Jessica Alba's Mensa Candidacy Goes Up in Smoke

I would never expect this babe to be a gourmet chef or anything, but this is embarrassing.

It was a not-so-fine kettle of fish at the trendy Smyth Hotel in TriBeCa when Jessica Alba tried cooking herself an early dinner.

Alba, in town for the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her new movie, "The Killer Inside Me," was attempting to heat up some fish sticks at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday -- but she couldn't figure out how to work the oven.

According to a source at the hotel, "She ended up almost causing a fire in her room. Fire alarms ended up going off throughout the hotel. The smoke was so bad that fire trucks had to come. The other guests in the hotel were pretty pissed."

I imagine she tried to put the blaze out but couldn't figure out how to turn the faucet on.