Probably the biggest incident of the year

At my workplace, we have a large noodle-boiling machine for cooking pasta. It's also very useful for double-boiling ingredients with fat sometimes. One day, we were heating up bottled curry soup base in the noodle-boiling machine for a new menu item. Then, for just a moment when no one was looking (one person was on break in the back, and I had stepped away to use the restroom), I came back to a familiar spicy aroma… the water in the noodle-boiling machine had turned brown. It seems a bottle of soup had fallen into the machine and burst inside… Fortunately, it was before opening hours, so we were able to clean it up and get everything back to normal before we opened. Probably the biggest incident of the year. I don't think I'll forget it for a while.