To ask you for the most stupid household domestic idiocy

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Dh put a wash on yesterday- couldn’t find the wash gel lid thingy (that you would put the gel in). So instead used a flglass ramekin!!!
Yes he really put a glass ramekin full of washing liquid in the washing machine...

Please tell me I’m not alone...

Must say - ramekin come out a treat though

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I'm impressed the ramekin survived! I once made a lovely lasagna at the weekend for a weeknight to save DH cooking as he is usually in first. Made it in one of those glass dishes with the plastic lids ready to put in the oven. Arrived home to an awful smell of burnt plastic - DH didn't realise that you needed to remove the lid for the oven, so had to throw the melted plastic topped lasagne away. He is usually quite sensible, and not a stranger in the kitchen so really don't know what went through his mind that day!

When much younger I spent a summer working abroad in an ‘Apartment Hotel’ with a little kitchenette affair. I didn’t want to buy dishwasher tabs so I used a squirt of washing up liquid. Oh my! The bubbles took about a week to finally go.

Made some lovely French onion soup. Then absent mindedly I took the pan and a colander over to the sink and poured the soup through the colander.

I did enjoy my beef and wine flavoured onions.

Having a deep rummage in the airing cupboard and forgetting to get my head out of the way before slamming the door shut.

Days later, when it finally stopped hurting, I tidied up the airing cupboard, so I wouldn't have to keep slamming the door shut.

I once somehow put a teabag in the dishwasher. Everything was uniformly covered in tea leaves and baked on hard. I had to scrub it all off by hand.

And I once poured Ribena into the beef casserole instead of red wine. It actually tasted ok and no one noticed.

@booksaremyfriend that’s the sort of thing that ends up as a “family secret” recipe

DH didn't realise that microwave safe and oven safe were not same thing. I watched in disbelief as he attempted to warm up his food on the plate in the oven.

I've turned the gas Hob on many times with a tea towel on top of it. Oops.

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I did a similar thing a while ago , I had a load of chicken bones so simmered them for hours to make a tasty stock , then poured the stock / bones into a colander I meant to do it over another pan but didnt so the stock went down the plug hole instead . I was left with just a pile of bones

Am surprised the ramkin survived.
My oh would never let me buy such. ( I don't drive, so we have always shopped together and he enjoys it). It's a case of powder, always.

In my much younger days, I cleaned my brand new hi-fi stereo and TV with nail varnish remover pads. As I was cleaning them more and more black was coming off, so I thought it was really dirty, until I noticed it was melting the plastics!
My parents went ballistic. I was only trying to be clean and tidy.

My father was once left in sole charge of the kitchen (I forget why) and forgot that there was some fat "rendering" in a bowl at the bottom of the oven when he turned on the oven to get it really hot for some cooking he was going to do for his lunch.

He came back in from talking on the phone to find that the oven had flames coming out of it.

So he did the right thing: turned it off at the mains first of all.

Then for reasons he said afterwards he never really understood, he filled a bucket with water, opened the oven and threw the water in to put it out. He was lucky the result all missed him!

My mother got a redecorated kitchen out of it, because they couldn't get the fat off the walls and ceiling.

After messing about with a really fiddly cake involving lemon curd and 50 layers, DP helped me by putting the curd out of the way to cool... It fell splashing all of the kitchen in hot, sticky residue and narrowly missing either of us.

I had a bottle of frylight or similar and I didn't notice it when I turned on the hob, it caught 🔥, but it was easy to put out luckily.

Mine made mash potato for the first time but put to much milk in and tried to save it by adding flour..

I absentmindedly put the slow cooker pot and lid in the oven (I can't even remember why or what I was cooking) and the plastic handle melted and there were screws in the food.

What an actual knob. I can't even use the excuse of being a tired mum because this was when I was living in my own house with a boyfriend and no children!

Another stock one- hours boiling and skimming only to pour it down the sink, I cried a little bit.

Um. There's my username, for one. Well, for three really. Live and don't learn, that's me. Two veg and steel soups, one summer fruits and steel smoothie.

I've done the "leave the foam pad on the underside of a pizza" trick. Polystyrene stalactites off the oven rack are hard to cope with when you were desperate for post-drinks food at 1am :(

Sniffing the air and wondering why there's a burning smell when I've only got veg in the (stovetop) steamer. One handle was in the gas flame and glowing like coal.

My dad used to refrigerate and freeze his tins

Friend of a friend cleaned the oven with some heavy duty chemical, didn’t wipe it out properly afterwards. Had a nice chemical topping on the dinner he served his girlfriend that night.

Made chicken stock in a pan. 8 hours of low-level loving tender bubbling. Decided to refrigerate it, bones and all and sieve it the day after as I couldn't be arsed messing around after 8 hours or whatever

The day after it was completely solid in the pan, had to reheat the damn stuff to bloody sieve it ...

Just buy some bloody Knorrs next time

I cleaned out my kitchen cupboard and poured a couple of bags of out of date rice down the kitchen plug hole.

Just to make sure it went down, I added a couple of kettles of boiling water.

Ended up with rice clogged up in all the drains.

When I moved in and I didn’t realise you need to use dishwasher tablets. It drove DH mad for about a year. He couldn’t figure out why the dishwasher worked perfectly only ~50% of the time.

He spent so long replacing bits of it and cleaning it

In my defence I never had a dishwasher growing up so my only exposure to them was the industrial type that I filled with liquid. I assumed he was keeping the detergent filled with all his fiddling.

Still laugh at friend’s husband who need to shorten a curtain pole 24 inches - took a foot off of each end to keep it even.