Have you ever melted anything to the element on the stove?

Burning plastic is the worst smell ever....I can imagine house smell. I am with you. Good news are that you save your place from fire....:)

i thought it was wonderful walking into that smell when i came inside hah mmm melting plastic! :D it coulda been way worse though for sure.. kinda surprised it didnt catch fire.. woulda burned up quick anyways.. i cant say for sure if ive ever lit something on fire off a burner but im pretty sure i have.. im good for leaving stuff on top of toaster ovens though! :( haha

My family has burned pots and pans before on accident. I think that my mother also once put a plastic tray in the oven to cook something, on accident, and melted it almost entirely. That was a long time ago, but it's not something that one can easily forget, lol!

i guess its a bonus. didnt you send me something like this in an IM the other day but in more longer and complicated words?

Yes, I have done more than just a few times. I have set a pot holder on fire and melted a plastic plate to the stove. It was so hard to cleanup also.

I have burnt up my burner covers so many times I can't count by turning on the wrong burner that smells pretty bad too haven't caused a fire so for but I have been more careful lately. Happy New Year!

yes I have done something like that too and then felt foolish about it so do not feel like you are the only one please

I can't tell you how many times I have done this. I have melted a pan to the burner. I had to wait for it to cool before I could get it off. And plastic, tupperware like containers, I have melted so many. You are not alone. I feel pretty dumb when I do this especially when I turn the burner off and then forget 2 seconds later that it was on and sit something down on the burner only to have it melt. :)

Not on a cooker. At school I tended to get bored and ended up heating up electric rings in school and then placed something on until it melted. I once defaced a pound coin, someone told me it wouldn't melt so I had to prove them wrong. It melted, didn't change forms very easily but I did love the effect that it created. Luckily for me, I tended to get bored of doing this and nobody really noticed. ~Joey

I actually melted a spoon handle on the element. It was my mom's stove. I had laid the spoon down and it had a plastic handle and next thing we knew we smelt this very very bad smell....it was the plastic on the burner! Yuck!

No but I did leave a burner on and sat a glass plate on it I was turned around doing something and all of a sudden the plate exploded. Very scary.