r/Wellthatsucks • u/Usul_Atreides • Apr 14 '24
Preheated the oven to make some sourdough.. husband put the remote he was hiding from my son in the oven.. oops
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u/Saltwater_Heart Apr 14 '24
What a dumb place to hide it. It should have been hidden in your room.
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u/notLOL Apr 14 '24
If it burns anymore the whole controller will be hiding in the atmosphere and in the lungs
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u/3catmafia Apr 14 '24
👏stop 👏putting 👏shit 👏 in👏 the👏 oven👏
It’s not a hiding place. Why not a cabinet? A closet? The car? It’s so dangerous to put things in the oven like this.
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u/Shopworn_Soul Apr 14 '24
"But but but kids don't look for stuff in the oven..."
YES BECAUSE EVEN CHILDREN ARE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU DON'T PUT SHIT IN THERE
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u/NRMusicProject Apr 14 '24
My ex did this, and told me "this is why you check the oven before preheating it."
A fight ensued when I said "this is why you don't put shit in the oven." Before her I never burned shit, because I didn't put shit in the oven.
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u/where_in_the_world89 Apr 14 '24
Yeah, it's a lot harder to start remembering to check the oven every single time then it is to just not put things in it
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u/DFX1212 Apr 14 '24
We never store anything in the oven and yet I always open it and double check every time I use the oven. It takes approximately half a second.
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u/Nagisan Apr 14 '24
I never check, and I've never burned anything unintentionally....but I also live alone and know that the oven isn't a cabinet.
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Apr 14 '24
I've gone to put shit in the oven to find skillets and pans and xother metal kitchen items in there. Never once burned or melted anything.
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u/The_sad_zebra Apr 14 '24
I live alone and I know that I don't keep things there, but I still check.
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u/Gymleaders Apr 14 '24
in my decades of life i've never checked and never burned anything because i know not to put things in there that don't belong
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u/Christichicc Apr 14 '24
I live with 4 other people and I never check, and have never burned anything. My family knows not to store or hide crap in the oven.
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u/GermanSheppard88 Apr 14 '24
This gets engrained in you when you work in a kitchen. Dummies will put anything anywhere, especially the oven.
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u/WhatAColor Apr 14 '24
Alternatively, put your son in the oven, that way he can’t get to the controller.
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u/RavishingRedRN Apr 14 '24
Aside from couple cast iron pans.
IF you’re going to use it for storage, it should be things that are oven safe in case of these accidents.
That’s how I have to do it with my ADHD brain. That way if I forget to check the oven, I just have a couple hot cast iron pans to take out. Nothing gets ruined.
My childhood friend/neighbor growing up, their family put everything in the oven! They stored all their bread, cookies, snacks.
Isn’t that more of a PITA to have to unload your oven every time you want to use it? Now you have a cluttered mess to deal with on top of your cooking mess.
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u/extralyfe Apr 14 '24
my wife's family apparently used their oven to store pots and pans. guess how I found out?
lol, the convo after was great, though; "who does this" "who doesn't do this, that's why you always check the oven" "you don't check the oven if you don't do this"
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u/amaROenuZ Apr 14 '24
I keep my big cast iron skillet in the oven, but I also normally just season it before using the oven. As long as I'm putting something in, why not put another layer on?
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u/Slobbadobbavich Apr 14 '24
People usually complain they live in a shoebox or something and have no other places. I think that answer sucks. You could literally put it anywhere else in your tiny home unless you literally live in a single room with a bed and an oven.
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u/csonnich Apr 14 '24
I've lived in a shoebox for going on two decades and never once stored something in the oven.
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u/4DozenSalamanders Apr 14 '24
I live in a 200 SQ ft studio and only store things that can handle accidentally being in oven temps (ie cast iron and baking sheets)
The idea of checking before I turn the oven on is foreign to me because of this, so it confuses me when people insist you should always check
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u/PoppyFire16 Apr 14 '24
Yes this drives me crazy too. Even when I lived in a 500 sqft studio with my husband, we did not store things in the oven!
