kitchen disasters

[Miss Meow]

I was living at home and my parents got a microwave, so we bought some microwave cake mixes that had just gone on the market. The chocolate one came out looking and feeling like one of those circular grinders that you use to sharpen axe blades! It wouldn't break, even after smashing it on the floor. So we bought a vanilla microwave cake to try again, and got a white grinding wheel as well!

More recently, I tried a baked gnocchi dish and the gnocchi melded together to the bottom of the dish like industrial glue.

[wolflady]

These stories are great!

Ok, this incident happened pretty recently. I was over at my mom and dad's house, and got the craving for nachos and cheese. So, I remembered I had seen a jar of Cheese Whiz in the pantry. I got my chips out on a place, and placed the jar in the microwave to melt the cheese. Well, after about a minute, I looked and saw this brown tube just rising straight up out of the jar! LOL It was like a brown really rubbery concoction of some sort! LOL
I took it out and looked at the jar and the date was from like 3 years ago!! LOL LOL What's up with my mom having a jar that old in her pantry. I just laugh to think that it was one of the items that she packed for the kitchen when they moved out here from Indiana! LOL LOL

[marysmerrycats]

I can't think of any one thing right now, but anytime I'm in the kitchen to make anything other than a sandwhich, it is a possible disaster!!

[tomkatzid]

I am NOT a cook and I told Tom this before we got married. The first week of eating dinner was really hard for us. (Now we only eat dinner at home 2 times a week) I knew how to make like 3 things. I thought, well, pudding would be nice and easy too. I made instant banana cream and sliced up real bananas and added them to it. We had to drink it, it never thickend, after hours and hours in the fridge. I dug the box from the trash and it said you had to use whole milk, as 2% or less would not set. So much for reading the directions. Haven't made it since.

Also I didn't know you couldn't reheat Mexican food in the micro wave with guacamole on it. It turns JET BLACK.

[Barbara]

I had caramelized some apples in butter and sugar and wanted to flame it with rhum. The only dark rum we had was an Austrian 80% (Yes they make it - and it's something you definitely cannot use for drinks). Ok, I put a ladle on my apples in the pan and took the matches.
A flame that reaches the kitchen ceiling.
I was quick enough to throw a towel over the pan and nothing more happened but boy was I happy that I did not burn the house down.

He he , I had lots of those "mistakes" , but I can hardly remember any ...! Let's think ...

Oh yep !

1)As my mom had a very bad health (MS) , I started helping out pretty young ! So one day , my mom asked me to peel and boil the potatoes for her . I was proud I was in charge here , so I got started full of energy . I peeled at least 5 times the amount we needed , grabbed the biggest casserole I could find , and did the job . Then me mom asked : "Did you add enough salt ?" . I made sure there was enough , so I poured in a CUP of salt ...

Oh my , you should have seen a) my mom's face when she saw I peeled enough potatoes for two weeks ; b) my dad's face as he took one hot potatoe in his mouth ! Since then , I never add salt any more ..! I prefer the natural taste

2) On of those X-mas eves , I was helping out as usual . My mom's favorite dish then is "cow's tongue" . I don't know the English name for it . It comes with a yummie tomato-sauce .
As we got short of time , my mom asked me to hand over the tin of salt , so she could prepare that sauce . As she was so much in a hurry , she didn't notice that silly Lut was giving her the tin of SUGAR !!!! ! She also made the mistake not to taste the result before serving it . We were running late , so the show had to go on !!! He he , it is still a family-joke nowadays : "He , remember that yummie sugar-tomato-sauce we ate in 1966 ??" . I always turn red then ....

[Former User]

Originally posted by lut


1)As my mom had a very bad health (MS) , I started helping out pretty young ! So one day , my mom asked me to peel and boil the potatoes for her . I was proud I was in charge here , so I got started full of energy . I peeled at least 5 times the amount we needed , grabbed the biggest casserole I could find , and did the job . Then me mom asked : "Did you add enough salt ?" . I made sure there was enough , so I poured in a CUP of salt ...

