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

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EllieMumsnet · 26/02/2018 09:18

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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 Blush. 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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Mumsnet users share who created the most mess on their worktops with Caesarstone
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eggandsoldier · 26/02/2018 21:23

Having just had a large (and admittedly fantastic) Caesarstone worktop and backsplash fitted, I wish the winner good luck with the £300 voucher - I'm sure it will make a lovely chopping board Grin

summeraupair · 26/02/2018 21:28

Well today I decided to let my one year old help with the cooking... Ended up sprinting from the room with him under my arm when he accidentally smashed a pan lid into the bubbling pasta sauce. Broken glass and gloopy red sauce everywhere. The worktops looked like a crime scene.

octopusrus · 26/02/2018 21:29

Shopping bags placed on worktop by me (why??).

Went back to retrieve more shopping bags and watched from the other side of the kitchen as the bags shifted slightly and knocked a huge, full, glass bottle of olive oil out of the top bag....

All over the worktop, floor, splashed up every cupboard door. A mixture of glass and oil on virtually every surface of the kitchen.

I just stood and looked at it for about 5 minutes having no idea where to start.

I can laugh about it now but only just!

DuskPanda · 26/02/2018 21:32

Biggest worktop mess definitely after my 11 year old DD and her 3 friends had a slime making session for 2 hours one Saturday afternoon. Total carnage, glue, foam and general gunky mess everywhere.

GetKnitted · 26/02/2018 21:35

milked on weetabix...... discovered after the event..... it was like concrete!

wonkylegs · 26/02/2018 21:54

We got a lovely Indian cookbook with spices gift for Christmas - DH decided to give it a go and make us an Indian meal. After using every pan, plate and bowl in the kitchen it looked like we'd been ransacked! Upon cleaning up the dishes I realised that he had spilt sauce everywhere , lovely yellow turmeric staining sauce EnvyEnvy
Thankfully our cream quartz worktop came with some amazing cleaner from the kitchen company and it took a few attempts but you'd never know it was nearly a bright yellow and cream worktop for life !

Anniegb72 · 26/02/2018 22:01

My 3 year old was playing with a big bowl of lentils... she made such a big mess all over the living room! I’ve mixed sequins and pasta in there too. She loves playing with it and it keeps her busy for an hour or so.
I can still see odd lentil here and there .. under the sofas!🙈

peronel · 26/02/2018 22:04

The one and only time I used the Kitchen Aid ice cream attachment resulted in such a mess - it was like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with the supposed ice cream overflowing out the bowl and onto the worktop. I couldn't get it to stop!

ChasedByBees · 26/02/2018 22:20

That time we broke a jar of honey. Sticky floppy honey with glass embedded in it. That was fun.

CheeseEMouse · 26/02/2018 22:20

Red wine that seeped into my (apparently porous) wooden work top. That was not good...

c75kp0r · 26/02/2018 22:24

well there was the time the cooker caught fire - everything was covered in black soot after that. Or the time a can of soup turned into a geyser as soon as dh started to open it - there was a fine spray of [probably] botulism on the walls, ceiling, floor, worktop.....

IvorHughJarrs · 26/02/2018 22:40

My kitchen worktops have survived years of baking with children, spills and mess but the worst ever has to be the time I decided to cook salmon in the microwave. The microwave pinged, I lifted out the dish and, just as I did it, one of the pieces "popped", peppering me and the whole area with tiny fibres of fishy shrapnel. I, of course, screamed and the pyrex dish, remaining salmon and all its juices went up in the air then shattered on the worktop.
It took ages to clean up as it had managed to get to places that you wouldn't have thought were accessible (like under appliances?) and weeks later I was still getting the occasional whiff of salmon and finding odd fishy fibres dried on to stuff (we even had to wash the ceiling!)

del2929 · 26/02/2018 22:50

oh god that would be my 12 year old when baking-

splashes of cake mix everywhere as all hell has broken loose with the flippin electric whisk

Cheekyandfreaky · 26/02/2018 23:08

I did it- I had used the nutribullet and remembered that an easy way to clean it was to put some water in it and reattach it to the base to whizz the mess off. I think I must have been sleep deprived because I didn’t realise that the teaspoon I had been using to scoop the smoothie out with was still in it. The whole cup smashed whilst the motor carried on- scary and messy stuff!

Firewall · 27/02/2018 00:42

When my DS decided to do s volcano science experiment which exploded and ran everywhere... worse thing being it contained red food colouring and dyed the whole surface.

Quietvoiceplease · 27/02/2018 06:23

My DDs love cooking so we frequently have mess around the kitchen - good mess I suppose - which they, to be fair, often try to clear up but somehow end up smearing around and making worse. I think the single worst one I can remember was the tin of golden syrup dropped by DD1 on the floor. She tried to scoop some of it up, but ended up treading it around the house, and leaving small streams of it running down the cupboards and bin. I had to practice my 'deep breath and count to 10' several times when I saw it.

onemorecakeplease · 27/02/2018 07:33

When the lid came off my blender and I was making a raspberry smoothie....

Not good. And it stained my wooden workshops instantly. Would never have wood again!

DailyMailareDicks · 27/02/2018 07:48

My cat was sick on the worktop. We were on holiday and MIL was piping in to feed the cat, she didn't notice. It was summer and dried/caked on over 2 weeks. The stench was awful!! 🤮

MakeTeaNotWar · 27/02/2018 08:07

Making that goddawful slime. Mess everywhere, red food colouring like blood across the worktop and the stuff hardening everywhere

Millionairesshortbread1 · 27/02/2018 08:26

We all love pizzas so we buil a pizza oven in the garden that was fun. Then we buy ready made pizza dough that was fun. Then we step up to making our own dough not fun no one tells you that you need to flour every surface in the kitchen including the floor and when you try to clean it it turns into glue. Sticking with shop bought dough.

DarthNigel · 27/02/2018 09:26

Slime. My 10 year old is considered the eminent slime maker in her class and is thus asked to make quantities of it for her friends. The entire kitchen, worktops and everything else looks as if it has been attacked by an ectoplasm wielding poltergeist. (That smells strongly of shaving foam)Envy

Sammyislost · 27/02/2018 10:24

Making pasta on the worktop. Jamie Oliver says to make it directly on the worktop, but BOY does it make a mess!! There was flour everywhere, and it was stickier than i thought. Perhaps making pasta with 2 children was messier than it usually is, but I haven't braved making it again since!

AveAtqueVale · 27/02/2018 10:25

My DH excelled himself the other week. Dropped a full glass bottle of milk onto the lid of the casserole dish on the hob. Bottle shattered and milk and glass everywhere; as he was starting to clean it the casserole boiled over and started mixing with the milk and sort of baking on. Took absolutely ages to clean up!

keepingbees · 27/02/2018 10:27

Had to be my husband, who decided to try making some honeycomb. I think he overdid the bicarbonate of soda, but whatever he did wrong caused the incredibly sticky mixture to bubble up and erupt volcano style over and out of the saucepan he was using! He took it off the hob and onto the worktop, where it continued in a never ending flow of sugary foam! All we could do was watch in horror! We couldn't even attempt to clean it until it had cooled down; by which time it had set concrete style. That was fun to chisel off removeGrin

Blutacismynemesis · 27/02/2018 11:23

Not at home, but once staying at a self-catering place abroad we got some posh duck legs in a big tin... and then accidentally managed to spill horrible liquid duck fat over the ENTIRE kitchen Sad. And then we found out there wasn't much in the way of cleaning stuff provided, so we couldn't even clean it up properly till we'd been to the supermarket Sad Sad