Same thing happened to me too. On my very first playing of the game, within 5 minutes of my characters new life, the oven was on fire and i had no idea how to fix it.

I guess we're ALL sick as we sit around waiting for our peeps to die so we can move to the next level!

im so sorry dickyjo i thought for sure that would work! forgive me? yes we r sick for trying to burn the kitchen down and even more so for waiting for them to die! but i love this game!

Ever since I upgraded the toolbox I never had another oven fire (and I had LOTS before that happen).
About turning off the oven, I always praise them when they do it, but I'm used to stop the action of "preparing a meal" before they do - and the oven was never on fire again.

ok i am having this same problem. the praising the (folowing) 9 behaviours trophy and all i need is an oven fire.
yes that is funny.
ajuma, what do u mean by that?
i have tried making a meal twice, with out turning off stove, and haaven't got one yet. but something very strange, i was doing laundry, and the machine lights were green and i did it again and i had a laundry fire. so i am surprised that it might not be the same for the oven fire.
thanks for everyone's help,
Xilodragon1

There is nothing that you can do to start a fire in the game. It's all random.

Too bad the trophy is not for the dryer lint fire, as I have more occurances of that than an oven fire. I guess my people are better chefs than the are laundry attendants.

ya that's for sure

I know a couple of people have said that about the toolbox, but I have definitely had an oven fire with the toolbox upgrade. It took quite a while, but I finally got it & the trophy.

Me too. So may oven fires before the toolbox then a loooong wait before another which is fair enough. The toolbox upgrade is supposed to lessen the risks of a stove fire occuring as the tools are supposed to be more superior making any fixings last longer. I also praised my peeps each time the fixed the oven but the trophy took a while to 'kick in' I think it was the fifth time I praised my ma peep that the trophy notice finally popped up and appeared on the score board. Same with the hic cups too. Not had it occur on any other game though, so maybe it was a one off for me.