O/S disasters.... let us share...

northwest1965

I'll put boyfriends big disaster on here rather than any of mine:D
He put an egg on to boil, then went to phone me. After an hours phone call, well the egg had exploded and apparently the kitchen looked a real mess. A year later when we ripped the kitchen out we still found some!!

funkymonkey849

northwest1965 wrote: »

I'll put boyfriends big disaster on here rather than any of mine:D
He put an egg on to boil, then went to phone me. After an hours phone call, well the egg had exploded and apparently the kitchen looked a real mess. A year later when we ripped the kitchen out we still found some!!

That reminds me - when I first moved out I lived in staff accomodation with only a microwave for cooking. I tried to boil an egg in a bowl of water in the micro (don't ask - I was young, and possibly intoxicated!). I left the room while it was cooking and heard an almighty BANG - the egg had exploded with such force that the microwave door had blown open and egg was everywhere. It was all over the microwave, on the ceilings (no mean feat in a victorian building!), on the walls, and there were even bits of shell outside the door! The worst thing was me and my roomate were on our last warning for being messy and had been threatened with eviction the previous week! I cleaned up pretty sharpish, but we were still finding egg around the place for weeks after

funkymonkey849

stormchaos wrote: »

If making mash potato DON'T use a hand blender if you can't find the masher !!
it turns into the most revolting slimey goo !

I always do my mash with a hand blender - it comes out perfect every time!

TrixieB

I use an electric whisk a la Delia and it's fab

saygoodbyetothese

I once refilled a water bottle with a sports cap and took it with me on a trip out (to save money ).

Opening the bottle for a sip in a very crowded area I realised I'd made a mistake in refilling it with something fizzy, as I showered passers by with an explosion of fruity water when I opened the bottle

juno

saygoodbyetothese wrote: »

I once refilled a water bottle with a sports cap and took it with me on a trip out (to save money ).

Opening the bottle for a sip in a very crowded area I realised I'd made a mistake in refilling it with something fizzy, as I showered passers by with an explosion of fruity water when I opened the bottle

Once when I was younger (well, 18) I washed a plastic bottle out with hot water - only it was a bit too hot and melted it

pebbles88

oh my goodness, ive just nearly done myself some damage from laughing whilst reading all these!! Great Therapy!!

foxgloves

I made some tomato soup with some of our lovely home-made tomatoes. I served a bowl each to myself & my husband. I left the remaning soup in the pan with the lid on it on the hob ready to put into containers tofreeze later. When I got around to washing the pots & clearing up, I forgot there was soup left in the pan, thought it was a clean one and just put it back on the top shelf of my pan cupboard. Over a week later, my husband was cooking dinner and I heard a loud shout from the kitchen & some impressive swearing & I went in there to find him completely covered in rancid old tomato soup. He'd grabbed the pan and the whole lot went all over him. Because the recipe had a lot of milk in it, it absolutely STANK and I wouldn't go near him.....just stood at the opposite end of the kitchen cracking up. He was not best pleased!

foxgloves

Oh yes, and here's another one that happened to me a long time ago but I haven't forgotten it. I read somewhere that if you've got an egg that's just a day or two past its use by date, don't waste it but crack it into a cup and use as a hair conditioner. That's quite possibly true.....but don't do what I did, and wash it out with hot water! The bloody stuff cooked and I had to spend half an hour trying to unweld a load of scrambled egg from my long hair. Rubbish. Haven't tried that particular tip since.

Knitty78

I stumbled across this thread and spent most of yesterday laughing. Or trying not to as I'm working.

So of course, the karma boomerang came to my house and I made the flattest, stodgiest, stuck to the pan toad in the hole last night.

Luckily I was able to pull out the sausages so we had those with mash and veg instead.

the batter is still soaking this morning as I can't get it to budge.