This evening he is trying to make pie. He wanted to get creative, and made an apple pie, but instead of an upper crust, he wanted to put a meringue topping on it. He did so, then plopped it in the oven to cook at the temperature and time for a regular apple pie. The meringue immediately melted and poured over the top of the pie tin, onto the bottom of the oven (he forgot to put a cookie sheet under the pie in the oven). This has resulted in billows of burned meringue smelling smoke filling the house at an alarmingly rapid rate.
We opened all the doors and windows, turned on all the fans in the house, and aired it out.
I’m not sure what he was thinking when he turned the oven back on and put it back in before cleaning up the first mess, but we are once again airing out the house.
I suspect he will learn from this, no matter how angry he is at himself right now!