Kitchen Mishaps

[Zephyr]

What are the funniest kitchen mishaps you've had/witnessed?

[Mal]

I, of course, am an awesome cook ;) But my sister has managed to burn tomato soup, although that was more impressive than anything else.

She also sat in a large plate of tiramisu once, that was funny.

[Rutherford The Brave]

Heh, I have seen some bad stuff. This is probably the best one I have. I was at work and a fellow sous chef was making salads near the stove and on the line. A piece of lettuce was on the ground and I had warned her about that. So she turned, slipped on the lettuce, knocked a pan that was full of oil, slipped on the and knocked the entirity of the spices off the rack

[The Batman]

My brother filled the entire house with smoke just by boiling water. Yes I said smoke not steam.

Also someone called the fire department one day while he was cooking breakfast because the house was smoked out.

[Bougainvillea]

Whenever I make mac and cheese. I ALWAYS drop the noodles while i'm draining them. So, if you hear me yelling "GOD DAMNIT!" and slamming pots and spoons everywhere, it's because i'm making mac and cheese. :P

[Mzor203]

We're usually a pretty good family about kitchen stuff... but I've had a couple of bad moments. >.>

The first was a couple years ago. My brother and I were making cookies (and we actually were trying to have the final product as real cookies) but we were filing it and making a little video name "Comedy in the Kitchen".

Everything was going fine until my brother decided to put the flour in the wrong bowl. When I looked and saw what he was doing, I yelled out, "GRAAAAGH" (or something similar) quite loudly. The camera happened to be filming at that time, and the end result was actually quite hilarious.

The second was this year... before Christmas. I was cooking brownies, and had accidentally left a stove burner on. The brownies were in a glass pan, and I had stupidly set them on that exact burner.

A minute later my step-dad comes in. "Do you smell something burning?"

"No-"... BOOM!

And the pan completely exploded. Exploded. Glass flew everywhere, across the room in little shards. It was... kinda scary actually.

But the worst part was....

The brownies were ruined! D:

[Patchy]

Seeing my Grandpa bringing us a giant turkey for xmas dinner yet it didn't fit in the oven!!

[Richthegamer99]

my father amlost burned our house trying to boil water to make tea

[Zephyr]

On my 10th birthday party, my sister burnt popcorn by pressing the popcorn button. Then after that, she put a Chinese take-out box in the microwave and forgot to take off the handle... caught the microwave on fire xD

Then at work, it was my first time on ovens and it was busy. The person who was supposed to be helping me decided to just leave and not explain anything. So there were pizzas falling out of the oven since I couldn't keep up.

[Bougainvillea]

I burned three bags of popcorn by pressing the popcorn button. You never use the popcorn button.

[Baudelaire]

I left a bag of groceries on top of the burners, and you can guess what happens next...

[The Batman]

I always use the popcorn button I just take it out about halfway through and shake the bag like you're suppose to :P.

I've made peanut butter and ketchup cookies when I was like 6 or 7 and my mom made me eat all of them.

[pol852]

when i walked into the kitchen, steped on my cat's tail,she 'screamed', I fell backwards onto the cornor of table and was lying there for about 30mins without getting up
xD

[ktkurbst0mp]

I just made dinner for my family, and I set my plate on the counter. Gave my dad his plate, gave my mom hers, and I hear this HUGE CRASH.
Ofcourse, my plate not only fell on the floor but it had legitimately shattered all accross the floor with my food completely covered in ceramic shards.
And normally, plates like that don't shatter. They'd just crack or chip.
But I guess it hit exactly right.
haha. My dinner just said "NO FOOD FOR YOU" and jumped off the counter. :/ lol

[Techno Monster]

God, I have at least a thousand stories because my mom and I cook so much.
When I was 10 I blew up a shrimp in the microwave and tried to microwave a can of beans..... still in the can.
And once my dads friend was making a soup base in the blender and it exploded all over our kitchen.

[Alfred Pennyworth]

in my old house, we had an electric oven. My mom and I were making a cake. We put it in the oven, and within a few minutes, the cake managed to overflow the pan, land directly on the heating element, and fill the entire house with smoke. It took more than a hour to clear the house of smoke WITH all of the ceiling fans on high, all of the windows open, and the furnace fan on(no heat). I'm surprised that nobody called the fire department.

[jaynewk09]

I mistakenly set the stove on fire. I wasn't paying attention to which eye I turned on.

[payto]

when I was younger, I thought that blenders would work just fine without the lids. so my when I was making my first fruit smoothie with my mom, she went to get the lid, but I didn't know, so I just turned on the blender. there were shards and splatters of fruit and ice and juice EVERYWHERE. I was laughing the entire time when stuff was splatting all over. my poor mom had to like, ninja her way to the blender without being slashed. my mom was mad at first, but then she laughed because I had that goofy 'how was I supposed to know' faces.

good times :D

[ErykaInspire.]

