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...

I used to live in a house that had an oil fired Rayburn, it was always running, it was in the North of Scotland so the heat was necessary. I had some friends round and decided to cook some chicken wings, drink was taken and I didn't remember that they were in the bottom oven until the morning. As the ovens are completely sealed there was no smell of burning and I had to throw the roasting tin out as well.

My DH once heated up leftovers in the oven ..on a plastic plate!

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.

Hours, HOURS I spent lovingly creating chicken stock for a dish I was planning.

Then watched as it went down the plughole and the chicken carcass and veg sat laughing at me from the colander.

I swear I heard giggles from the bin until cunts went out to the wheely.

I've just realised my speciality is melting stuff . I've left plastic utensils on the side of pans whilst cooking- melted lines on the handles.

I've bought a set of mixing bowls- melted one on the hob and one in the oven and then it took aaaages to clean the oven properly, was very grateful DP didn't leave it just to me seeing as it was my fault.

Put pizza in the oven on the cardboard base thingy, it was actually fine!

Melted the front of the electric steamer about a week after we'd bought it, think I left it too close to the hob.

I melted something white and plastic on our black hob, I could never get it off.

There's probably more .

I rarely burn food though!

Done the stock down the sink as well.

Poured vinegar into ragu (why just why?)

Drained peas with sieve upside down(peas all over the sink,worktop and kitchen floor)

Over the years did a lot of stupid things in the kitchen, putting tea bag in dog’s bowl, the look on his face told me I was bonkers before I scooped fog food into my cup.

Try to put away just boiled kettle into the fridge, knives and the other items.

*dog food

Having come from a house where we had a gas hob, into one that has one of those totally flat electric hobs, I completely forgot one night that it would still be hot, and put a plastic microwave pan on the hob when I was stacking the dirty dishes. It's not a big area so decided to use the hob for any overspill. Of course the pan totally melted onto the ring, and ended up slightly cracking the ring when I pulled it off For the next few days a pan "lived" on that ring rather than in the cupboard, in an attempt to hide it from DH but he went to cook on the weekend and found it! He was more worried than anything, with it being a rented house. We'll have to replace it one day I guess,although at least it's not a rental with any chance of having to move, it's on a farm and the tenancies are for as long as people want.

I washed my DS's Karting kit in the machine. Hung the suit out to dry, tumble dried all the rest except his rubber backed gloves which I laid lovingly on top of the microwave. All good, except the microwave was a convection oven and the expensive gloves were melted onto the top of the oven!
FFS I still get reminded about it 10 years later

Some of these are great! So funny!

I made my child an amazing chocolate piñata cake filled with M&Ms and coated on a ganache. I was transferring it to the other side of the kitchen when something urgent came into my head -to blow balloons up. I just let go of the cake mid air. It went everywhere and I had to race to the supermarket for a replacement plus explain to my child why they didn’t have the cake they’d requested for the last 6 months

Rice down the sink?? Bin woman bin!!!!
I'm always amazed at the things people put down sinks 🙄

My kids are terrors for demolishing any cartons of juice that come into the house. I had a carton of pineapple juice I was planning to make into pina colada for myself, just not immediately. So I hid it in the oven.

Boiled pineapple juice is incredibly sticky, let me tell you, and smokes like a bastard.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime 😂😂😂😂

Making mince in the slow cooker, dh went to brown the mince on the hob except instead of just the pan he put the whole thing on the hob, the arse of the slow cooker was melted, he still thought it would be fine to plug in...

I also once, many years ago, accidentaly et the chip pan get too hot. Afraid that it would spontaneously combust at any moment I gingerly walked out to the outhouse with it and put it on top of on old CRT tv that was out there. The ones with the wood effect round the sides, but, crucially, NOT ACTUAL WOOD.

Next day when I went back to retrieve the pan it was welded to the tv and they couldn't be separated.

Boiled pineapple 🙈

I once made a coffee in one of those metal screw-together Italian jobbies, on the hob. Wandered off and forgot about it. Smelt burning, came back to find the plastic handle and bit on the lid had melted off and welded themselves to the cooker top. I'm very lucky it didn't explode. Burnt coffee, melted inner rubber ring. 3 months later I did it again.

I'm only allowed to use a kettle now

PabloTescobar you're killing me!

@elQuintoConyo I have one of those bialetti espresso pots. I never leave the kitchen when I'm using it because I know exactly what you describe would happen!

The first time I was making lentil soup I was convinced a handful of lentils didn't look enough so added some more. I had a look later and it still didn't look enough so.........

Could have walked on the end result. never been allowed to make soup since.

I once drained the water out of my pasta, directly onto the still-hot electric hob. That was a fun clean up.

Also nearly put the electric kettle on the hob instead of its base.

And my mother has one multiple occasions stacked all the vegetables in pans on the steamer, then turned the ring on underneath, without adding water o the pan at the bottom. Let me tell you, hard broccoli which has been smoked with burned carrot is not one I want to repeat.

I fancied a chocolate digestive. We had none so I got a digestive and a square of chocolate and put it in the microwave....
We had a fire.

@grumpburn - am sure the balloons were lovely though

When I was weaning DS1 I very thoroughly cleaned all the utensils, chopping board, pans, pureeing stick, weaning food pots etc (because you have to be careful with what babies eat) with Windolene spray rather than just washing up liquid and hot water. Didn't realise until after I'd made umpteen mega batches of food. It all stank of window cleaner. Also pour stock down the sink and carefully retain the manky old chicken carcass at least once every few months.

My late uncle cleaned flies off his car windscreen with a pan scourer, in the process producing the world’s first frosted glass windscreen.