[Poppy Seed]

Anyone had a terrible kitchen accident at home?

My typical monthly idiocy involves oven gloves or a tea towel and getting something off the gas hob. I must set fire to my kitchen textiles at least once a month, then in the girly panic I throw the flaming article across the kitchen and set something else on fire. It's a nightmare!

My other typical stupidity is to try and get things out the dishwasher before it's finished and burning my fingers. Have dropped many plates doing this. I never learn!

[foxydog]

The 'corned beef tin trick' is my party piece. You know the square cans with the key, well you go round with the key then like a numpty you prize open the can with your thumbs. I have done this trick in spectacular movie style blood spirting out way twice. Yes twice!!

[Poppy Seed]

Oh God yes! Me too! My gran used to be able to open those with rickety old hands, and I just cannot do it! They are a health hazard!

[ontheloop54]

Sliced the end of my finger off with a vegetable peeler

[babymario]

I done that also
I've put the tea-towel in the microwave to dry and set fire to the microwave.

[LQS]

Hm.. I too set fire to things on the gas hob, including my hair. I am not that put out by it though. The other day I managed to set one of those rubber orca mittens on fire, OH informed me of this, and I simply walked over to the sink and put the flame out.
I did once set a whole box of la senza undies on fire. I had set them down on the cooker in my at the time small kitchen when they arrived in the post, not realising that one of the flames was still on low.
Luckily I managed to put out the fire in the sink and it had only burnt the outermost box but not the inner one !

[GaseousClay]

carving a sunday roast the knife slipped and skated up the length of the carving fork and slashed my thumb down to the bone

[Porcupine]

I set fire to myself once. I was cooking in my dressing gown, and the sleeve went into the naked flame and WHOOOSH .... i was up in flames.

My husband had to leap on me to put me out !!!

I too chopped the end of my finger off on a tin can, but mine was a tin of tuna. I needed 5 stitches and a humungous bandage on it for a week.

[Swarfega]

My accidents usually revolve around alcohol, more precisely the excessive consumption of it.
On a couple of occasions I've come back from an evening out and had the bright idea of preparing some sandwiches to take to work the next day. One time I was attempting to stick my head round the door to watch tv while slicing cheese. I missed the cheese and sliced deep into my thumb. SO much blood, everywhere.

[Dazzaschofield]

I used to work in a kitchen and there were some huge and some not so huge accidents!

The biggest was an Irish friend of mine was getting a whole salmon out of the oven(which was above head hight) and he lifted it out with both hands, as he was doing so the tray must have been filled with too much oil and it spilled over the top of the tray and hot oil poured down both his forearms, you could hear the skin crackle, the most shocking thing is he didnt drop the salmon, he actually walked to the end of the kitchen, put the salmon down and then dipped both his arms,elbow deep into the sink of cold water, its was then that he started to scream as the cold of the water actualy set his skin. Its was possiblem the most awful thing I have ever witnessed.

But there were tonnes of minor accidents that happened almost daily, from cutting the end of your fingers to forgetting a tray had been in the oven and grabbing it.

Another funny one was, in the kitchen we had 2 passes or 'shelves' where we put food until the waiter came to get it, one pass was about waist hight and the other was about neck hight, one time a friend had put a hot sizzle plate on the top passe and was working on a prawn coaktail on the lower pass, as he leaned down to put something on the cocktail his forehead touched the edge of the hot sizzle plate he'd put one the upper passe and burned a perfect 3" line across his forehead.

Also a new chef once was doing some toast and we had adjustable grills so we could have the heated bars about 10cm or 40cm away from the food, he had brought the grill down to the 10cm away position and forgot he had put toast under there, the funny thing was we had a fire saftey inspection that day so as he was gawping at the firemen wondering what they were doing 1 meter behind him the toast had actull set alight, he felt a reet c**k when the fireman pointed it out.

[Elanor]

The only thing I remember was very silly and very VERY ouchy.

I was going to pan fry some salmon. I put some butter in the frying pan and let it heat up. I stirred it with a metal spoon. It was all melty and hot and sizzly and buttery. I stirred it again. I put the spoon in my mouth and sucked off a good taste of nice hot melty butter. OW OW OW OW OW! I didn't know what to do - all the inside of my lips where I had pulled the spoon out was really burnt. It blistered almost immediately and some of it started bleeding. I sucked on an ice cube for a bit, which helped, but OH MY GOD the pain was ridiculous.