1. My babysitter when I was young was making popcorn to watch a movie. Instead of setting the timer to "2:45" she set it to "24:55". We got into playing and the smell of burning popcorn filled the house. She opened the microwave and smoke billowed out. It smelled AWFUL.

2. I put ramen noodles into a bowl and popped them in the microwave. I forgot the water. End result=Fail.

3. I put the chocolate in my water for hot cocoa BEFORE putting it into the microwave. I burnt it ):

4. In Home Ec. three years ago I got a little flour on my friend, so she got some on me. It turned into an all out flour fight. The entire kitchen was coated, we were white, and the teacher was pissed. :3

5. I had a frozen 3Muskateers candy bar and I wanted to warm it up a little so I could atleast bite into it. I didn't even think about the wrapper..
I popped it into the microwave, 2 seconds later you see what looks like lightening going off in the microwave. I ran to open it, grabbed the candy bar out, and unplugged the microwave. My boss and coworkers started laughing hysterically at me. The wrapper and shriveled and melted into the candy bar. Completely inedible ):

[Yesterdays Hero]

Well, me and my friend were making pancakes, and I don't know why but he thought he'd put a shitload of oil and the pan, and then it started boiling up and spitting, and at the end of the day, we had massive blisters all over our hands and face.

[BlackBetty]

So many things happen here.
1. My mom was making Cinnamon rolls the other week and she was getting them out and they fell on the element. The element caught on fire and broke it.
Then the next morning the electricity caught up with the current and the oven caught on fire. My mom=FAILURE

2. At Christmas, my mom was making chocolate to dip strawberries in. She kept burning the chocolate until she used the whole box up.

3. At Christmas, my Aunt Sandi made a casserole and my mom brought it in for her. My mom sat it on the stove (not knowing it was hot as fuck) and the casserole dish exploded everywhere. Food was on the wall..

4. I had to cook one night, so it was going to be a packaged dinner. So i had everything mixed together and i put it in the over and it titled a little, and water went all in the oven. My dad said "Is the oven clean now"?

5. Me and my sister use to cook all the time. We made cookies one night and th recipe called for All-purpose flour. And she used the other kind (i don't remember the name) and we went to take a bite of it and they was so fucking hard! We threw them on the ground to see if they would break, and not a crum fell off. My sister said "I didn't think the flour would matter, as long as we used some sort of it"

Good days :)

[MadWorld]

I was making Poptarts in the toaster oven one day. Something went wrong and it exploded in flames. The counter top was ruined and the wall as well. AND we just redid the kitchen about 6 months before that. Let's just say my mom wasn't happy...

[Quick_Sylver]

I can do the elegant, complicated stuff, no problem. When things get simple, though...-shudders-

Mac and cheese. Sounds pretty darn simple, eh? Noodles are almost always mushy. v.v
Toast. Shush. We have a conventional oven. v_v
That's all I can think about at the moment. Sleep deprivation, xDD

[2D]

Put a burrito in the microwave.






It was wrapped in tinfoil.

[BlackBetty]

Beckehh burnt dinner one night!!!
xD

[badash]

Every single attempt i make to cook some kraft dinner it always fails. Either i put in too much milk or i burn it or anything else that could possibly go wrong i can make it happen lol

[Kitty Purry]

ive preheated the oven, and there was a pan in there with a plastic spoon, so once the timer beeped i was gonna put the food in, and when i opened the over there was a bunch on smoke, ya and that pan got ruined hehe :P

[Quick_Sylver]

Beckehh burnt dinner one night!!!
xD

-.- That was my mother's fault.

I decided to bake shrimp chocolate chip cookies...They were awesome, xD

[ledzepmatt1996]

i dont think it counts as "cooking" but i put deoderant that formed wrong on its side in the microwave for 30 sec and it worked . . . . at first so i put it in for a 1min . . . . . . now my microwave smells like oldspice and it is back to normal shape.

i was making a stirfry and the oil caught on fire so i threw baking powder on the flames and it esploded . . . . my kitchen was well ... ...... ...powdery.

i tried to make potatos for breakfast when i was like 10 and put oil in the pan then the sliced potatos and some salt . . . . . . . . . .i had some big ass fries.

i made suflet(sp?) and the brandy leaked all over the stove, i had wood cabnets all around my kitchen and well i kinda dont have cabnets above my stove but i got to play with the fire extinguisher : )

[swimmatic]

well, one time i put a coke in the freezer, but i forgot to open it and drink a little before i put it in there. when i took it out, i started to open the can but it exploded and frozen coke went EVERYWHERE! haha :o

[IanMilo]

well lets see we have had numerous intresting moments.... lets go with this one

my sister was grating cheese for her chili and she got out the cheese grater then she went to get cheese so she grated it and put it on te chili

we had chili and stinky tofu...not a good mix

[Malcolm Tucker]

Once I was making spaghetti, and I was using a pair of metal tongs, with rubber grips. So I had the spaghetti in a pot on the hob, and I moved the pot to another hob, and put the tongs down on the stove. So 10 minutes later I come back, and see that the hob that I put the tongs down on was still on full heat. Needless to say there was a MASSIVE puddle of molten plastic and rubber just oozing off the cooker :P I left it for a second to go to the front door (around 15 meters away) and a piece of rubber stuck to my fleece, so there was a big trail (like when you pull chewing gum apart after chewing it) of molten rubber attatched to me and the cooker :P

[INFERNO]

My friend burnt his hand on pizza crust while trying to take it out of the oven. :lol: . We always tease him about that.

