kitchen disasters

[Desert Arabian]

My mom (ACGAS) was cooking with a skillet in the kitchen. Our old cat (RIP), she was a youngin', jumped up onto the burning hot skillet.

That's why her pads were pink instead of brown.

[sparks19]

I don't know if this counts but this is the biggest disaster that ever happened in my kitchen.

I decided to make some microwave popcorn one day. I got out a pack and put it in the microwave for the usual time. Just then the phone rang

I was talking to my friend waiting for the microwave to stop when smoke starts POURING out of it. I hang up the phone and run to the kitchen. It was a snack pack I thought it was regular sized so I put it in for waaaaaaaaaay to long. I had to throw it outside until it stopped smoking and smouldering.

The inside of the microwave was BLACK and it took me hours to scrub that out.

[Karen]

I don't know if this counts but this is the biggest disaster that ever happened in my kitchen.

I decided to make some microwave popcorn one day. I got out a pack and put it in the microwave for the usual time. Just then the phone rang

I was talking to my friend waiting for the microwave to stop when smoke starts POURING out of it. I hang up the phone and run to the kitchen. It was a snack pack I thought it was regular sized so I put it in for waaaaaaaaaay to long. I had to throw it outside until it stopped smoking and smouldering.

The inside of the microwave was BLACK and it took me hours to scrub that out.

That reminds me of a workplace kitchen disaster years ago.

There was a microwave in the company kitchen, and a coworker decided to make popcorn, didn't have a paper bag (which you can put the unpopped corn in if you don't have fancy "microwave popcorn" so just put a handful of kernels in a plastic bowl (tupperware-type) and microwaved it. I ended up clearing the building after unplugging the thing when I smelled burning plastic and someone said "Karen, the microwaves's on fire, what do we do?" DUH????

Imagine the toxic smell of burning, melting plastic combined with the smell of burnt popcorn.

[lute]

i don't cook. it's not that i won't...i can'. my mom is the same way. we burn things beyond recognition.LOL

i did make a big mess in the kitchen once. about 3 weeks ago i was cleaning my 10 gallon tank and i was filling it up with the sprayer. i REALLY had to use the bathroom and didn't want to stop filling it up. it was taking forever! so i unscrewed the sprayer and just let the water pour in the tank. about a minute later i hear "AHH!!! GRAB IT! GRAB IT!" the hose had fell out of the tank and was spewing water all over the floor. my brothers ran in the room and grabbed the hose and shut off the water. there was about an inch of standing water on the floor. we mopped it up and the parentals will never know.

[davidpizzica]

I am cooking challrnged. I'm good at popping pizzas in to the oven and heating them up. Except for one time. I had a nice pizza with everything on it and put in the oven as usual. I took it out and TRIED to slice it. How come this pizza is so tough? Then I looked. I had cooked it while it was sill sitting on the cardboard! It was also pretty doughy. Now I MAKE SURE that I had RENOVED the cardboard first!

[mustlovedogs]

One time my mom was doing dishes in the kitchen sink (we REALLY need a dishwasher, but we can't fit anything else into our kitchen...there's a long story behind that) Anyways, my mom finished the dishes and felt water all over her feet. We saw water everywhere on the kitchen floor!!! A pipe underneath the sink popped out and broke so my dad VERY quickly went to the hardware store to buy a new pipe piece. It took us a little bit to clean that water up!