Luckily, I remembered later that day that I had an aloe vera plant, and I discovered that if you slit the leaves lengthways you can suck them and squeeze all the gel out onto burns, and it's really soothing and healing and also tastes like cucumber.

[Millie Muppet]

Severed the nerves and tendon in my left index finger trying to de-stone an avocado.

24 hours later I'd been under general anaesthetic having it all stitched up again.

Lucky not to lose the entire tip.

[missloo]

when i was in my teens i was making a cake and got my long hair caught in the electric beaters - my god was that messy and painful. I learned from then to make sure and have my hair tied up when cooking!

[Erlang]

A few years ago sharpening a Chinese cleaver (badly) I sliced through the tendon of a finger at the knuckle joining the palm.. Painful ugly and in a plaster cast after surgery for weeks.

Yesterday whilst cutting up a rabbit carcase the knife slipped and put the knife thru the base of my index finger nail. So that is steri-stripped and taped up at the moment. Only a small cut but bled like a geyser.

[ThePhenom]

When I was younger I was running through the kitchen once and knocked a pan off the cooker onto the floor. I didnt realise it was being heated up, picked up from the handle and also put my fingers on the bottom. Ended up with 2 burnt fingers.

[Orlaith]

Not exactly terrible, but a few weeks/months ago I got double oven burn. It was so so sore & I still have the scars from it.

[Doogieboogie]

My dad has a perfect splash-shaped scar on his rm from tipping a pan of hot milk over himself when he was a kid!

I have a square thumb - the very tip of it got sheared off by moi when chopping onions. ALWAYS tuck your thumb behind your fingers while chopping!!!

[parthy]

This one is most unfortunate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2947416.stm

Poor girl.

[oscardelahoya]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Porcupine

I set fire to myself once. I was cooking in my dressing gown, and the sleeve went into the naked flame and WHOOOSH .... i was up in flames.

I did that once too, I was in a caravan at the time, could have been worse!

I've sliced all through my thumbnail with the potato peeler too that bloody hurt.

[indianwells]

I'm forever putting a pan in the oven after searing off meat, and then reaching in to the oven for the pan when it's cooked. I just can't get it into my head that the handle is going to be searingly hot. I've been cooking so long now (35 years) that you'd think it would sink in, but it hasn't.
Oh, and when you grab a pan handle heated up to 220c and your flesh literally sticks to it, you remember. Or you should...

[freakyogre777]

I haven't done anything as bad as some of these.

I have a habit of lifting the lid on my steamer before it's finished which I wouldn't recommend. I did it once and it got my finger and thumb, which throbbed all night and then blistered in the morning.

Similar to one of the other stories, but my dad was in a kitchen once (chef) and he tripped/slipped and his hand went straight into a deep fat fryer

[indianwells]

Quote:

Originally Posted by freakyogre777

I haven't done anything as bad as some of these.

I have a habit of lifting the lid on my steamer before it's finished which I wouldn't recommend. I did it once and it got my finger and thumb, which throbbed all night and then blistered in the morning.

Similar to one of the other stories, but my dad was in a kitchen once (chef) and he tripped/slipped and his hand went straight into a deep fat fryer

Crispy fried chicken feet are a delicacy in China, dunno about hands. Although I suspect they would eat anything over there?

[summerain]

I was distractedly stabbing the film of a ready meal with a very sharp knife once, and I missed

It went in the back of my wrist, just missed the bone, I had 12 stitches inside and out!

[jeluminati]

I bought one of those super sharp graters from Lakeland, the kind which is one sided and has a handle and plastic base, which you have to hold steady with one hand. It's meant to grate these perfect curls of cheese, and I like that sort of thing.

On my first use, I managed to grate a perfectly square slice of skin about half an inch long, 1.5mm deep, down the side of my thumb. It hurt. Didn't stop bleeding for over 24 hours, not much but enough to change dressings about 10 times!

A week later, I was washing said grater (not dishwasher safe, another reason the evil thing went in the bin!) and while scrubbing in hot water hadn't noticed I'd been sawing away at the underside of my other thumb. Ow ow ow.

[hayley_kench]

Ive set the microwave on fire before.

Ive made a toasted cheese sandwich and managed to shut the wire in the brevil maker and it blew up.

I have set on fire many many tea towels by leaving them too close to the hob when it is alight lol.