Kids: Today, I learned the hard way that if you tell your child that...

By Mak10 - 10/12/2010 06:53 - United States

Today, I learned the hard way that if you tell your child that they're old enough to cook their own food in the microwave, you have to make sure they're smart enough not to put the metal spoon in with the food as well. FML

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By Frouse - 04/06/2019 16:00

Today, after getting home from work late last night and feeling lazy, I'd put my leftover dinner in the microwave, spoon and all. I wake up to find one of the kids started the microwave and it blew up because of the metal spoon. FML

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By smarterthanmymum - 26/05/2011 09:48 - United Kingdom

Today, I had to explain very slowly to my mum why she cannot put metal cutlery in the microwave. She did it anyway. FML

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By Danana - 26/01/2009 21:08 - Canada

Today, one of the kids I was babysitting tried to hard boil eggs using the microwave. You cannot hard boil eggs using the microwave. It makes a mess. This we have learned. FML

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Can't feel my tongue

By Anonymous - 18/01/2021 17:01

Today, I was using the same metal spoon to stir boiling noodles and the pasta sauce I was heating up. I decided to taste the sauce and see if it was getting warm, forgetting that the spoon was sitting in boiling water three seconds earlier. FML

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By Anonymous - 02/04/2016 03:01 - United States - Fremont

Today, I left my daughter with a babysitter for the first time. When I came home, my microwave was ruined because they had attempted to heat cans of Play-Doh as a science experiment. FML

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Boom!

By why do eggs explode - 12/10/2015 21:35 - Canada - Calgary

Today, while I was in the shower, my 4 year-old son wondered what would happen if he put 6 eggs in the microwave. FML

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By m0m - 04/03/2016 14:01 - Belgium - Brasschaat

Today, I had to explain to my 27 year-old sister why a stainless steel fork isn't a good toy for my 8 month-old baby. Twice. FML

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One night

By Anonymous - 25/01/2020 01:00 - Sweden - ?ngelholm

Today, I woke up from putting my child to bed. Drowsy, I stumbled down to the kitchen to make a mug cookie. I read a recipe on my phone, and put a knob of butter in a cup to melt in the microwave. I put my phone in the microwave and turned it on for 30 seconds, and didn't realize until I smelt burning plastic.. FML

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Demon child

By Some Guy - 12/10/2015 00:54 - United States - Allen

Today, I was babysitting a two year-old. He was messing around with a silver fork and I told him it was dangerous. He then got mad at me, started crying, and stabbed me right in the foot. Be warned, even though they're little, they can still cause a lot of pain. FML

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Hangry time

By ohforcheese - 19/01/2012 20:19 - United States

Today, I learned that when microwaveable pizzas say, "Caution, hot after cooking" what they really mean is that you should be prepared for the cardboard tray to fall apart when you try to pick it up and that boiling hot cheese is going to run down your arm. FML

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sugarquill 0

Friday 10 December 2010 12:39

It's not about how smart the kid is, it's about how dumb you are for not telling him what he should not put in the microwave. YDI.

Sammara 0

Friday 10 December 2010 12:18

Expecting a kid to know to not put metal in a microwave without being told is like expecting anti-obesity groups to blame parents rather than McDonalds for child obesity.

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herro97 0

Sunday 12 December 2010 0:55

i lit two things on fire in the microwave! i lit a dry towel on fire, and i tried to re-heat a hand warmer, which then exploded. my house smelled like chemicals for 3 days.

lovelylew21 0

Sunday 12 December 2010 6:25

I don't get what's wrong with a metal spoon...

the4starr 3

Sunday 12 December 2010 12:17

I sometimes out my fork or spoon in with the bowl still. when you get it out you just wait for it to cool

heaven867 3

Friday 31 December 2010 5:47

OMG one time when i was 7 (mastered the microwave) i accidently lef a spoon in a bowl. When I took it out of the microwave next thing i knew I had 7 blisters on my left hand. And that's my writing hand.

FallenNevermorE 0

Monday 4 April 2011 3:27

lol my brother has done that before.... he's 12. It was one of those baby spoons with plastic on the handle wrapped around the metal part. apparently this made him think it wouldn't burn.

jacobw329 0

Friday 10 June 2011 0:05

Wow.. Harsh.. I suppose that if you don't have faith in the intelligence of your child maybe it's your own fault you have to buy a new micro.. Just saying..

chels1994 11

Tuesday 1 November 2011 23:04

when I was little I put easy mac in without water... fun times ^_^

Sir_Swaggington 6

Thursday 6 December 2012 15:34

Kids don't have microwave instincts. OP should've explained to the kid that metal doesn't belong in them.

xRezSynn 15

Friday 25 January 2013 17:56

So...was he really old enough?

aaaa_fml 13

Sunday 4 August 2013 16:16

I hate when parents expect their kid to magically gain knowledge with age instead of realizing they have to ******* teach them that kind of thing. "Common knowledge" is only common because generally everyone is taught, not because the information or experience lies dormant in your mind until you're old enough for it.