Ones that I've managed to do were cutting a nice big gash where the skin is around the fingernail or other time just the finger itself while grating cheese. Ended up having bloody cheese and had to re-do it because although there was a lot of cheese already grated, there was a lot of blood in the cheese.

I've dropped cans on my toes (don't wear shoes while cooking at home, only socks) which more than often cracked the nail. A few times knives fell from the counter but missed by centimeters from my foot.

Using a plastic flimsy spoon, I was trying to stir sauce. Unfortunately, I rarely use plastic and so I forgot it was plastic. I left it leaning against the pot's brim just to come back and find the stupid thing melted.

We were once baking I think chicken wings in the oven and we heard something break then sizzle. At that time, our dog touched the oven with his snout so we thought he burnt himself (which he didn't). After opening the oven, I realized the plate it was on wasn't made for ovens so it cracked and broke into pieces while the wings sizzled on the hot racks or just fell to the bottom of the oven. We then went to get pizza, cooked wings, coleslaw, etc... for dinner.

We used to have had this really old crappy can-opener and for some reason it couldn't quite open the can all the way. So being clever, I put my fingers in and tried to pry it open, which worked a bit. I got more of my fingers and hand in, yanked and cut a deep gash in my hand. Blood went into the soup and I had to toss it away. You'd think I would learn from this but I cut my hands so often when opening cans because I leave always a small little piece on then usually cut my finger(s) on it when the can is empty though but not this time.

Last for this post, when I was cutting up jalepeno peppers without gloves, my eyes got a bit itchy because previously I was cutting spanish onions. Anyways, I forgot they were jalepenos so I went and rubbed my eyes with my fingers. It was probably the second worst thing getting in my eyes in terms of food, the first being sushi sea weed, do not ask how or why... .

[autumncook]

last thanksgiving my grandma was making a turkey and she asked me to take it out of the oven because it was to heavy for her so i took it out and when i turned aournd i tripped over one of my dogs that followed me and the turkey went flying and hit the floor then all four of my dogs came in and started licking it and the pan burnt my arm when i fell and we didnt have a turkey to eat luckly nobody was mad they all just laguhed at me

[coolkid1]

One time, when I was making chili and spaghetti at the same time, i put the tomato paste inside the chili inside the spaghetti. My parents tried to cover it up with a whole container of chili powder! It was the best I have ever had, but my parents "BLECH!"

[Huskyboy132]

Well. I was putting sugar on a pancake. The lid of the sugar thingy fell off.
It wasnt a Pancake with sugar.
It was sugar with a pancake.

[Katrina]

Recently, I single-handedly managed to melt a food processor bowl - sideways! When I was drying it, I left it on top of the grill. There’s nothing wrong with that – unless you turn the grill on! Which I did, of course! I was planning to grill some bacon for brunch, completely oblivious of my innocent food processor bowl, that was just standing there, staring me in the face, probably thinking (if it could think) ‘Youuuuu stuuupid and dangerous woman! Aaaaaaa!!!‘ Meanwhile, as always sensitive to various aromas & smells, I was thinking ‘Wait a second, this is not how bacon normally smells….’. Yeap, it was a (very) funny whiff coming from the direction of the grill that brought me to my senses. What I saw was my beloved food processor bowl on top of the burning grill, and the little hole in the middle where the cutter goes in, melted – sideways! I cursed loudly, and in many languages! But of course, what’s done is done, and now I can’t make my favorite soups. Serves me right!

[MadManWithaBox]

I feel it my duty to post this

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj271/mario101_2008/croissant.jpg

[Huskyboy132]

I feel it my duty to post this

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj271/mario101_2008/croissant.jpg

Omg what is THAT

[Malcolm Tucker]

OMG what is that!?! It looks like salmon >< and as punishment I'm taking all that Dairy Milk...nom nom xD

[MadManWithaBox]

It was a croissant I was heating up in the oven for myself. Then I went to somerfield, got locked out of my house for 2 hours, when I got in the house was full of smoke, when I got to the oven to turn it off the croissant was actually on fire. I had to take a picture.

[Aves]

I touched the oven rack when it was on...with my bare hands o_o

[Baudelaire]

Yeah I um..... I left grocery bags full of food of gas burners.....

[swj90]

lol set off the fire alarm in my house a couple of times... been getting a lot better though