She fell into a burning matzo ball of fire.
A Los Angeles woman with a fancy, $200 pot from the Museum of Modern Art’s Design Store was left seriously hurt after the glass vessel “exploded” on the stove top, according to a lawsuit.
The caught-on-video incident shows single mom Lisa Palencia puttering around the kitchen of a California home while the contents of the see-through Massimo Castagna glass pot steam away on the burner.
She grabs some potholders and goes to lift the metal handles of the pot when the bottom gives way without warning and the liquid inside gushes out, the footage shows.
Palencia, 36, can be heard shrieking in pain as she leaps back from the pot, which she said in court papers sent “scalding liquid and glass onto her genitalia, stomach and legs,” leaving her with “massive burns” and permanent scars.
She then stands off to the side of the kitchen, doubled over in pain and breathing heavily after the November 2021 incident, which occurred in someone else’s home, according to the clip and the lawsuit.
Palencia, a nanny, claims MoMA didn’t adequately warn consumers despite multiple reviews that the pot is defective and can crack — and then “quietly delisted” the item from its online catalogue instead of issuing a recall.
She had not purchased the pot herself, but was using it in the home of a family she works for, according to Palencia’s lawyer, Shane Seppinni.
“MoMA continues to misleadingly market and sell glass cookware despite being aware of the danger stovetop glass cookware poses to its loyal patrons,” the nanny contends in her litigation.
She’ll need “six-figure reconstructive surgery because of MoMA’s defective product and negligence,” according to court papers, in which Palencia is seeking unspecified damages.
MoMA stopped selling the glass pot in 2018, a museum spokesperson said.
“The safety of our visitors and customers is a top priority and we are carefully reviewing the complaint,” they said in a statement.
