Judge ruled that if readers followed recipe exactly, the dough-based snack had a good chance of exploding
Chile's supreme court has ordered a newspaper to pay $125,000 (£79,000) to 13 people who suffered burns seven years ago while trying out a published recipe for churros, a popular Latin American snack of dough fried in hot oil.
The publisher of La Tercera must pay individual damages to 11 women and two men ranging from $279 to $48,000 for one woman whose burns were particularly severe.
The high court's ruling was announced on Monday, seven years after the readers burned themselves while trying out the recipe.
Judges ruled that the newspaper failed to test the recipe before publication, and that if readers followed the recipe exactly, the churros had a good chance of exploding once the oil reached the suggested temperature.
"The explosions were so violent that in some cases the splashes hit the ceiling and covered the person who was cooking," the court said.
"Faithfully following the recipe published in the newspaper, this damage could not have been avoided."
Grupo Copesa, which publishes the paper, said it will abide by the ruling.
Days after the recipe was published in the paper's "Woman" magazine in 2004, hospitals around the country began treating women for burns suffered when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.