FAIL! Plastic in the oven...

[thatwasherguy]

Hi everyone! Hope you are all well. We just tried a new recipe to go with dinner tonight. It's very simple to prepare. You just use the magnet on the back of your digital meat thermometer to stick it to the bottom of the pan you're cooking with, and stick it in the oven at 425 until the smoke detector let's you know that it's done. It didn't go great. At least it happened in a self cleaning oven instead of my Mark 27! Pics will follow once I can open the door without filling the house up with plastic fumes again.
Thatwasherguy.

 

[thatwasherguy]

And, as promised, here’s the carnage!

I’m planning to scrape the worst of this off, and then run a long self clean cycle with the vent fan on full blast the whole time.
Thatwasherguy.

 

[askolover]

That should be simple to get off. My hubby put a thick plastic cutting board in our oven thinking it was a cookie sheet with Pillsbury cookie dough on it and went to sleep in a Xanax stupor! He awoke when the smoke alarm started screaming. I took lineman's pliers and twisted every drip that was formed in the wire rack and eventually got it all off. The puddle on the bottom of the oven just popped out. I took the bottom out of the oven to access the burner box and cleaned that out. I had never used the self clean cycle on my gas oven til this incident but when I did I made some baffles from the front of the stove up to the range hood with aluminum foil to make the smoke go thru the fan to the outside instead of coming out beyond the hood. I actually had flames coming up from the burner box for about two minutes but they went out and everything cleaned up nicely.

 

[jamiel]

My mom did that when she left a pair of my brother's shoes in the oven once...dripping sole all over the place. The kicker was that the house was on the market/had just come under contract and the stove (GE Spacemaker 24" from the 50s) was the keystone to the entire kitchen and couldn't be easily/quickly replaced in 1978. Lotsa scraping of molten plastic...

 

[cfz2882]

Last time i had plastic in the oven,it was "shrinky dinks"on a cookie sheet about 1977