Describe your worst kitchen catastrophe..?

Question

my husband tried to boil 12 eggs in the micowave with no water just eggs on a plastic plate (dum a**) and the door blew off the micowave and a small fire and it blew all the power out on the whole block and eggs and smoke was everwhere and the smell was like someone had died and it lasted for weeks..

Answer 1

When I was sick and had gone to bed for the day my husband stayed up for awhile..
About 2hrs after he came to bed we heard what sounded like gun shots down stairs. He yells at me to call 911 and he gets a ball bat and goes down the steps very carefully.

Now I am telling the operator my address and what we heard when he comes into the bedroom and announces that it was the boiled eggs he left on the stove. He thought he had turned them off but had only turned them down so when all the water was gone they exploded one at a time (like 6 gunshots) Now the police are at the door and he was so embarrassed. BUT it was funny and they got a good laugh.

Answer 2

Well I sure can't top the fires and explosions. In the years afterward we could look back and laugh. My was making a Dutch pancake, not really a pancake, and the recipe called for heating the casserole dish in the oven. Then take it out and pour in the batter and return to the oven. Well she put the dish on the top of the stove and poured on the batter and the dish split into 4 pieces. The batter ran all over the top of the stove and around the burners into the stove. No big disaster, just clean it all up, right. We finally got it all cleaned. The next thing we discovered that if you pushed on the top of the stove the batter bubbled out every where. It had gotten into the insulation in the stove top. End result a new stove and my wife said "While we were at it why not a new dishwasher". Most expensive dish I never got to eat.

Answer 3

Mine's not quite that bad! I was cooking dinner and my family called and invited us for Christmas dinner at the last minute. We were already drinking, so I turned down the oven and we took a cab. We spent a couple hours there with even more drinks, cabbed home and I remembered to shut the oven off and for some reason I thought my hubby had put the chicken away. It was a warm winter, so I didn't use the oven for about 4 days. But there was a strange smell in the kitchen. The trash was fine, the potatoes weren't rotting, I couldn't figure it out.

Until I went to put in a loaf of bread dough. The hens were still in there...rotting...and covered and crawling with maggots!!!! I screamed, called my husband at work, screaming, and he told me to turn the oven on and roast them. I did, all the while spraying febreeze. I finally turned it off and let it cool, then had to hold a dishcloth over my face to take the pan and the hens out to the trash, while gagging all the way.

I threw the pan out too.

Answer 4

My husband was making a pot roast/veggies in the slow cooker and filled it more then what is recommended. I went to the store and when I got home he was cleaning meat off the ceiling and fan and the dog was licking the carpeting. I guess the psssster got plugged and the little rubber safety stopper blew. Almost the entire roast came shooting out of that little tiny hole. It shattered the light bulb above the stove and we had a crazy mess to clean up. The dog had a feast!

Answer 5

One cold winter night, I decided to make a roast in a kettle, on top of the stove. We had a teenage girl living with us, and I figured that when she got home from her date, she would be hungry. I put a four pound roast in a kettle of water, and placed it on top of the stove.
I went in to watch TV, and my wife fell asleep on the divan. In about 30 minutes, I also fell asleep. About three hours later, our bird was screaming and I woke up. The room was full of grey smoke, and I barely could see the TV through the smoke. I was still sleepy, and all that came to my mind was, that the house was on fire.
We finally figured out that it was the roast. I got two pot holders, grabbed the kettle and threw it out in the front yard. The four pound roast was a small square of burnt charcoal.
The teen age girl came home, and we had all the windows open and the door open, and the house was very cold. She asked what happened. We laughed and told her that her supper was out in the yard. Never again.

Answer 6

that's pretty funny,I heard of a woman that got up late on thanksgiving and loaded in a 20 pound turkey then set the oven to self clean. by doing this she asserted 900 degrees of hot cleaning heat in an oven would somehow quickly finish the bird.talk about a crisp skin She had to order her a new oven door. she blowed hers right off the stove.

Answer 7

Hello:

My aunt who is ten years older than me,caught her oven on fire one year for Easter because she forgot to take the plastic wrap off of the baked ham before she cooked it,and lets just say we shared our Easter dinner with the fire department! After that,we NEVER let my aunt cook anything for any other kind of family dinner again,ever!

Answer 8

Mine doesn't come close to that but i spent $20 on all the stuff for my famos homade lasuga and put in the oven and fell asleep,the smoke woke me up and i had to thow the whole pan of it away,it was a black crisp,i mean burt up.

Answer 9

I accidentally left a plastic cutting board on the on stove top...lets just say I needed a fire extinguisher.

Answer 10

I don't think my story tops yours but...
My 15 year old daughter baked cinnamon rolls in a glass pan. She took them out of the oven and put them on a turned on (who knows why it was on..)burner. It virtually exploded.There was glass everywhere-top of the fridge, by the back door (12' away)...