I am so sorry! Deep breath, deep breath...

I have actually left stuff on the stove and feel lucky not to have burned the house down and I am no where near 85. Hope your mom is okay about it all.

Would you dare to take a few pictures to remember the Great Egg-Splosion Day?

OUCH!!

Blue, thanks for sharing your story. The only tip I have is that 409, a dozen or more years ago (when I last used it), would clean paint without removing paint, whereas "natural" products will destroy paint.

I'm glad no one was hurt, and it was just a bad cleaning catastrophe. Silver lining, now that your kitchen has been through exploding eggs, it should be able to handle anything!!

Ah, i hate to laugh, but found myself kind of grinning while reading this. Your poor mother must feel so bad. Anyway, sorry this happened. that must have been some mess! Geeze, i had an entire bottle of red wine burst on my brand new granite. it went all over my brand new barstools complete with brand new goosedown cushions, floor, cabinets, just everywhere. And then the shards of glass! Granite and glass really explode when they collide. i just looked at it for a few seconds in disbelief and started cleaning. thats really all you can do. in your case, you may be cleaning for a few days or so. just when you think you have cleaned it all, the next day you might look up and see more when the lighting is just right. Don't sweat it though, eventually it will be gone.

Eggs explded and no microwave was involved? Who'da thunk it? LOL I suspect it was easier to clean cooked than uncooked. Either way, I'm glad no one was hurt.

I had a 2 liter bottle of soda explode in my hand. I thought I had cleaned that all up and kept finding splaters for some time. It hit the 14 foot ceiling! AT least it was a sugar free one. We painted the walls before we moved, but it's possible we missed something on the ceiling. I wonder if the subsequent owners found anything. LOL

I know a woman who went on vacation and came home to a house that looked like the site of a mass murder. She had jars of beet pickles explode all over her kitchen. She never did get all the stains out.

Oh dear. Beets exploding must beat all -- but better to deal with stains than have eaten them and be in the hospital.

Oh your poor mom. I hope she's OK. It's a mess but you can get it cleaned up and one day you will laugh about it. BTDT.

Magic erasers are awesome at cleaning up this kind of mess.

And just think.... at least it wasn't exploding beets :)

oh no, i'm so sorry ...i really am. my mom just passed recently and sadly her last years were plagued with a failing memory. she did the same thing once, though many years ago. i think the cleanup will be much easier than trying to rid the house of the smell.

our family took a week at the shore last summer. my son wanted to attend a birthday party so my dh drove him back for the day. when they returned back to the house they were greeted by the remains of honeydew melon all over the place. dh called and said the melon exploded. i STILL cannot believe this!

Oh, my. I sympathize in so many ways. Years later I still found spots of spaghetti sauce in random places around my kitchen after my teenagers dropped a bubbling pot of sauce. Months later I still found shards of glass from a dropped beer bottle (DH this time) even though I vacuumed and swept and mopped and did everything I could think of to clean up. My mother lived in the last years of her life with my brother's family. They eventually turned off the circuit breakers for every kitchen appliance every time they had to leave her home alone b/c they had so many near misses with her attempts to cook that almost ended badly. The only footnote I would add to the 409 recommendation is that I've used it on my red front door and it did destroy the paint so you might want to test it first anywhere you want to use it. Good luck.

I had an experience similar to the beet story above. On the very first year we hosted Thanksgiving at our house, I dropped the pot of boiling, bubbly, sticky, gooey, HOT cranberry sauce. I had started to pour it from the pot into another container when I got distracted and poured it onto my hand instead. Upon making contact with the hot sauce, I jerked back and down the pot went, splattering sauce everywhere, including on my legs. As I was tending to my burns, which were quite painful but not that serious, the cranberry sauce was making itself permanently at home on various surfaces in my kitchen. I spent Thanksgiving dinner with my hand in a bucket of ice, and I never did get rid of the red spots on the ceiling. I wish you better luck with your egg mess, and I'm glad your mom is fine.

I came back from visiting my mother once and was sitting at our peninsula when I noticed some dark spots on the ceiling. I said "what is that" and my oldest son started laughing. He was there when my DH heated up some roast beef in the microwave. When he put the plate on the peninsula, the meat exploded. The peninsula is at a junction of 3 rooms, the kitchen, diningroom, and sort of foyer area. I found little pieces on every surface, walls, ceiling, corners, you name it, within several feet. He thought he cleaned it up! I kept thinking, what if he had started to take a bite?

