HELP ME!! Is there a cook here???

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Let me preface this with normally I do not cook. ok, I NEVER COOK....last night I attempted to make a chicken. I bought a package of nice big Tyson's chicken breasts (boneless, skinless). I put 2 of them in a pan with a little bread crumbs on them. I put them in the oven at the normal temp for the normal time (350 degrees for 30 minutes) Here is what happened:

After about 10 minutes I heard a very loud popping sound. I thought, gee I wonder if that is normal, hmmm...chicken must pop when it is cooked!!?? I never went in to check it.

Over the course of the next 20 minutes it popped 5 more times.

The buzzer went off and I went the the oven....the chicken had exploded all over the oven, top, sides, bottom, everywhere. Not just exploded but what remained of my chicken was this little half dollar sized chicken breast burnt to a charcoal and out of morbid curiosity I cut it open (sicko!!) and this black stuff oozed out of the center of it....

So of course I called a relative (who is 78 years old) and told her she had to come over and see this....in all her years she had never seen anything like this...she had heard of turkey's exploding, but never chicken...and the black ooze that came out of the center of the meat was unidentifiable.

So I have spent the past 2 hours googling chicken exploded -- chicken explodes black ooze etc etc etc

I can not find one instance of this ever happening to another human being on the face of this planet (why me??) except there was on instance I found which is a URBAN LEGEND of the woman who bites into a KFC chicken and it explodes and puss comes out an the result is a tumor in the chicken.

Can someone please help me out here......is there an explaination for this other than an urban legend.

I will never cook again after this.....when I was young (18) and I got my first apartment my room mate and I attempted to cook chicken once and the oven was broken and it took 6 hours to cook the chicken, I realized that day that it is just best for me to make reservations if I want to eat and I have never cooked since, until last night......

Please , help....... I need some logical rationalization....do you have a friend, mother, cousin, boyfriend, anyone who has had this happen to them????