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Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:16 pm
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
116700 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:16 pm
I've been lucky. Cut my finger a couple of times when chopping veggies. Nothing requiring stitches.

Yesterday I was heating a pan of hot oil and my long sleeve T-shirt sleeve grabbed the handle. Came about one half inch from a spill.

Posted by plawmac
Member since Dec 2007
3210 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:20 pm to
Many years ago, the ex was trying to make a roux in a microwave. It exploded, denting the door on the microwave and disintegrating the glass bowl into the smallest shards I've ever seen. Damn roux went all over the kitchen cabinets. I don't believe that woman ever tried to cook another thing again for the rest of our marriage.
Posted by Benchwarmer
Member since Feb 2004
4963 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:21 pm to
Once changed frying oil by pouring it in a large plastic salad bowl. problem=oil hot. oil melt plastic. wife not happy. base cabinets were shiny though.
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
10084 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:24 pm to
Once forgot to take out the bag of giblets before putting the turkey in the oven.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
116700 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:27 pm to
Damn, that one is better than my favorite wife story. She decided to make bacon. She bought some bacon and knew that it must be 'fried.' Frying is cooking in hot oil. So, she filled a sauce pan with oil and heated that sucker up to high smoke. Then she opened a rasher of bacon...12 oz. package from the fridge and threw it in the oil. There was an explosion.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
116700 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:29 pm to
quote:

Once forgot to take out the bag of giblets before putting the turkey in the oven.

I've done that. But the turkey turned out fine anyway.
Posted by pterencetheptineida
LSU
Member since Oct 2008
322 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:37 pm to
I didn't have a teapot so I decided to boil some water and put it in an old water gallon container to brew tea in. That sucker shriveled up the instant the water touched it and scalding water went everywhere. (Still don't know what I was thinking)
Posted by coolpapaboze
Parts Unknown
Member since Dec 2006
20658 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:40 pm to
I cut the tip off of my middle finger once while slicing brussell sprouts with a hand held ceramic bladed mandoline. I have a circular scar a quarter inch in diameter on the tip of that finger with no feeling. I now wear a kevlar glove whenever I use that mandoline.
Posted by CITWTT
baton rouge
Member since Sep 2005
31765 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 5:46 pm to
As a child I sat on the counter in my families old house as popcorn was being made. When the pot lid was lifted I leaned over to look at the progress as a kernel popped. Hot oil in both eyes which produced one hell of a scream. I am rushed to the eye doc of Thibodaux, and he does his thing. Two weeks of bandages and blindness, with accompanying walking into walls ensued. But the sun still looks beautiful in the morning still.
Posted by CITWTT
baton rouge
Member since Sep 2005
31765 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 6:05 pm to
My sister opened the top of a pressure cooker filled with beans years ago without cooling under a steam of water. Beans are a bitch to get off the cieling.
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
10084 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 6:20 pm to
You must be talking about the jiggler, not the lid, right? In my experience, even with the old fashioned pressure cooker without interlocks,it would be near impossible to get the lid off under pressure.
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
10084 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 6:23 pm to
And now that you mention pressure cookers, I ruined 7 quarts of chili I was canning by cooling it down too quickly. When the pressure dropped in the pot, the higher pressure in the jars then had to come out and it blew the seals on the jars.
This post was edited on 1/14/11 at 6:26 pm
Posted by CITWTT
baton rouge
Member since Sep 2005
31765 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 6:29 pm to
Nope. One lb beans meet cieling, and make a lound noise.
Posted by GynoSandberg
Bay St Louis, MS
Member since Jan 2006
73916 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 6:31 pm to
I was chopping a habenero to throw into my chili

as i was chopping, a seed flew up in the corner of my eye by the top of my nose. without thinking i tried to remove it with my hand, that had also touched the pepper.

needless to say, it was the worst pain ive ever experienced. went through a gallon of milk to ease the pain
Posted by Lexo
LaPlace
Member since May 2008
3436 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 6:41 pm to
quote:

oil melt plastic


Been there.

Also, when I was about 12 I was opening a box of frozen pizza with a steak knife. Knife slipped. Still have the scar on my thumb, took 5 stitches.
This post was edited on 1/14/11 at 6:42 pm
Posted by supamario627
The Dark Side of The Moon
Member since Aug 2009
2120 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 7:16 pm to
when i was 14, i went to take a pizza from out the oven and our mitt was warn out and the heat went through the mitt and the pan titled over and burned the inner part of my arm....looks kinda like the nike swoosh


scar is still there but very light and im 23







O, the pizza was saved tho
Posted by Dorothy
Munchkinland
Member since Oct 2008
18154 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 8:25 pm to
quote:

Once forgot to take out the bag of giblets before putting the turkey in the oven.



I did that with the first turkey I ever cooked. It was in one of those Reynold's cooking bags too, so when I went to check the turkey, I saw something weird floating in the liquid, and went WTH is that?

When I was a freshman living in a dorm, my roommate's mom sent her an air popcorn popper. We were all excited, and went about making the popcorn in the dorm's kitchen area. Problem was we forgot to bring a bowl, and the popcorn started spitting out of the machine so fast all over the kitchen. We grabbed a spare garbage bag and held it under the opening, and the popcorn melted holes in the bag. BTW, my roommate is now a doctor, so she was supposed to be smart.
Posted by billyred
Member since Sep 2009
16 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 8:56 pm to
sorry meant mandolin - but i was taking the safety cover off of the thing!
This post was edited on 1/14/11 at 8:59 pm
Posted by Jax-Tiger
Vero Beach, FL
Member since Jan 2005
26880 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 9:32 pm to
quote:

the ex was trying to make a roux in a microwave. It exploded, denting the door on the microwave and disintegrating the glass bowl into the smallest shards I've ever seen. Damn roux went all over the kitchen cabinets.


Well damn, who hasn't had that happen to them?
This post was edited on 1/14/11 at 9:33 pm
Posted by L.A.
The Mojave Desert
Member since Aug 2003
65321 posts
Posted on 1/14/11 at 9:36 pm to
An assortment of cuts and burns.
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