At The Mothership we use some kind of weird appliance to heat foods. It heats foods very quickly but is NOT a microwave; it definitely uses a heating element of some sort.
We put a piece of heat-resistant paper under the food item for the sake of hygiene.
You can see where this is going, right ...
Customer orders a brownie and asks to have it warmed. I pop it into the warmer. Warmer beeps after a few seconds and I open the door to pull out the brownie.
Turns out I'd put the paper in at an odd angle. One corner was touching the back of the appliance and, apparently, the heating element. Little flames were dancing on one corner of the paper.
We use long-handled tongs to remove food from this appliance. So visualize me yanking brownie and paper out really really fast and frantically waving them around to try to douse the flames.
It didn't work, of course. The ambient air just encouraged the flames to spread.
Finally I dropped the whole mess into the nearest sink, turned on the faucet, and said to the customer, "I'm really sorry but I'm gonna have to do this again."
We put a piece of heat-resistant paper under the food item for the sake of hygiene.
You can see where this is going, right ...
Customer orders a brownie and asks to have it warmed. I pop it into the warmer. Warmer beeps after a few seconds and I open the door to pull out the brownie.
Turns out I'd put the paper in at an odd angle. One corner was touching the back of the appliance and, apparently, the heating element. Little flames were dancing on one corner of the paper.
We use long-handled tongs to remove food from this appliance. So visualize me yanking brownie and paper out really really fast and frantically waving them around to try to douse the flames.
It didn't work, of course. The ambient air just encouraged the flames to spread.
Finally I dropped the whole mess into the nearest sink, turned on the faucet, and said to the customer, "I'm really sorry but I'm gonna have to do this again."
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