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@StbHisMrs: Ouch! I hope you have a speedy recovery. I had a pot of boiling pasta water spilled on me as a kid. It healed really well and you can't see anything now. The blisters were quite something.

My biggest kitchen mistake happened while trying to make MIL's meatloaf recipe for DH. My mom always made hers in a loaf pan. DH told me his mom makes it on a cookie sheet. So I did that. Big fire in the oven as the fat dripped off the sides of the pan. I should have known to use something with sides like a jelly roll pan. Oops. I was 18 or 19 at the time and I've never made her meatloaf again.

@StbHisMrs: oh wow- ouch! Hope it heals quickly and not too painfully!

My worst is probably when I was trying cut a slab of frozen bacon. Instead of setting it down and cutting it in half, I was trying cut it lengthwise between the slices, really using a lot of force. No surprise, the knife slipped off the bacon and I cut the side/ tip of my finger really bad. I almost blacked out from the blood and pain- luckily DH was home. Other than some lasting minor nerve damage it healed fine, no stitches, but I could use that knife again for months.

@StbHisMrs: Ouch!!!

Years ago I was trying to cook bacon in the oven - we were at my grandparents old farm house and the oven was kinda high - I went to get the baking sheet from the oven and it tilted back and poured hot grease all over my hand - I had huge blisters and my brother rushed me to the ER - oh the pain!! To this day I refuse to cook bacon in the oven.

Oh no! Mine isn't painful, so that's a plus. My parents drive at my childhood home had one of those stoves where there are actual flames. In high school I decided to cook something while home alone and I turned on the wrong burner. Unfortunately for me, there was a stack of paper plates sitting on the burner I turned on! Luckily I was able to put out the fire without it causing damage and my parents didn't find out.

I sliced the top of one of my fingers off trying to julienne peppers, the skin grew back but it's now smooth (no finger prints i don't' think) and if I hit it just right it still hurts 5 years later.

Not mine personally but one Thanksgibing my aunt was cooking and a car drove through the house! Went through the garage took out the wash/dryer machines and into the kitchen taking out several appliances before stopping! Thankfully no one was hurt but the house was destroyed

@StbHisMrs: Owie! Hope you heal quickly!!!

My worst so far was dropping an entire covered pot of baked brown rice on my tile kitchen floor, after attempting to pick it up one-handed, straight out of the oven. Dented the pot, got rice and glass (at least it was shatterproof) EVERYWHERE. And of course, dinner was lacking.

These posts make mine not seem so bad! I was a teenager making cookies and they were about done. I opened the 400 degree oven door with my left hand and held it (because my parents oven was old and the door would fall if you let go). With my other gloved hand I pulled out the pan of cookies a little too far. The pan hit my exposed arm that was holding the oven door. Searing pain! I just ran it under cold water but never sought treatment. It didn't blister, but I had a scar for probably close to 10 years that has very, very slowly gone away. There is only a slight, unnoticeable shadow of it now. DH and I used to joke that I branded myself like they do to cattle.

Ouch! That sounds really painful! Hope you heal quickly.

The other night I was making veggies on the (gas) stove and forgot to turn the heat off. In the morning I smelled gas and sure enough, the stove was still on, but the fire had burned out so natural gas was leaking everywhere. We had to evacuate until the gas company could come and measure the levels.

Another time I started a grease fire and didn't know how to put it out. Thankfully I was living with a roommate and he helped me put it out with salt.

Bear with me because this might be a little long, but it was so bizarre...
This happened in my kitchen, but to a friend's girlfriend. He (C.) had just started dating her (J.), so we didn't know her very well yet. We had invited them and two other couples over for dinner at 7:00. C and J love to cook, so they offered to bring a side dish. Great. First, they didn't show up until *8:30* and C kept updating us that he was waiting on her. We were super annoyed and thought about eating without them, but figured she was running super late cooking and didn't want to make her feel bad since we didn't know her well.
So then they finally showed up at 8:30, and all she brought with her was a couple of cooked sweet potatoes with plans to make some elaborate deep fried sweet potato dumplings. WTH was she doing before they came? We still don't know. She brought other ingredients, prep bowls, an immersion blender, and a little deep fryer! To start cooking. At 8:30. When people had been there since 7. In someone else's kitchen whom she barely knew.
Then it got worse. We were all hanging out in the living room while she cooked in the kitchen. We heard her call out for her boyfriend, who came back looking very upset. J had somehow put her finger near the blade of the immersion blender and accidentally turned it on. She had cut herself really badly and they needed to go to the emergency room. So they left and we went into the kitchen to see the damage. Again, we still don't know what happened, but there was blood spattered ALL OVER our kitchen. Not a lot, but little drops in like a 10 foot radius. I've always been curious how the blood ended up all over, but have never wanted to ask her. Craziness. They are still together and we don't like her much more now

@StbHisMrs: oh that sounds so painful. I hope they heal quickly. During the winter DH heated some cider to boiling. I didn't realize how hot it was and when I picked it up I dropped the mug, spilling it and burning my entire belly and part of my leg. It was so painful and didn't even blister. I can't imagine how much yours hurts.

Probably the time we were cooking a steak in a skillet and it smoked so much that our apartment filled with smoke and we set off the fire alarms for the whole complex. We called the non-emergency line to say that there was not a fire, but the fire truck still had to come and a whole crew of firemen in full gear came up to our apartment. They set up a massive fan to blow the smoke out. I was SO embarrassed, and I'm sure our neighbors thought we were insane (as they were evacuating the building during the alarm ). Luckily the firemen were very nice and said it happens all the time. After they left, we ate the steak and it was cooked perfectly, hahaha.

@StbHisMrs: Yours sounds so painful, I hope you heal quickly!