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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My mistake was giving DD the electric whisk to hold while whisking part of a dessert. She managed to lift the whisk out the bowl not once but twice - it wasn't just the work surface it got. It was the wall and ceiling too.
But generally it is DH who is the muckiest in our house. The mess from making just a cup of tea

Coffee which spilled all over the worktop because someone didn't put the cup underneath the outlet on the machine. I returned to rivers of hot black coffee running all over my white worktop. I'd love to blame someone else but it was me 😳

after deciding to beat the january blues i went on a mad health kick..smoothies in the mornings and fruity shakes for lunch..all was lovely until one day my dd decided at the age of 9 to make one of the yummy shakes..in went berries,milk and banans..sounds good right? and it was! until she turned on the blender without putting on the damn lid! oh the horrors! took me ages to scrape away bits of banana concrete from the worktops...and walls!

Blender with pumpkin soup in it, lid not on properly.. Boiling hot orange goop on work top, down cupboards, dripping from ceiling

Stick blender in soup was a bad move. Although Weetabix soaked in milk and then left to dry on the worktop sets like concrete... wipe it up if you spill!!

Despite messy cooks, lazy putters away, animals and mud, the worst damage on our kitchen work surfaces has been caused by dh gluing and spray painting his plastic models

I was straining oil I had used to fry homemade chips the night before back into the bottle to use again next time. Made the mistake of leaving the bottle with the funnel and filter on the side to finish straining whilst I dared nip off for a wee... now my toddler had just worked out how to move the dining chairs to get up and see what’s on the surface/access the fruit bowl. You know what’s coming... oil everywhere, in between, under and all around the tea and coffee jars, chopping board, toaster, dripping down the front of the surface over drawer fronts 😭 hideous hideous mess. Used a good few rolls of kitchen roll cleaning that up!

Making ice cream with my Kitchen Aid. Never again! Several cartons of cream later a huge gloopy mess escaped dripping over the bowl on to my worktop. It felt sticky for days.

A whole bag of open icing sugar fell out of the cupboard and all I could see was white smoke! I was white and the icing sugar seemed to land in every square inch of our kitchen! It was a nightmare to clean up!

The incident that will forever be known as 'blueberry tsunami'...

I decided to be a nice wife and make my husband a blueberry cheesecake as a welcome home treat after a work trip. The easiest looking recipe I could find was for a frozen blueberry cheesecake which involved making the thing 'upside down', freezing it, and turning it out once done. Fast forward to a nice thick layer of blueberry compote sitting ready in the bottom of a cake tin. All I needed to do was top it with the cheesecake mixture, then the biscuit base. Just as I started to do that the phone rang, so I picked it up and started talking to my husband, then picked up the heavy mixing bowl with my other hand. Stupidly, I then tried scooping out the mixture with the phone stuck under my ear/on my shoulder, and a very heavy, full ceramic mixing bowl in one hand. In what seemed like slow motion, the bowl slipped out of my hand and fell straight down into the middle of the blueberry and caused a tidal wave of sticky violet sauce ALL OVER the kitchen (and me). All I said to my husband was "gotta go" and spent the next hour cleaning it all off the worktop and the rest of the cream kitchen cabinets. We were still finding blueberry splashes in random places months later...

Mine was the contents of a can of soup. I was opening the ring pull when my hand lost grip. The soup went everywhere...all over the work surface, the floor, the cooker hob and, worst of all, the gap between the cooker and work surface! Operation clean up was not fun.

candle wax - nightmare

My 18 month old can climb onto the worktop by himself (by pushing high chairs, stools etc which he drags closer to work tops and then climbs) we will always find him putting lipstick on the counters!!

The worst ever was when our neighbour brought some eggs round from his chickens for us.
I washed them and then we decided that because there were so many we would do some baking with some of them.
We cracked two and they were fine but the third was a bad egg !
I had never experienced a bad egg before and OMG it was THE worst exeprience ever.
The egg exploded on impact with the side of the bowl and exploded all over the worktop, us, the floor, the kitchen in general, and the stink was so bad we felt sick and ran outside as soon as we could.
No-one wanted to come back in the kitchen and worst of all the oven was on and heating up the bits of bad egg that were stuck to it.
The kitchen had to be deep cleaned from top to bottom and aired for several days after that experience.

When I lived with three of my best friends. Two of them used to live magic burned porridge pots steeping in water for days on end. They would start festering and it was often a week before they cleaned them up.

Oh and since having a family, the time I was sleep deprived and decided to blend hot soup, only I forgot to put the lid on. Hot soupy mush flying around the kitchen. That was (n't) a joy to clear up.

As much as I appreciate my partner cooking for me or the family I always have to expect that a huge mess is going to be made. She seems to not be able to clear up as she goes and uses every pan that she possibly can. Doesn't seem to matter what she is cooking, there is always a huge mess that I end up clearing up.

Garlic olive oil!! Smashed the glass bottle as well so glass and greasy smelly oil - that was a fun night! Took ages to get rid of the smell.

I decided to fix my sons wooden train set on the kitchen worktop with some glue and cocktail sticks. There’s still a cocktail stick stuck to the worktop that I just can’t get off!

Cat snuck into kitchen and proceeded to eat the venison steaks that were wrapped on top. Not only was work surface covered but she pulled the remaining steaks off, dog ate them and then crapped black for 2 days. Bloody animals

When my then 8 year old science mad daughter took over my know then worktop to make her own science lab. Every inch was covered in little tubs with with various liquids and then an egg placed n each one. This was in the summer holidays and i agreed thinking it would be there for only a day. But no this was a 3 week experiment to see what happened to each egg and every day she would scoop the eggs to examine and then plop them back. We got a new kitchen not long after.

When my daughter decided to make herself a healthy smoothie! Hadn’t put the lid on the blender properly and the stuff went everywhere! It wasn’t just the worktop that got messy 😂

The worst mess on my worktop is as a result of my sons making slime 🤤

My DD2, then 3 years old, climbed up on the worktop and got the big jar of Nutella from the cupboard. Then she ate most of it with her hands. Then, fuelled by the Nutella, she gave herself a haircut with the poultry shears.
The whole worktop was covered in chocolate spread with clumps of hair stuck in it. We laugh about it now...
Stangely enough, she has very long hair now and really doesn't like having it cut!

Our cheap smoothie maker a couple of years ago decided to come loose whilst spinning and decorated the kitchen and me and my partner! We just stood there with smoothie dripping off our faces, looked at eachother and laughed!

1kg bag of rice fell out of a high cupboard, knocked a glass jar of pasta sauce off the side and both rice and sauce covered the entire floor, walls and tiles. I didn't know where to begin!