Egg exploded in Chantelle Conway face and she was traumatized

She posted the result of her failed poaching attempt, and showed that she ended up with facial burns.

On his TikTok account, he has continued to post updates with his case and shows the evolution of his healing process.

The accident

Chantelle followed instructions shared on social media by many users who joined a viral trend of poaching hard-boiled eggs and recording the process. As seen many times on TikTok, Conway tells how she boiled the kettle and filled a cup before cracking a raw egg into the water and microwaving it for ten seconds.

She says when she put a cold spoon into the boiling water to remove the poached egg and at that point disaster struck, as the reaction caused the hot water to shoot straight into her face. The woman claims she has been cooking poached eggs in the microwave for the past two years before it went wrong earlier this month.

She tells how she was so shaken by the incident that she thought she had "wiped the frown lines off her face forever."

"I've always made poached eggs that way because it was a quicker and easier way to make them," said Chantelle, of Farnworth, Bolton. "When I took it out of the microwave I put a metal spoon in to turn the egg over to check if it was cooked, but as soon as the spoon touched the water it popped. It wasn't the egg that exploded, because it fell whole on the side of my stove."

"The water went everywhere, all over my face and neck, and I'm sure it even hit the ceiling because there is a mark above where I was standing."

Chantelle's testimony

In her TikTok posts, Chantelle has detailed what this experience meant to her. "It was the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life, and that I have had two natural births. It felt like someone was holding a blowtorch over my face constantly, and I was convinced my whole face was burned."

"I looked straight over the bowl, so I was very lucky I managed to close my eyes in time, and I'm thankful I'm not blind at the moment, but my eyelids were badly burned."

"I think I probably would have died in pain if I hadn't acted so quickly by pouring cold water on myself because it was so bad I couldn't stand it."

Chantelle during the accident was on a FaceTime call with her cousin Stephanie Leigh at the time of the horrific accident, who listened in horror to Chantelle's screams as the water burned her face. "We FaceTime every day, and she puts the phone over pots of tea and sugar while she's making a brew," said Stephanie, 28. "All of a sudden I saw a lot of stuff flying in the air, and she was screaming and couldn't even speak to tell me what had happened, so I thought the kettle had blown up in her face.

"I was in Manchester at the time, too far away to give help, so I felt helpless and was crying, panicking trying to call someone nearby to help her."

Chantelle was home alone with her 18-month-old baby, Heidi-River Ball, when she suffered the horrific burns, leaving her waiting nearly an hour for help. Her other daughter, five-year-old Lilly-Rose Ball, was at school at the time and the girls' father, Mark Ball, 34, had to rush home and take Chantelle to Royal Bolton Hospital.

Medical staff told the woman she was lucky not to have suffered worse injuries, and that her quick action of dousing herself with cold water saved her from third-degree burns. "I grabbed a handful of cold water and dumped it on myself for about an hour while I waited for my babies' dad to come get me and take me to the hospital; I couldn't get away from the water," Chantelle said.

The young woman has used her TikTok account to educate about these types of cooking methods, in addition to teaching about the dangers involved in these preparations. In one video, you can see her reaction to a similar event where an egg explodes on camera. He also showed his recovery from burns and used his videos to raise awareness and warn others about the viral 'stunt'.