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

juno

My daddy always puts the stuff in the dishwasher that he's not supposed to - I mean like he adds bleach and washing powder and whatever else he feels like. I've been telling him it's going to go wrong for a while.

So the other day I came home from work to find a huge puddle of water on the floor in front of dishwasher. The dishwasher light was flashing. So I jumped to the obvious conclusion.

Whilst I was on the phone yelling at him I was also mopping it with a towel. I then opened the door of the washing machine dump said towel in and find the bottom of that is full of water.

It was actually the washing machine that had broken and dumped water all over the floor and not the dishwasher

Berni888

moo2moo wrote: »

We had builders in on a very hot day, topless short wearing builders. Unlike most ordinary white van driving builders this trio had a lovely navy blue example which was extremely hot inside. 2ish in the afternoon when it can't physically have got much hotter they retrieved from the van a ginormous can of expanding foam (the M.S.E. part of the story - economy through bulk buying). They then proceeded to climb up a set of steps and squeeze the trigger. Like a thing possessed the can exploded spraying the room and its contents with expanding foam. Being a practical kind of guy the one holding the can ran to the nearest door and tossed the can into the garden still spewing its contents everywhere coating everything in its path with blobs of expanding foam carpets, walls, furniture and builders. It also set very rapidly. One of them, obviously the one with the hairiest chest, had managed to get it into his belly button prior to bending over and getting stuck to himself.

Logic says you attempt to get off as much foam as possible from the affected person before it sets. Which is why the OH arrived home to find me standing on the drive in full view of passing traffic hosing down a naked buider (only at the point he removed his shorts did I discover that was all he was wearing). Builder is at this point very vigorously rubbing his hands around what appeared from the end of the driveway to be his nether regions. OH stormed up the driveway to be confronted by a very sheepish strawberry scented naked builder and me, and the other 2 builders, in fits of giggles.

I never did manage to get the expanding foam off the tumble drier or the windows. But I did discover that the only way to remove expanding foam from a hairy builder is to place under icy cold garden tap, hose down whilst scrubbing with exfoliator, dry and then apply hair clippers. Fortunately I wasn't the one who had to explain to his wife why he'd arrive home smelling of strawberries with a cleanly shaven belly.

I read this last year and tears streamed down by face and I still laughed at just the thought of it and when retelling the tale, couldn't do so without cracking up, you have a way with relaying the events Moo2Moo, just thought it deserved to be brought to the attention of others just finding this thread. Still laughed out loud again even though I know what's coming. So funny, thanks for sharing.

kacie

The first time I made bread rolls they were so hard that when I dropped one on the floor there wasn't even a dent.
I had been given a candy floss maker for christmas one year and decided to make blue candy floss by adding blue food colouring, which then went all over the kitchen.
I also set the grill on fire by cooking fishcakes

Valli

oh my! this is hysterical - and LOVE the builders story moo2moo

*pulls self together and goes to get on with stuff*

Flat_Eric

I remember now why I rarely make myself omelettes ! my planned bacon, pepper and onion omelette turned into burnt scrambled egg with extra bits of bacon, pepper and onion. I pretended it was very yummy but most of it went in the bin! and I made do with a kit kat and a coffee instead !

I have enjoyed reading this thread as many of the posts here have made me smile or :rotfl:

Here are a few of my confessions !

The very first time I was left home alone whilst the rest of my family went on holiday, I remember forgetting about a whole loaf of bread. I eventually discovered said loaf of bread which had grown a rather fetching cobweb around itself !

I used to babysit a lot when I was in my late teens and remember one occasion cooking a pizza for my tea but forgetting to switch the oven off and leaving the oven door open ! cue a burnt cupboard door. I don't think I was asked back to babysit again !

on another occasion, I reheated a jam tart in the microwave for something like 5 minutes ?? jam tart ended up welded to the bowl ! I don't think it ever came off and had to be binned !