Oh my , you should have seen a) my mom's face when see saw I peeled enough potatoes for two weeks ; b) my dad's face as he took one hot potatoe in his mouth

Oh my,(no offense) but that's hilarious

(but also sweet because you were so proud and excited to help your mom)

[Dakota's Mommy]

I still hear about the "favorite" bowl I melted

Hey, it's was an awesome bowl and one of the only ones that had a lid that you could put right on top. You know what trouble I have with the wraps that mom and dad always put over food.

"Geez it sure is taking a long time for these sauseges to cook!" and the 7yr old said, "I think they would cook faster if you turned the frying pan on." Sigh..

I remember once when I was younger that somebody was cooking meatloaf in our oven and after an hour of waiting, my brother started wondering when it was going to be done. As I walked past the oven, I noticed that the oven wasn't even on. So, that particular meatloaf took over 2 hours to cook!!!! Talk about hungry by the time diners done.

[RICHARD]

notice that every time caramel/carmelized gets mentioned, something goes wrong.......

something catches on fire or burns.....

and why are flour, cornstarch, salt and sugar the same color?


scary huh?

[Jessica12345]

omg! just Yesterday i seriously *tapped* the front of the oven and ALL THE GLASS SHATTERED AT MY FEET! i was kinda lauphing cus i couldnt even beleive it! i tapped it and all the glass just fell off! we called the company and we get a free new one

oh ya and once i was like 6 and i couldnt get my pop tart out of the toaster oven because it was to hot. so then i did a stupid thing. i stuck the napkin in the the toaster oven so i could get it out without burning myself! well the napkin caught on fire and i dropped it cus it burt my hand and it caught the WHOLE kitchen on fire! all i could say was opps to my mom when she was screeming for me to get out. lol everyone is ok though!

[wolflady]

Originally posted by RICHARD
notice that every time caramel/carmelized gets mentioned, something goes wrong.......

something catches on fire or burns.....

and why are flour, cornstarch, salt and sugar the same color?


scary huh?

LOL LOL So true!

[kohala]

Here's a "I knew better" story:
When I came back to California, I stayed with my Dad for awhile. He was a serious gourmet cook and was the one who taught me cooking (BTW, Cincy'sMom, he was a chemist - who better to teach you to cook?LOL). I was a vegetarian at the time. I wanted to impress him with a homemade "all natural" vegetable soup we used to serve at our restaurant back east, so I started adding things, and the soup/stew grew out of the 2 quart pan, the 3 quart pan and finally ended up in the 5-quart dutch oven.

No problem there, the problem lay when I added the final touch, the sunflower seeds I found in his cabinet. I did a sniff test, knew they were a little old, but I added them anyway! We had 5 quarts of the most rancid tasting glop ever! Dad was such a tease, I never tried to make it again for him!!

NEVER use old seeds or nuts; the oils go rancid and GAK - permeates the whole dish! (Which is why I always keep them refrigerated, along with my oils, for the most part.)

[ParNone]

This is actually a co-workers kitchen disaster. Really it is.

She decided to have baked lobster vs. boiled lobster, so she
put the lobsters in the oven and set the temp for 400 degrees.
After about 5 mins, she started hearing this tapping on the
glass. "HEY! LADY! It's getting hot in here. Let us Ouuutttt!!!!"

Not sure what she was thinking to try and bake live lobsters,
but it ended up saving their lives, because she couldn't bare
to cook them after that.

Par...

[tomkatzid]

We're not the only ones making mistakes in the kitchen

http://www.texascooking.com/humor.htm

[Cataholic]

Two things come to mind-

The first involves mom (Lillycat). I really like hot and spicy food. She prefers bland mush (he he). So, I decided when I made her chili to spice it up a 'little'. She decided to appease my taste, and she, too, spiced it up a little. We both did it without telling the other....Yeow! While I liked it, I must admit, it was hotter than I woulda liked.

Second, I made pancakes for my friend for breakfast one time...well, they looked like fried chicken breasts. I ate them, cause I don't like to waste food, but, when my friend asked for my camera to take pictures, I knew things were bad....

And, like who knew you had to refridgerate pumpkin pie? Shoulda looked at it before I offered it to my friend...all wooly and stuff...ugh.