What's The Not So Smartest Thing You've Done In The Kitchen?
Decorating By PennySue Updated 10 Aug 2008 , 3:05pm by dee-lite
I spent the whole night decorating cakes at my apartment for a wedding show. 6AM I grab the cakes and start to head to work. I hit the small container of Wilton's burgandy with my elbow, I say a few swear words, turn arond hit a small container of blue with my elbow Colors went flying, lids weren't on tight. I ended up paying $250 to replace the carpet in my apartment. That was my big dummy move.
Well I just had another dumb move by me. I was cooking sausages for supper by frying them on the stove. Well doesn't a grease fire break out. What do I do. I throw water on to it. Well let me tell you that water is WRONG!!! Then I am fanning with a tea towel and it caught fire. I throw that to the ground and stamp on it. But them spot where I threw it had some soap from the kids bubbles and I literally did the splits. (I haven't been able to do the splits since I was about 5 years old) My DH found the box of baking soda and put the fire out but he was laughing at me so hard he nearly missed. At least I have a good sense of humour that I was laughing hysterically by this time. I am not allowed to make things with a lot of grease anymore but I found out what really puts out a grease fire.
I used to have waist length hair. And you know how you're always supposed to keep it tied back while you're in the kitchen? We all know that.
Its a sanitation issue.
Its a safety issue.
It's so that when you lean over to check your cookie dough in the mixer that the beater doesn't grab a strand of hair and pull your head into the bowl. Yeah that happened.
And if you think that its easy and a no brainer to turn the mixer off while you're being sucked into the bowl and can't see the switch, you'd be wrong.
OMIGOSH!!!! Ouch!!! I can so feel that one too!
Love the toaster story too!
I have one to tell. I was cleaning the kitchen a couple yrs ago, I started using bleach and I must of had some other kind of cleaner still in the sink that didn't mix with it. I looked down while running water and my engagement ring was broken in half!!!My rings are interlocking and I still don't understand how this happened, but the part with diamond fell down the drain I still had on the wedding band ,but I couldn't find the other half, My dh had to take the drainpipe apart and luckily it was caught in the elbow. I took it to the jewler that we bought it from and the first thing he said to me was "Have you been using bleach?" So now I always take off my rings if I am going to use any kind of chemicals.He fixed it for me at no charge and it looks good as new.
My best friend and i were about 15... wanted to bake cookes.. not knowing they were "bakeless cookies" We baked them in the oven.... then had to litteraly hammer the cookies off the cookie sheet with a hammer. (sTill have pics to prove it! ) ahahha
Oh and when mixing a cake in a kicthen aid..... DONT crack the eggs on the side of the mixer well its mixing cuz sometimes the shell drops out of your hand into the mixer... and DEFENTALY dont try to grab the shell out well its still mixing......not fun.
I amde a cake on another day and crack the egg on the side of the bowl..(you would think i learnt my lesson) and there goes the shell with it... this time i just watched it get crushed in to the batter with sadness knowing i had to throw it all out and start again...
Lesson learned... crack eggs in seperate bowl first.. then add to batter!
brilliant idea!!! 
I don't have any clean underwear so I'm going to wash a pair in the sink and put them in the oven to dry while I shower 
I come out of the shower to find the apt. full of smoke and smelling like burnt plastic!!! (My undies were some cheap shiny poly-something material-even more lol). I wound up having to wash another pair and dried them with the hair-dryer! a que muchacha, that is why you hang them on the car window so they will dry on your way to work!!!
Que bárbara...hilarious!!! LOL 
I raised my whisk attachment to add an ingredient into my mixture in the bowl and hit the speed dial button instead of the lowering button, not funny!
Melted the handle off my candy thermometer, very not funny!
Blew a hole in my microwave with a faulty bag of microwave popcorn, very not my fault!
When you spend a lot of time in the kitchen the list is just endless!
007 had a licence to kill we need licences to get stuff out of our kitchens, both equally dangerous (somedays) in my opinion!
