With Christmas just around the corner, seasonal stress can heighten the risk of injury, especially in the most hazardous room of the house – the kitchen.
To highlight how easily kitchen dangers can be overlooked – particularly when tackling what’s dubbed the ‘most stressful meal of the year’ – experts at The Knowledge Academy who offer courses in food hygiene and safety, have put together a tricky puzzle challenging readers to spot the seven kitchen hazards to avoid this festive season.
According to the creators, it takes an impressive 45 seconds on average to identify all seven kitchen hazards that could have resulted in a disastrous Christmas, while one in four people admitted defeat after only spotting six.
Can you beat the 45-second average? Don’t fret if you didn’t catch them all, scroll down below for the full reveal and ensure you steer clear of these common kitchen blunders to minimise chances of injury this Christmas!
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Forget naughty or nice, it’s all about nourishment this Christmas. Ticking all the boxes, this set is filled with the haircare needed to shine through the festive season. From pre-shampoo scalp treatments to deeply nourishing conditioners and gloss-inducing oils, tis the season of silky soft strands for all hair types and textures.
GUESS Bella Vita, a sophisticated and luxurious fragrance tailored for the glamorous GUESS Girl. This new scent marks a return to GUESS’s origins, evoking the essence of Southern California and the Mediterranean. A fruity, floral, and amber fusion, this fragrance instils its wearer with a sense of confidence. The floral heart exudes femininity and elegance, while the rich and velvety base notes of tonka bean and sweet praline provide a comforting sensation.
The SENSSE Professional LED Face mask was developed for improving a multiple of skin concerns, from improving blood circulation, reducing wrinkles, stimulation collagen growth to improving age spots and skin imperfections. The 90 LED lights omit at different levels to cover a multitude of concerns and give a noticeable improvement over 4 weeks use. With its soft flexible silicon face mask, its very light and so easy to use. Its rechargeable and comes with a hand held remote control, so you can select your required programme and then just sit back, close your eyes and relax.! THere are 4 different LED light programmes to select from, each offering a different treatment with a maximum of 10 minutes for 1 treamtent and 1 automatic treatment that covers all 4 lights with a 15 minute programme.
Treat a loved one this Christmas with the Revolution Pro Miracle 12 Day Advent Calendar, packed full of the brand’s best-sellers and festive favourites. Including;
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Time to take your skin on a Drunk Break with this perfect skincare set that provides a purifying Drunk Elephant jelly cleanser and a peptide-packed moisturizer in travel size.
Deliver tidings of great joy with a luxurious hamper filled with our most-loved fragrances. Lift the lid on a selection of home and bath & body products and a Cologne Intense to fill their day with scent.
Over the last decade of CMTM and us covering our annual Christmas gift guides we’ve seen a number of trends emerge, The Christmas Jumper being a mainstay, the Giving of socks becoming more adventurous. But by far the trend which seems to grown and gain momentum year on year HAS to be the Advent Calendar. When I was young, without wanting to sound like a Grandad, Advent Calendar were a simple thing, in our house, a Nativity scene or maybe of the Great guy himself Good Saint Nick, with 24 little perforated windows on it that you ripped open each morning in December culminating with a double panelled window for 24th which always had a Nativity scene behind it. Over the years the humble Advent Calendar evolved to include a chocolate behind each window, which I genuinely can’t tell you the levels of excitement this created with me in our household ! 
Arthur Christmas – Released in time for 
Home Alone – Can only be described as a modern Christmas Classic. Obviously raising all sorts of child care and safe guarding issues but hey this was back in 1990, by the great Chris Columbus. This film as we said raised all kinda questions including what did Mr McAllister do for a living to afford THAT house, plus pay for his entire extended family to spend the holidays together is Paris, no less. 
Die Hard – Yippy Ki yay blip, blip ! Christmas isn’t Christmas unless this highly contentious, is it a Christmas film or not film has been seen. Back in 1989, we first met detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) and the events that unfold at the Nakatomi tower at the hands of international terrorists Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman RIP).
The Grinch – 
The nightmare before Christmas – Ahhhh Tim Burton’s incredible gothic fairytale from 1993. Like he normally does, he is a disruptor in every sense of the word, this time with animation. Telling the story of Jack Skellington, King of Halloweentown and his unique love of Christmas and bringing his unique interpretation of Christmas to Halloweentown. 
The Holiday – This Film directed by Penny Marshall in , always raises lots of questions including no way does she live in a house/cottage like that and I go gonna do that next Christmas ! Once again, a star studded cast of, kinda, interlinked characters sick of being done wrong and definitely not, but kinda yeah, looking for love. 
