Woman almost burns boyfriend's house down by heating plastic in his oven: 'Heating frozen pizza in the oven correctly is outside her scope of abilities'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 21, 2025 8:00 AM EST

Not everyone should be allowed to cook. There is a reason why some people spend the majority of their budgets on meals at restaurants. It's not always because of laziness. Sometimes, it's out of pure safety because some folks do not know the first thing to do with a pot, a pan, a stove, or an oven.

Hopefully, those of us who identify with this sentiment can slowly evolve. Personally, I could only trust myself with cooking eggs and pasta outside of heating up frozen meals for the first 24 years of my life. It was not until I carved out the time to follow recipes and educate myself on how to cook well that I slowly gained more confidence in the kitchen. For the longest time, I thought everyone can make those improvements once they devoted the time.

However, clearly, not everyone is up to this task. This guy's girlfriend, for instance, could not even heat up a frozen pizza in his oven without almost causing a serious fire. Her story at least makes me feel a lot better about my cooking evolution.

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  • This dude entrusted his partner with heating up a frozen pizza in the oven while he was out of the apartment. After all, she had seen him do it several times before. Evidently, there were some clear no-no's regarding oven usage that she was not aware of before it was too late. Putting a plastic cutting board in the oven apparently was not something she knew would be troublesome. 

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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.
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    Once 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 fed 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 dumb ☐ and she wasn't allowed in my house alone for 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.
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    She says that it's a mistake anyone could make and that I'm an a☐ole 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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  • Although nothing serious ended up transpiring, clearly, this conflict had an effect on the relationship, as the guy took his girlfriend's key to his apartment away from her and they had an intense argument afterward. One has to wonder if this is the first time a frozen pizza has almost destroyed not just an apartment but also a relationship!

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    Does anyone else want pizza now?

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    Kami_Sang 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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    BackgroundShower40... NTA. And get a new girlfriend. She should have apologized.
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    GoodPiexox . 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 sh 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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    LandPlatypus 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 "dumb" wasn't nice, but if the situation and explanation is as you described in your post, NTA.
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    Dittoh forever You're NTA She says that it's a mistake anyone could make Maybe if they're as h☐ as a kite, she has a point. But anyone over the age of 5 knows plastic melts.
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    She says it's my fault for not just getting microwave pizza and having to eat fancy. If heating frozen pizza in the oven correctly is outside her scope of abilities, you're not the problem.
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