Leaving your oven on while you sleep

[sam_gordon]

If it's electrical, it can fail. The food won't start on fire but the electrical can fail.

Do you unplug your TV? All your lamps? Stereo system? Dryer? Of course electrical can fail, but how safe is "too safe"?

 

[anniemae]

But what do you do if it is done at say 8:00 in the morning after cooking all night? Put it in the fridge and microwave it later? Seems strange to spend all that time cooking only to re-heat it hours later.

 

[cijay]

Do you unplug your TV? All your lamps? Stereo system? Dryer? Of course electrical can fail, but how safe is "too safe"?

No I don't - that's actually my point. Freezers are electrical but you don't unplug them (I don't have a TV). "Too safe" would be unplugging it and that would spoil things. (Come to think of it, I don't have a freezer, either). Anything electrical can start on fire (like the house fire in the article, it wasn't the tree that started on fire) but you can't unplug everything. Again, I do unplug a lot of things when I'm not using them but that's often to put them away (I put my small appliances away every time I use them) and to save energy, not for fear of anything with a cord failing but if you're going to be scared of a crock pot failing, you'd best unplug everything.

 

[FairestOfThemAll37]

I had no idea about all the things you weren't supposed to run while out or at night!

I pretty much only run my dishwasher and dryer while I'm out or sleeping. I don't ever unplug anything unless I'm going out of town and my furball is staying in the house.

I'd totally leave the oven on overnight if I knew what I was doing and wouldn't jerky the food.

 

[TLSnell1981]

If it's electrical, it can fail. The food won't start on fire but the electrical can fail.


Me too. I take naps and baths at the same time too LOL.

I don't unplug all of my appliances, just in case the wiring fails.

I won't cook at high heat, without keeping an eye on it. I wouldn't want to overcook my turkey on Thanksgiving, either. It would be a disaster to have to feed 25 guests and no turkey!

 

[tvguy]

Do you unplug your TV? All your lamps? Stereo system? Dryer? Of course electrical can fail, but how safe is "too safe"?

True. I don't normally, but always unplug the TV, computer, anything that is plugged in if I am going on vacation and will be away more than a couple of days. No particular reason other than that is what my folks always did.

 

[goofyintoronto]

Yes, we've cooked a turkey while asleep. I have no worries at all.
BTW we have our thanksgiving meal around 1-2pm, not at dinner time.

 

[sam_gordon]

Yes, we've cooked a turkey while asleep. I have no worries at all.
BTW we have our thanksgiving meal around 1-2pm, not at dinner time.

We ate at 1:30p yesterday. Turkey went in at 12:18PM.

 

[gwynne]

We ate at 1:30p yesterday. Turkey went in at 12:18PM.

Are you saying you cooked it about 24 hours or about 1 hour?

 

[MSLRAC]

After yesterday, there is no way that I'd put a turkey in to bake overnight. In less than an hour, our turkey had produced enough drippings that my large Calphalon roasting pan over flowed and we had a grease fire in our oven. Luckily DH and I were standing in the kitchen when it started and we were able to get it out quickly without using a fire extinguisher. I hate to even think about how bad it would have been if we had been upstairs sleeping.

 

[BellsFam]

I don't understand what people are doing to these turkeys! Overnight? Putting them in the oven at like 5am??? Even a 25lb turkey should only take 4 1/2-5 hours to cook...

Um... in what world does a 25lb turkey take only 5 hours! I just cooked a 21lb yesterday, at 325deg it took 6 hours... plus an hour to set... we eat at 2pm not dinner time... please don't lump us 5am-ers into this category...

 

[MickeySP]

Seeing as I have a gas oven - no way!

 

[sam_gordon]

Are you saying you cooked it about 24 hours or about 1 hour?

42 minutes for a 14.5 pound bird.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Um... in what world does a 25lb turkey take only 5 hours! I just cooked a 21lb yesterday, at 325deg it took 6 hours... plus an hour to set... we eat at 2pm not dinner time... please don't lump us 5am-ers into this category...

According to the Butterball website. Stuffed added about an hour.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

And earlier in the morning makes sense if you're having your meal at lunchtime. But turkeys really don't have to cook for hours and hours like some people make it seem.

 

[Poohforyou]

42 minutes for a 14.5 pound bird.

Did you cook it in a pressure cooker,deep fry it, or was it a precooked bird you reheated?

 

[wishesuponastar]

After yesterday, there is no way that I'd put a turkey in to bake overnight. In less than an hour, our turkey had produced enough drippings that my large Calphalon roasting pan over flowed and we had a grease fire in our oven. Luckily DH and I were standing in the kitchen when it started and we were able to get it out quickly without using a fire extinguisher. I hate to even think about how bad it would have been if we had been upstairs sleeping.

Oh Wow!! Disaster sure was avoided thank goodness.

 

[wishesuponastar]

42 minutes for a 14.5 pound bird.

42 minutes?? Wonder what you cooked your turkey in? Surely not a regular oven?

 

[gwynne]

42 minutes?? Wonder what you cooked your turkey in? Surely not a regular oven?

I'm assuming they fried it or reheated a pre-prepared bird.
Not sure why they didn't say. Aprox 3 minutes a pound is way, way outside of all the norms for a raw bird in the oven.

 

[sam_gordon]

I'm assuming they fried it or reheated a pre-prepared bird.
Not sure why they didn't say. Aprox 3 minutes a pound is way, way outside of all the norms for a raw bird in the oven.

We fried it. It was nice & juicy too!