Cooking eggs in microwave left woman with skin peeling from face

Shafia Bashir was left with peeling and burnt skin on her face while cooking an egg

A UK-based woman has warned against cooking eggs in a microwave after the viral TikTok hack exploded in her face, quite literally, and left her with severe skin damage.

Shafia Bashir, 37, decided to try an egg-cooking recipe that is being widely circulated on TikTok, according to a report in The Independent. Bashir boiled a mug of water and dropped an egg in it. She then put the mug in the microwave for a couple of minutes.

However, when she took the mug out of the microwave and put a cold spoon on the egg, it exploded “like a fountain” and burned Bashir’s face. Horrifying images that the Greater Manchester resident later shared on social media show her skin peeling from her face.

A mum was left with her skin peeling from her face after she cooked eggs in a microwave that exploded while trying out a viral TikTok 'hack'.

Shafia Bashir, 37, was in "absolute agony" when making a poached egg after following a recipe she found on social media #News pic.twitter.com/OcSbdLYQFm

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“I just don’t want anyone else going through that, because it is trending on TikTok…It was the most excruciating pain in my life,” she said. “As soon as I put the cold spoon in, it exploded like a fountain and it scalded me,” she added.

Bashir put her face under the tap while looking for immediate relief, and then went to the emergency room after getting a friend to look after her daughter.

“My face has healed now, luckily with no scars. I used Vaseline, Sudocrem, whatever I could get my hands on,” she said.

The 37-year-old further explained that she had been using the same hack to cook eggs for three years without incident.

“My ex-mother-in-law told me about it. She told me how to make a poached egg in the microwave. I had been doing it for three years.

“I boiled the kettle, half-filled the mug with water, put salt inside, the egg inside, and microwaved it for a minute. It wasn’t cooked, so I put it in for another minute,” she said.

“After it happened, I put my face under the tap for 20 mins. But the burning lasted for 12 hours. It just didn’t stop.”

Bashir said she issued a warning against cooking eggs in microwave because she does not want anyone else to experience the agony she did. “It was a terrifying time for me. I was in absolute agony,” the UK woman cautioned.