The very first time I roasted a turkey I was 14. I removed the bag of giblets from the cavity between the legs, stuffed it and stuck it in the oven. I knew something was terribly wrong an hour or so later when I smelled burning plastic. I knew I had taken the giblets out so thought my mother had melted something in the oven and not cleaned it all out. I was humiliated when my father went to carve the turkey and cut into a plastic bag of giblets in the NECK cavity! It wouldn't have been so bad if not for the fact that his boss and his family was there, and I had a HUGE crush on the bosses oldest son!
I just did this yesterday....Went to the fridge to get my icing but it wasn't there??? Went to the freezer to get a cake & guess what was sitting right beside it? You guessed it....my bowl of 4lbs of icing frozen hard as a carp and I needed it now! I was so mad at myself. I've never frozen icing before. Took forever to unthaw (even though I sat it out in the sun) but finally it was good as new. Duh, did I feel like a dummy.
This thread is hysterical! I am supposed to be working on a cake... but had to read it all... ok, just let me add one short version here.. don't ever use your airbrush, especially red, for a whole cake...... when you forgot to turn off the ceiling fan in the kitchen......
I scrubbed red off everything throughout the entire house... no joke!
knew I had taken the giblets out so thought my mother had melted something in the oven and not cleaned it all out. I was humiliated when my father went to carve the turkey and cut into a plastic bag of giblets in the NECK cavity!
OMG I am not the only person who has done this???!!!!!
And it seems to be a family traditions that we burn the rolls every Thanksgiving!
In our house, it's the marshmallows on the candied yams. One year we scraped them off and rebaked THREE times!
But the one I'm still getting razzed about is an attempt at a chocolate pudding pie. I was so excited that my cousin was coming to visit my new apartment, that I decided to make a chocolate pudding pie. The directions said to put the pudding in a large mixing bowl, but it seemed to be such a small packet of pudding, so I used the small bowl instead so it would be easier to wash. Then I flipped the switch to High and watched as if in slow motion as the chocolate pudding crept up the sides of the bowl and FLUNG all over the kitchen! It looked like a crime scene
I'm thinking it might have been easier to wash the large bowl instead of the small bowl, the walls, mixer, all the dishes in the rack by the sink, the cat... and then the large bowl because I decided to try it again so my cousin wouldn't know I screwed it up!
Tee Hee Glad to know I'm not the only one who has done this. Only I didn't get the cat it was my Mom standing in the way. And the turkey just out of the oven.
Ok just thought of one more. A few years ago I was really into making my own soap and stuff. I had a bottle of dirt fragrance oil to make hunters soap with. I knocked it off the table and it broke all over the floor about 15 minutes before my youngest son's birthday party. I grabbed a bunch of towels and mopped it up and threw them in the wash. It must of been a real good brand of fragrance because my kitchen and ALL of my laundry smelled like drit for the next two weeks. 
uh... i forgot to take my head out of the fridge once when i slammed the door... thusly, i received a broken nose and a black eye.
that's about the extent of my major kitchen accidents, so far
I got a my first double oven a few years ago and was leaning in to check a cake in the top oven when both of my "ta-tas" took a bit of a rest on the oven door and well needless to say I burned 'em both and was quite embarrassed when I had to explain to DH I had burned my girls..
When my boys were young I had turned on the oven to reheat and then went to take a quick shower, when I got out I opened the door and the house was full of smoke, I had forgot there was a pizza box in the oven. I grab a towel wrapped it around me and ran to the kitchen as soon as I opened the oven door the box brust into flames and dropped on to the kitchen floor, I grabbed a glass and used soap water that was in the sink to pour on the burning box, by the time I put it out I was standing there in front of my boys with nothing on, the towel had hit the floor during my fire fighting YIKES
When my boys were young I had turned on the oven to reheat and then went to take a quick shower, when I got out I opened the door and the house was full of smoke, I had forgot there was a pizza box in the oven. I grab a towel wrapped it around me and ran to the kitchen as soon as I opened the oven door the box brust into flames and dropped on to the kitchen floor, I grabbed a glass and used soap water that was in the sink to pour on the burning box, by the time I put it out I was standing there in front of my boys with nothing on, the towel had hit the floor during my fire fighting YIKES
But were your boobs ok???
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