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What has been your worst kitchen disaster?
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Oh Man - I am making the popcorn and getting ready
good thing you put it in the community discussion - this should be entertaining
good thing you put it in the community discussion - this should be entertaining
Burned a pot of corn when I was babysitting. Luckily they had a brillo pad on hand and I saved the pot before they came home.
Can we tell tales on relatives instead? My aunt once set about putting six eggs in a pot to hard boil them and just then her daughter, sitting with me in their breakfast room, noticed in the paper that the movie Gone With The Wind was playing in town and commented on that to me. My aunt heard us discussing it. "Oh my goodness," she said, "get your coats, we can catch the matinee and should do that as word will get round and there'll be a line for the evening show." So sure and we went to the matinee and cooked hard boiled eggs for around five hours. It's a wonder the house wasn't set afire.
As a young apartment dwelling bachelor I started an amazing oil fire once when preparing it for popcorn. 🤦🏼♂️
I knew not to use water but that’s all. The flames were impressively high. I lived on the ground floor so I thought I’d better get it outside before the building burnt down.
Grabbing it with one hand I quickly walked to the door causing the flames to shift back toward my hand and face burning both. Then the door was locked with a chain and deadbolt followed with a common hallway and two doors (one of which was ironically a fire door). Finally I burst outside tossing the burning pan into a snow drift just as a very pretty young girl (hieveryone hot) walked by.
I did notice she was hot but my right hand was seriously burnt which turned off most of my 200,000 years of mating biology. I retreated to my apartment in agony leaving the smoking pan in the drift. As I formulated a plan to get to the hospital, the hottie knocked on my picture window asking if I was okay and offered to drive me. Like an idiot I declined (clearly I was injured because I wasn’t thinking straight enough to accept).
I drove myself to ER in my Jeep shifting with my left hand. The doctor cut off the dead skin from my thumb and index finger and removed what little was was left of my right thumb nail. My index nail was rippled having warped from the flames. I lost it sometime later.
Both nails grew back and despite scaring across my thumb and index, and the webbing between them, it’s not too noticeable.
Now, back to the hottie who I would have gladly supported for her company if I had any money then. I never saw her again. And she knew where I lived too. 😞 Clearly she‘s prone to drama and has regretted letting me slip through her fingers. It’s her loss! But I’m happy.
Also, regrettably this is all 100% true.
Personally, the worst was probably washing a glass in the sink, which then broke-sploded, cutting off the tip of my thumb. Lots of blood, but I found the tip in the washing water, rinsed it, put it back on with a bandaid on. Surprisingly, it grew back together just fine. And a month ago, I managed to cut the same tip quite badly, while cutting potatoes, so I have quite the weird finger print on that one now.
Now, as for my girlfriend, she's quite the clumsy person. She once managed to drop a small and sharp cutting knife, but fortunately for her, she managed to register what to do, and shift her foot away. ....The wrong foot that is - My clumsy girlfriend in a nutshell. Knife lands horizontally on her big toe, and given her very low pain threshold, she screams as usual. Turns out, there just a fine little cut, and a bit of blood, not even needing a band aid, and the pain goes away within a few hours. Cue one week later, she's laying on the couch watching TV, and she suddenly blurbs out "I just realized I can't move my big toe!". Turns out the knife did an excellent fine cut and severed all of her upper tendons. The doctor attenting to her at the hospital had to bring in some students, just because it was such a weird happening. Anyway, she had surgery a week later, and they fixed it just perfectly because it was such a clean cut. She was 6 months pregnant at the time, and with a leg cast on, she decided it was too hard to do anything but lay on the couch binging tv for a month.
Now, as for my girlfriend, she's quite the clumsy person. She once managed to drop a small and sharp cutting knife, but fortunately for her, she managed to register what to do, and shift her foot away. ....The wrong foot that is - My clumsy girlfriend in a nutshell. Knife lands horizontally on her big toe, and given her very low pain threshold, she screams as usual. Turns out, there just a fine little cut, and a bit of blood, not even needing a band aid, and the pain goes away within a few hours. Cue one week later, she's laying on the couch watching TV, and she suddenly blurbs out "I just realized I can't move my big toe!". Turns out the knife did an excellent fine cut and severed all of her upper tendons. The doctor attenting to her at the hospital had to bring in some students, just because it was such a weird happening. Anyway, she had surgery a week later, and they fixed it just perfectly because it was such a clean cut. She was 6 months pregnant at the time, and with a leg cast on, she decided it was too hard to do anything but lay on the couch binging tv for a month.
Well, to be quite candid, anyone who is six months pregnant is likely to be somewhat clumsy.
Trust me, this is regular behavior from her side. She gets hurt from bumping into things, and dropping stuff, so often that we have been discussing if she has motor control issues!