What's your worst kitchen disaster?

[babetoo]

as a teen i blew up my mom's pressure-cooker. i put rice in it. must have put to much. it blew the little thing that jiggled in one direction and the lid in another. and rice on the ceiling. what a mess.

i have not used a pressure cooker since. lol



babe

[gglass]

When I was 15 I tried to make my Mom's breakfast gravy.
It was not pretty..kinda like a scene from that old horror movie The Blob. It just kept getting bigger and bigger.

Luckily I have since mastered her gravy.

[PanchoHambre]

ok so not quite a "disater' but almost

last night I was trying to steam some carrots and potatoes for a curry dish I was making and I set my large stock pot with water in the bottom on the stove and next to it I sat the veggies in the steaming basket (in this particular pot you need to put he steamer insert in the pasta insert) next to it.

A bit later I wondered why I heard all ths noise but the water was not steaming up yet then I realized... I turned on the WRONG burner ... the one my insterts were staged on so my veggies were cooking suspended directly over the burner (on high) and my poor pasta insert was charred

opps at least I realized before anything bad happened but I think my pasta insert is permanently discolored.

[LMJ]

Age 10: I wanted to make popcorn on the stovetop. So I put a saucepan of canola oil on the stove. And being ten, forgot about it...


... until I saw the reflected glow of the 8' tall tower of flame licking the ceiling.

Well, thankfully I was a SMART ten, smothered the flame with a baking sheet, and threw the pot into a deep snowbank outside. It was still hot enough to melt thru and kill the grass underneath.

Took a few YEARS to clean the soot out of that saucepan. Still using it, though!