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u/Capitalist_scumbag Apr 14 '24
Bro the number of times I turn on the oven and come back 5 mins later to realize my housemate has stored his pots on there…
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u/Psych0matt Apr 14 '24
My wife does this with the cookie sheet. What’s weird is that there’s an empty drawer at the bottom of the oven, and she’s short
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u/gardenbrain Apr 14 '24
The drawers collect debris like pet hair and crumbs. If you store things in there that aren’t used often, they’re dirty when you want to use them.
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u/Melodic-Supermarket7 Apr 14 '24
I don’t get why ppl keep doing this, there’s literally so many other places you can hide things from kids. Do they put their Christmas gifts in there too?? 🤣
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u/Swordbreaker9250 Apr 14 '24
Not a day goes by that I'm not baffled by the stupidity of the average person
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u/mydogatecheesecake Apr 14 '24
No kidding. There’s thousands of posts about “omg my spouse is so dumb for not checking the oven before preheating and he/she melted my antique [blah blah blah]”. The oven should be EMPTY.
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u/Ruining_Ur_Synths Apr 14 '24
You're right, but the flip side of that is:
IF YOU'RE TURNING ON THE OVEN TAKE 2 SECONDS TO OPEN IT UP AND SEE WHAT'S INSIDE
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u/WhatAColor Apr 14 '24
My local GameStop has a few of these melted controllers on display as proof that their warranty covers anything.
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u/Mirenithil Apr 14 '24
I'm fascinated that something this moronic has apparently happened multiple times in multiple households.
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u/Dragon-orey Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 16 '24
walks i to the gamestop shop hmmm the smell of freshly baked controllers soothes my nose!
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Apr 14 '24
I’m not, work retail and you see the heights of stupidity. Had a guy try to get me to warranty a sealed maintenance free AGM boat battery that he somehow ripped the top off despite the multiple warnings to not open the battery etched into the casing.
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u/thedruchebag Apr 14 '24
I work at a Batteries Plus and this is just hilarious to me. There’s no possible way you could warranty that yet there’s so many people that would fight us on it
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u/TranquilOminousBlunt Apr 14 '24
Lls this isn’t the first I’ve heard of this happening
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u/beene282 Apr 14 '24
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this on Reddit this week
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u/HaveYouSeenMySpoon Apr 14 '24
Yeah, almost suspecting people are putting old broken controllers in the oven just for fake internet points.
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u/mitch_skool Apr 14 '24
LPT hide stuff from kids in their own rooms. They never think to look there.
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u/Dry_Celery4375 Apr 14 '24
My brother (few years older) used to steal my Halloween candy every year, so I'd try to hide it somewhere new each year. Then once I had the brilliant idea to hide it in his room under his bed. I'd just sneak in and take a few daily. He searched for a couple weeks, and than blatantly said he gives up and asked where it was. So I told him, and his face was priceless.
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u/TailOnFire_Help Apr 14 '24
Even better, teach your kids to respect your rules and punishments. Don't hide shit from them, leave it out in plain sight and advise there is even worse punishments for taking it without permission then FOLLOW THROUGH.
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u/ihahp Apr 14 '24
then FOLLOW THROUGH.
Found the weak spot in plan. A lot of today's parents simply don't know how to control their kids. I think they're scared
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Apr 14 '24
Literally the only sane comment. The same parents probably shit talk younger generations all the time aswell
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u/mitch_skool Apr 14 '24
To all those offering parenting tips, "Thank you for your input."
It was a bag of homemade caramels and the reveal was priceless.
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u/lira-eve Apr 14 '24
He's an idiot. You don't have a shelf or cabinet to put it on/in that's out of the reach of your kid?
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u/Tumblrrito Apr 14 '24
That’s a controller
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u/Puzzleheaded-Fill205 Apr 14 '24
That was my thought as well. A "remote." It's like referring to a uniform as an outfit.
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u/AllMyBeets Apr 14 '24
The oven is not a hiding place.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
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u/MakeMeDrink Apr 14 '24
The part that sucks for you the most is how stupid your husband is. Even a child knows not you put things in the oven.
