Mumsnet users share who created the most mess on their worktops with Caesarstone

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It’s no surprise that often having a family means more mess around the house, no matter how much you try to stay on top of it all. Plus, in many cases there is that one family member that seems to be able to make the most mess possible...realises that person is yourself . With that being said, Caesarstone would like you to tell us the biggest mess that’s been on your worktop and who in your family created it.

Here’s what Jonathan Stanley, Vice President of Marketing at Caesarstone has to say: “It’s impossible to completely child proof your house and you accept that accidents and innocent errors of judgment are going to happen. You can mitigate these by choosing the right finishes. No work surface is indestructible, quartz included, however quartz is virtually non-porous, which means spills will sit on the surface and not seep into it. That apple juice should just wipe off with a cloth and a non-abrasive cleaner and non-scratch pad will remove any crayon works of art. Critically, wine spills from that well deserved glass at the end of day should also wipe off without a trace.”

Was your young DC having a go at painting and decided your worktop would make a better canvas than the paper? Perhaps your afternoon of baking took a turn for the worst when eggs and flour exploded all over you worktop? Or maybe your pet has on more than one occasion jumped up onto the worktop with muddy paws...or even worse decided it was their new litter tray!

Whatever your biggest worktop mess is, share them on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck.
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DD2 and her friend.

They were doing the Fiver challenge at school and were making stained glass biscuits.

The mess. Dear god, the fucking mess. I should never have let them do it alone but they are 12 and they assured me that it was all under control. They were still in the kitchen at 10pm and by that time I was pulling my hair out.

Then I went in and nearly cried. There was butter, sugar and flour everywhere. I have no idea how they managed to spread it so liberally around the floor and worktops but I was cleaning for days.

Oh god, me...A fortnight ago.

I put some eggs on to boil, turned the heat down to simmer and promptly fell asleep on the sofa.
An hour later I woke up to a strange smell.

The pan had boiled dry and the eggs had exploded.

I was scraping hardened egg splatter off all my walls and surfaces at gone midnight.

Me, every time I cook. Peelings everywhere, spilt egg, milk, squashed tomato. I am just messy and incapable of clearing up. DP has to do it. Our wood worktop is thankfully ageing gracefully.

When I was making marmalade and took my eye off it for a little bit too long. Never did manage to get it completely out of the join between the worktop and the hob. Oops!

We're trying to encourage DS 12 to cook and he definitely makes the biggest mess. Half opened packets left everywhere, bottles of oil without putting the lid back on, messy spoons left on the counter, separate bowls used for every ingredient he measures out. Still, I'm pleased with him making the effort so we try not to moan too much.

Home made Marshmallows, made by me.

I spilt the mix and it was like slime it seemed to take weeks to finally disappear I can still see dh trying to clean it up and it just running through his fingers

When my husband and son made mince pies together. He was about 2 or 3 at the time and there was mincemeat all over him, my husband, the worktops you name it, it was covered. I can still remember his big grin as he spooned most of it in to his mouth!

when DC1 vomited all over the kitchen. And then knocked the open packet of flour into it. That was fun to clean up...

Definitely cooling with the DC!
Even basic cup cakes end up making the worktops (/ whole kitchen) look like a bomb site!
Flour, sugar, butter, eggs, icing etc etc EVERYWHERE!!!!

Pizza dough - stuck like glue and couldn't rescue it. Ended up getting take-away!

When making scrambled egg, DD decided to pour all the mixture over the worktop, for no reason!

Dd likes to cook. But she is so messy. And she has an aversion to recipes. So a mix of sugar and raw egg trailed across the worktop. Flour on the floor. Once DS poured the entire pot of black pepper onto the work top. I was sneezing for ages.

But none of that compares to my week old cream carpet, the kids and a large jar of chocolate spread.

Dp attempted to decant a bulk buy of turmeric into a tiny spice jar.
Epic fail. Turmeric stained the counter top.

Icing sugar ,the bane of my life!! Always goes everywhere when I am baking cakes and I hate clearing it all up 😬

I'd say it was me with flour from making flatbreads, but, then I remembered that the plumbing above the worktop and cooker hood failed and flooded through the ceiling from the crap plumber that installed the pipe work and was too lazy to tighten the joins. Happened to a few houses on the estate as we are new builds.

It's a toss-up between the time DP decided to make home-made gnocchi - potato starch and flour on every surface, horizontal and vertical (the stubborn sticky little bits you get in a pan when you've made mashed potato) and the time teenage DD was making a bright green smoothie using a handheld blender but forgot to hold the jug the smoothie mixture was in - it was all over the worktop, the wall, the floor and DD.

Has to be some crafting me and my child did at the kitchen table, we put newspaper down but did not realize that the paint and glue was soaking through, had to leave very suddenly as my nan called and had fell over, so grabbed the kids and hotfooted it to her house, sorted her out, took the kids home... 1 hour later ...oh dear the paper and print had stuck to the table when I did get it off it also took some of the laquer so I can still see the scars still

Black treacle put into the cupboard the right way up somehow managed to get dislodged and upended . No problem usually but in the dislodging the lid came loose and the treacle seeped out very slowly . It oozed out over the cupboard and down the wall and onto the white worktop.
Unfortunately I didnt find it until a last minute check before setting off on holiday. It was during the summer so it coudnt be left ( as I was really inclined to do) because the house would have been overrun with ants by the time we came back.
In a bit of a lather I had to set to to clean the blessed stuff off all surfaces as quickly as possible. I had thought that it only needed water and a wipe . I was wrong

I would have said paperwork and DH, but I managed to knock an open bag of couscous over on the top shelf of my kitchen cupboard yesterday. I imagine I'll be finding bits for months.

DS made slime one afternoon last week... Enough said really, and I was picking it off the cupboard doors for days where it had dripped down

Uncooked rice. I’d been using it for blind baking and the parchment paper ripped as I took it out. The rice went absolutely everywhere. I was still finding bits of it two months later and the worst but was that I completely wrecked my dyson by trying to vac it up.

Wish I had a quartz work top! We’ve got a wooden one which if you leave anything wet on it, you end up with black stains. The kids are forever abandoning their mugs, bowls and glasses on the worktop and consequently I seem to spend most of my time sanding and oiling it!

Pasta sauce. Had a food shop delivery and my dds were bringing the bags through to the kitchen. The jars are always all in the same bag so it's quite heavy, dd slammed the bag down on the side, jar of sauce fell out and smashed on the floor and was everywhere- on the worktops, all up the wall, on the cupboards

Took me a while to realise worktop does not equal computer! I wondered why it would get so messy. My only defence is I am recovering from surgery. Again.