Boneheaded Moves In The Kitchen...

Not sure if it was boneheaded but I had a pressure cooker and was fixing chicken for dumpling some how I let the pressure off and it blew and the water wen t all over my hands golly how that boiling water hurts I grabed the mustard and spread it all over my hands and got no blisters I stopped using that pot!

Once I was cooking a casserole for a pot luck. I was in the middle of getting dressed, and realized the pan HAD to come out of the oven. So I went into the kitchen without a top. For some reason, I think I didn't have a good grip on the pan, I balanced it against me... against the top of my bare stomach. I had a nice red stripe just under my bra band! :p When my husband and I got married, it was a very casual wedding, and I was baking barbecued chicken. I was out setting up, and my husband-to-be went inside, and said the house was filled with smoke. Luckily, all he had to do was turn the heat down, and nothing was burned.

I gotta say I also have grabbed something out of the oven without a potholder. No clue why, I just do it thinking it's not going to be hot, I guess... This reminded me of when I was first married (the first time) and I was taking a caserole out of the oven. For some unknown reason I dropped the whole thing on the oven door and it shattered. I loved that dish. It was such a mess to clean up, the caserole was all over the oven and floor, not to mention the glass from my dish. THEN I had to find something else to make for dinner. We may have just ordered a pizza that night...

Luckily, everything is fine after all! My grandma told me an expolision happened in her kitchen, which was pretty dangerous! If she didn't go out find something...

I am sorry to here about that painful experince of yours... In contrast, mine could have been dangerous but in the end was just embarrassing... My worst experience in the kitchen was the time that I and a friend were together visiting on Halloween night and decided... "Hey lets cook those pumpkin seeds!" I did not know how to cook them and neither did my friend. I listened to her when she said, "Hey put some salt and olive oil on them... That's how to do it..." Well, perhaps putting the salt on would have been okay but that olive oil caught fire and soon I was hearing from my friend, "Hey there is a fire in the oven. Come and look." I looked, and sure enough there was indeed a fire in the oven. I said, "I think I should put baking soda on it." She thought I should put baking soda on it. We had an argument. I knew I was right and wanted to prove it... I decided to call the fire department... to ask them so I could have her hear it and thought I would just take care of the situation myself. The woman who answered the phone said, "Lady, who cares which one works... It's dangerous. get out of the apartment and let the firemen put out the fire. They will be there soon. The oven door firmly closed, we left the apartment. The firemen soon came and they were mighty attractive, I might add, to my girlfriend and I... But any hope that we might have had at finding a boyfriend that way was dashed when they went into the apartment, put out the fire and then put the baking pan with the charred remains of the pumpkin seeds on the lawn where everyone else in the apartment complex could see them and said, "This looks like the dinners that our wives gave us last night." Bummage... married firemen, no fair. The other residents of the apartment complex crowded around for the free entertainment at our expense... It was embarrassing to have the results of that cooking attempt on display... I wanted an exit... and it was soon given to me. One fireman checked my smoke detector and told me that I needed a new battery and that he was not going to leave the area until I got it. One of the looky-lou neighbiors who I had never met before came over to get a closer look, heard what the fireman said and told me, "oops I need one of those too." So she and I went on a battery run while my friend volunteered to stay behind and to attempt to clean up the smoke coated kitchen. When I returned, I found that the fireman was long gone... probably out on another call and that my friend had done a good job at clean up. She later admitted that I was right about the baking soda being one way to put out fires. Since then, I have not cooked any pumpkin seeds...

lol. I steamed a polystyrene packs with a fish inside and it melted. My mother screamed. Luckily I only manage to steam one fish which is good and they'd love it. we make fun of it ever since.

I have left the oven on for several hours. My husband actually somehow had a grease fire start in a pot on the stove, though. He nearly panicked and yelled to me. I was not in the room. When I ran in to see what was going on I grabbed the lid and slid it onto the pot so the fire would go out.

