What Has Been Your Greatest Fail In The Kitchen?

Mine was baking a cake and baking powder and bicarbonate soda was in the same looking pots by the same company an I picked up the soda by mistake and the cake tasted of washing up detergent and I had to start again. 🤣

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WomanThoughts

Failures like over cooking happens sometimes.But there was this time(in 2002) I remember where I escaped a fatal accident in kitchen.I was cooking Biryani in an old cooker holding my 1.5 yrs old son.Maybe around afternoon 12:30 pm.He was crying a lot than usual,pulling my hair and dress.To pacify him I went to the corridor to get him some fresh air.Just 4-5 minutes later,a loud blasting sound from the kitchen was heard.I was startled and when I went to the kitchen to see what happened,the entire kitchen was messy with the Biryani I cooked and almost all the glasses in the windows were shattered all over the place.I found that the old cooker malfunctioned and blast opened.Really I escaped from that accident out of god's grace that day.Since then,I never used a cooker more than a year and take extreme care while I deal with them.Maybe my son was my guardian angel that day.

NativePortlander1970

@WomanThoughts The majority of cooker incidents usually happen when over filled, however, many times the pressure valve will get plugged as well. I have personally never trusted them.

Primnproper · 56-60, F

@WomanThoughts wow you were lucky that wasn’t a lot worse.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@NativePortlander1970 my mother-in-laws pressure cooker exploded in her kitchen. Had to have the gas stove replaced, the ceiling redone (the lid was found up in the attic), the coffee maker was shattered and beans all over the kitchen. My father-in-law had just gotten out of his chair and went into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee and sat back down in the living and then it happened. He would have likely died if he had been in the kitchen.

WomanThoughts

@cherokeepatti Seems many kitchen accidents are because of pressure cookers.

NativePortlander1970

@cherokeepatti My maternal Grandmother always pulled the pressure valve stem a few times when she was doing her jarred preserves and tomatoes, she had too many friends have blowups.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@WomanThoughts yeah and it scared me. But she was “water-bathing” jars of beans, that was the problem. And thought she could bring the heat up better by putting the lid on (not tightening it down) but it got hot enough to vibrate and self-sealed, a jar of beans broke and clogged the valve. Kind of pissed me off because I bought her a water-bather to water can tomatoes and fruit in but she did this instead. And water-bathing beans is not safe because there isn’t enough acid in them, skirting with botulism doing it that way.