DD just boiled milk in the kettle

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Can you guess what my kitchen looks like ffs

She called up and asked if she could make hot chocolate, I said yes, she decided she couldn't wait for the milk to heat on the hob and filled the kettle instead.

I now need a new kettle on christmas eve and I was determined to stay away from the shops today

How old is she?

Oh no!! Can’t it be washed out?

Rinse out the milk. Surely you don’t need a new kettle?

She's 14 ffs! Should know better.

Milk is burnt onto the element and the kettle won't turn on so I think it's beyond fixing. I have a camping kettle but it takes ages to boil

Sounds like she's too young and immature to be given the go ahead to make it in the first place tbh

Pop a dishwasher tablet or some clothes washing stuff (ideally bio) in it with warm water and leave to soak. Then rinse very well and boil a few times and rinse before you drink from it.

Send her into the shop with her pocket money.

She left the lid on and it didn't turn off when it reached boiling point, kitchen covered in milk when the lid blew off.

Lucky she wasn't in the kitchen at the time really, needing a new kettle is preferable to the other outcome of her being covered in scolding milk

i'd be sending DD out to get a new one, and with a couple of specific ones so she doesn't come back with a crap one, and her own money too!

Ah, might not help if it won't turn on. Oh dear. A funny anecdote for the future though.

At 14 that’s ridiculous! I thought you were going to say she was about 8/9!

I hope she’s paying at least half of the cost of a new one.

Too young and immature.....thats how people learn littlestlight. You never burnt a pizza in the oven or threw some darks in with your lights when you were learning how to do stuff?

I wouldn’t be leaving her home alone if she thought milk could go in a kettle tbh.

A French exchange student did this to our kettle when I was a child .

She's 14!! Ild definitely drag her to the shops and make her get a new one, could have been interesting if it actually did work tho hope she's cleaning up the kitchen x

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😱 my 7 year old made hot chocolate this morning in the microwave. I can’t believe a 14 year old would do this! Not sure how I’d deal with my child if they did this.

Teenagers make stupid mistakes sometimes thankfully she wasn’t hurt . The shock was probably enough punishment

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My dad put my electric kettle on the gas hob because it looked like a hob one (yes it was that style but my dm pointed out it was the same as their electric kettle. Exactly the same one ) maybe my dad was too immature too?!

It's a lesson learned. We all do silly things sometimes and this is gold for mocking her for years to come!

It's crap now but you will be laughing at this every Christmas to come. Priceless.
Everyone does daft things at times!

People are being mean. Yes some of your 7 year olds can make hot chocolate, but that's because they've been taught how.

I bet OP's DD has been taught some things that your children haven't!

Oh omg OP, to be fair she would not be the first teenager to make a daft mistake in the kitchen, although that was pretty dumb, I definitely be getting her to pay.

Good story for her 21st

My 25 year old (ex) Boyfriend very almost did that once. He checked with me at the very last minute before he turned it on!

I don't think at 14 I would have realised that another liquid I wanted to heat up couldn't go in a kettle that seemingly is made for heating hot liquids.

Obviously I know that now