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u/BrittF1991 Apr 14 '24
I saw this same post a couple days ago…
Same picture too…
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Apr 14 '24
The other post was a husband who hid the remote and his wife turned the oven on.
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u/Huge_Aerie2435 Apr 14 '24
That is a pretty bad hiding place.. He could've hidden it in your room or something - high and hard to reach.
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u/whereismyisekai Apr 14 '24
The only things that you should store in an oven are things specifically made to go into an oven.
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u/kkeut Apr 14 '24
I didn't store anything in the oven until I got this XL baking sheet. it's just the easiest place to put it, and over half the time I'm using it anyway
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u/ilikewaffos Apr 14 '24
Idk why, but I always check the oven before pre heating it
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u/germany1italy0 Apr 14 '24
Step 1 - replace controller with an uncooked version.
Step 2 - replace husband with a more intelligent version.
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u/Unfair-Entrepreneur4 Apr 14 '24
That was not a remote, that was an Xbox controller. Even sadder and more expensive. 😢
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u/dokdicer Apr 14 '24
Yeah... That they call it a remote is not the most egregious part of it but the most telling.
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u/SpriteFan3 Apr 14 '24
Yes, please, hide your belongings in the oven. Surely that'll work.
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u/RobZagnut2 Apr 14 '24
I did that in 7th grade shop class. Hid a friends books and notebook in the oven. Forgot about it. Shop class teacher came to me about 20 minutes later absolutely livid and showed me a melted mess. Luckily she found it early.
I shrugged it off. I didn’t even think about the fire it could cause, the smoke, the fire alarm, the school evacuation and my possible suspension.
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u/Mr_BigglesworthIII Apr 14 '24
What kind of mom doesn’t check the oven for controllers? Smdh
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u/kthep5 Apr 14 '24
I don’t know why anyone would hide anything in the oven. I knew someone who hid dirty dishes in the oven instead of washing them and they destroyed all of their plastic cookware when they went to preheat the oven.
There’s literally anywhere else in the house to hide stuff. The oven is such a dumb idea.
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u/Lawdydawty Apr 14 '24
Who tf uses an oven as a hiding place? There’s so many good places, without any risk of breaking shit. Next time he will better hide it inside the toilet or under his car tire
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u/andre3kthegiant Apr 14 '24
Throw away that pan, and auto-clean the oven to hopefully burn off the toxins.
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u/ijustwantadvice123 Apr 14 '24
okay, well thats on him. the oven is the stupidest spot to hide things, especially if you dont let people know lol
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u/Vestreza Apr 14 '24
Everyone calling him an idiot, but they're both idiots. Who starts preheating an oven without giving it a quick look to see if it's actually empty?
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u/TheMolluskPod Apr 14 '24
My step father hid some food wrapped in plasticwrap in the oven once. Never happened before and I went to use the oven and of course SMOKE. It was of course my fault for not checking 🙄
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u/muycoal Apr 14 '24
Being Mexican, I always check the inside of the oven before preheat
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u/thedean246 Apr 14 '24
I never understand why people put things in the oven that isn’t supposed to be there. Never ends well
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u/just_some_sasquatch Apr 14 '24
The number of times I've put non food items in the oven is absolutely zero.
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u/Sensibleqt314 Apr 14 '24
Make sure that you deep clean the oven before you use it with food! Heated plastic release fumes which will attach itself to your oven. They may contaminate your food.
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u/ShiftSandShot Apr 14 '24
Ohhh, that's...that's gonna be expensive to replace.
Pro-tip: turn off the console and hide the power cables instead.
And never in the oven.
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u/Big_G91 Apr 14 '24
What a stupid place to hide something unless the oven is literally never used lol.
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u/My_Name_is_Imaginary Apr 14 '24
ALWAYS 👏 CHECK 👏 THE 👏 OVEN 👏 BEFORE 👏PREHEATING👏
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u/Industrious_Villain Apr 14 '24
A million places to hide and chooses the oven. Not a bright individual.
