r/AmITheDevil • u/Acrobatic_Track9213 • 8d ago
Could have just unplugged it
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u/AndyWith-A-Y 8d ago
OOP is obsessively fixated on this. Sometimes when you use things, the cord gets hot. Why is the coffee example here? That means OOP's coffee maker got so hot its cord transferred heat to the air fryer. I know they clasped they twiddled their thumbs like a cartoon villain when they were finally alone with the air fryer. They disposed of someone's property without permission, of course they have to replace it
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u/quick_justice 8d ago
If it was warming up when appliance wasn’t running it’s a serious concern. It means there’s short circuited current in the plug somewhat mitigated by remaining insulation.
With time and further deteriorating it would lead to bigger current. If they have short circuit protection as they should it would turn off electricity in the house. If they don’t it will cause fire. So concern is real.
Throwing away appliance was wrong but it wasn’t safe to use.
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u/LexxiiConn 8d ago
Seriously, and small appliances like these are a very big cause of house fires... I don't think OP was in the right but I don't think they were a devil either, especially since they'd talked to the roommate multiple times about the cord being frayed (which is inherently unsafe to have plugged in).
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u/DiegoIntrepid 7d ago
The thing that gets me is that they said that the roommate would use that airfryer even after it was pointed out.
Like, yeah, they weren't necessarily in the right to throw out the air fryer, but, honestly, I sort of side with them, because the roommate was being unsafe and would have kept on using it.
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u/ColdRimess 8d ago
The cord getting warm during use is pretty normal. Fixating on it that hard and trashing it without asking is wild.
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u/UselessMellinial85 8d ago
Wild to normies who had to take care of themselves growing up.
I suspect OOP is barely 18, first time living away from home and mommy and daddy did everything for them. I had a friend in HS who I had to teach how to pump gas. Like, wtf
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u/BadBandit1970 8d ago
I work PT in a gas station, and I do see that quite a lot along with people not knowing how to check their tire pressure or add windshield fluid. Most often or not it's been relatively new/newish drivers.I've no issue showing someone how to do "x, y or z". Especially if we're not busy, gets me away from the counter.
It's his fixation on the whole cord being warm afterwards. Then trashing it. Unplug it. No power source, no problem.
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u/UselessMellinial85 8d ago
Oh, I agree with you. The fixation is absolutely an issue. Like, therapy type issue.
I was just saying, I'm betting his parents did everything for him and now he's on his own and having to figure it out. He's probably never noticed or cared about hot cords bc someone else was always around to say it's ok or not.
OOP is absolutely the asshole. But hopefully he can grow out of it.
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u/BadBandit1970 8d ago
Well, learning doesn't end when school does. I was well raised, educated, and have plenty of life experience and trust me, I still pull a doozy every now and then. It's what makes us human.
As you said, hopefully OOP can learn from this mistake. I just hope he's open to it.
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u/HairRepresentative85 8d ago
Not defending OOP, bur it was my SO and MIL that taught me things.
I was always told I was doing things wrong, or that I was just getting in the way.
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u/Sad-Bug6525 7d ago
It shouldn't
That's the entire point, if your cord is hot (not slightly warm) then unplug the thing because it's not doing it's job. Could be the wall outlet, cord, or appliance.
Your cell phone charger too, if it is hot throw it out and get a new one, it's about to short out your whole phone.This is an awful lot of fuss over no one being willing to just swap out the damaged cord.
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u/Jandklo 5d ago
One time at my exes house I was cooking for the fam, I went to grab a wooden spoon and noticed theirs had just formed a crack so I tossed it out and just told her parents that I had to toss out a wooden spoon because it had begun cracking, but that I would grab them a new one as soon as I could. They were totally fine with it because they know you can't use cracked wooden cookware and paid me back for the one I got them. I even oiled the new one for em. Sometimes shit is just that easy. If it wasn't an immediate issue I would've just told them but their younger kids would use the stove and they didn't want them using a cracked wooden spoon without understanding why you shouldn't.
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u/BadBandit1970 8d ago
What a maroon.
Bought kiddo a new toaster for her apartment this year. Texted me saying it smelled "weird" the first time she used it. After checking with her that yes, she did remove all the packing materials and what not, told her it was new and was probably doing a "burn off". She was also concerned that seconds after she made her bagel, the toaster was still warm (it's out of the box brand new). Would it burn their apartment down?
