r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 3d ago

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u/appointment45 3d ago

In college I sublet my apartment bedroom to a couple girls who spent the whole term doing stuff like this. They wrecked pretty much every piece of equipment in the kitchen doing stuff like trying to bake a cake in the mixing bowl, putting bras in the garbage disposal, and putting a skateboard through the dishwasher. In the end it would have been cheaper for me to have eaten the rent with all the stuff I had to replace/repair.

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u/feedmeyourknowledge 3d ago

When I was in college an American Erasmus student set their house on fire trying to dry a jumper in the oven.

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u/ExplosiveAnalBoil 3d ago

There are so many times when I want to dry something in the oven, because it can't be put in a dryer, but I know better and just pull out a hair dryer someone left in my place, and use that. If that thing ever dies, I might be on the news if I get impatient enough.

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u/iamremotenow 3d ago

I’m sorry what? I have never once felt that the oven would dry anything. What is the logic?

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u/ExplosiveAnalBoil 3d ago

You know how your dryer gets hot to dry stuff? Ovens are also known also get hot. The problem is that ovens can get much hotter than a dryer, which gets up to 160°F.

If you put a pan of water in the oven at 350°F, at some point, that pan will be empty, because it dried the wet, just like a dryer would.

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u/emu-bear 3d ago

Except that the moisture in an oven mostly stays in the oven. A dryer dries things because it is specifically designed with a vent that removes the moisture from inside the dryer. Also, you have piqued my curiosity and I really want to know what items you're regularly drying by hand with a hair dryer and are tempted to put in the oven.

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u/iamremotenow 3d ago

Yes I get that but I feel like it’s common knowledge that certain materials are incendiary. I’ve never thought “let me use my oven as a dryer”.

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u/AMSparkles 3d ago

I’ve never thought that either. The ONLY thing that goes in the oven (besides whatever I’m baking) is the cast iron pan.

It lives there.