Your list has given me thinky thoughts. And reminded me of the time my father asked me to fry some potatoes for him. Which I'd never done...my mother was away, and I'm not sure she'd ever made them.

So...you can see where this is going....

I put a tad of oil in the pan. Immediately it burst into flames causing the three hopeful border collies to fly out of the kitchen. Me....well, I didn't know that pouring old water would cause the entire kitchen to be engulfed in a mushroom cloud of grease smoke and flames.

Nothing was damaged. But I did have to spend a few hours cleaning up. And pondering the sudden lack of hair on my arms.