# Spooky - my bread making machine just started by itself **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974 "2006-03-19T06:03:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/1 "2006-03-19T06:03:21Z")
Perhaps I have a gremlin in the kitchen or something. I hadn’t used the machine for at least two weeks and it just suddenly started operating. Nobody had touched it or even gone near it. Weird. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/2 "2006-03-19T06:31:40Z")
Run! RUN! Seriously, check the appliance and see if it’s plugged in. Do you have a light system that turns the lights on and off by themselves periodically? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/3 "2006-03-19T15:48:03Z")
Mine tried to commit suicide, it walked right off the edge of the counter and smashed onto the floor. Got a big dent in one side, but it still works. But I have it on suicide watch now. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/4 "2006-03-19T15:51:43Z")
The other day mine got pissed off and started making cake instead. It now refuses to talk to me unless I refer to it as Marie Antoinette. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/5 "2006-03-19T16:46:46Z")
No matter what ingredients I put in mine, it always produces bran muffins. I think it’s trying to tell me something. ---
**Author:** ![Spidey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Spidey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spidey)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/6 "2006-03-19T19:07:36Z")
Once my Bread Maker started making bread on her own. I told her “NO! First you clean the basement, THEN you can make dinner!” \*not true in the slightest ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/7 "2006-03-19T21:54:24Z")
I had a similar experience. I was cooking with an electric skillet and apparently the thermostat had broken and the skillet just kept getting hotter and HOTTER and threatening to boil over all over the floor, etc. The scary thing is that I was watching the movie [Maximum Overdrive](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/) at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/8 "2006-03-19T21:56:11Z")
When it starts _loading itself with ingredients_ is when you should really start to be concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/9 "2006-03-19T22:27:19Z")
Open the top…see if you hear a voice say _“Zool”_ ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/10 "2006-03-19T22:29:08Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > When it starts _loading itself with ingredients_ is when you should really start to be concerned. No, that will be good. At least then I’ll get a new loaf. 🙂 All it did yesterday was mangle the measuring cup that I keep inside it. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/11 "2006-03-20T00:59:58Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > No, that will be good. At least then I’ll get a new loaf. 🙂 > > All it did yesterday was mangle the measuring cup that I keep inside it. Now we understand- would _you_ like it if someone stored a measuring cup inside of _you???_ I think the machine was sending you a message- next time it’s the head of a loaf of bread in your bed… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/12 "2006-03-20T01:49:36Z")
Between this and the [stove that lights itself](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=362994&highlight=stove+light), I think we should be worried. Or possibly prepare for yummy meals, made by the appliaces themselves, of their own free will. In completely-unrelated news, did you hear about the [virus-based nanoparticle](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4782152.stm) that has been modified to be electrically-conductive? > [@The BBC](#): > > UK scientists from Norwich have used a plant virus to create nanotechnology building blocks. > > The virus, which infects black-eyed peas, was employed as a “scaffold” on to which other chemicals were attached. > > By linking iron-containing compounds to the virus’s surface, the John Innes Centre team was able to create electronically active nanoparticles. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-my-bread-making-machine-just-started-by-itself/348974/13 "2006-03-20T06:07:19Z")
Bah! You want a true tale of electric terror? I was woken one night to discover my 12 inch cucumber had begun singing, all by itself! You try lurching out of bed to fin a dancing cucumber demanding to know where its hairbrush has gone. After that night, I took out the batteries.