I am on my 5th family and still have not had any oven fires so I can praise anyone for putting it out. How can I get an oven fire?

Thanks for the quick reply!

ur welcome!

I have tried the trick above to try and get an oven fire but so far it has not worked. How long does it take and how many times do I have to stop them from trying to turn the stove off. My little people say they are turning off the stove instead of the oven, does that make a difference?

I've never noticed a specific event leading to an oven fire ... do your children ever play cook? That might lead to an oven fire, too.

How sick are we, BTW: TRYING to catch your kitchen on fire!

Yes, some of the children try playing cook but so far nothing has happened. And yes, I agree that we are sick to try and catch our kitchen on fire but that is the only way to get a trophy. Now that is really sick. Thanks for your time.

I had attempted waiting for the fire to start by interrupting my people every time they went to turn the stove off, I waited two hours before giving up....

As far as I can tell its fairly random and the stove does not need to be on long for it to happen. In my most recent family the single person living in the house at the time started to make dinner and as she was cooking the stove caught on fire (not that she noticed), it was the first time the stove had been used too.

I have had both the oven and the dryer lint catch fire when they have not even been used--no meal cooked and no laundry done, but suddenly they are on fire.

Yep, that's true ... My first oven fire occurred early in my very first family, before I had solved the necessary puzzles to put it out. In fact, I think that's what caused me to come into the LDW forums: concern that I was going to burn my house down before I ever got really started!