This morning I got in and was putting some shopping away. I opened the wall-mounted kitchen cupboard doors and started to chuck a few packets of wholemeal spaghetti up there. One of them dropped on the floor, I bent down to pick it up, stood up quickly, and smacked my head on the corner of a door.

While I was kneeling down on the floor, swearing and clutching spaghetti with one hand whilst holding my head with the other, I noticed the drops of blood appearing on the kitchen lino. Checked my hand, and it was a total stigmata fest. So I spent the morning with a compression bandage thing on my head, looking like a fucking lobotomy patient.

Should I be wearing my cycling helmet in the kitchen? Will cupboard doors generally give me more room if I don't wear one? Are they best for preparing fast foods, but unnecessary for everyday soul food cooking? With all the heat generated by the oven/hob/grill, is ventilation a priority?

This topic's a hot potato.

if you hadn't ignored the red light on your oven then none of this would have happened.

From the industry based research I've carried out, you are best wearing some kind of low profile soft padded helmet rather than a hard bike helmet or standard hard hat. I would suggest maybe an old school leather hair-net style bike helmet, combined with classic marino wool jersey and three quater length fixed gear shorts from Rapha or some other fixed gear fashion retailer.

yep, you should always obey the oven lights at spaghetti junctions.

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It's not fresh spaghetti! n00b!

Splatter is a bigger problem in the kitchen TBH, but if wearing a helmet makes you feel comfy I recommend one of these due to their high heat tolerances.



However if your kitchen time is more cold salad / sandwich / vegetable preparation I recomend a helmet like this



Personally I mix it up. Sometimes I swap between helmets depending on what I am doing other times I go helmetless.

Really though it's a personal choice and which you must make for yourself.

Hope this helps.

that fncking hurts like hell. helmets all the way.

Stay helmetless. Think about all the quality swearing opportunities you gain by hitting your head on things. It's not often you can be this fully justified in saying fuck as many times as possible in 30 seconds.

You've also got to see it as divine retribution for buying wholewheat spaghetti.

If I hit my head at work, I immediately fly into a rage and go home.

Bring, you really should have done a risk assessment before opening the cupboard door...

This new kitchen helmet to be realised for Christmas under the Ansley Harriet brand name looks interesting.

This is why professional kichenengers run a door-less step up on their cupboards.

you should have bought spaghetti hoops. standard spaghetti is just too slippery on the fingers.

I'm fairly liberal with my use of the Fuck word, and don't pander to invisible rules of social appropriacy.

Wholewheat spaghetti has a wider tolerance, remaining al dente for longer in the context of ill-timed toddler-based distractions at crucial gastronomic junctures.

i think you should put the strainer on your head, it will also help stop 'them' reading your mind!

i see soooo many people wearing their kitchen helmet wrong, like too far back, trying to look casual. no frontal lobe protection, risking neck injury. kitchen helmets save lives. fact.

Is that really necessary when I've already lined the entire flat in aluminium foil?

You're asking on the wrong forum. You need to speak to the guys here for the best advice www.LFKSB.com London Fitted Kitchens and Single Bedrooms.

Hey look on the bright side at least the bike is OK. Heal fast!

Have you rung MFI? They might be able to trace the origin of the offending cupboard door...

You can then go to the said store and smash the fuck out of the store window front with your D-lock. Only do that once you've had a shit in one of their bathroom displays. They can be absolute cunts too...fucking sinks...two taps and they reckon they own the WC... don't get me started on toilet bowls...

That'll teach them...fuckers...

amateur mistake, you need the foil over egg-cartons to deflect it better ;)

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LOL 've repped for that one :)

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+1 - and no pointy bits to poke out eyes either. Hoops are much safer. Perhaps alphabettispaghetti in a pinch...

i'm trowing out the Linguine tonight, pointy ends and sharp edges! H&S disaster in waiting and yes I will be wearing hand protection.

You bastards have jinxed me.
After reading this thread I went to make some food and smacked my head into the side of a cupboard.
Staying in Germany all this week.
I am not going to beat myself up to much about it though, the cupboards are on the other side of the kitchen over here.

I think Roxy posted a thread about what to do in these situations. I've only got one witness, but he's 2 years old, and just pointed and laughed insanely when I was on my knees :S

Anyway, the scab's holding together - I just went and engaged in some mildly strenuous riding without having an aneurysm. My vision is totally blurred, but that's normal.

This thread is making me laugh, because I've just spent the week staying with a very tall friend who has an attic apartment (full of sloping ceilings and improbable beams) in Westminster. He's lived there for three years now, and still bumps his head just about every five minutes. It would be funny if it wasn't so clearly painful.

Sue the cupboard! and get a report quick.

"If you have an accident at home and you sustain a personal injury there is no need to suffer in silence. "
http://www.camplaw.co.uk/accident-at-home-claim.html

There was a girl at our school who was known as Sue The Cupboard.

I'm still trying to work out why. Oh yeah, because more often than not "The Cupboard" was bare.

hope you d-locked the cupboard's handle off on your way out of the kitchen

i recommend a padded kitchen