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@sunshine45 wrote:

grease fire......both messy AND scary.

NEVER walk away from the stove when you are heating up oil!

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@sunshine45  oh I was so cluless when I was learning to cook. Heating Garlic and onions in oil in a stainless steel pot. PoT overheated and voila created a fire! I stupidly threw water in the pot whcih splattered all over me and made it worse!  Panicked I ran upstairs (2-family house)  to get my retired FIL and he ran down with me and grabbed a container of salt and doused the fire!  the worst thing was the nasty stench from the burnt garlic.  learnned a serious lesson that day!

[Carmie]

I dropped a very, very large restaurant size pot of spaghetti sauce that contained meatballs, chicken and pork from my counter top. It was a few gallons worth.

When it hit the floor, it flew everywhere.  Some was even on the ceiling. 

Another time I made egg nog and placed it in a Chrystal punch bowl.  I stirred it with a plastic ladle, thendroped the ladle back inside the bowl.  I three inch completely round hole developed near the bottom of the bowl and that thick egg nog with floating eggs white on top rushed down off of my counter top and ran across my kitchen floor.  Most of it made a bee line for my pantry and ran under the door.  

It took me forever to cleanup those messes.

Another time, my youngest son burnt something in a pan on the stove while we were away on vacation. He cleaned up the mess days before we got home.

When we came home, I could smell something burning before we even got into the house.  Apparently, my house was filled with black smoke from the kitchen fire.  I had to wash every dish in my cabinets and all my curtains and wash everything,eventhe walls. Everything I owned smelled awful.  It took months before that smell was gone.

[Carolina925]

I dropped a brand new glass jar of mayonnaise, back when they came in glass. What a mess and very difficult to clean up that goop with shattered glass mixed in.

The second big mess was when I dropped a bag of sugar, which burst open, on top of my washing machine, which is in a closet which fits only the washer and dryer and my pantry shelves are overhead.

[suziebee1]

I always wanted to make home made chicken noodle soup.  Well, I did.  I used every pan and bowl in the kitchen.  It looked worse than Thanksgiving when I was done.  It was awful.  And the soup - tasted just like Campbells.  I can always say I did make it once!!!!!!

[rockygems123]

@RescueLover 

This was my father's mess he was the cook in the family that we'll never forget.

He came home at lunch to par boil ribs to cook later in the day.  He left them on simmer and meant to turn off the burner when he went back to work.

Coming home later in the day the house was covered in greasy soot.  My mother the nurse who kept everything spotless was a wreck ha.

Draperies had to be cleaned, carpets scrubbed, upholstery was sent out for cleaning.

Clothes washed, basically every surface was scrubbed.  She repainted several if not all rooms too scrubbing first with TSP trisodiumphosphate, then painting.  She could have had someone else do it but that's how she was.

Lucky the house didn't burn down.

[Tinkrbl44]

@RescueLover 

Great question, LOL.

Fortunately for me, it was a dish of chili that exploded in the microwave!  

A HUGE mess, but at least it was contained to the microwave oven!   Whew!  

[Citrine1]

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@kitcat51 wrote:

My blood...I won't share the gory details.

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Ah come on, some of us like gory details!

[Pook]

We adopted a new 2 yr old dog (mostly german shepherd) and when we went to work after a 2 week vacation and being with him all the time we came home to find he emptied the storage cabinet with stuff everywhwere then the next day he tried to jump on the kitchen counter and turned on the hot water and flooded the kitchen with sticky rice and pasta all over. 

[shoekitty]

this is one so vividly etched in my mind!!!! It was March 15,1969.  We had a BBQ day before, fridge was loaded with leftovers, as I alwayS OVERCOOK!!!  My identical twin girls, (the early, by dawn risers), were not 2.  We had house up for sale, so you know what that is like...always keeping up. I was woken  up  at about 6:30am with my one daughter sitting on my bed on top of me, in her long flannel nightie covered with strawberries, and she had a hunk of watermelon in one hand she was clutching too. She was a mess, head to foot.  My first thought, omg, what has happened ,and where is her sister!!! As I walk down the hallway on the NEWLY INSTALLED  avacado green fluffy shag carpet, stepping on strawberry, something white, corn on the cob, and more strawberries ....horror awaited!  As I approached kitchen ( my first home was 940 sq feet)piles of sugar, flour, beans were on floor.  Then in center of kitchen floor is where they dumped fridge, hamburger patties, corn on cob, fruit, beans  and contents of canisters from counter of flour and sugar.  Omg, it was a mess, and such a waste of good food!  It took forever to clean, and of course I had to hurry as RealEstate agents  were coming by with clients.  .  I had to throw girls in bath, clean and get myself ready.  To this day, I tell this story at their birthday parties, they are 58 now.  Lol I think.  lol.  Must have been an omen, the clients bought the house.