What was YOUR worst cooking mistake?!
Pizza is on the way. How bad have you screwed up in the kitchen?
Answers: I just made mine tonight. I'd been preparing posibly the best spaghetti sauce of my life, and was about to put the pasta on to boil, when I decided that the sauce needed to be just a little thicker. Instead of cornstarch I grabbed the baking soda.
Pizza is on the way. How bad have you screwed up in the kitchen?
I was cooking stir fry and I opened the package of meat and was putting it in the hot pan, when I dropped the plastic cover in the hot pan. It melted very quickly. I through the meat in the trash when it cooled. I did not think that plastic and meat was a great combination. I was so pissed off.
Well I was making a broth Just grabbing all the left overs from the other night
Then throwing it in boiling hot water
and i guess i mixed some rice with some orange juice and hotdogs then threw some eggs in there and some ham an turkey
Let me just say this right now it wast so bad but it was sick
I felt a bit sick to my stomach the next day but I just kept eating it
i once burnt my tea. (im not joking)
the water evaporated, and the sugar and tea in the pan formed a hard black thick layer in the pan. while clouds of blue filled the kitchen.
i was cooking lasagna(which takes FOREVERR!!) for my family that was visiting from another country, and i put it in the oven. As i waited 4 it to cook, we began to talk and completely forgot about it.....it was black when i realized the fire alarm went off.....
added a seasoning that didn't have the shaker top, twice ,once with cinnamon, and once with oregano. YUK!!!
the first time i fried chicken, i had the pan to hot and had beautiful chicken on the outside and raw on the inside. i got so much hassle over it i've never fried chicken since.
I believe the recipe called for 1/2 tsp. of salt and instead I put double the amount by accident, and to top it all off, it was cookies I was baking because I was craving a sweet snack. I was only too disappointed when I had to through them away in the trash because they were way too salty!
There were two.
The first was when I was in my early 20s and was still being experimental about my cooking; I made a pasta sauce that involved a lot of anchovies, and then I added lots of salt just to make sure that it tasted extra super duper tasty. Owwww. Massive dehydration ensued.
The second was a few years later, when I was hungover anyway and helped my mom to heat up some frozen chicken curry ready meals, and failed to do it properly. I must have tasted quite a lot of not-very-well-cooked chicken. Anyway I ended up getting food poisoning and spent the night crouched over the toilet exploding from both ends, to be frank about it. It put me off chicken curry for life.
Well I've made some doozies ... but I think the very worst must have been when I was around 12 or 13.
I saw a recipe for making polenta, but we didn't have any corn meal. I didn't even know what corn meal was, so I used corn flour/corn starch .... I figured they must be the same thing. Ugh, it just turned into a big glutinous mess!
I quietly buried it in the back yard, and my parents never found out. My deep, dark secret!
My worst cooking mistake was a pretty funny accident. I was making deviled eggs for the first time, and I was making a very large batch to take to a military dinner for my husband's company. I boiled all the eggs, peeled them all, cut them all in half and set them on their trays. The eggs just weren't sitting in the trays right...it took me a minute to realize that I didn't cut them lengthwise. I wasn't going to waste that many eggs though. I proceeded to make the filling and take them to the dinner. I got compliments on the taste and laughs on the looks!
Thank you for the giggle. Enjoy your pizza.
When I was young and learning to cook. I put 2 cups of sugar instead of 2 spoons of sugar into a recipe.
I was testing a recipe (not mine) for a cookbook, and it said to bake an apple pie, in a paper bag, in the oven. I didn't think that sounded right, but was supposed to follow the recipe. Of course, it caught fire!! ... We were selling our house at the time, and just as I threw about 2 lbs. of flour on the fire in the oven, some prospective buyers came by to look at our house:)
Picture this...
