Any bad cooking experiences you care to share?!


Question: Any bad cooking experiences you care to share!?
Want to share my first experience of noodle making with you!.!.!.!.as a beginning cook!.!.!.!.back in the 60's!.!.!.!.and fixing first Thanksgiving dinner for family & in-laws!.!.!.!.lived in country!.!.!.!.small 4 room house!.!.!.!.an apartment size stove/oven!.!.!.that oven door didn't close all the way for turkey!.!.!.had to turn to cook all the way!.!.!.covered door in foil to keep heat in!.!.!.!.!.made a few dishes the day/night before!.!.!.!.was fixing beef & noodles also!.!.!.!.to save time was going to let noodles dry and slice the next morning!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!."Doesn't work that way"!.!.!.!.!.broke up and cooked with beef!.!.!.!.still good!.Www@FoodAQ@Com


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Sara T I must be your friend or this type of thing happens to a lot of people!. LOL

It was a busy Sunday morning and while getting ready to go to church I put some eggs on to boil just knowing I would remember to turn them off before I left!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.well I didn't! We went to church and just as I was in the choir singing I remembered the eggs that were on to cook and I excused myself from the choir and went home!. Lucky for me my husband and I went in separate cars!. When I got home I didn't even want to go inside!. The smoke detector was going off!. When I opened the door there was the most awful smell you could imagine!. The eggs had exploded and were all over my stove, walls, cabinets, floor!.!.!.!.!.it was such a mess!. And to top it all off I could not find my dogs!. After I look a while I found them hiding upstairs under my bed!. It had scared them so bad that they hid up there and did not want to come out!.

I cleaned eggs up off everything the rest of the day!. My husband still teases me about the day the eggs blew up at our house!. We both laugh about it now, but it was no laughing matter then!

nfd?Www@FoodAQ@Com

What a great question! As a newlywed, I wanted to impress my husband with his grandmother's "famous" meat pie!. She put a mixture of Bisquick and milk on top of her homemade stew and baked it!. When I mixed the Bisquick and milk it didn't look like there was enough so thinking that Granny had made a mistake on the recipe card I doubled it!. When it came out of the oven, all you could see was a crust about 6" high and ALL the stew had been sucked up into it!. I think my husband must have bit the entire inside of his mouth to keep from laughing at me while I was crying!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Heated a BBQ chicken in the mircowave, didnt read the label and the chicken started burning inside the mircowave since the stupid wrapper was some kind of silver foil =__=
Had to quickly throw it out of the mirco and stomp on it like 20 times before it stopped the flames!.
Threw it out into the bin after much debate -__-Www@FoodAQ@Com

Just the other day I had prepared to make my famous cheeseburger meatloaf!. Everything that could go wrong went wrong!. Dogs barking, people knocking at door!.!. I could go on and on!. Oh and the phone ringing off hook!. I was so frazzled I screwed up the meatloaf!. Never did that in my entire life! I accidently put too much liquid/bread crumbs, etc!. Talk about a total disaster! Oh but good news!.!. the dogs got it the next day on their kibbles!.!. HUMMM :(Www@FoodAQ@Com

I made this spanish rice and right after i ate it i got really sick all over!. turned me off of spanish rice for a very long time I just tried it again from this little mexican place down the road from me and I was okay!. I guess I made the rice wrong but it was gross!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

My cousin decided to try making smoked fish!. Not versed in such things, she used cigarette tobacco for the smoke generating!. Eww!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

my friend and i put a candy cane in the microwave (took the plastic wrapped off first) and we put the canycane in a bowl we put in in for about 40 seconds and when we opened the microwave door the smell was so strong and bad, it smelt like chemicals!. and the candy cane melted into a light brown really hot sticky thing!. and it burnt a hole through the plate!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Here a couple my friends told me!.!.!.
1)Several days ago my friend told me she decided to boil several eggs!. She put the eggs to the pot, put it to the gas-stove, went out of the kitchen!.!.!. and forgot about the eggs!. She remembered about it in several hours!. In the kitchen she saw only adust pot and was not able to find the eggs!. Then she saw it !.!.!. on the ceiling
2)I wanted to make doughnuts once!. I took the recipe from my mother's cook book, but when I fried them, I thought I should have the over turned on at maximum heat, so that to finish faster! They got completely burned on the outside and raw on the inside!.!.!. I had to throw them away!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Thanksgiving seems to be the kitchen disaster holiday! My Mom, an excellent cook, decided to have a turkey competition with my Dad- he got the webber grill, she got some bizarro recipe to put the turkey in a brown paper bag and cook it at 200 degrees overnight!. His was great, her's was rotten!. Literally Rotten!. We teased her about it for years-

One of the best Turkey Dinners I made was when my husband and I were VERY young and VERY poor!. So poor in fact that the electricity in our apartment had been turned off - it was Texas, and warm enough to survive until next paycheck , but the stove was electric!. But the neighboring apartment was a model and the electric stayed on, and the window just happened to be unlocked- so on Thanksgiveing day we climbed in, unlocked the door, and snuck back and forth with our dishes, including the Turkey, cooking the entire meal there- which we then ate by candlelight!Www@FoodAQ@Com

Oh dear! My disasters as a young cook all stemmed from not grasping the difference betweem fluid ounces and those by weight, so we had a lot of strange results before it dawned on me that my measurements were often WAY out!.

I remember my eldest son making a Christmas Cake with 4 lemons instead of 4 teaspoons of lemon juice!. It is referred to as the year of the lemon cake!. He's quite the gourmet now so he winces when we remind him of that!. But now I'm going through a similar thing with my youngest son!. He made bread and used 3 tablespoons of salt instead of 3 teaspoons!. It was like wood!.Www@FoodAQ@Com





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