'Frozen pizza... Easy right? Nope': Guy's house almost burned down after his numbskull girlfriend cooks dinner, she loses her 'home alone' privileges as a result

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 26, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Learning to cook is a challenge that all adults must eventually face. And since we can't just eat microwave mac n' cheese for every meal for the rest of our lives, most young folks branch out to slightly more challenging dishes, one baby step at a time–with the most logical next step being the simple (yet delicious) frozen pizza dinner.

One man recently learned that his girlfriend never actually took that next step in her culinary journey. Despite being over 24 years old and having spent many moons living on her own, she still could not grasp the concept of warming a frozen pizza in the oven–and as a result, nearly burnt down the house.

Keep scrolling to read all the details of how one man was shocked by the fire department at his house after his numbskull girlfriend decided to make dinner.

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    "Easy right? ...Nope" 88 000
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    AITA for calling my girlfriend a dumbass and taking away her key after she almost burned my house down.
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    My girlfriend wanted a pizza. I have really good frozen pizzas from the local Italian market. They are made fresh and if you do them up on a pizza stone the come out perfect.
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    I have made these for us many times. It is a simple process. You take the pizza stone and put it in the oven let the oven preheat. Put the pizza on the paddle and slide it onto the hot stone. Once
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    it's ready you slide the paddle under the pizza and pull it out. Put it on the carving board and cut it. Easy right? Nope.
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    My pizza stone was dirty, it is scorched not dirty, so her brilliant idea was to make the pizza on my plastic cutting board.
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    Because that way she could just take the cutting board out with oven mitts and cut the pizza without having to use all the tools.
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    I got home to see black smoke coming out of my house and my girlfriend on the phone with 911. My dog is not on his leash and he's going crazy.
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    I go to the front door to see if it's hot in the house or if I can see flames. No flames, no heat. I get to the stove and turn it off. I open the sliding door to let out more smoke and get my leash on the way out.
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    The firefighters are there within five minutes and the smoke is already dissipating. They go in to make sure. All clear.
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    Thank god they were there less than an hour. It is covered by the city. If it was over an hour I would have been charged for the response.
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    My oven is though. And I have a lot of smoke damage to clean up. I told my girlfriend I was glad she was okay but that she is a dumbass and she wasn't allowed in my house alone for
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    a while. I took her key away. We do not live together. But she has roommates and likes having a big house to herself on her days off. She says that it's a mistake anyone could make and that
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    I'm an for calling her names. Yes she said those words. She says it's my fault for not just getting microwave pizza and having to eat fancy.
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    Laines Ecossaises 1 day ago Pooperintendant [67] ΝΤΑ A 24 y.o. who doesn't know you can't put a plastic cutting board in the oven is a dumbass. She didn't apologize, she thinks you're too fancy for wanting non-microwaved pizza, seems like she likes having your house to herself more than she likes you.
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    Charming Eye_2631 OP 1 day ago I have silicone stuff that can go in the oven. I guess that was the thought process. 9.6k Reply Share FeuerroteZora 1 day ago Enthusiast [5] Calling it a thought process is generous.
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    Kami_Sang 1 day ago Aficionado [19] NTA - lol that she thinks this is a mistake a regukar thinking adult would make...is she going to clean and pay for the damage?
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    Uncynical_Diogenes 1 day ago Regular thinking adults get forgiven when they help me replace my oven. Until then, they're a dumbass.
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    GoodPiexox 1 day ago NTA. Normally I hate posts when people encourage a break up, but trying to put a plastic board in the oven is such next level dumb I would feel anxiety about all the other basic I might have to explain, like does she know not to drink the toilet water, or the dog can not answer the telephone etc.
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    thedellis 1 day ago I can see her frantically scrabbling trying to find her phone when she gets trapped by the toilet lid falling on her head as she drinks from the bowl.
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    LandPlatypus 1 day ago 1. Get a new oven. The one you have is permanently damaged from the fumes released by the plastic. Don't continue to use it and risk poisoning yourself.
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    2. Consider if you really have a future with the GF. I just... absent some kind of external factors like "she was working insane hours and going on 3 hours of sleep for the last week," I just can't understand how a 24 year old can be so very, very stupid.
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    Calling her a "dumbass" wasn't nice, but if the situation and explanation is as you described in your post, NTA.
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