"Edeka, that's stupid and dangerous!": Customer stunned – even the fire brigade association warns
Created: 2022-12-20 05:15
By: Raffaela Maas
An Edeka customer discovered a product in the supermarket range that is not entirely harmless.
He shared his discovery and complained online.
Munich - With the rising energy prices and the currently freezing temperatures, some consumers are looking for alternative heating methods in order to save costs.
However, some of these alternatives come with many risks.
An Edeka customer now discovers a product in the supermarket that made the alarm bells ring.
Edeka: Tea light oven causes bewilderment among customers
The outraged customer shared his find on Twitter.
"I'm really speechless right now!" He wrote, "sorry Marktkauf and Edeka, that has nothing to do with business acumen".
The reason for his bewilderment: tealight stoves, which can currently be found in the Edeka range.
"It's just stupid and dangerous!!!
How did you come up with the idea of selling this shit?
Don't you have any sense of responsibility at all?” the customer accused the company of in his contribution.
In the comments section, Twitter users agreed on the danger posed by such a product.
“The problem is that the parts are dangerous.
Several tea lights in close proximity can heat the wax altogether above the flash point.
Then there's a huge flame instead of little flames on the wicks," explained one user.
Another user wrote sarcastically: "Are there at least smoke detectors, CO detectors, extinguishing agents and first aid kits on offer?
That would be cross-selling.”
Fire brigade association warns of fire hazard from tea light ovens
In fact, the tea light ovens that Edeka is currently selling with the promise "Never freeze again!" are anything but harmless.
The German Fire Brigade Association and the Federal Association of Chimney Sweeps have recently warned about tealight stoves, which are currently receiving a lot of attention on social networks.
“Tealight ovens can reach very high temperatures if the tealights are too close together.
This can lead to a dangerous wax fire, because liquid candle wax can self-ignite at temperatures between 250 and 300 degrees.
In such a case, the wax fire can no longer be extinguished with water," explained fire and disaster control inspector Jürgen Larisch
to
swr.de.
There is also a very high risk of contracting carbon monoxide poisoning.
Because the open fire consumes oxygen, which releases carbon monoxide.
However, the poisoning is not immediately noticed because carbon monoxide is a colourless, odorless and tasteless gas, says Larisch.
The situation of another Edeka customer was not dangerous, but quite annoying.
He only checked his receipt after shopping when it was already too late and finally announced his anger on Twitter.
(rrm)