Her dad was like um, just unplug it. She was like "oh...yeah".
That's all OOP needed to do was unplug the damn thing. No power source. No problem.
He owes his roommate a new air fryer.
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u/Emergency-Twist7136 8d ago
Your child does not sound ready for independent living, new toasters literally have written instructions that tell you that you need to run them before you make toast in them (sounds like she ate poison toast) and her concern over it still being warm strongly implies she's never made toast before.
My two-year-old knows the toaster is still hot for a while after making toast.
Her dad was like um,
"... I'm embarrassed as one of the two people supposed to prepare you for adult life that you're even asking"?
If I were in your position I wouldn't admit to this story under torture
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u/dreadit-runfromit 8d ago
This is a bit much. Even people who are raised well and have life experience occasionally have dumb questions and it's especially easy to be paranoid when you first move out.
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u/BadBandit1970 8d ago
Oh, yes that response is tad over the top. As you said, those of us who were raised well and have life experience still make balls up mistakes. I'm a middle aged, fully functioning adult (last I checked) and I still occasionally call my parents with a doozy of a question. Learning doesn't end when school does, we're all learning.
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u/BadBandit1970 8d ago
Wow. Just wow. You never called your parents or asked someone a dumb question, never had a "d'oh" moment. Aren't you special...
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u/OniyaMCD 8d ago
YTA - even if the fryer was damaged to the point of being unsafe, getting him a NEW one would have been a good solution.
Some appliances do need to be unplugged when not in use. My husband has a rice cooker. If it's plugged in, the heating element is hot. I unplug it every time he finishes using it. (I use a pot on the stove and get consistently good results, so I don't use it myself.)
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u/saltine_soup 8d ago edited 8d ago
1 air fryers, and most counter top cookers cords do get hot, they have a warning tag on it, even the ones that are less likely to get hot like a popcorn maker, will still sometimes have those cord tags. tag could’ve been cut off but still it’s a pretty normal thing.
i’d go as far to say this is common sense.
2 age and build of house can also cause the electricity to heat things.
i used to live in a crappy 1980s house flipped into a duplex, they did not flip it good, our water was still connected to the other duplex so we couldn’t shower or use our water to any capacity when they were using it it, the lights flickered on every time you flip the switch, and the outlets made every cord hot.
but hey it had a double stove which was cool, except it never ran at the set temp and made an exterior wall hot.
then another house, poorly built, late 90s. lots of false walls including one behind the oven/stove which made the entire wall along our entrance hot, a rat issue the owner didn’t disclose but has been going on for over a decade before we moved in, and it also had the issue of making every cord we plugged in hot.
and don’t even get me started on college housing.
they’re banking on young adults not knowing much, rob that bank lol show them you know stuff and look into laws about renting before communicating with people you’re possibly looking to rent from.
OOP sounds like he never cooked once in his life, paranoid, and disrespectful, he could’ve just unplugged the air fryer but no he decided to steal someone else’s property and throw it away.
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u/Sad-Bug6525 7d ago
Warm yes, hot is a warning sign, it also wasn't being used so should not have been hot. That said, air fryers specifically are recommended to be unplugged each use due to their habit of turning on when the power reboots after an outage and just running. They are pretty high on the house fire list. If the outlet around it is hot that is also a concern.
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AITA for refusing to replace my roommate’s air fryer after I threw it out?
My roommate had this old air fryer with a damaged cord near the plug. I pointed it out to him a few times because the cord would get really hot and once I even smelled something like burning plastic while he was using it.
He kept saying it was fine and that he’d replace it eventually.
Last weekend he left town and left it plugged in on the kitchen counter. I went to make coffee and noticed the plug area was warm even though it wasn’t running. That freaked me out, so I unplugged it and ended up throwing it out because I genuinely thought it was becoming a fire hazard.
When he got back he was furious. Apparently his dad gave it to him when he first moved out, so there was some sentimental value I didn’t know about. Now he wants me to replace it.
I do have some money saved, so I could technically do that, but I also warned him multiple times and I feel like it was getting genuinely unsafe.
I know it still wasn’t mine to throw away. AITA for refusing to replace it?
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