Danger close calls in the kitchen

Not as far as food goes, but I've almost stabbed myself multiple times.

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Haha!

I was in high school and decided to use my mom's microwave fudge recipe to make fudge (obviously). I didn't realise that the melting temperature of tupperware was lower than the booking point of sugar. Oops!!

Another time I was cutting some biltong and accidentally sliced my finger - almost to the bone. I didn't get stitches because I was bulletproof at the time and there was toilet paper and packaging tape. I still have the scar.

Total disaster a few years ago, 3rd degree burns on my neck and shoulder after taking microwavable soup out of my microwave. Being short and the microwave installed basically over my head, soup was everywhere, I was wearing a long sleeve shirt that save the rest of me.

Last week a baked potato exploded in my hand taking it out of the oven. I poked holes in it before baking. I was holding a pot holder so it only made a huge mess.

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A couple of months ago I was nearly done cooking something that was supposed to have melty cheese on top (can not remember what I was actually making) but I forgot the cheese step until it was basically done. I figured no problem, I'll throw it under the broiler. Get it all setup and I'm keeping a close eye on it, but my partner has decided this is the exact time to be helpful and start unloading the dishwasher in our tiny kitchen. So in the less than two minutes it took to get her out of my way the food caught on fire in the oven. It was easy enough for me to put out but the whole thing was ruined. Scared her enough to stay out of my damn kitchen when I'm cooking now though.

MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »

I learned at a young age that tin foil does not go in the microwave and I lit a hot pocket on fire.

And also that they sneak tin foil into those disposable party plates that look like they have confetti on them.

That triggered a memory from 4th grade. My school didn't have a cafeteria and ordered outside food everyday for lunch. This was chick-fil-a day. I put my chicken sandwich on its wrapper and popped it into the microwave. Did you know those wrappers are made with foil? A small fire and a screaming teacher later, my sandwich was still delicious.

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One day I was trying a different method to cook steak. I put olive oil in my pan and let it heat up. I misunderstood "let the pan get hot" as "crank the stove to high." The oil started to smoke just as it should but then it hit the flash point and ignited. In a panic I grabbed the pan in an attempt to take it outside I dropped it on the floor and luckily only a little bit of oil splashed on the floor causing tiny flames. I threw the pan into my back yard in the rain and dealt with the small flames inside. Needless to say I learned many valuable lessons about cooking that day.

I burned a burger so bad it caught fire once

The first thing I cooked solo was popcorn on the stove. Unsupervised and without permission. The pan was too heavy for me so when it was done I set it down on a chair seat rather than drop it on the floor. A viynl chair seat. It melted the seat. I may have been 6 or 7 years old.
When I was about 12 or 13 I baked a birthday cake for a family member. I frosted it with homemade frosting but didn't realize it was a recipe to make hard cake ornaments. The cake was completely encased in a hard shell. I remember beating on it to try to crack open the cake while my family laughed. It was pretty embarrasing at the time. Good for a diet I suppose!
Dh says the worst thing I have made in 18 years together was some soup in year 2. I think I used frozen vegetables and canned tomato soup. I don't remember. I think the worst thing was some peach turkey burger that just turned into a pile of nasty goo and resulted in ordering in pizza.
My stove broke spectacularly a month ago with loud noise, a flash and smoke. It was pretty old and the burners had been going bad for awhile but I thought the oven was okay. Nope. Was without a stove for almost 3 weeks. Learned I could bake banana bread in my slow cooker.

Mostly things go pretty well.

One time I was skinning potatoes to mash and cut myself.

When my wife and I were dating, we'd often trek out to Tuscon to stay at her folks house for a long relaxing weekend when they would go out of town. We were having a cookout poolside and we were getting everything prepped...I was in the kitchen making potato salad and sliced most of the tip of my left thumb off by my in-laws crappy kitchen knives. It nicked the artery and blood was shooting everywhere...ceiling, cupboards, sink, counter-tops...like literally shooting everywhere.

My wife came in from outside and was wide eyed...I asked her to go get me a band-aid and she started dying of laughter while at the same time getting a cloth for me to wrap around my finger and hand and rushing me out to the car to the ER. They sewed it up good and we came home and commenced the detail cleaning of the kitchen.

That was over labor day weekend...we went out to visit them at Christmas and my gift to them was a brand new set of decent cooking knives.

I was boiling nipples on the stove and "had" to check something on the computer. 20 minutes later and a fire was literally brewing in the pot.

THeADHDTurnip wrote: »

I was boiling nipples on the stove and "had" to check something on the computer. 20 minutes later and a fire was literally brewing in the pot.

Funny. I always bake my nipples.