Hello everyone, this story I’m about to tell you guys didn’t happen this year, it happened like two years back but it’s actually memorable and recent because since then I have learnt to be very careful while cooking in the kitchen.
So on that fateful morning there was no food in the house, so I had to get something done for us to eat so that we could all start our day, because everyone was going to one place or the other, then we decided to make some fast stew and rice in Nigeria we call it (kpa kpa kpa stew).
So our gas stove had burners, one had kettle on it while the other one I used it to boil rice, since the stew wouldn’t take much time, I decided to cook the rice first, while the rice was almost getting ready, my brother’s engineer came visiting and this man is one of the most funniest man I have ever known, just as soon as he arrived he had already started to make us laugh, so I left the sitting room and went back to the kitchen, removed the cooked rice from heat and placed a pot of oil on the burner and went back to sitting room to continue laughing from the man’s jokes, now I had already forgot that I had a pot of hot oil on the burner.
Our neighbors child that was going to get something from outside the compound saw that the pot had caught fire, and she started shouting, Immediately she carried the pot with the fire in it and threw it outside not knowing that her kid sister was running towards that direction, and some of the oil splashed on her, I couldn’t believe my eyes.. everybody came and was shouting, the childs mother took the child inside the house and applied some ointment on the spots, I was so grateful to God that it wasn’t more than that, and since then I knew I had to be extra carefull while cooking and not to get carried away by some silly jokes or television.
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Gosh that's why when in the kitchen, we have to be focus only on what we're doing there. Coz there's a huge chanve this can happen. I never experienced such and don't ever want to experience it. But I already experience burning a rice because I am so focus on my phone, I forgot that I am cooking. And this happen bot just once but lots of time. So what I did is, even when using my phone, I never leave stove and just stay and wait there until what im cooking is finally done.
Yeah, I have experienced burnt food a lot too, and I think that’s a good recommendation
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I can imagine your fright when the child got splashed! It's good that your house survived as well. Thank you for sharing and have a lovely day!
I was so frightened, thank God it really wasn’t more than that
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Oh my! That was a scary one.
I'll be very focus on my cooking if I was the one too, just so such doesn't repeat itself.
Thank goodness it wasn't worse than that, thanks for sharing.
It was really scary, I felt so bad for the child
This Same thing happened to me😂.
My sis and I wanted to fry plantain as an afternoon snack, we were short of vegetable oil so we decided to use palm oil instead. We brought the oil into heat and I told my sis that I was taught in a home economics class that when using palm oil to fry we have to heat it until it shows a bluehazard.
So we left it to heat and heat and heat, I was expecting it to show a blue hazard but instead it showed red— I mean fire. The fire was already reaching the roof. Thank God for my sis. I wanted to stop the fire with water but we poured sand into the pot and the fire quenched immediately. She said sand is better than water.
It was really crazy 😂
I'm sure everyone of us did this at one time or another. Lesson learned, at least the injury was not too serious.
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