink".
I walk into the other room and the whole damn thing is on fire.... it's spreading up the walls, my posters are on fire, my plastic cups are melting.
Being the dumb guy I am, I open the oven door... the oxygen hits the fire and it bursts out of the oven and singes my eyebrows.... now the fire's about 5ft high, my smoke detector goes off.... and I think "FIRE EXTINGUISHER"
I grab the extinguisher (that's been attached to the wall for about 3 years and never used).... and can't move it... finally I pull it off the wall...screws and everything..... spend 3 minutes trying to figure out how to get it working...(pull the pin) and finally spray the damn thing at the oven.
2 seconds later the fire's out. And the whole studio is filled with so much fog and smoke you can't see a thing.
So...I guess the moral of the story is: Never buy a crappy Philips toaster oven, and if you buy a fire extinguisher...learn how to use the stupid thing beforehand, so you don't end up ripping it off the wall.

Needless to say it stinks in here now.... I just bought a new Black&Decker oven and fire extinguisher.... and now I need a new intern who knows how to cook without setting the place on fire.