That's what she said.

I love eating burnt toast. But that's because I ****** up the very first time when I made toast. It was all I knew how to make growing up and I needed to feed myself. So I grew to love the taste of burnt crispness.

Always set a timer. Always. Better to find your food cold and have to re-heat it, than finding your food burnt and having to either torture yourself by eating it or throw it out.

You, sir, are a poet. High-five to your story!

#12 That's not the issue at hand...

#12 that is completely irrelevant to this situation....

How does a timer help in this situation? A reminder the food was cooking wasn't needed. the problem was not being able to leave the bathroom. that timer just keeps beeping!

#13 and a high five to you, too, sir. Some might consider me as a lady-poet, but I won't bring any gender-bathroom-issues into this. But thanks anyway.

#12 Well that wouldn't have changed anything. Also I mentioned how my oven is really old. It doesn't have a function to stop itself after a certain time. But there was lots of beeping anyway, thanks to my well functioning smoke detectors. I think I have enough of this now.

I meant a timer built into the oven, which automatically turns it off when it's done. I've never seen an oven without it. But OP now says he's doesn't have it so who am I to argue? Still, I think it's fair to assume an oven would have a built-in timer, regardless of age. It's a fairly ubiquitous feature.

#20 You must be very young if you've never seen an oven without a timer. Have you only seen ones with buttons as well?

At the risk of sounding ignorant, OP: why didn't you just turn off the oven before you ran to the bathroom?

#20 You are a 22 year old male from Israel. You have never seen an oven without a built in timer? Fair enough. I bought it 9 years ago when I moved out, from a store that sold used furniture and electronics. I really have no idea how old it is but I highly doubt it's still far away from a legal drinking age.

#22 you don't sound ignorant. I could have done it, but I didn't expect to be glued to my toilet seconds later.

OP, this is a bit off topic here, but I'm really curious as to what you were cooking.

20 I've owned ovens almost twice your age, and can tell you that a timer on an oven that shuts it off is a relatively new idea on all but the top end older electric ranges and on gas ranges that is still hard to find today.

#25 Leftover lasagne. nothing fancy.