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Warning - XMAS puddings and microwaves!

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http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/ryedale/10091927.Christmas_pudding_starts_blaze/?ref=rss

 

A MINI Christmas pudding caught fire in the microwave of a house in Norton yesterday.

 

Fire crews were called to the house in Welham Road at about 4.45pm after the burning food filled the kitchen with smoke.

 

A woman who was in the house at the time was given oxygen but did not need hospital treatment.

 

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said the festive treat is believed to have been put on the wrong microwave setting.

 

Xmas puddings don't go well with microwaves!

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they don't have much moisture in them but will have a lot of fat and sugar, pretty much an instant bomb

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I always put my Xmas puds in the microwave. There are instructions on the packaging.

 

I'll speculate that the woman in question didn't read & follow them.

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She might have put silver sixpences inside it first :hihi:

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What's this got to do with housing costs?

 

people can use stale christmas puddings as bricks and build houses out of them

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Never had a problem, been doing it for years. Follow instructions... simple !

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they don't have much moisture in them but will have a lot of fat and sugar, pretty much an instant bomb

 

Wouldn't have thought they were that dangerous

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I'm puzzled how someone can get a microwave setting sooo wrong?...Was it put on for an hour or something?....:huh:

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Wouldn't have thought they were that dangerous

 

oh yes. an exploding christmas pudding took out half the scottish royal family in 1572

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Why call the Fire Brigade? What a waste of tax-payers' money! All she had to do was switch the blessed thing off and open a window. Any fire would be contained within the microwave, and she could have unplugged it and carried it outside if needs be. What a shocking waste of tax-payers' money, and what an unnecessary risk to the general public! Fire-fighters bust a gut to get to the scene, taking risks along the way that are acceptable if there's a real fire with imperilment, but not acceptable when someone burns their bleedin' pud! (Or toast!)

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Why call the Fire Brigade? What a waste of tax-payers' money! All she had to do was switch the blessed thing off and open a window. Any fire would be contained within the microwave, and she could have unplugged it and carried it outside if needs be. What a shocking waste of tax-payers' money, and what an unnecessary risk to the general public! Fire-fighters bust a gut to get to the scene, taking risks along the way that are acceptable if there's a real fire with imperilment, but not acceptable when someone burns their bleedin' pud! (Or toast!)

 

there is a risk that the microwaves would heat the pudding so much that nuclear fission occurred resulting in all the street being obliterated

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