My coffee maker just exploded!
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Years ago, my mom tried warming some china plates on a cooktop, but she had the heat up too high.
It's the only time I've ever actually seen a plate explode.
It just sat there, getting hotter and hotter, and BANG! It shattered, and pieces flew several feet in every direction. Needless to say, everyone in the kitchen jumped when it "popped".
It's the only time I've ever actually seen a plate explode.
It just sat there, getting hotter and hotter, and BANG! It shattered, and pieces flew several feet in every direction. Needless to say, everyone in the kitchen jumped when it "popped".
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- GTP_Jondot
My mum was cooking something on the hob, and left the gas on. She didn't realise at the time, and put a microwave safe plastic dish full of baked beans ontop of it. She left the room, and a few minutes later i smelt smoke...
...i walked into the kitchen only to see huge flames coming from this thing, shouted FIRE at my mum who then put a fire blanket over it...
We didn't realise what it was for a few days, actually. The gas on that hob burned green for a few days after that. I swear, green.
...i walked into the kitchen only to see huge flames coming from this thing, shouted FIRE at my mum who then put a fire blanket over it...
We didn't realise what it was for a few days, actually. The gas on that hob burned green for a few days after that. I swear, green.
ExigeEvan
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My sister once took a baking tray out of the oven and placed it on the table. Except teh table had like a plasticy table cloth on it... so it burned a nice rectangle shape in it 
That's the plastic that melted into the burner. We um... Had some fun with some old biro's in chemistry before
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I swear to god this is true, and I wasn't guilty of it. But a while ago, we were in a science lesson in school. We were using bunsen burners. A normal thing. Until one someone turned a gas tap ON ABOVE THE FLAME! 2 of us (I was on of them) had to jump back out of the way, whilst the teacher ran over to turn it off. That was one mother of a flame. 1 meter long!
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I recently lost my dishwasher.... she moved out.
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Dude, you use a percolator and it blew up too? My grandma's percolator (albeit a ceramic one) just exploded in her face a week ago. Those things are freakin' carcinogenic anyway. It looked like my grandma was ghostrider with the flamejob burn-marks on her face and stuff. Poor woman. She's alright now, though.
Evolution.
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Scaff
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I've had that happen with a stove-top coffee maker, they can make quite a bang and coffee grounds just get in every hard to clean spot.
I did once put some eggs on to boil and then went off and forgot about them, the water boiled dry and the eggs exploded, very nice mess on the kitchen ceiling.
I've also lost count of the number of things I've burnt/pans boiled over, because I'm too caught up replying to posts here at GT Planet.
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Scaff
I did once put some eggs on to boil and then went off and forgot about them, the water boiled dry and the eggs exploded, very nice mess on the kitchen ceiling.
I've also lost count of the number of things I've burnt/pans boiled over, because I'm too caught up replying to posts here at GT Planet.
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Scaff
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Nice story about the eggs, made me chuckle. Thinking of that, when doing some sort of steam pudding (can't remember what) in the microwave, came back just in time for the pudding to explode and blow the microwave door open, making a huge mess in the microwave and on the kitchen top/floor. I'd left it in there for well over 5 minutes too long!
made me chuckle. Thinking of that, when doing some sort of steam pudding (can't remember what) in the microwave, came back just in time for the pudding to explode and blow the microwave door open, making a huge mess in the microwave and on the kitchen top/floor. I'd left it in there for well over 5 minutes too long!
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- guska_Cryotank
- guska1984
eer hem, have you seen my latest wallpaper?
Oh yes, I have, not fun at all! I used to work at subway, and those microwaves are feral, you should see the crap that breeds in the top of them!
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My wife and I had all of our parents and siblings and their kids over the first Christmas we had our new house. We had two turkeys in the oven, and ham in the microwave. My wife glazed the ham before putting it into the nuke oven, and set it to 40 minutes on high, forgot to set 30% power. (Shouldn't have glazed it for the microwave, either.) In about 4 minutes, huge smoke cloud from the microwave, the glazing had burned to ash! No destruction, just a house full of smoke with 30-odd relatives looking on, thinking about a buffet somewhere! (Or is that 30 odd, without the hyphen?) I shaved the ham, sliced it, and finished the cooking at the correct 30%. We served sliced ham rather than a glazed roast, but nobody knew the difference.
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- WallRunner51
My mom had the stove blow up on her, we had a kettle on it, the kettle leaked water, an arc of electricity burned a hole through the bottom of the kettle, water put out the fire. Also, gOoSeTeR's CD-Rom drive is fried
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- guska_Cryotank
- guska1984
All ******************** 3 of them!
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Well one time I my dad brought some Arby's home for dinner cuz no one wanted to cook. My samwhich had gotten cold by time it got here so I threw it in the micro wave not even noticing that the wrapping was tin foil. In about 2 seconds there was all kinds of crazy noises comin from the microwave and it looked like there was a lightning storm goin on it there. So I opened the door real fast and the tin foil was on fire. Me being dumb grabbed it took the samwhich out and threw the tin foil in the sink, and managed to burn my hands but the samwhich lived. I put the fire out with the faucet and all was good.
