What's been your worst food injury?

[OneFancyTealQuail]

Accidentally touching a hot plate

Thankfully it wasn’t caramel as the temperature for marshmallow is lower but yeah it’s still melted sugar in there. 🙈

Tbh I think my hands are getting used to all my idiocy over the years. I’ve been using a glue gun this week and basically I’ve been poking my fingers in the glue way too much to make sure everything sticks where it should. I had some teensy blisters that didn’t really blister properly and they’re more like tiny callouses now. And I won’t learn more than likely and do it again the next time I use the glue gun. 🙈

Ouch! And I don’t believe you were made to finish your task before going to get checked out. 😳

I watched my Manager at the time put up a display of sheet mosaic using a glue gun, when he pressed the sheet to the wall the glue came through the joints..all over the Palms of his hands.
I'll admit I was howling laughing and he was just howling 🤣 🤣

I started carrying on as I was only 19 and unsure and then I had to keep running back to put it in cold water so I walked out and said I was going to hospital

I’m glad you did that @beachwalkx- I’m terrible for not going to get things checked out but that sounds awful and even I would have headed in I’m sure.

@MilliejacksonhouseforsaleOMG 🙈 Also sounds like the sort of thing I would do with a glue gun. I’m working with fabric mostly with it so the glue does like to come through it. I also learned this week that it melts craft foam.

Avocado hand is a thing https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/avocado-hand-injury-knife-surgeons-b2571757.html

DD bit into a marshmallow she had been toasting . It was still on fire inside resulting in a burnt mouth and lips.

i met someone who had lost vision in one eye due to an accident with a champagne cork

Slipped on a chip in Manchester IKEA 😂

As a kid I nearly choked to death twice. Once at home on a piece of steak, I turned blue and my dad had to pick me up by my ankles and violently shake me to dislodge it. Not sure that's medical advice, but it worked!

The other time I was about two, and choked on a fruit polo in the street. My mum and nan were banging on people's doors for help and eventually a man answered and belted me on the back until it came out.

Worse than both of these though was the time I big down on a Walkers salt and vinegar square, and a bit snapped off and went under my eyelid 😬

In my silly teenaged years. We were drinking that alcohol that you light on fire. Somehow my friend lit me on fire. It went up my arm and across my chest. My hand was pretty burnt and blistered.

Checking spaghetti by dangling a piece into my mouth. It fell
off the fork, onto my face and gave me a sore burn stripe and a little eyelid blister.

Now I know why they say to throw it at the wall.

Lost a tooth to an unpopped popcorn kernel.

Not an injury,I chewed what I thought was a jelly sweet and it wasn't changing shape.
It was an ear plug..a used one 🤮

Frying plantain, I was spooning hot oil over them and my thumb got in the way - it was a spectacular burn.

A friend was opening a champagne bottle with a sword (as you do) now if you have not done this the cork doesn't come out, the top of the bottle comes of.

On this occasion it went into the air, did a couple of spins and landed on my friend's forehead.

He had a perfect Harry Potter scar for a while.

We stopped opening bottles that way.

Yo! Sushi used to sell a dish that was edamame in pods coated in a ferocious chilli seasoning. The state of my lips and mouth after trying to tackle that was worse than any of the numerous burns and cuts I've had from preparing food. That particular delicacy doesn't appear to be on the current menu.

I decided to remove a blockage in my blender with me hand without switching it off first..

sliced thumb wide open with a corned beef can using the old key type. At the time, I was trying to make a posh tea for in-laws; I ended up with everything unedible due to being soaked in blood!

sadly went to school with a poor girl who had pulled a tablecloth off with a hot tea pot on it. she ended up with a livid red scar over her chest and face

Those bloody tins were lethal, done the same twice.

I sliced my finger to the bone opening a can of tuna with a blunt tin opener - luckily worked in a hospital so went to beg some care from the lovely outpatient nurses who stitched and patched it up. Still have a scar on the pad of my finger 18 years later!

Eating a Pringle - I pushed it into my mouth too far and cut my mouth a bit; panicked and pulled it out, but somehow flicked a bit into my eye; stuck my finger in my eye to get it out, forgetting that my finger was covered in salt from the Pringle.

One Pringle, 3 injuries in 10 seconds.

I burnt my breast on a hot platter I was silver serving at work.
Not quite a food injury but I trapped my foot in between a table and chair at work and broke two toes (I was wearing ballerina pumps)
I once ate at a frankie and bennys and twenty minutes later began to violently eject food via my mouth and bottom simultaneously.

Opened the oven door to see how the roasting chestnuts were doing and one exploded right into my eye.

Oh and I once chucked a load of millions sweets to the back of my mouth and then started to choke, it was quite frightening as I was alone I had to make my self sick to clear the air way

Defrosted a frozen jam doughnut. Bit into it, the red hot jam squirted all over my leg and set hard. God it hurt.

I was checking whether some conchigle pasta shapes were cooked by scooping a couple out with a wooden spoon and running them under the cold tap, but they were upside down on the spoon and both still full of boiling water and I scalded my lip and chin horribly.

There are dozens of us!

I have very fragile skin in my defence, but I genuinely didn't think I'd see someone else saying this one!