Phew! Glad everyone's ok. Good thing your wife's not on this forum or that smack wouldn't be long in coming your way. I second the flowers idea.

For all the newbies in the forum: no using camp stoves or bbq's inside (tent, house or otherwise) is a good safety rule to LIVE by.

Maybe box of chocolates too, Jesselp?

Flowers AND chocolate? That is doing some serious relationship maintenance......

I'm not exactly a new by around here, but apparently that rule needs repeating!

Actually, I was very aware of ventilation to protect against CO buildup, but I never thought the damn stove would turn into a fireball on me!

Poor planning and event management, even there the sink is better than many other spots, but good response. The back yard, preferably on a poured concrete slab or masonry patio, a good bit away from the house, with a large fire extinguisher standing by and hose charged would be a better setting.

That said, and out of the way, I have to admit I've run my white gas stoves in the house. The difference being I got away with it.

Dry chemical extinguishers, yuk .... could you describe the cleanup in detail? Was it just one short blast of chemical or did you lay it on thick? Last few cleanups after dry chemical units discharged I was involved in had the powder spread over a huge area. Virtually every horizontal surface, even 50' away, was thick with it.

what stove was it again?

Hmmm, I think my wife answered that question best when she said, "Good grief! We never have problems like this when you are at work!" after I accidentally torched our microwave.

-Blast

Agree, see this thread for another lucky escape from a camping stove accident.
lucky escape

Camping stoves are for outside. For may reasons.

That's the reason I stopped building Pepsi can stoves. I was building them on my range top instead of the sink. The range has a hood and fan over it that vents to the outside. One of my stoves had a oopsie and the top half shot skyward and ricocheted off the hood.

If you're going to continue to play with fire, get a nice big driveway oil drip pan and do your experiments outside on that.

On a tangent note, Dry powder fire extinguishers leak pressure after they have been used. Make sure you replace the one you used before you need it again.

Your +1 cancels out your -1, so you still get a zero. Not bad, but not great.

Flowers and chocolate, both, definitely. After all, she was right behind you with a fire extinguisher (I guess she knows you quite well) and SHE didn't start a fire!

Regarding stoves:
1) You can unpack them in the house;
2) You can inspect them in the house;
3) You can build them in the house;
4) You can photograph them cold in the house; but...
5) LIGHT THEM OUTDOORS!

(Sue mumbles to self, "At least he didn't try to put out the fire with that can of hairspray...")