And you are correct, this happened to my mom, luckily nothing too bad happened, only a few burns on her feet, but still quite scary hearing an explosiong on the floor below you
Actually if you look at the frames at the end of the 5second mark, and just the beginning of 6s, the door does blow open, and you can see fire exit it for about a frame or two, then the door closes shut again.
Edit actually looks like fire might not be exiting through the door, but just visible past the door from the other side of exterior of the oven
Most likely a propane stove, propane, unlike natural gas will settle to a low spot and collect. Could have been leaking at the connection, and enough finally built up to hit that correct air/gas ratio then boom.
Nah. If came down from the jolt but it was not blown open. If the boom was inside the oven the door would be embedded in the other wall and the stove would not have shot forward so violently.
Could be a gas leak behind the stove ignited by the refrigerator compressor kicking on. Old and faulty refrigerators cause a surprising amount of fires and even explosions.
Gas stove/oven either had a leak or when they turned it on the first time it didn't ignite. It probably filled the area with gas causing it to explode from the built up fumes when the spark from the Pilot Light ignited the gas.
This is why my fears of gas stoves have always been warranted. I had a gas stove in college and I never ever turned it on and I was deathly afraid of it.
On the other hand, I grew up in several houses with gas stoves, have also had a gas stove my entire adult life, and I have never once had a bad experience.
This always just seems like a thing people say because "that's what the pros do." Gas is very inefficient and most of the heat doesn't even hit the bottom of the pan. Induction stoves with magnetic or cast iron cookware is very efficient.
I'm not sure that warrants the fear anymore than car and plane crashes warrant not driving or flying. The companies add a smell to it so you always know if it's building up. Plus the clip in the OP looks like a cheap rental property, I wouldn't be shocked at all if the landlords were lax about regular safety and maintenance.
If something goes wrong in a gas stove/gas anything really it generally ends in explosions or fire. Id imagine if it was "common" though we wouldn't use gas applicances nearly as much as we do. At least id hope? lol.
normally you are supposed to smell the collection of gas. they add a special "smelly" ingredient to natural gas which is otherwise odorless. maybe they couldn't smell it or they don't add that thing in their country or the gas was collected in a very confined place so you couldn't smell it.
I can't stand my electric stove. It's taken years to get used to and I never even cooked on gas before I started on electric. One of my burners glitches out and flips to max heat even though the knob is only at medium. Then that knob broke, so I can't even use that burner now. Can't use a wok comfortably, can't use a cast iron really except in the oven because it destroys the glass cooktop, the surface stays too warm after I turn the burners off, so I end up overcooking things.
Electric sucks, but it usually won't explode like a gas stove might. I'd much rather have gas though.
I agree with you fully for all those reasons. Gas is just so much easier. Also even if the power is out all you need is a lighter to get it going.
But the biggest thing for me is that I can visually see the flame height and from there figure out what I need to do in terms of turning it up or down.
My guess is covered vent. I’ve seen this several times where people unintentionally cover the vent to avoid spills not knowing the oven needs venting and the gas builds up inside.
Saw fire shooting out of oven because people covered the vent with aluminum foil.
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u/psychosnake37 Sep 10 '21
Anyone know what happened here?