Thanksgiving dinner is cooking with 10 people coming for dinner. I have a HUGE stuffed turkey in the oven that smells and looks great. In my tiny apartment kitchen, I open the door of the oven to baste the turkey. When the door of the oven is completely opened, there is no escape from the other side of the kitchen. I remove the foil and turn around to reach for the baster when BAM, the rack the turkey is sitting on falls...I look for the potholders but they are on the other side of the oven door. Then the turkey begins to slide out of the oven and off of the side of the oven door. It lands on the floor (in the roasting pan) and slides across the kitchen. I looked at the turkey sitting on the floor and asked my sister to hand me the phone book so I could try to find someone to deliver pizza!
oh,beleive me,I have screwed up a lot,but the big mistake was after filling the salt shaker with salt I didn't secure te cap and poured half the shaker of salt into the spaghetti sauce one time,needless to say we had something different that night too !!
How about burned steak/ chicken. lol
I feel bad, what a waste of food.
Awful really. We really have to pay attention when we are cooking to avoid silly mistakes. Disasters more likely.
the first time i made cornbread i read the directions out of the cookbook wrong it said add 8 tblsp flour i added 8 tblsp salt was the worse salt bread i ever tasted
Well, i took a cooking class in high school. And I confused 2 ingredients and messed up the recipe. I dont remember what we were making, but thats mine.
Of many memorable choices, I would have to say it was the time I tried to make chokecherry jelly.
I was very careful to follow the recipe, which called for reddish, not ripe chokecherries, and a few green ones, too. It also called for a few cranberries, which I carefully added as well. All of the chokecherries had to have the stems removed, and after 2 hours of doing this, I had my 2 quarts of prepared chokecherries. After cooking up the chokecherries to make the juice, and letting the mash drip through a jellybag, and straining it twice, I was ready for the jelly making.
Well, I proceeded to cook up the jelly. Without warning, it thickened, and I was unable to stir it with my big spoon. Then the spoon broke off into the boiling and thick syrupy mass. Because I was unable to stir it, it overflowed and covered the burner, and started to smoke and burn. I couldn't get a hold of the pot with my pot-holders, because it was over-flowing, so I grabbed my oven mitts, and finally got the pot off the burner.
Well, this was not jelly, but waste not-want not, eh?
I thought it would probably make pretty good candy-toffee. So I let it cool a bit in a buttered pan. Then I buttered my hands and grasped the whole big lump of it. I twisted and pulled it for about 2 minutes, hoping it would harden, when suddenly I realized I could no longer free it from my hands. I was completely stuck; I couldn't even pull one hand out to free myself of it. I knew it was the toffee, or me, at that point. Gravity helped while I stood over the garbage can for about 5 minutes and watched the lump slowly sink through my hands and fingers. Another 10 minutes to wash my hands. Free at last! Cleaning the burner mess took about an hour. Cleaning the pot took another hour. The oven mitts had to be soaked overnight.
P.S. Even so, the tiny drop of chokecherry candy that I ate during this experience tasted wonderful !!!
i was making spaghetti sauce for the first time . i was probably 18 and didn't know too much about spices. the recipe called for parmesan cheese in the sauce, or something. well, whatever it was i didn't look and i put alot of it in it. it turned out it was paprika. it was the nastiest spaghetti i have ever eaten. people dont think that paprika has much of a taste well let me tell you .IT DOES!!!!!!!!
I helped my wife in the kitchen the night my boss, his wife, and a few employees were coming to dinner. All I had to do was open up the cans for her tuna casserole supreme. Easy, right? The guests were early, she was in a hurry to get it put together and in the oven. We all sat down and had a very enjoyable meal. Later that night, as my wife was cleaning up, she found 4 unopened cans of tuna on the counter, behind the canisters. Yep, I had missed opening the tuna! She had been so busy throwing everything together that she didn't realize that the tuna hadn't been added! Either the guests didn't notice or they thought it was a new vegetarian casserole because everyone thought it was delicious! We still laugh about our tuna-less tuna casserole.