Lilliepad, I'm SO glad that nobody was hurt! The potential was certainly there. So, did that get you out of the kitchen and into a restaurant? Really, what a relief that everyone was unhurt.

So glad no one was hurt! Those dots for front and back burners are confusing. I have turned the wrong one on more then once!

Lillie, how about getting someone to mark the either the front, or the rear burner knob with a sharpie pen?

I had problems in my last house with the electric cooktop too.

I finally marked the rear burners red, and the left front blue.

Turned the wrong burner on to often before my color coding.

Meanwhile I am very glad no one was hurt.
Moni

lillie, so glad that no one was hurt. Can't remember which program I was watching last week, they were showing the glass dishes and how dangerous it would be on a hot burner, also, they were saying that putting the hot dish from the oven on a wet or cold surface could cause it to explode.

Glad you're okay. Something similar happened to me about a year after I moved into this house. I was making pancakes for breakfast and put a plate on a burner to keep the pancakes on until they were all done. I didn't realize I had turned the heat on low on that burner. I had Corelle plates and boy do those things blow! The plate was so hot, it melted into my linoleum. I no longer put anything on my stove unless it's got food in it and it needs to be heated.

Glad nobody got hurt. I once had a fire with my gas oven. There are heat vents at the back/top of the oven. I had stupidly laid a cloth potholder over the vent and it caught fire. Luckily I was right there and tossed it in a dishpan full of soapy water.

Oh, no. All that preparation and work, and then to have a big, scary explosion mess it all up. I would be having heart palpitations, for sure.

I hope you have a calm, peaceful day today.

You are not alone...and I am so glad no one was injured. Just two evenings ago, I turned on the wrong burner...not the first time...and DH saw it blazing red before I did. I need to color code those little dots, so thanks for that tip. I just read in the "Consumers Report" a long article about Pyrex and Corning ware; how they are made differently now days from years ago and how uncertain anyone is about their safety, new or old. I know that I have had the Corelle dishes break in our motor home (falling out of cabinets, so we now keep them in a drawer)...what a serious mess as we found slivers under our slide-out for a long time. Nanny

I'm so glad no one was hurt!!! You'll probably be cleaning up glass for a while!!!

How scary!! I love my gas range, but it's possible to turn on the wrong burner with gas, too. I know, because I've done it. Fortunately, I figured it out in time. Now I try to make sure I'm looking at the burner when it lights. Not so easy to do that with electric, I know.

I had that happen with a pyrex plate - didn't realize the burner was on.

It is such a sudden bang - I bet you WERE scared out of your wits!

Mine burnt my lino floor. It left brown marks. I tried to pick up the bigger pieces (not many big ones -all slivers!) and burnt my fingers. HOT HOT HOT>

So glad no one was hurt.

I can see why you were scared... I woulda peed my britches for sure... but I am glad that nobody got hurt.. Glass flying around could have been a lot more serious especially super heated glass...

I once had a scare when my dad tossed down a rag that had some kerosene on it.. onto my gas stove.. it was off, but still hot hot hot from my boiling some taters... adn poof, it exploded into flames... Daddy grabbed it and tossed it into the sink, but it caught mom's curtains on fire and those got jerked down into the sink as well... Talk about heart palpitations..

We all have had some scares in our days I reckon.. but again.. sure glad nobody was hurt..

Carolyn

That is scary and how lucky you weren't hurt. It's happened to me too... I took my dish out of the oven and set it on a hot burner by accident and it exploded. No one was hurt in that incident either, I was really glad that my DD (4 years old at the time) was in another room.

I didn't get to go to a restaurant to eat but I DIDN'T go back in the kitchen for a long time! LOL I had only fried 3 steaks and was taking them out when it happened.The pan waiting to be fried was sitting on the counter a couple of feet away from the stove.The steaks were stacked and DD was able to save all but the 2 on top and the ones I had already cooked.Just as a precaution she washed all of the others off real good.
Moni-I have thought about marking them but figured with all the grease it probably wouldn't stay on.I will try that though.
I have had accidents before with grease burning and pot holders catching on fire but nothing ever scared me that bad before.One time I put a Pyrex dish straight from the refrigerator into the oven and it broke but not like this.
We have tile floors.Guess that's the only thing that saved the floor because the glass was still hot several minutes later.I don't even want to think about what "could" have happened,especially if one of the babies had been in here!

Oh lilliepad! Thank the Lord no one was hurt! Take the knob from the back burners and mark them, use a bright nail lacquer, so that you instantly know those are the back burners. That is very frightening!

Instead of using markets could you use something like the different colors of electric tape? Markers may not stay. then use marker on them like left front right front etc.
I too have turned on my electric top wrong and wonder why my food is not cooking. But could you adjust the stove so you can see the top better if that is a problem, or??