Have you done anything stupid in your kitchen, due to being in a hurry or not thinking, where you caused harm to yourself or caused some type of disaster or problem?

Last night, I had two trays with food, one in the oven and one ready to go into the oven. I took out the hot one, and accidentally grabbed it, thinking it was the cold one. Luckily I didn’t grab it for more than a second so didn’t do any major harm to my hand.

I’ve washed, by hand, some sharp things and without thinking, cut myself. Totally my own fault, just not thinking and suffering the consequences.

Once, about 20 years ago, I put lamb chops into the oven with the broiler on, not realizing that lamb chops spit out a lot of fat. I had the tray too high up, near the heating element, and started a fire. Long story short, I shut the oven off and the fire went out, but that was after I called 9–1-1— and the state trooper and fire department came. Disaster was averted and now I know that if a fire does start inside the oven, shut the oven off and the fire will be contained and go out, eventually.

How about you? Any disasters or problems caused, totally by your own fault or negligence?