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After the egg burst during the TikTok challenge, the mother’s skin started to peel off her face

A terrified mum has warned against cooking eggs in a microwave after she was left with skin peeling from her face when she tried cooking eggs in the microwave, using a hack she learned from a TikTok challenge.

Shafia Bashir, 37, said she’d been in ‘absolute agony’ after making a poached egg using a much-publicized recipe available on the internet.

Shafia, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, said she had been making the dish for three years when she’d decided to cook it on May 12.

She first poured some boiling water into a mug before adding the egg and then put it in the microwave for a couple of minutes. Read the full story here ▶