Health and safety comes first in the home, especially when cooking. Unfortunately accidents do happen.

A man in Florida in the US went to his local hospital claiming he had burns from a cooking mishap involving an exploding crème brulee.

Perhaps the household explosion caused him to mix up “crème brulee” with what he was actually cooking - a batch of hash oil.

Investigators for the Martin County Sheriff’s Office in south Florida found the man's explanation hard to swallow and obtained a search warrant for his town home, Christine Weiss, the sheriff’s spokeswoman, told Reuters.

Rather than the sugar and eggs required to concoct the classic French custard with brittle top caramelised layer, they found the utensils and ingredients for cooking hash oil, a potent form of concentrated cannabis extract made by using highly flammable butane as a solvent, Weiss said.

"The subject said he was cooking crème brulee,” said Martin County Fire Rescue bureau chief Daniel Harshburger.

Weiss said: "As far as I can tell, there was no crème brulee in the house."