More recently I decided to purchase myself a new toaster. Having taken down the smoke alarm !!!, I proceeded to follow the instructions and use the toaster without any toast in it (to burn off whatever it says needs to be burned off ???) I did this once and then decided to try cooking some toast. I can't remember exactly but I like my toast well done so I used the highest setting and might even have set the (I'm using frozen bread setting when it wasn't) and promptly returned to the lounge to faff with my dvd player ignoring the DO NOT LEAVE UNATTENDED instruction. I returned to the kitchen just in time to find the toast was beyond burnt and my lovely brand new toaster was on the verge of catching fire. Certainly in one place, you could see where it had ever so slightly started to melt :eek: I think this was my most dangerous kitchen endeavor !

I know one of my first cake making attempts ended up flat as a pancake as I continuously opened the oven door !! the cake was for my cubs - I cant remember if it got eaten or binned !!

i also remember exploding a chocolately desert in my MIL's microwave. Thankfully she was out at the time and we gave the microwave a damn good clean so I don't think she ever found out !!

I remember my dad upturning a tray full of chicken wings along with the fat in my mum's brand new gas oven !!

I used to be a big fan of those make your own pizzas from a$da - my OH had kindly gone out of his way to get them, battle the queues etc. Unfortunately, the instructions for cooking pizzas say put directly on oven shelf. Thats all well and good except for the fact that its damn difficult to get it in the oven without dropping it on the floor. I can't remember exactly what happened but I know that as I tried to transfer said pizza from worktop to oven that the pizza was top heavy or something and most of the topping ended up on the floor. I can't remember if the actual pizza ended up on the floor or not . I was pretty upset particularly as I had just thought to myself moments before that happened, wouldn't it be awful if I dropped it on the floor ! it wouldn't be so bad given that I had a pizza as well and could share mine except for the fact that my OH doesn't like cheese. His pizza still got cooked ! but i remember picking some of the topping off my mine to put on my OHs.

i can't remember any more disasters for the min but will be back if i do !!

zippychick

This week i have had loads of disasters so thought I would share!

1) Burnt flapjacks for a friend - oven temp issue, my fault. Binned.

2) Cereal bars with condensed milk - rock buns. Binned. I messed up the timings, so just guessed, badly

3) Multi mega bean stew - trying to eat more pulses and grains, used sweet and hot paprika to flavour it and it tasted like something rotten you would have made in HE in school. Binnned.

4) forgot about putting the chickpeas in the freezer so they have gone off and smell bad and have developed a fuzz. Binned.

Disgraceful! :eek:

brighthair

not realising how much pearl barley swelled - beef and pearl barley casserole for weeks after!
cooking creme brulee and managing to pour liquid caramel over my hand - trip to the burns clinic, and the bloody stuff had SET on my hand and arm as I'd put it straight under cold water......
Believing that Pyrex is pretty indestructable. Nope, I've smashed 2 dishes, one of which flew shards into my eye - back to A&E again.....

CupOfChai

brighthair wrote: »

managing to pour liquid caramel over my hand

OH MY GOD! :eek:

jaxx46

brighthair wrote: »

not realising how much pearl barley swelled - beef and pearl barley casserole for weeks after!
cooking creme brulee and managing to pour liquid caramel over my hand - trip to the burns clinic, and the bloody stuff had SET on my hand and arm as I'd put it straight under cold water......
Believing that Pyrex is pretty indestructable. Nope, I've smashed 2 dishes, one of which flew shards into my eye - back to A&E again.....

Ouch, I made toffee apples once and managed to drip the toffee on my hand, still got the scars many years later. Also once had a pyrex dish full of baked beans explode on me :eek: luckily no-one was hurt but OMG what a mess

brighthair

CupOfChai wrote: »

OH MY GOD! :eek:

I think that was the first thing that came out of my mouth when I did it
Instinct was to stick it under cold tap, and then stare at it in dismay as the caramel set, and my skin started blistering........