I was trying to impress my mom and dad with a new recipe that called for bacon cooked in the oven. Well, silly me didn't think about needing to put the bacon in something with sides to catch the grease. I put it on a flat cookie sheet. Bacon grease + gas oven = ???? Yep, caught my oven on fire. The house was filled with smoke, my kids were outside crying because they didn't know what was going on, my poor dad - who was 81, couldn't talk due to cancer, hard of hearing, and used a walker - was in the bathroom, and the smoke alarms were going crazy. I called my hubby, who was at his friends house, and asked him "Honey, how do you put out a grease fire?" When he asked if he needed to come home I just said "No, just tell me how to put out a grease fire!" Luckily, it wasn't real big and did no permanent damage to anything. The oven still works, although it takes a bit longer to light.
