Kitchen Horror Stories

Keltin

Keltin

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Ok, we’ve all had those “not so great days” in the kitchen. Share your horror stories here.

This thread idea came to mind tonight when DW was nuking some cheese sauce to pour over her steamed broccoli. I’ll be damned if that cheese sauce didn’t explode!

It’s funny, but DW isn’t pleased! In the end, she laughed as well!!

I’ve got more and worse horror stories…..but this one has a fresh pic. Come on, share your mishaps! :lol:


O---M---G!!! :yum:
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Luckily, DW is a clean freak! She LOVES cleaning. She gets as excited about a new cleaning product as I do about electronics. She had this whipped in about 1 minute. Then tried again! She refuses to be beat. Gotta love her!! :clap:
 
OMG i cant stop chuckling..lol

i dont have pictures but i once had a pie crust go flying through the air because it kept melting on me.. the ex was preggo and wanted pie...me being the nice guy i am tried to make her one, even though she knew full well that i hated making pie crusts..

picked dough out of the screen for weeks...lol
 
lilylove said:
Well, she is more than welcome to come clean my house... :)
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Oh Lord, don't tempt her! If she finds out you have some kind of tool or cleaning gadget/product she hasn't tried, she'll whirlwind the place! :lol:

Let alone give her a chance to show you how you can use Magic Eraser, Bleach and Water, Newspaper, etc, etc, etc.

I don't ask much anymore other than "Can you get this out". And she does. :kiss:
 
BamsBBQ said:
OMG i cant stop chuckling..lol
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It really cracks me up too! I've decided, if I have a bad day, I'm looking at this pic again!! :lol:

i dont have pictures but i once had a pie crust go flying through the air because it kept melting on me.. the ex was preggo and wanted pie...me being the nice guy i am tried to make her one, even though she knew full well that i hated making pie crusts..

picked dough out of the screen for weeks...lol
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Oh Carp! Me and flour hardly EVER get along. Every time DW sees the bag come out, she goes outside!!! :lol:
 
This happened before fourth grade, but I don't remember how much before....
But when I was a kid my sister was making something in the kitchen requiring an electric mixer. She started screaming and had gotten her fingers caught in the blades, so I ran over and pulled the plug. They were cut up pretty bad I remember. Looking back I can guess she was taking the blades off with her finger on the trigger. I imagine there's more safety features on the new ones, like maybe your thumb has to be on a button too, but don't really know as I don't have one.
No pics either (lol).

Here's another story involving hunting camp.
My buddy had boughten a beat up mobile home and stuck it on a piece of land. That was going to be our camp for that year, which was actually a step up from the pull behind and pickup truck campers we had been using for years.
So after Saturday's hunt our group of about ten were sitting around and wondering what we were smelling. There was lasagna in the oven, but we weren't smelling that. We started blaming it on the ones guy's wet feet/socks. It kinda smelled like that or onions. So there we were, enjoying a few drinks and wondering what the hell that smell was, when my buddy said, Hey, the oven went out. And he bent down to light it.... Whoompff. The propane igniting blew him right back against the opposite wall and needless to say he had to be taken to the hospital for his facial burns and his one hand. The guns in the gun rack 15 ft away were all held in with rubberbands across the barrels due to us not being level. They all jumped over one notch. It was one hell of an explosion, but went no further than the oven igniting thankfully.
The old saying, what doesn't kill ya will make you smarter.
 
My wife has had a few in the years we have been married. From our first thanks giving when she misunderstood my grandmother's instructions on cleaning a turkey giving us the first boned roasted turkey in history to melting a vision ware pot on a stove making rice. She even nuked some chicken livers for a cat because she was rushing to be to work so she asked me to let them cool then give them to the cat. I did as told and when the cat bit into the first one it exploded in his face. Never could get that cat near a chicken liver again. The worse though was the new high powered microwave we purchased after Andrew to replace the low wattage one we had. She put a bag of popcorn into it and hit it to high like she always had with our old on (it had a popcorn selection she didn't see) and 3 minutes later the bag burned, with the smell of burnt popcorn burnt into my brain for the next 5 years. I can now just eat a little popcorn.
 
