He was left with an actual egg on his face.

A UK man’s attempt to poach eggs via a viral TikTok hack backfired horribly after the shortcut literally blew up in his face, leaving him with eggscruciating full-body burns. A TikTok video chronicling his calamitous cooking hack amassed nearly 650,000 views since it was uploaded last week.

“Last night didn’t go according to plan,” Gary McDougall, who lives in Perth, Scotland, explained in the video PSA, which shows him sporting “Deadpool”-esque facial burns.

The culinary catastrophe began while the 40-year-old Scotsman was poaching an egg in the microwave — as he said he’d reportedly done 100 million times before.

“You boil the kettle, fill an ordinary teacup halfway up with water and then crack the egg into the cup,” McDougall told Deadline News of his shortcut. “You then put it in the microwave for 40 seconds and voila, one poached egg.”

However, disaster struck after the TikTok chef took the egg out of the microwave. McDougall attempted to use a spoon to scoop the runny snack out of the cup, whereupon the orb burst, causing the scalding water to squirt all over the poor man’s face and chest. The resultant scarlet burns extended from the unfortunate epicure’s belly to his face and left him unable to open his right eye.

McDougall has since gone to the emergency room and is currently recovering from the freak accident, Deadline reported. Luckily, he’s still able to see out of his injured peeper.

However, the Scottish egg enthusiast hopes his mishap will dissuade others from attempting the half-baked hack.

“Be careful alright, don’t poach eggs in the microwave,” he warned in the TikTok clip. “Buy one of those machines.”

Unfortunately, McDougal is not the first to be injured while microwaving eggs, which has taken TikTok by storm of late. This past July, a UK woman burned half the skin off her face while attempting the foolhardy kitchen feat.