Home Alone 2 –
Bad Santa -He knows when you’ve been sleeping and he knows when you’re awake. Well, Billy Bob Thornton, plays a rather unscrupulous shopping Mall “Santa” is this cracker of a classic, who changes his ways after befriending an 8 year old kid. Laughs, political incorrectness a plenty and that timeless Seasonal tale of a grifter, learning the error of his life just in time for the Yuletide, warming the coldest of hearts with belly laughs along the way.
Die Hard 2 – 
Office Christmas Party – There’s a good chance a considerable number of you are unfamiliar to this Yuletide offering. Please change that and you will truly thank us for introducing you to the unconventional Yuletide yearn. Jennifer Anniston plays a hard nosed business Scrooge where Christmas parties are off the agenda for this software company who haven’t had the best of years. Her brother, played by T.J Miller, has other ideas and a crazy farce ensuing including a run in with suburban drug dealing mum and a crazed HR exec played by the brilliant Kate McKinnon.
Gremlins – Like Die hard this film is endlessly lamented upon as to whether it falls into the Christmas movie category. For us this game changer from back 1984, written by Chris Columbus unquestionably does. When a guy looking for the ultimate in a festive gift in the form of an unusual pet, remember a pet isn’t just for Christmas folks, comes across Gizmo accompanied with 3 simples rules not to ever be broken. When he inadvertently, but obviously does he unleashes a horde of mischievous, malevolently monsters on a small US town at the Yuletide.
The Christmas Chronicles – Netflix struck Gold when they cast the unconventional Kirk Russell, what Snake from Escape from New York !?! in the titular role. This time we have two siblings who are at that troubled age of whether they believe or not and set out to catch Santa in the act. Trouble ensues and they all have team up to save the day. The day, of course, being the biggest day of the year !
Santa Claus the Movie – This Yuletide offering tells the origins story of how good olde St Nick and how back in the 14th Century this kind elderly gent would make toys for the local village people, but gets lost in the Winter snow storm and is rescued by the elf folks of the North Pole. Fast forward to the 20th Century the legend of Santa is feeling a little stale and I’m need of a PR makeover. In steps the 
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – Like every great film or TV franchise, at some point they create a Christmas special, with varying degrees of success. I mean let’s not even discuss the Star Wars TV Special of on 1978, let’s keep that hidden in the archive. But the same can’t be said for this great, following the Griswold’s misadventures in trying to organise the ultimate in Family Christmas gatherings and catering to that Mish-Mash of family personalities and quirks.
The Night Before – Like “The Office Party” this wonder of Christmas Cinematography may have so far escaped you, until now ! The unusual trio combination of Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie and Joseph-Gordon Levitt have enjoyed every Christmas Eve together, until Rogen and Mackie’s characters feel like they have outgrown their usual Yuletide shenanigans, but Levitt has other ideas and is confident he can change their minds.
The Snowman – Raymond Briggs Festive narrative of a young boy’s magical experience with a Snowman who is brought to life through the magic of Christmas. Originally shown in the UK on Channel 4 and accompanied with eternal Choir boy Aled Jones, “Walking in the air”. An essential part of many people’s Festive Festivities, all sat round watching this with their family while slowly destroying a box of Quality Street all washed down with one too many Snowballs.
Nativity! – This Christmas series of movies spawned a whopping 4 sequels! However, the first in the series is by far the best. In that great British tradition of the Carry on’s this silly farce can’t help but put you in the festive spirits. Martin Freeman, with the original, in the lead role as the teacher put in charge of staging the Nativity Play and the daft Mr Poppy, Marc Wootton, playing the classroom assistant messing up all the best laid plans, surely the Nativity play won’t go as planned ????
Love Actually – Before we start, I have a confession to make, I agree Love Actually is a nice film and if it’s on, I will most probably watch it, but I just don’t get the way people rave about this movie. Richard Curtis’s (Four Weddings, ) 2003 narrative of eight interlocking couples played by a star studded ensemble of Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kiera Knighley etc etc), is many folks idea of a Christmas Classic, so check it out and see what you think ?
Deck the Halls – Back in 2006, before the cost of living or energy crises and maybe before any sustainable considerations, people would and some still do ornately decorate their homes in preparation for the Festivities. This is one such tale of neighbours trying to out do each other in the decoration stakes. Danny DeVito’s crass OTT character pitted against Matthew Broderick’s up tight, Conservative neighbour.
Jingle all the way
The Polar Express – One of only a few animations to make it onto our list. This Tom Hanks vehicle, gave scarily accurate facial features to its characters and Hanks the opportunity to play numerous characters throughout the film, which tells the story of a boy embarking on a journey to discover Father Christmas and the true meaning of Christmas.