{"id":24595,"date":"2025-12-15T19:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24595"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:27:00","slug":"why-you-should-never-place-a-tea-towel-on-your-oven-door-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24595","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Never Place a Tea Towel on Your Oven Door"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It starts innocently. You\u2019re cooking, the kitchen\u2019s busy, and the sauce is bubbling over. Without thinking, you toss a tea towel on the oven door handle. It feels convenient\u2014easy to grab when needed. I used to do the same, until one incident changed my perspective entirely. The \u201charmless\u201d habit isn\u2019t so harmless. Picture this: the oven is on, heating a pie or roasting vegetables. That towel draped over the door slowly warms. Fabric plus heat isn\u2019t safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might not ignite immediately, but it could. Step away for a moment\u2014answer a call or fold laundry\u2014and disaster can strike. A friend of mine learned this the hard way. She left a damp towel on the oven while baking cookies. When she returned, the towel was singed and stuck to the handle. No fire that time\u2014but it could have easily escalated. A towel on the oven door can also ruin cooking performance. It can interfere with the oven\u2019s seal, causing uneven heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It starts innocently. You\u2019re cooking, the kitchen\u2019s busy, and the sauce is bubbling over. Without thinking, you toss a tea towel on the oven door handle. It&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":351,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24597,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595\/revisions\/24597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}