Fleur222, that's when you need a dog. Unleash the hounds and they'll take care of that little roast beef in the couch problem pronto.

Oh my, these stories are great (except for whomever had to clean the kitchen afterwards, of course). Worst I've ever seen wasn't permanently messy but was hazardous - my sister was making popcorn and tossed a kernel into the heating pan of oil to check its readiness. The kernel popped and flew back in her face, she threw up her hands as a reflex, and the bag of unpopped kernels in her hand dropped and broke, rolling all over the floor. At the sound of food hitting the floor, both the dog and cat came running into the kitchen and started skidding on the kernels. I came in from the other room to help and also started skidding. The kernels were everywhere, the animals were hyper/hysterical and we could not stop laughing.

Before my kitchen was finished, DH was getting a Costco-sized jar of marinated artichoke hearts from the frig when it slipped from his hands. It dropped squarely onto the sanded-but-unfinished floor, didn't break, but hit with such force that the top came off & oil geysered upwards. At first, we couldn't see anything on the 11' ceiling but gradually, spots have appeared - some 4-5' away!

BKO, age is not necessarily a factor in egg-sploding eggs. I did exactly the same thing your mom did when I was decades younger than your mom. Suffice it to say, I learned not to boil eggs while drinking martinis!

Lol bbstx! I've done the same thing once, too. I also learned that boiling eggs and bubbly do not mix!

I've never had an explosion, but let's see, a few of my cookbooks have splatters of red wine all over them (trying to get cork back on bottle).

When DS was a newborn I bought some plastic links (soft, puffy kind) at a consignment store, washed them, then decided to dry them out in a 200 degree oven. Worked fine (I assume), but I left the cookie sheet in there, forgot about it, started to preheat the oven for something else a day or so later, smelled burning plastic and found them all melted to the cookie sheet!

I can so relate to these posts!

Before we started the major construction on our reno, I was getting ready for the guests that were due to arrive in about 20 minutes. I had an unopened can of Pepsi in my hand, and it just slipped from my fingers. It hit the floor just right and began spinning and spraying everywhere. My kids were in the kitchen and started screaming with laughter. I had just finished getting myself ready, and I had Pepsi all over my clothes and in my hair. It was running down the cabinets, hit the ceiling and every wall--not to mention the spray all over the floor. Seriously, from WHERE did all that Pepsi come, because there isn't that much in a can! It was a sticky mess for which I kept finding evidence days later.

Ahhh, good times, good times. Which reminds me, it is about time to crack open one of those bad boys. I'm thirsty. ;^)

Well, we added one today -- DH was filling our fridge drawers for the upcoming holiday/birthday get together and failed to notice that one of the boys had opened the end of the orange soda box. They started rolling out, hitting the floor and exploding. One thing the dogs didn't even offer to help with -- but they sure were curious about the excitement. LOL

Lol...I'm a total klutz. After reading these stories it's reminded me of so many messy things I've done. Why oh why am I installing a white kitchen?!?!

Last year I poured a bottle of wine into a decanter, put it on a burner on the stove to decant, forgot about it, turned the other burner on to boil water, heard a loud crack from the kitchen a bit later and ran in to find broken glass and red wine everywhere! I had turned the wrong burner on...glad I'm getting gas so I can avoid this problem, since I've melted tupperware, bread bags, you name it. Lack of counter space and having to use the stove to put stuff down on didn't help either.

Then there was the time my friends small, but agile dog, must have been bouncing up and down with great effort to reach a nice fresh mixed berry pie I had sitting at the back of the counter, and he got it. When I went back into that kitchen it looked like someone had been murdered!

AHHH!! How am I ever going to keep my new kitchen clean??

Years later we still laugh at my worst mess in the kitchen. I had seen a handy hint about how to get the last of the ketchup out of the bottle. You hold it by the bottom with the cap facing down then wiith a straight arm by your side you whirl your arm in a big circle behind you, overhead and back down a few times. The idea is that centrifugal force will bring the ketchup down to the cap.

Believe me it really works! Unfortunately for me, the flip cap wasn't down all the way and I had a perfect spatter of ketchup that went behind me, up the wall, all the way across the ceiling and back down!!

The crazy thing is that the premise works so well that I've actually done it again though I've hammered the cap down really well first!