I'm glad you're OK. Yes, pasta BURNS! I've used spaghetti like long matches, to light candles.

To paraphrase Jaws, "You're gonna need a bigger pot".

What?? How can that be, when it was in the water? Did some dry pasta spill out of the pot onto the burner?

It wasn't fully submerged yet. Even in large enough pot, there's a little time when some dry ends stick up out of the water, until they get pushed down in as they soften up.

That's spectacular, too bad you didn't get a picture. Flaming pasta!!

Scary!

I never heard of that happening. You have to watch angel hair, it only takes 3-4 minuets at most

Hah! Pretty funny! I did set my toaster oven on fire once. I remember looking over at it and thinking, funny, I don't remember there being a light in the toaster oven. Then I realized it was burning inside! A piece of dried bread hit the element and it was toast...well, more than toast!

Adding to the pyrogenic theme...........smoke coming out the back of the waffle iron last week!

Ha! I did start a small fire once while boiling spaghetti. I used to add a small amount of cooking oil to the water so the pasta wouldn't stick together. The pot boiled over and I guess there was enough oil in the water to catch on fire. A few small flames were shooting up the side of the wall next to the stove. I put it out quickly, finished boiling the spaghetti and no one knew!!

LOL I read it aloud to my husband!! Glad you're okay, though!

I'm teaching my 9 year old son how to cook and he lit a pot holder on fire last weekend. It freaked him out and I had to talk him down to get him to try cooking again.

Don't feel bad....I burned popcorn in the microwave.

Stuff happens.

We used to have a really sensitive smoke alarm when we were growing up. My brothers bought me a sign for Christmas one year. "Food is done when the smoke alarm goes off".

Another popcorn in microwave story, tho not really a fire?!? My Dad was a stubborn man. We 3 kids kept trying to convince him that he really should get a microwave. He lived alone after we 1-by-1 moved out... what he wanted. He finally relented and declared that he/I were going to Delaware (no sales tax) to buy one. I took a packet of microwave popcorn to use as a demo. Not only did he like the speed but popcorn became his new snack of choice. When he discovered the unpopped kernels, went a little Mad Scientist?!? He put unpopped kernels in bag and decided to re-pop... good idea but WRONG bag. He put them in a plastic food storage bag. By the time the kernels got to popping temp, they melted the bag to a molten blob, which proceeded to neatly crack the glass plate inside right down the center! Microwave was less than a week old!

I'm embarrassed to expound on me burning popcorn.....but....I will tell what I did. First of all, I almost never use the microwave. Second, I almost never eat popcorn. I am old fashioned and I always made popcorn on top of the stove. So I got some microwave popcorn. I decided to fix some. I didn't have on my readers and I thought it said in the directions 7 minutes and 45 seconds. I thought that seemed a little long, but what do I know? (Nothing, obviously.) To be careful, I set it for 7 minutes. Went in the bedroom, came out about six minutes later.....the kitchen, filled with smoke, smoke pouring out of the microwave. The popcorn and bag was a single, large lump of charcoal. Inside the microwave, stained very brown. I was able to scrub some of it off, but it is permanently discolored, but the microwave still works. I put on my glasses and saw that the 7 I thought I saw was really a 2. Kind of ruined my appetite for popcorn. ;)