Joe! :yum: That cat and the chicken liver! :yum:

Before I married DW, she had a roomate. Her counter had those Rubbermaid canisters in which she had sugar, salt, etc.
Roomate decided to help a bit and cleaned the counter off.
GF (mine) decided to do something for me and make a carrot cake. She let her son have a taste and he was NOT impressed!
Seems that Roomate mixed the sugar and salt canisters up. She felt sooooooooooo bad!


Years before that, my cousin decided to surprise his wife with a microwave. He brought it home, set it up on the counter and plugged it in.
His little bro, with no brains, decided to nuke an egg. He didn't put a hole in the end and it blew up in the new microwave. Li'l bro cousin had a cleaning job ahead of him. :yum:
 
Yes I keep kosher salt on my counter in a rubber maid container so I can get what I need as I cook. I have a similar one I keep in the cabinet with sugar and have gotten a few cups of coffee with salt instead of sugar. I now have labels on them so as no mistakes are made. My wife has proved over the years the home really is the most dangerous place to be.
 
We have not had any major disasters however

one occasion we left for church with the potato pot still on the gas. Little bit smokey when we got home & potatos that were not going to make good roasts.

The other waas a duck we put to cook on the timer (or so we thought), however either it malfunctioned or we didn't set it right, so we crispy roast duck. Actually, once you discarded the outside, the rest was really nice.
 
Here is an example of my wife. I got four very old cast iron pans with a lot of crust build up on the outside of them. I told her to put them in the oven on the self cleaning setting for 30 minutes. She set it for 1 hour well 45 minutes into it they apartment filled with very strong smoke with a pretty nasty smell. It took a good 2 hours with fans blowing and all the windows open to get it out of here. I still had to take a wire brush to them to get the rest off but it came off after that pretty easily. She tends to listen to what I say then add stuff to it like time in this case.
 
I have actually melted the plastic lid of a fry daddy down into the hot grease. The smell was horrendous :yuk:. I didn't think that I would ever get that smell out of the house. And..........I don't know if this counts, but (a long, long time ago in a land faraway :confused: ) I made a chicken/andouille sausage gumbo for Father's Day that was so greasy that it gave everyone the runny chits :sad:. I still hear about that one :sorry: .
 
Cooksie said:
I have actually melted the plastic lid of a fry daddy down into the hot grease. The smell was horrendous :yuk:. I didn't think that I would ever get that smell out of the house. And..........I don't know if this counts, but (a long, long time ago in a land faraway :confused: ) I made a chicken/andouille sausage gumbo for Father's Day that was so greasy that it gave everyone the runny chits :sad:. I still hear about that one :sorry: .
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sounds like what my ex did... she took the fry daddy lid off, put it on the burner of the stove...proceed to put a frying pan on the lid and turn on the element...lots of smoke..lol
 
When I was 21 and learning to cook, I followed a recipe for Steak in a Garlic Gravy. It called for 3 cloves of garlic. I didn’t know the difference between a clove and a head back then! So, in went 3 heads! OH GOODNESS!! It would actually burn your tongue it had so much garlic in it. I was the only one that took more than one bite. :lol:

Back then, I also had a grease fire on one of the electric eyes. I had heard you throw something white on it from the kitchen to smother it. SALT!! I poured all kinds of salt on the fire, and nothing. Nope, it’s Baking Soda. I emptied a box on the fire. Still blazing. Then the obvious hit me…..smother it with the pan’s lid! :doh:

What a mess…..I had to replace that eye and drip pan.

I made a green bean casserole a few years ago in a large Pyrex baking dish with a rubber lid. I took it to my brother’s and said throw this in the oven at 350. He did……and didn’t take the rubber lid off!! :doh:

Ever had green bean casserole with a rubber glaze??? :lol:
 
Oh, bless you heart! That looks like something I might do!

