A woman experienced a terrifying incident after trying to cook eggs in the microwave following a viral TikTok trend. The eggs exploded, releasing Shafia Bashir’s skin from her face. The 37-year-old made herself a poached egg using the recipe that was widely circulated when she said disaster struck, a report in Independent said. Ms. Bashir is now warning others not to follow the trend and try to make the popular dish. The woman said she was in “absolute pain” after the incident.
The woman put the eggs in a mug full of boiling water and then microwaved it for a few minutes.
But when she stuck a cold spoon on the egg, it “burst up like a fountain” and burned the right side of her face. Ms Bashir said it was the “most excruciating” pain of her life.
“It was a terrifying time for me. I was in absolute pain,” she told Independent.
“I just don’t want anyone else to go through that because it’s trending on TikTok… It was the most excruciating pain of my life,” Ms Bashir added.
After the incident, she ran her face under the tap before going to the emergency room at the hospital. The burning lasted 12 hours.
“My face has healed now, luckily with no scars. I used vaseline, sudocrem, whatever I could get my hands on,” said Ms Bashir, according to the outlet.
Subway said she had been making the dish for three years when she decided to cook it on May 12.
“I did it just like I usually do. I already made the toast, I was hungry! My ex-mother-in-law told me about it. She told me how to make a poached egg in the microwave. I’ve been doing it for three years” said Mrs. Bashir.
The British Medical Journal previously said microwave ovens should display clear warnings about exploding eggs. Cooking eggs in their shells in the microwave is dangerous because the shell retains heat.
Ms Bashir said she was left traumatized after the incident and vowed never to eat an egg again.
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