My daughter brought her beau over for dinner, my delicious lasagna! As we sat down and dug in, he looked up at me with a weird look of embarrassment on his face. He then pulls something yellow and plastic out of his mouth. It was the plastic ring from the jar of Ragu! DISASTER!

My favorite was when I was a kid. I'm old, so when I was a kid if you wanted popcorn

you had to cook it on the stove. One time my friend Jennifer and I were making some

and after it started popping the cover fell off. Well, popcorn was shooting all over the kitchen.

It was also shooting hot oil, so between that and laughing so hard we couldnt even stand

up (we were ducking behind chairs /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> ) it just continued to shoot popcorn until my father,

who was FURIOUS, came in the kitchen and braved the shooting grease to put the cover

back on.

Well it can be difficult to master cooking over a 100 watt light bulb.

Nope, the hard part was carrying it from the sink /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

And mom….see what happens when you leave the kids out of the disneyland trip /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='<_<' />

My best one I guess….we had cooked popcorn in the microwave. Burned it, so went to get something else to eat. Well the next day I needed to use the microwave….and had forgot the burned popcorn. The microwave smelled funny for a week! And so did the room every time I opened it.

All these stories are great! I especially loved milomilford's broken meat thermometer. What hostess wouldn't risk accidentally poisoning guests rather than face the alternative?

Every time I am in the kitchen it's a total kitchen disaster. Seriously. I always manage to cut or burn myself or do major damage to an appliance. I am not domestic, to put it mildly. In fact, I only really cook twice a year. I have to make my own special food for Thanksgiving and Christmas because I'm a vegetarian. I was cooking for two this year because my niece recently became a vegan.

We were enjoying the food (if I do say so myself) when my husband suddenly looked at me with a surprised look and said, "Hey! You didn't hurt yourself this year." Now that's my idea of a great holiday!

Getting distracted while attempting to make a cake and getting the measurements for a couple of ingredients wrong. Aside from that nothing springs to mind…yet. Perhaps that's because I'm usually drinking while cooking, lol.

My mother one time tried to microwave artichokes. After the fire was put out, we had to get a new microwave. Sadly, many of my childhood kitchen stories end in fire, explosions, and lots of smoke.

Perhaps you missed you're calling, I hear KISS is looking for a new pyrotechnics maven!

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Ironically, people will tell you now that I am an amazing cook. I guess I just had to get here through trial by fire. I think I already mentioned, caught my hair on fire once. Was probably 12 at the time. Cooking something on the stove, it caught on fire – I put it in the sink and put water on it. Never a very good idea.

Oh – I also melted a rubber spatula in stir fry once, too.

That's why Gene Simmons wears that Samurai top knot hairdoo (although I think he's bald now and wears wigs). he was breathing fire and set fire to his hair. Don't worry 'bout it Whammies, you seem like an amazing cook. I've read some of your recipes and they sound fantastic.