Have I poisoned myself ... how long do I have left?!

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This is lighthearted but I am also someone who gets terribly anxious about mad things so coming for a gentle shake.

Cleaned the manky door of my oven last night with mr muscle. Rinsed x3 with soapy water. Wiped down x3. Wiped with water. Ventilated... not for very long maybe 10 mins?

Just bunged a chicken breast in for dinner. Opened door to check meat and got a bit of a whiff of the mr muscle. Could see a small streak on the rubber seal so wiped it off.

Got chicken out of oven. Still slightly caustic smell in the oven, but figured it’d be fine. Ate half of chicken. Realised probably shouldn’t eat chicken cooked in an oven that still smells of mr muscle.

Chucked chicken.

Spent half an hour googling “does the smell of mr muscle kill you” and imagining my insides corroding from the inside out, leaving my child motherless at Christmas.

Currently drinking a glass of milk and hoping for the best/ imagining the doctor in a&e telling me he’s sorry, there’s nothing he can do. I shouldn’t have been such a greedy cow and just slung the chicken before I ate half. (It was delicious though!)

Tell me I’m being an idiot please!

I get like this sometimes.

I reassure myself by thinking if it was that easy to get ill from they wouldn’t be allowed to sell it.

I think this why I'm so chemical adverse. I'd get bothered by this too so I get ya! I used the Pink Stuff cream on my inside oven door as not much of anything scary in that (I hope!) It's brilliant.

Oh no! Op hasn’t posted since 7.03pm, do you think she’s still with us?😱😂

All joking aside , I’m the same. I’ve died a thousand deaths according to doctor google including some “death by tiny amount of chemical breathed in, digested, on skin”. I’m also the same as I actually thank anxiety for keeping me alive, what the actual fuck? The good thing is though, I’m aware of the relationship I have with anxiety and am able to mute it most of the time. Shame about the other half of that chicken though, reckon that was probably more delicious than the first half 😉

I hope you are still going strong OP 💪

Well done for cleaning your oven I say. 👏🏽

Mine looks like……well I wouldn’t like to say 😭

You mean you are supposed to clean the inside of your oven???

Mr Muscle oven cleaner absolutely stinks the place out the first few times you cook after using it. I usually feel a bit alarmed and then eat the food anyway

Solidarity, OP. I do stuff like that, I particularly sympathise with the eating half the breast part.

Raise a glass to Mr muscle for me at Xmas.

You won’t be as ill as the chicken is.

Guys, guys.

Not dead this morning. Hurrah!

Am regretting throwing the chicken now though. Opened the bin and saw it lying there, all cold and sad, and a shadow of its former delicious, lye infused glory.

Opened the oven and had a good sniff too. Coast seems clear. May never cook again though. Such a shame.

Just for absolute clarity- I only cleaned the DOOR, which I could see from the outside was visibly gross. Not the whole oven. That would be madness with Christmas coming up- think how dirty it’ll get again?!

On the subject of which, those of you here for the comedy may appreciate this story.

When DS and I moved from our last house, about this time last year actually, I had to do the end of tenancy clean- and the oven was admittedly a bit of a state. So I Oven Brited it like.... three times? Anyway, my little boy was fascinated by why is taken the bits of the oven out and put them in big bags - I don’t he’d never seen me PROPERLY clean it before that he could remember (he was only 3! Not like he was 14!)

So I was cleaning the oven in our new house over the summer (I’ve vowed to do it at least every 3 months, but after this...) anyway.... DS was pottering in the back yard, and he popped inside to get something. He stood there for a bit looking visibly worried and then said

“Oh no! Mummy! We’re not moving house AGAIN are we?!”

Out of the mouths of babes eh...

*Guys, guys.

Not dead this morning. Hurrah!*

... Is always a great way to start the day!

I think you've inspired me to haul my sorry arse out of bed and clean my oven this morning, while the house is quiet.

Well, the door at least!

Was going to ask if you'd survived the night!
Good to know you have!
I think you'll be fine now, and can breath a sigh of relief!

You are fine. And I am someone who once accidentally drank a kitchen poison (left my cup of coffee next to it) ended up in a and e and had charcoal tablets and water and was told by the hunky doctor to eat a good Chinese when I got home