I do this at least once every two weeks, and I don't know how to get it in my head to stop. I leave the eye on on the stove. Something about electric stoves, especially the ones with the glass top that doesn't alert me to turn it off. I never had this problem with gas stoves. That fire begged me to turn it off. I always feel really stupid when I do it, but nonetheless, it happens. Luckily someone has always caught it and turned it off or called me back to do so before anything bad happened.

I have done what you have.I also have left something in the oven,and forgot.I did not realize it till it began to burn.Do not talk about things over boiling,I am the worlds worst for that.I am not good in the kitchen.

I forget very easily especially mishaps. I would rather think about things that needed to be solved like the sawdust mulch which has been improperly placed by my workers. That occupies my mind. Cheers!!

I bet that hurt, taught you a lesson too didn't it...lol. Well I don't really remember exactly what I done, but I remember grabbing the egde of pan that I took out of the oven, it was still hot, and I burned my hand a little. I also keep potholders and towels nearby all the time..haha.

Hi twoey68 Oh I have done many things in my time, I will never forget the time when I made shepared pie and I was taking it out from the oven when I droped the dish, the tea towel I was ussing was a bit thin and it was burning my hand, so no dinner, I had to tell him to go get a take-away, he was not best pleased. Tamara

I didn't view any responses on this one as I am one hundred per cent postive no-one else has done this. In my twentys ,was cooking a meal in the oven ,which not long into cooking went out. We had bottled gas and the oven light didn't work.I took out the casserole and tried to relight the oven a few times ,but it didn't want to light so I put my head in side the oven to see if the gas vents were blocked but couldn't see much of anything soooooo I struck the match and as I hadn't turned the oven off it went whoosh .Talk about lady luck being on my side that day as all I got was frizzy hair and no eye-brows with some heat rash on my fore-head lol.After my nerves had settled down I rang a friend who was a hairdresser to see if she could do something with my hair to er take the friz out but it still looked a bit odd after she'd cut it until it grew out. So kiddies don'nt try this at home. I had totaly forgotten this incident until I read about yours .

I have done something similiar! I think everyone has. But, the one incident that sticks out in my mind is that of my husband trying to make the kids Mac and Cheese with s stinking hand mixer. He thought it would be faster to mix it and it was a horrible mess in my kithcen! It looked like a block of cheese exploded in my Kitchen!

My husband has done the same thing several times. The dumbist thing I did was to put a plastic wrapped pkg of meat on a hot burner. I have a smooth top electric stove and if I had just looked at the panel it has a red light that tells you a burner is on, but I didn't think and just put the pkg down anyway. You wouldn't believe how fast that plastic wrap melts! A lot of fun to clean off too. lol

Just awhile back I took a pan out of the oven sat it on the counter turned around to do something for my Mother (took about 20sec.) turned back around to move the pan to the stovetop out of the way and picked it up barehanded CRIPES it was HOT! Thankfully although the palm of my hand and all my fingers blistered only one small place on my thumb was really bad and it took a couple of weeks for it to completely heal. I swear sometimes i am a menace in the kitchen.

i know that hurt. i hate a burn. when i cook i nearly always use of my iron skillets. after i wash it i like to put it on the eye & let it dry good. sometimes i have been known to forget it.i'll smell it & go turn it off. good think my smeller works good.lol

Well then join the "Bonehead's Anonymous" group because I belong already. I have done stupid things like using a slicer without the holder and slicing off a small part of my finger, cutting a nice gash in my hand by grabbing a sharp knife blade, burning my hand by picking up a hot pan, like you, and so on. It is called "brain fart" when you do something that you know is stupid but still do it!! LOL

My fiance does that all the time. I'm surprised that he has any hands left. The dumbest thing that I've done is leave a steak knife close to the edge of the counter for my 2 1/2 year old to get ahold of it. DUH!!! She was ok, we caught it just in time. I just always make sure I put them in the sink or put them away now.

haha my mom when she was young bought plastic wrapped bagels and microwaved them with it and the plastic melted and made them shiny and she forgot she left it on andwas like wow these are so shiny and ate them until she realized, im not my mothers daughter.