Stupid Kitchen Mistakes?

[Cookiebaker]

This is a great thread!

I love to cook, but don't get into it that often since I started working. I do miss it.

My worst story is the night I tried to make pizza dough from scratch. I had icky sticky dough up and down my arms, stuck to my jeans, down the counters, down the cabinets, on the floor. Yuk yuk yuk. No matter how I tried, I couldn't get it to firm up. I lost my temper at it and threw it in the trash. We went out to eat that night. (And I still don't enjoy making pizza dough)

[catnapper]

I was thinking about this thread, and I remembered another... when hubby and I were first dating, the girls wanted to bake cookies. I at that point did not want to showcase my complete lack of kitchen skills, so I figured how hard would it be to make cookies!

Heather was 10 at the time and wanted to make choclate chip. Ashley was 12 and we were adding food dye to sugar cookies to make red sugar cookies. Well, she figured she'd make green choclate chip cookies, and green they became. And she thought if she added red, then they'd be red and green swirled (I guess that was her line of thought) well they turned out a hideous olive color. Those were the saddest looking cookies known to mankind. I think hubby and his mom were the only ones brave enough to taste test them. LOL

To this day she blames me for not telling her green cookies would not be appetising, and everyone blames her for making the saddest looking cookies! and thus, they figured out my little secret: I can't cook!

[Laura's Babies]

LOL! Green cookies? I see nothing wrong with that! I have often wanted to dye my rolls green on St Patty's Day but never have been brave enough to do it.

The color of food has nothing to do with the flavor... I'd have not paid attention to the color at all..

[PJ's Mom]

Probably the dumbest thing I've done in the kitchen is cooking the giblets and the neck in the turkey. Imagine my surprise when I carved the turkey and saw that little bag in there.

[gini]

I have this great recipe for chocolate mousse. You make it in a blender and as the ingredients are blending you are supposed to shove them down the sides with a spatula.

BUT.............I dropped the spatula by accident and it lifted the ingredients and in a perfect circle I had chocolate mousse all over the curtains - the counter - me - on the wall - and back on the other side of the curtains.

I was finding chocolate mousse for years.....................and I still crack up when I remember that day!

[Lady's Human]

Gini,

That's what you get for trying to fit a Moose in a blender!

[gini]

That reminds me of the definition of a "blivet" - it is someone trying to get um...........ten pounds of um..................into a five pound bag.