I would see my mom turning off the oven before she took the food out of it. I thought the dials controled the kind of food she wanted. ie. she would set the control to meatloaf and the oven would make a meatloaf for her.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to wonder why the oven didn't set food on fire!— danielle
- I used to believe you could pour lemonade in a pan, put it in the oven and make lemonade cake.— wumpmugg
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave