Cooking Disasters

[Debi]

EVER TRY TO COOK SOMETHING AND IT CAME OUT A COMPLETE DISASTER? I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT!

I SEE ALL THESE RECIPES ONLINE AND SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, THEY NEVER COME OUT QUITE THE SAME! OH, AND I ONCE EXPLODED EGGS WHEN I FORGOT I WAS BOILING THEM. CLEAN UP ON AISLE "TOTAL KITCHEN".

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[garnetsilver]

I don't have pics, but once i tried to make sweet potato pancakes from almond flour; a heavy sodden mess it was! They went straight into the trash can.

 

[Rowan2222]

I made a pea soup from dried peas - took over 3 days and they were still rock hard. Even after blending it it was still very thick and didn't seem cooked, so I boiled it for another 6 hours. Eventually served it and it made us all ill.

Scottish peas - hard as sh*t.
Opened the pan the next day to this.

 

[garnetsilver]

I made a pea soup from dried peas - took over 3 days and they were still rock hard. Even after blending it it was still very thick and didn't seem cooked, so I boiled it for another 6 hours. Eventually served it and it made us all ill.

Scottish peas - hard as sh*t.
Opened the pan the next day to this.
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[WitchAndShaman]

I’ve got a trilogy of novels worth of cooking disasters. I’ve got a library of cooking disasters. Maybe we should instead be asking, “How did you survive?” All text stories only - no photos. I’m not allowed to post porkography.

Let’s go for the first and the most simplistic. Early teens, I baked from scratch a berry cobbler for my parents. We had a tiny kitchen and even accessing the oven was difficult. I reached into the oven to remove the Pyrex pan and my fingers extended beyond the pot holder I was using. I clearly burnt my fingers but I had enough presence of mind to try to set the pan down. But I placed it back on the oven rack, kinda, partially. I watched the pan teeter on the edge of the rack then it took a header upside down onto the over door.

No dessert and clean up on aisle “My tiny disaster of a kitchen”.

 

[WitchAndShaman]

Then there is the time that - at a dinner party with five friends cooking in someone else’s kitchen - I made cookies with borax.

 

[WitchAndShaman]

Who can forget the time I made lemon squares with duck eggs.

Or the time I made Chinese stir fry with rabbit...unknowingly. Kinda.

Let’s call volume one, “Recipes with Honest Mistakes”.

Note to all - always keep close control over your ingredients.

 

[WitchAndShaman]

Ever had an egg violently explode in your hand? I have.

 

[WitchAndShaman]

Let’s elect not to talk about what happens when tortellini go bad.

 

[WitchAndShaman]

Wanna know what goes great with bananas and Tabasco sauce?