do you preheat your oven

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sootikins: May 24, 2008; Did I ever. Remember it as if it were yesterday. Soon as I woke, I went to empty my bowels - my favorite part of the day. Defecatin' to the sunrise - downright glorious.

I do preheat my oven and I always check it before I turn it on, even though nothing should be in there. Safety habit from days long past when my parents kept the leftover pizza in the oven (yes I know, ew)

In the 90s, I heard a story about a girl at a nearby school "preheating" the microwave oven in the common area of a dorm. Just set that fucker to 10 minutes with nothing in it. The rotating glass plate was glowing. IDK how true it was but it was a good story!

# ? Feb 21, 2022 14:35

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jemand: Sep 19, 2018

Archer666 posted:

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# ? Feb 21, 2022 14:39

DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

Peggy Edson posted:

What kind of dipshit doesn't preheat their oven?

durrr I like my food unevenly cooked. May as well just use your loving microwave

there's no such thing as evenly cooked food sorry you had to find out this way

# ? Feb 21, 2022 14:41

Xaintrailles: Aug 14, 2015

DrPossum posted:

there's no such thing as evenly cooked food sorry you had to find out this way

Soup.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 14:52

signalnoise: Mar 7, 2008; i was told my old av was distracting

Xaintrailles posted:

Soup.

Really? Name-calling over that? And with such an obscure slur

# ? Feb 21, 2022 14:54

texting my ex: Nov 15, 2008; I am no one
I cannot squat
It's in my blood

no because i'll eat it anyway

# ? Feb 21, 2022 16:18

gleebster: Dec 16, 2006; Only a howler; Pillbug

Outrail posted:

I feel like this thread is why they made sure pizza pockets are microwaveable.

But do you preheat the microwave?

# ? Feb 21, 2022 16:44

jemand: Sep 19, 2018

the big bang was just god preheating the universe if you think about it

makes u think

# ? Feb 21, 2022 17:25

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

Big Beef City posted:

Hey idiots if you have an electric oven take the racks out and set them aside.

Now clean the bottom of your oven as well as needed.

You'll note that the heating element thing swivels up and down a little. Not a ton. Some.

K cool.

Well go get some tin foil and flatly, shiny side up, line the bottom of the oven, lifting that element to get under it to keep the foil a uniform surface with the heating element resting on top of the foil

Put the racks back in.

Congrats.

Now you can drip your greasy rear end pizza poo poo and nugget rolls all the gently caress over and only have to swap out the foil when it gets bad rather than clean the whole drat oven.

Ta-da.

Sounds like a lot more work than utilizing the cleansing properties of fire.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 20:14

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

sootikins posted:

I do preheat my oven and I always check it before I turn it on, even though nothing should be in there. Safety habit from days long past when my parents kept the leftover pizza in the oven (yes I know, ew)

In the 90s, I heard a story about a girl at a nearby school "preheating" the microwave oven in the common area of a dorm. Just set that fucker to 10 minutes with nothing in it. The rotating glass plate was glowing. IDK how true it was but it was a good story!

When I was a kid one of our family friends would leave her purse in the oven when she had to remember to do something. This isn't the stupidest system a human being has created but it is still pretty loving dumb. Anyway the inevitable happened when she asked her spouse/kid to preheat the oven one day.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 20:18

signalnoise: Mar 7, 2008; i was told my old av was distracting

do you prefart your dutch ovens

# ? Feb 21, 2022 20:33

jemand: Sep 19, 2018

Outrail posted:

When I was a kid one of our family friends would leave her purse in the oven when she had to remember to do something. This isn't the stupidest system a human being has created but it is still pretty loving dumb. Anyway the inevitable happened when she asked her spouse/kid to preheat the oven one day.

When I was a kid my mother put one of those old mercury thermometers in the oven to dry it out after she washed it and predictably forgot to take it out again. Then someone pre-heated the oven. The temp change popped the cap off the mercury capsule and vaporized a good bit of neurotoxic metal.

That kind of thing might lead to the stupidity required for someone to design the purse memory system your friend had, so I guess bad ideas and oven preheat is kind of a self driving cycle.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 20:41

Dr. Gojo Shioji: Apr 22, 2004

DrPossum posted:

there's no such thing as evenly cooked food sorry you had to find out this way

Sous vide, my dude.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 21:42

Big Beef City: Aug 15, 2013

Dr. Gojo Shioji posted:

Sous vide, my dude.

Hellllll yea

# ? Feb 21, 2022 22:29

Haptical Sales Slut: Mar 15, 2010; Age 18 to 49

Dr. Gojo Shioji posted:

Sous vide, my dude.

Imma buy one of these anything I should look for, or just get whatever Costco is selling ?

# ? Feb 21, 2022 22:40

DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

jemand posted:

When I was a kid my mother put one of those old mercury thermometers in the oven to dry it out after she washed it and predictably forgot to take it out again. Then someone pre-heated the oven. The temp change popped the cap off the mercury capsule and vaporized a good bit of neurotoxic metal.

That kind of thing might lead to the stupidity required for someone to design the purse memory system your friend had, so I guess bad ideas and oven preheat is kind of a self driving cycle.

explains a lot about you are posting

# ? Feb 21, 2022 22:49