Codyb88 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I have a funny story for you guys this morning. I decided to bake a bad batch of coals in my oven last night. I had maybe 400 coals spread over 3 different cookie sheets on top of foil. Well, I baked them a little longer and hotter than recommended, about 2 hours at 350 (recommended is 300 for 1 hour). The coals were all clumped on top of each other like a glorious coal mountain. I had my girlfriend turn off the oven after 2 hours of baking and they remained in the oven since we cooked dinner and didn’t have room on top for the stove for them, maybe 30 minutes to an hour later and I go in the kitchen to pull them out of the oven and I feel a tremendous warmth emanating from my stove. I opened my stove to discover that my coals have been lit! Frantically I pull them out of the oven and decide to take another deep baking pan to place the lit coals into, I start moving them and more and more are becoming lit, with at least half of them being lit within the time it took to get the non lit ones separated. Well, I had no idea what I should do with the coals, I couldn’t put them out in my stove I had almost 200 coals they’d of caused a smokescreen and my apartment is a rental! Lucky we have snow on the ground currently so I ran them outside and tossed them in the yard and covered them with snow. I thought I was going to catch something on fire last night. Has anyone else ever had a crazy situation like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 bake a bad batch of coals? Back at Hookah Bliss we used to keep a large cast iron dutch oven filled with pre-broken exoticas to just quickly pop on the burner when needed. One of my days off I get a text "it's ok. we got it under control." out of the blue. Which of course causes me to call the lounge. Apparently one of my employees had put soem coals on, decided we didnt need that many, and pulled some of them off real fast. Unfortunately he grabbed one that had been on before he added the new ones and dropped them all back into the dutch over. I then got a text of a kilo and a half of exoticas fully engaged in this large pot, glowing a deep red/purple. Only browned the walls a little bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Haha, wow, what a story! That's crazy they lit up on you like that. I guess you got the temperature a bit too high, or there being so many in there at one time raised the temperature in the oven higher than you wanted? I dunno. Anyway, you learned something new and it's an awesome story to tell. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassouni Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Why were you baking coals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoozle Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 bake a bad batch of coals? Back at Hookah Bliss we used to keep a large cast iron dutch oven filled with pre-broken exoticas to just quickly pop on the burner when needed. One of my days off I get a text "it's ok. we got it under control." out of the blue. Which of course causes me to call the lounge. Apparently one of my employees had put soem coals on, decided we didnt need that many, and pulled some of them off real fast. Unfortunately he grabbed one that had been on before he added the new ones and dropped them all back into the dutch over. I then got a text of a kilo and a half of exoticas fully engaged in this large pot, glowing a deep red/purple. Only browned the walls a little bit. Lol. With no context, that message never gets the intended result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Sharrp SYBIAN Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Why were you baking coals? Yes! That is what i would like to know as well! Either way That was a good story indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoozle Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 ...bad batch of coals... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattarios2 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 ohhh right right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agunn1231 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 From what I have heard around the web, some people believe that baking coals will help dry them out if they have become wet. At least the house didn't go up in flame, I imagine it could have been bad if you had gone to bed without walking past the oven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Yeah, I've heard of people baking water-damaged coals before. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernoRaven Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Your first mistake was not following the temp and time guides perfectly they came to the perfect tempature and time after lots of trial and error and you just occured an error. secondly I would of ran them all over with water, sure you end up with water damaged coals but guess what, you can bake them again at the ideal tempature as to not relight them again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoozle Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 The snow was probably the best way to put them out. I will put a half coal in a cup of water so I can go to bed without worrying about burning down the house and that little piece of coal will sizzle and spit black water all over the counter if I'm not careful. 200 coals would take at least a 5 gallon of bucket and a couple of hours to clean up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoRSX Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Pics or it didn't happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bawhee Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 you should have had a spontaneous coal heat barbecue party! but insuring nothing gets burnt down and destroyed is also a good enough outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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