Kitchen/Cooking Accidents, How Often? (grill, pizza, cookie, meal)

[tijlover]

While cooking, we're talking cutting ourselves, burning ourselves, dropping things to the floor, accidentally dumping things into the sink, spitting grease into your face, something overflowing into the stove, etc.

If I'm going to cut myself good, history has repeated itself too many times, it always comes with dicing/cutting onions, and whenever that chore is called for I've become as cautious as a surgeon! It's been about 6 long months now, which is kinda scaring me, as will I make up for it next time and completely sever a finger?

Burn marks from cooking, got lots of those on my arms!

Being near-sighted, I sometimes bend down too close to the pan for a closer look, and, being an idiot, what would you expect!!! Yes, sometimes, a spit of grease right into the eyeball!

And, do you ever learn from your mistakes?

[mrs.cool]

I started a dish towel on fire once while taking a cookie sheet out of the oven. I was a victim of dangling fringe.
The only other thing I can think of was when I put hot liquid and cornstarch in one of those gravy shaker things. It exploded as soon as I put the top on, spewing hot liquid everywhere. ouch!

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by tijlover

And, do you ever learn from your mistakes?

I buy boneless chicken breasts now after a bloody attempt to debone one myself.

[lubby]

Put a glass butter dish in the microwave that had a stick of butter on it, wanted to soften the butter 16 seconds and it ended up going longer than that and the glass dish exploded and there was glass and melted butter all over the microwave.

[mrpress]

Usually only semi-minor cuts (yes, usually when dicing onions) and minor burns from touching an oven rack....just did that last night pulling out a pizza but it's probably been a year since I've cut myself *looks around for some wood to knock*

[OpenD]

Originally Posted by tijlover

If I'm going to cut myself good, history has repeated itself too many times, it always comes with dicing/cutting onions, and whenever that chore is called for I've become as cautious as a surgeon!

I think you might be better off becoming as cautious as a chef!

For one thing, a chef would never try to cut onions with a dull knife, because dull knives slip. And cheap bendy knives slip. It may seem paradoxical, but a good knife, well sharpened, is easier to control, thus less likely to cut you.

The second thing is, never cut toward any part of yourself. If your fingers are not in the way of the knife, the knife can't cut them.

There are a lot of YouTube videos on knife skills. This one is pretty good:


Cutting Onions - YouTube

[SXMGirl]

When I bought my first house, somehow a plasic container was put in the oven. I had no idea until the house started filling up with smoke. My neighbor was the fire chief and put the fire out.

[Praline]

I haven't used my meat slicer in 10 years because I sliced my little finger to the bone when I was attempting to slice corned beef. I should just give it away.

[tinalimey]

I've learned the hard way that closed-toe shoes are best in the kitchen. Flip flops and bare feet should be avoided.

BUT I lived in Florida for many years, and my cold weather closed-toe shoes got worn for maybe 2-3 weeks out of the year.

However, one year I was cooking Thanksgiving dinner - barefoot - and dropped a heavy ceramic jar on my big toe. OUCH was that painful! I couldn't stand on it and my husband and Thanksgiving guests had to finish cooking the meal for me.

Thanksgiving dinner was delicious that year, btw.

[23145tp]

I've got numerous scars from the "Kitchen Wars". I have been cooking for 30yrs and I've sliced and diced and burned hands, arms, fingers even had my eye brows singed when I opened my grill and had a instant flashover. Over the years, I have learned from my mistakes and now it still happens but very rarely--has not happen in nearly 2 years (knock on wood!!!!....).