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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Every time we make biscuits. Flour, four everywhere!!

I'd love to blame DD, but it was actually me knocking over an entire carton of soup...

We had a serious of disgusting messes when DSD was going through her phase of loving those tubs of horrible slime with toys in. No matter how many times we asked her to open them in the bathroom, she would regularly make the kitchen look like some kind of alien massacre scene!

Probably my biggest mess was managing to tip over a saucepan of cheese sauce all over the hob and counter. There's nothing worse than trying to clean gloopy, sticky mess from around the gas hob hotplates and knobs

The worst mess made in our house was by me. I decided I wanted to make pasta, had the machine for it so gave it a go.
Oh god, never again.

There was flour everywhere, egg, water...you name it I got the whole kitchen covered.

Then because I was impatient and didn't follow the recipe precisely, when I cooked it .... oh dear god no. It was awful. Gloopy starchy horror.

Took me ages to clean it all up!

Glitter when my DD was 'creating' - I'd told her not to do it at the dining table cause I didn't want to be eating it for weeks. Her answer when I had a slight moment of Mummy Madness was 'well, it doesn't matter cause you wash the kitchen worktops down every night anyway'... Smart, isn't she. Except, I swear I still find glitter on there years later - it hides away and then, there it is - taunting me!

Fresh whipped cream. I thought I was being clever by letting the jug spin round whilst I held the mixer. the bowl kind of took off and the cream splattered everywhere.

Oh my goodness! When my eldest dd decided to make a fancy type of gluten-free beetroot brownie. The recipe stated that the beetroot must be blended, but dd did not realise the significance of the little plug for the top of the food processor. It looked like a horror scene afterwards; red streaks up the wall and beetrooty splashes up onto the ceiling

My very lovely but sometimes rather silly dh decided to use the kitchen worktop to do a quick electrical repair involving the use of a soldering iron. Ten minutes later I heard a "oh no" and on inspection there was not only spots of solder all over the work top but he had burned a 10p size hole into the worktop and melted the laminate covering!
We were due to move out of the rented house into our first 'own' home a week later. Thank goodness for a local handy man who managed to replace the worktop at a reasonable price!

That would be sudocrem...by DS used it as ‘cleaner stuff’ to wipe all over surfaces and cupboard

I superglued a ceramic dragon to the kitchen worktop two days after moving into our lovely rented house.... one of its wings had broken off in the move but I have no idea how the entire thing got stuck! It stayed there for a few weeks until my dp got up the courage to take a knife to it - amazingly the thing survived!!

Homemade elderflower champagne , I forgot to realise the gas in them , they where in glass bottles and smashed not only really messy but also really loud sounded like a bomb had gone off!

Just stagnant water from splashes from the sink, its surprising what a mess it can make on porous stone.

Biggest mess was when my 10 year old decided she wanted to make a cup of coffee and she had opened the lid to the coffee jar and it spilled everywhere! It went all under the appliances and i spent ages cleaning it. She came to me and said 'mum the coffee went everywhere' !

Vomit. All over the worktop and across the kitchen floor (a whole 1.5m spread). I ended up stripping myself and the baby down in the kitchen (the poor neighbours lol). After cleaning up and sticking us both in the bath I spent ages disinfecting the worktop. I do not miss those days of reflux!

Anytime my ex husband cooked! Which was, thankfully, not often!

There was always splatter everywhere and crumbs and bits of food too. It was really gross and put me off whatever he had cooked.

I much prefer to clean as I work.

When I thought it would be a good idea for the dc to make the pizza dough without a bowl (Jamie Oliver style). Clearly I didn't think that through.

Big sticky stick on Jess everywhere. Including kitchen counter, cupboards, floor and 2 small people. Oops.

The time when my nutribullet explode and got red fruits juice everywhere in the kitchen from the floor to the ceiling and all over the cupboards,fridge,freezer,cooker,wash machine,microwave,windows,door and all over myself 😂😂😂 ... I mean EVERYWHERE 😢😢😢 I swear to never buy a new one ever again 🤣🤣🤣

I'm a home baker. My (then) ds4 and dd2 decided at 5am to make a cake. £150 worth of dry stock all over my counters, floor, walls. They didn't just contain it to the kitchen...oh No, a few bags of flour and sugar made it to the living room as well. 6 hours of cleaning and i still didn't get it all. I didn't get a pic of the kitchen, but this is the aftermath that spilled into the living room. Needless to say we put a lock on the kitchen door after that.

My mother-in-law spilled a large amount of water, on our current, wooden top, and then left it, so it soaked in and we came home, from our holiday, to find it all had rot and water damage. We pulled out some of it, but cannot get all of it out. We are hoping to change to whole surface now.

Homemade smoothie - worktop, cupboards, tiles, walls ......... My little one and I decided to make smoothies - I thought the just was screwed on properly........ it wasn't!!!!
Red splatter everywhere, except in our drinking glasses!!

Well, there was the time I was trying to fill a chaffing burner with white spirit. I didn't realise that the burner was still hot, and the white spirit caught fire as I was pouring it. The flames went up into the bottle, and suddenly I'm holding a plastic bottle of fire. I dropped it into the sink. Missed the sink. Bottle landed upright on the worktop, s..l..o..w..l..y toppled over, and flames flooded out across the worktop.

That's not what made the mess. White spirit burns with a relatively cool flame, and it caused no damage at all.

What made the mess was the powder fire extinguisher. I put the fire out quickly and easily, but OH MY GOD the mess! It looked like an explosion in a flour mill. I couldn't see across the kitchen. Had to escape into the garden while coughing up a lung. When I came back in, there was white powder EVERYWHERE. Every single surface, not just where the fire had been. The whole bloody kitchen. I was cleaning up for hours, and still finding the powder weeks later.

House didn't burn down, though, so it was a good mess.

Made some breadcrumbs in the blender ... bottom fell off the blender when I removed the jug. Breadcrumbs everywhere! I was still find stray ones a week later .

Ours has a nice indelible colourful imprint on it where a bag of bread was put down on it while still damp.

Mine was myself and my husband making our little boys birthday cake, including a 'piggy' theme. We wanted a muddy effect over pink fondant and just threw melted chocolate over the top, splattering it everywhere. My mum was mortified, just as well it wasn't her kitchen! We had a lot of fun!