Another one about my son, the part time chef.
He had read about fried turkeys, so decided that Thanksgiving would be a good time to cook one. He got a nice small turkey, parboiled it and then took it out to put in the bubbling pan of oil over a good fire. One thing is, he forgot to measure the difference between the mass of the turkey plus the amount of boiling fat in the pot. He lowered it into the fat, fat overflowed and started on fire. Huge, old pine tree above caught on fire...
They told me that having several real nice fire fighters for Thanksgiving dinner was quite a good thing since they helped "clean up" some of the other, unburned foods, which were delicious and did not taste like they had been cooked at the local land fill. The turkey itself was not edible.