Cooker Left On: It Can Be That Dangerous

Dangers if the stove is left on

Sometimes it happens and you forget to turn off the stove before you leave. Or you find yourself in an adjoining room, distracted and only realizing far too late that you left the stove on. Here are the dangers of leaving a stove unattended:

• The cooker is a source of danger in the household. If you leave it on while something is on it and you leave the room, it will take some time for something to happen. First, the liquid in the food in the cooking pot evaporates – depending on how much and what is in the pot.
• If the stove is forgotten, temperatures of up to 1,500 degrees develop. The food burns at first and then eventually burns into the pot. It can also happen that the contents of the pot catch fire.
• If you have very cheap pots, there is a greater risk that they will melt and burst into flames due to the continuous heating of the stove. In gas stoves, some alloys can hardly withstand the temperatures.
• If there is a flame in the pot, in the worst case it can spread to the kitchen. If there are flammable objects near or on the stove, the fire can start there and cause a kitchen fire.
• You should also expect a lot of smoke if you left the stove on and food is still on it.
• If there is nothing on the stove and you forgot to turn it off, there is less dangerous if there are no flammable objects nearby. It can be assumed that the hotplates will heat up considerably but will not cause a fire – but there is no guarantee of this.
• Some induction cookers switch themselves off after a while if there is no pot on the plate. Depending on the cooker, the pot plates can also overheat and the heating coil can burn out.