DD just boiled milk in the kettle

[Fuckyousanta]

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

Just shared this with my teenagers to avoid a similar fate.
They want to know why she didn't put it in the microwave - we don't have a microwave so no idea if this works?

Our local supermarket sells kettles.

This is definitely something I would have done as a adult teenager. I knew nothing until I moved out at 20. Just recently my idiot ex put a tub of Lurpak in the microwave to soften .

I bet you're fuming, but it's the sort of thing you'll both look back on and laugh about!

Is anyone else thinking," hmm, a neat little kettle just for heating up hot milk, if such a thing existed I'd buy one"

They definitely exist. We have a milk frother/heater to go with our nespresso machine.

If you're going out for a dog and a kettle get some hot chocolate that requires you to "just add boiling water". My 10 year old can do that without killing the kettle.

If you want it to taste more real, drop a few squares of dairy milk in and stir. My 10 year old has discovered that too

they can be daft sometimes can't they?! Glad she wasn't hurt, she was really lucky.

Tbf I can almost see how she would've just thought the kettle was a device for boiling any form of liquid, my almost 14yo would definitely do this!

They do stupid things, surely that's the whole point of being a teenager! We've got two teens and one in their early 20's at home and they all have their moments, I despair sometimes!

To be fair my exH aged 26 or so at the time thought it’d be a good idea (efficiency I believe he claimed) and tried boiling eggs in the kettle. What a stinking fucking mess that made.

Can't fault her logic. That's quite funny really. Just wash it and teach her the right way 🤷🏼‍♀️

Argos do same day delivery in some areas. No idea if they're doing it today though!

People are being rather mean here! That is totally something I would do.
At a similar age I put a jacket potato in the microwave....in foil. I'd seen my mum cook them in the oven in foil so thought it was the same!
Lesson learned and like you said thank goodness she didn't get covered in scalding milk!

How you shouldn't boil liquids in a microwave in a mug. Something about not being enough surface area or volume or something and an air bubble forms which can explode in your face when you remove it.

Sounds like something my 15 year old would do. He set fire to my microwave a couple of years ago by trying to cook some instant noodles in a styrofoam pot, without water, in it.

I'm glad I'm not the child of some of the hard-line posters here!

My 16 year old DS managed to cook a frozen sausage roll in the combi oven this week. Although he set it for grill, not oven. He came downstairs 25 minutes later to find the kitchen full of black smoke and a very charred sausage roll.

I came home to find every window and door in the house wide open in an attempt to get rid of the smell.

They live and learn. In his defence the oven is overly complicated but I think he'll stay closer at hand next time just in case.

@Fuckyousanta it's interesting that you became defensive when somebody called your dd young and immature.
I understand we all learn from making mistakes but please let her know metal mustn't be place in the microwave.

Blimey there's some harsh responses on here! She's 14!!!
Oh to be perfect eh?

Tbh while I understand she's old enough to know that only water goes in it - and she probably has learnt about boiling points etc - she's ultimately still a kid and that rational reasoning part we all have isn't fully developed yet. I'm almost 30 and I still do silly things - not at that level but still can be a bit dopey sometimes!

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe the worst part is that you don't think you should be doing that but you still do it we live and learn though lol

{How you shouldn't boil liquids in a microwave in a mug. Something about not being enough surface area or volume or something and an air bubble forms which can explode in your face when you remove it.}

You can BUT you must remember to stop and stir it every 30-40 seconds.
I've only been doing this for 35 years and never had a problem.

Thanks to the people pointing out that such devices exist, I have clearly not been spending enough time in John Lewis' small kitchen devices department, but I will!

Good to know youarenotkidding DD2 now thinking about it some more wants to know why the DD was so impatient in the first place. She suspects a malfunction because normal procedure is to put the milk pot on the hob and forget all about it while you check your phone and it boils over.

My DD’s uni housemate tried to make a poached egg in their kettle.

I can see her thinking behind it. It heats water so why not milk. I would run to Tesco and pick up a new one and keep the story to embarrass her in the future.

Oh no! But give it time, you'll look back and laugh, trust me! When I was a similar age, I put dry noodles in the microwave and walked away - cue my stepdad finding it in flames and throwing it in the garden. Man he went mad. Now we laugh. And I don't cook.

She sounds a bit thick to be honest. I know many a 14 yo— have yet to meet any who think milk in a kettle is a good idea. I agree with others — make her pay for a new one from her money.

My SIL put a small metal saucepan in the microwave, with the handle sticking out and then asked why it wasn’t working. She was deadly serious.
This was 16ish years ago but I still crack up whenever I think about it!