Do I have kitchen disasters? In 50+ years of klutz cooking, well...how long do you have?

I guess the worst thing I ever did was when I was in my early 20's. I had an electric, apartment size stove, and had chicken frying in an iron skillet on the front burner, and a pot of potatoes boiling on the burner right behind it.
The water boiled over into the grease, which splashed all over the stove and caught on fire. I did do one thing right...I grabbed the lid off the potatoes and slapped it on the pan of grease...and maybe I turned the burner off?

Now, what is the worst thing that I could have done?

Right. I grabbed the pot of boiling potatoes and dumped the whole thing on the fire.
I knew better, but I panicked. Unbelievably, the fire went out and I did not get electrocuted or seriously burned, and didn't even damage the wall behind the stove, but I sure was lucky.
My dad chewed my :beatdeadhorse5:out over that.


And it sure was a mess!
 
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I can think of one specific thing. I was about 22 and 8 months pregnant. I got home from work and started to make breaded pork chops. I breaded them and put them in the oven to finish. It was 80 degrees out and I was tired......you know where this is going. I fell asleep and woke up to the smoke alarm, about 4 hours later, the place was filled with smoke! lol I turned off the oven, opened all the windows in the apt. and was sitting outside when Dh and my dad pulled up. That was the first and only time my dad told Dh he had his permission to "kick my ass".
 
I have a gas stove. I aslo have one of those All-Clad grill pans that fit over two burners which I love dearly but learned early on that just because things seem to be grilling just fine on the pan, you don't want to turn your attention to anything else or the flames may just come up around the back side of your grill pan and do this:

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That used to be the switch for the oven light....:unsure:
 
Mama said:
I have a gas stove. I aslo have one of those All-Clad grill pans that fit over two burners which I love dearly but learned early on that just because things seem to be grilling just fine on the pan, you don't want to turn your attention to anything else or the flames may just come up around the back side of your grill pan and do this:

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That used to be the switch for the oven light....:unsure:
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Holy Cow! That is one crispy switch! :lol:
 
That's the reason I switched to all stainless steel utensils and only pots and pans with SS handles. I've melted sooooo much plastic in my life.
 
I knew we had one of these threads here...

So I'm going to make a little sauce for some cheese raviolis just now. I wanted a smooth sauce, so I opened up the one 29 oz can of puree I had left. I added some Italian seasoning. I added some granulated garlic. I added some powdered onion. I added a little sugar. Then, I thought I would add just a small sprinkle of red pepper flakes for the hell of it. The same pepper flakes I had just sprinkled into my hand last night to eyeball 1 tsp. I grabbed the almost full economy 6 oz size of red pepper flakes off of the shelf and unscrewed the cap... the final ingredient... I turned the bottle upside down and gave it a violent shake, knowing that the flakes tend to clog the the holes in the plastic sprinkle top... that is, when that sprinkle top hasn't come off and is sitting inside the cap. :doh:
Oh nooooo. This isn't supposed to happen! :pat: WTF?!

So I tried my damndest to use a spoon to scoop the flakes off of the top of the puree and other ingredients, but that only garnered me about 3 TBS out of the 4 oz of pepper flakes sitting there in a heap before pushing a "way too much" amount into the tomato sauce and then contaminating the rest of the flakes with drippings from the spoon...

So not one to cry over spilt milk, I threw the "spilt milk" down the drain and started from scratch. Note to self, always sprinkle a little in your hand first. And thank god for stick blenders.
 
Been there myself once, sure makes for a kicked up sauce doesn't it. I now do it always in the palm of my had first regardless of the spice/seasoning.
 
Watched my next door neighbor drop a turkey into a turkey fryer full to the brim with oil. At least he was smart enough to have the fryer out in the middle of the driveway.
 
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