Life POWNED me a moment ago...
 

I was making dinner. Hmmm...Spaghetti Bolones.

I heated the oven, poured the oil in the pot...and left. I burned a few DVDs, browsed a few boards. Meanwhile my kitchen was bursting in flames. The oil ignited and burned like hell! :gonk:

I stormed in, in panic and searched for something to cover the bucked. Nothing! I tried to put it out on the balcony and burned my fingers twice. Finally I got grip of my Ikea frying pan. I covered the pot and ran outside and put it down.

After the shock I lit a cigarette...but it was not over. With fear I remembered the carpet on my balcony. To late...

Now my pot is damaged beyond repair (but it has carpet now :D ), my flat smells like the nine hells, I'm hungry, my fingers are hurting and my carpet has an perfect circled hole in it...

Sometimes it sucks to be me. :sweatdrop

P.S. If you like to help, send me an new pot. :rolleyes:

Looks like a crop circle to me! Although I guess you could call it a carpet circle. Either way, I think it's a sign...

Personally, I think that looks epic cool!

Otherwise: it's you're own fault for leaving oil on the kitchen and leaving the room.

Yeah, life didn't pwn you, your own time management skills did!

That being said, I've done the same thing.

Yeah, you gotta admit you were kinda asking for it by leaving an oven completely unattended.

Look at it this way.

Nobody died, and you now have a story out of this. So long as you don't make another stupid mistake like it, you'll be fine.

...can't help you much with that pot, though.

[asshole] Thats what you get for smoking! [/asshole]

I'm impressed that he thought to take a picture, just in case we didn't believe him, and include a broom in said picture for scale. That's keeping a level head. Now, running outside with a pot of burning oil, that wasn't so level-headed.

Keep the pot. It has carpet on the bottom now, right? Flip it upside down and ta-da! ottoman.

It's not a pot anymore it's a Art Nuveau-Deco-Noir Vase

By "business," I mean natural selection.
 

Wait.
Why was the pot in the oven? (erm, I think you mean "stove" here)

Never leave the area of the kitchen when making anything that takes less than an hour before you need to intervene. This is especially true with boiling, since that's a really quick process that you can easily get distracted from watching by leaving.

As for the hot pot? Why not put it in the sink and douse it with cold water? Are you unfortunate to the point that your stove is nowhere near your sink? What about hot pads? Or an un-used burner (I suppose the latter depends on how much of your kitchen actually was on fire)?

It reads as if you made a series of potentially inferior decisions. Perhaps Nature was attempting to take care of business.