About 9:30 p.m., Nov. 29, a homeowner and two other people, a man and woman, were relaxing in the living room of the man’s home in the 400 block of N Street Northeast.

The next instant, Auburn Police say, several hash oil tubes the homeowner had stowed in his fridge went kaboom, blowing off the refrigerator door, dumping food and shelves onto the floor, blasting out the living room window and cracking the walls and ceiling surrounding the kitchen.

Miraculously, nobody was hurt, but the explosion did about $10,000 damage to the home.

According to police, the homeowner at first told investigators he did not know what had caused the explosion, but eventually he told them that, days earlier, he had placed in the refrigerator unwashed tubes he used to cook hash oil.

Because the homeowner was not actively cooking the hash oil at the moment of the explosion, police said, they did not arrest him at the time. The case remains under review.

The manufacture of hashish oil requires potentially dangerous and flammable solvents, and production of butane-hash oil and other chemically-separated hashes, as above, can causein accidents and potentially fatal injuries.