What's been your worst food injury?

[OneFancyTealQuail]

Accidentally touching a hot plate

I was carrying an open pressure cooker of very hot soup across the kitchen. It started sloshing and went onto my chest, pooling through my clothes.

I still feel a twinge in my right boob when I think about it- the skin is so delicate there…

1. Hard boiled egg exploded in my face as I looked into the saucepan to see if it was cooked.
2. Broke 2 toes when I dropped a large Le Creuset pan on my foot. Luckily it was empty.

1. Hard boiled egg exploded in my face as I looked into the saucepan to see if it was cooked.
2. Broke 2 toes when I dropped a large Le Creuset pan on my foot. Luckily it was empty.

Gulping a jacket potato put the microwave too quickly. Blisters in throat. Swore alot.

Blended my finger tip with a stick blender trying to hoik some stuck Quorn sausage out of it. No idea why I didn't turn it off first.

Mandolined my little finger as I was slicing a cucumber. Didn’t realise I had done it as it didn’t register and I was working quickly so managed to do it TWICE more before it started to hurt. There were three perfect little bits of flesh sitting on the beautifully sliced cucumber and I bled like a stuck pig

Jesus Christ and that's why hate using a mandolin they're lethal bloody contraptions.
Op that must have been stomach churning once you realised.

I’ve inadvertently tried to sever quite a few of my fingertips with a knife, the worst one of which was filleting a side of salmon and not accounting for the toughness of the skin - I was still finding blood from that two weeks later in the kitchen drawers as I bled so much. I had to call one of my DCs to help me steristrip the wound as I couldn’t hold it to stop the bleeding and apply the strips at the same time.
I have a scar on my upper right arm from when a girl at my primary school stuck a fork into me for no apparent reason.
I broke a tooth recently eating crisps and cracked the corner off (about a quarter of the tooth came away). The dentist probed it to see if it had gone through to the nerve and was shocked when my
whole body flinched in reaction to her touching the raw nerve. I’m a teacher so couldn’t see a dentist immediately so had to plug the hole with sugar free chewing gum while I waited for my appointment!

Friend of mine mixed her hair into a cake batter, as a teenager. She was fine, but her hair was not (nor was the cake 😭)

Omg you win! What did they say when they saw you?

Opened the oven to take some jacket potatoes out and one exploded on my face, and then the insides of the potato were stuck to my face burning it. My friends thought it was hilarious after when I had burn patch’s all over my chin.

I was putting steak into a boiling hot buttery pan-'something made me jump, 3 fingers, immediately blistered. Might be the most painful I've had.

When I was v v pregnant I spilled a pan of boiling water that I'd cooked cabbage in over my foot. Blistered but also went a bluey colour.

I dropped a glass aged 9, as the glass shattered my wrist slit, still massive scar right across as an adult

I took a mouthful of a pub cottage pie that had been heated (or reheated, I expect) to approximately the temperature of the surface of the sun. Spat it out (nice!) and was momentarily perplexed as to why I couldn’t move my tongue. I had instantly got such an enormous blister on the roof of my mouth that it was pressing my tongue down. I was eating alone and they’d stuck me in a corner behind a pillar so thankfully no one saw me sticking my finger in my mouth to pop it so that I could have a cold drink!

DH missed out on a week’s skiing holiday and had to be carried off the top of a mountain because a bubble of cheese in a fondue popped and got him straight in the eye. He had to wear an eyepatch and they wouldn’t let him ski.

People looked horrified. It was a good ice breaker though.

I once ate so much at Dishoom that I thought I’d perforated my stomach.

That really made me laugh...you wrote the post really well!😄

Yes, I've sliced the tip of my finger off using a mandolin, it was exquisitely painful and took hours and hours to stop bleeding.
Bloody years before I could bring myself to use one again, but I was seduced by a Dauphinoise potato recipe...I'm now RELIGIOUS about wearing specially made gloves when I'm using it. It's now a joy to use and I use it all the time.

I once lacerated the padding on my thumb while gutting what turned out to be a particularly vicious dead fish with razor-sharp teeth.

Not an injury per se, but when I was staying in my father's house after he died, I found a jar of dried pinto beans and thought I'd do something with them. I soaked them overnight and the following day cooked them in the pressure cooker for about 20 mins, like I normally do. They came out rock hard. So I pressure-cooked for another 10 mins. Same result. Five hours and several repeats later, some of the beans were just about soft, others not, but I had totally run out of time to do anything else, so thought "sod it" and turned it into a feijoada which had a little more crunch than I would have liked. Within a few hours I was bent double with absolutely uncontrollable flatulence which felt like I was farting out sandpaper, with a noise that could have been a supporting act at the Edinburgh Tattoo. As for the smell....

The following day I found some unopened packs of beans which had a best before date more than fifteen years previously, so dread to think how old the open pack was.

Years ago I cut my thumb trying to cut a butternut squash in half, knife slipped. To this day I have never eaten butternut squash.

Sliced the top of my left index finger with a bread knife.

I’ve had to name change for this but my worst was from eating a tube of Pringles on the way home from the pub while sitting on the bus. I shoved in about ten at a time without biting them first so they were quite wide and by the end of the tube I had massive cuts in both corners of my mouth like the Joker in Batman. I hadn’t even noticed as I was so drunk.

OP you sound like a total amateur compared to these responses!!

You're going to have to up your game.

Sorry I know it’s not funny… but I did just dribble wine down my chin reading your retelling… and your name change! (Sorry).

When I was 3, I was at my gran's house with my mum. Gran had made toffee and took it out to cool on the work surface. I was appatold not to touch it but I sneaked off and put my hand on it.

I don't remember anything about this incident but it was forever brought up by mother when she wanted to explain what a naughty kid I was.

She wasn't impressed when I eventually pointed out that I should have been better supervised around molten toffee.

Anyway, my grandfather licked it off but I still had terrible burns and had 6 weeks of dressings.

Burnt the inside of my wrist on a toasted sandwich maker making a post-nightclub toastie many years ago. The skin is so thin that the wound split about a week after it started healing, still have a circular scar there.