Fit the changing season.

[hannah]

Beginning the end of the year by putting out a fire is a bit on the nose. It wasn't a big fire, and still.

I was preheating my oven to roast some vegetables, and I guess a bit of grease had dripped onto the bottom from something I'd cooked earlier, because the smoke alarm went off and - there it was. Not a big fire, not a raging conflagration, but rather an unambiguous pyrotechnic event.

I sighed, turned off the heat, and chucked some baking soda at it to smother everything. I waited for everything to cool off as I finished chopping the broccoli, then washed the bottom plate thoroughly, dried it off, and went on with the rest of the evening's cooking.

Comments

[karalee]

Glad it was okay! I've had one kitchen fire and it really rattled me even though everything was fine in the end.

[hannah]

It didn't really inspire panic, though - more of a "Really?" feeling. Which I guess isn't such a bad reaction to a fire inside my stove.

[musesfool]

Yikes. I'm glad you're okay and it wasn't a big fire.

[hannah]

Thanks. It was well-contained, if nothing else.