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What’s your biggest screw up in the kitchen?

Whether you did it when you were a kid or a as misguided college student, you’ve had a seriously bad screw up in the kitchen. So what happened?
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My biggest screw up in the kitchen had nothing to do with cooking. When my son was an infant, we would boil his bottles to sanitize them. I had been up with him most of the night one night, and around 5am, I went ahead and started boiling his bottles. I sat down with him in the rocking chair, and he and I both passed out. I didn’t wake up until the smoke detector went off, and the house was full of smoke. My wife came running out of the bedroom, and we immediately took him outside. Knowing what it was, I ran back in and took the smoking pot off the stove. Our neighbors had called the fire department, and by the time I ran back out, there were 2 hook and ladder trucks in front of the house. The firefighters were extremely helpful, and they put two industrial strength fans on either side of the house to blow everything out. That was 22 years ago, and I’ve never lived it down.