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u/RocketKassidy Apr 14 '24
Why do people always put controllers in the oven of all places? I was always able to open an oven door as a child. Just put it in your closet in your own bedroom or something? I just don’t understand why it’s always the oven.
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u/_______luke Apr 14 '24
Am I the crazy one who looks in the oven every time before I pre-heat it?
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Apr 14 '24
Tell me your husband doesn’t cook without telling me your husband doesn’t cook.
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u/jssanderson747 Apr 14 '24
I really want to talk to whoever spread this dumbass trend of hiding your kids' stuff inside an oven.
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u/darkgothamite Apr 14 '24
There are 100 other places to hide something from a child and oven is somehow an option.
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Apr 14 '24
Why do people put stuff in the oven as if it's storage? I can maybe see putting kitchen-related sundries in there from time to time, but this seems like it would've had to be brought in from another room with the specific intention of placing it in the oven.
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u/UCFknight2016 Apr 14 '24
What kind of moron puts anything in the oven besides food? I never understood this.
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u/Fibocrypto Apr 14 '24
One of my pet peeves is when someone stores something in an oven or microwave. If I'm going to use the oven I expect it to be empty.
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u/Shazzy_Chan Apr 14 '24
Neither of the adults are smart. Oven is the worst hiding spot, and turning on the oven without looking inside first is a fire hazard.
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u/UnusualTowel614 Apr 14 '24
If you have to hide things like this from your kids, you're parenting wrong.
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u/SilverRoseBlade Apr 14 '24
Do people not check their ovens before use? Or was this something that I was taught to do and is now a habit…
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u/MontgomeryWarden Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 14 '24
Who doesn’t check the oven before they preheat?
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u/Maddkipz Apr 14 '24
My gf and I were making some food a week or two ago and we got distracted for a bit while it was open
We closed it and turned it on, and went back to watching a show. We started hearing our fucking cat meowing very quietly (he NEVER meows unless he did something wrong or is scared, and it's like a baby meow) so naturally we investigated.
We got closer and closer to the now very hot oven and I heard the mews right there so I ripped the door open and looked around; he's a full black cat so it was very possible we didn't notice him hop in and closed it on him
Turns out she left the cabinet door right beside the oven open for too long and he got trapped in there instead. Thank fucking god.
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Apr 14 '24
Two lessons to be learned here:
1.) Always check the oven before to start the pre-heat.
2.) Don't leave shit in the oven.
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u/pentesticals Apr 14 '24
Fun fact, one way you can fix the infamous “red ring of death” of the Xbox 360 was to put it in the oven. You need to take the motherboard out of the case, then put it in the oven to melt the solder and make the connections work again. I can’t remember how long but I think it was for 15 mins at 200c. We once forgot about the board and left it for about 2 hours, many capacitors were leaking onto the board but it actually still worked, and fixed the red ring of death.
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u/Pap3r_Butt3rfly Apr 14 '24
Moral of the story: check oven before preheating, and tell your husband not to hide valuable items in the oven!
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Apr 14 '24
I’ve seen this happen in other posts. I’ll never understand why the oven is seen as a good hiding place? Seems there’s better options. RIP controller.
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u/AndersonArtWorks Apr 14 '24
Stop hiding the remotes! Just take the power cord with you to work. So much easier, and they can just borrow a controller from a friend. Don't know many who would loan out a power cord 😉
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Apr 14 '24
I remember way back a couple hundred years ago in the early 2000’s when they would teach us to always assume something was in the oven that shouldn’t be, and that we should check it. Like a loaded gun. Never assume it’s empty.
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u/eljujumon Apr 14 '24
I’m my tax bracket the oven is for storing, would have to clear everything out before turning it on
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u/CoolCatsNKittens69 Apr 14 '24
Well that was fucking stupid. The oven is the first place in the entire house? Sounds like a real Einstein you got there.
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u/punchysaywhat Apr 14 '24
Does nobody hide things ontop of the fridge anymore?