Dear You,
saved by the bell!
To become a little bit more "green", one thing I decided was to bid adieu to my Nespresso capsules (aluminium) and use an old fashion manual Italian coffee pot instead.
From Berlin I took one with me. It had an added electric plate beneath, no need to use the stove. It worked fine.
In Bavaria I thought: might be quicker without that plate, put on the stove.
It wasn't. Instead lots of fume in my kitchen! Big clouds of grey fume! and a fire!
I hadn't seen that underneath this special espresso cooker was a rubber plate. Well: rubber on a hot stove = fume.
The flames were a hand's breadth high - and a hand's breadth wide. I thought: this might be the first time that I have to use my little fire extinguisher, Uii, uiii, uii.
But luckily I could extinguish it without that. I've been very, very lucky.
And then I was very, very busy - to clean all those stinking sticky particles from the stove.