You’re making your favorite dish for Thanksgiving dinner on the stove top. The doorbell rings, and you run to answer it. Or you start looking for a tablecloth in the other room. Or you realize the dog needs to go out.

This video, courtesy of State Farm, shows how quickly food that is left cooking while unattended can lead to a fire .

In fact, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) said more home cooking fires happen in the U.S. on Thanksgiving than on any other day of the year.

“Thanksgiving is a hectic holiday with multiple dishes cooking and baking at the same time, and along with guests, entertaining, and other distractions, it can be easy to lose sight of what’s on the stove or in the oven,” Lorraine Carli, vice president of Outreach and Advocacy at NFPA, said in a stat

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