What is your worst cooking disaster in the kitchen?!
What is your worst cooking disaster in the kitchen?
This morning I was cooking a pot roast in my crock pot. I tried to move the crock pot from the counter to the stove top, but the cord got hung up on the coffee percolator. The crock pot slipped out of my hands and landed upside down in the garbage can that was almost full, and the coffee pecolator tipped over and spilled coffee all over the floor. That was my worst cooking disaster. My wife and daughter laughed, because it was pretty funny. We went to Applebee’s for Sunday lunch. So waht was your worst cooking disaster?
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well one time i was cooking potatoes and i turned the oven on and timed it but my son thought it would be funny if he messed with the timer. they were in ther an hour longer than they were suppose to. being partly my fault.... i ran in took them out only to discover taht they had blown up in the oven and baked on. then while i was trying to clean it out i hit my head on the top of the oven. i backed out and found out that i was bleeding and my daugher had made cookies at a friends house and i thought they looked wierd until i realised that i had bled on them ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that was my huge disaster.
I've not had one. My parents have had a few though!
When my folks had just gotten married, they were living in an apartment. My mom had eggs cooking in the pot (for hard boiled I guess), and she and my dad had to run out. My mom totally forgot that she had left the stove on, and when she came home, the eggs were on the ceiling!
There was another time they were having guests over, and they had a roast in the oven. The oven fire never caught, and the gas backed up and the roast shot out of the oven and smacked against the dining room wall!
What a MESS!
I'll give you my top 3. Keep in mind that I'm a seasoned chef!
I set my kitchen on fire when I used vegetable oil to sautee vegetables, instead of olive oil. I washed the pot, and set it on the fire to dry and heat. I then chopped the veggies. When I added the vegetable oil, it set on fire. Luckily, it burned out before causing any damage.
I bought the 4/S from Penzeys. It's similar, but better, than Lawry's Seasoned Salt. I seasoned a bunch of chicken breasts with it and only looked at the beautiful color, not considering the fact that it was salt. I was very heavy handed...YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My first Potatoes au Gratin was made in a Pyrex dish and brought to work. I said "Pyrex is unbreakable! Go ahead and heat it on the grill!"
I can't beat that, but for shear stupidity here is my brainstorm. I wanted to make a moist meatloaf, so I did the usual meatloaf mix and put it in the oven. On the rack below it I put a big old pan of water figuring the steam from the water would cook the meatloaf and keep it moist. Just take my word for it that it wasn't pretty. Oops...thanks to Sexy Trojan I reminder i had a problem with Pyrex. It does not do well on the top of an electric stove. Being filled with tomato sauce really didn't help.
Just the attempt to make chicken/flour gravy is a disaster in itself for me.
I made a double layer cake with whipped cream peanut butter frosting. As I was transfering the cake to the refrigerator the top layer slid off and splattered all over the floor and cabinets. Not a pretty sight.
The only thing I can think of is when I was a kid and my mom asked me to boil some eggs for potato salad. I boiled them fine, but I sat the hot pan on the counter and the heat actually snapped off a piece of the counter! I was so afraid to tell my mom because I didn't want to get in trouble. Thankfully I didn't because my parents were just relieved that I didn't hurt myself.
These two arent mine but I had to clean them up so Im going to tell them anyway. My dad is 70 years old and never has had to cook much before because when my mom was alive she did the cooking. Well one really early morning he decided he wanted a boiled egg and he put an egg in some water and put it in the microwave. Well as you can guess it exploded, goodness what a mess I woke up to find. The other experience also involved the microwave. He decided he wanted one of those horseshoe shaped polish sausages and he put it in the microwave for 10 minutes. Guess what it exploded to. Little chunks of meat and grease all inside that microwave. Needless to say we told daddy that if he wanted something from the kitchen to wait and ask for help if he planned on using the microwave.
I made a steak pie, preheated the oven and forgot to switch from grill to bake and incinerated the top.
I made a Mississippi mud pie. I spent all day getting it ready for my husband since it is his favorite. I cut one small piece for him and went to put the rest of the 9x13 glass pryex pan in the fridge. But before I could open the door it slipped from my hands and crashed onto the floor. I still have an imprint in the floor from where it hit. I have not made it since.
When my mom got her first microwave in 1982, she didn't understand how it worked. She thought it had some magical power and would turn off on its own the second something was perfectly cooked. She put a whole seasoned chicken in the microwave and set it for two hours, assuming it would turn off when it was done.
The smell was awful. And when the smoke cleared, we tried to take the chicken out and it crumbled in our hands like charcoal dust. We had reduced it back to it's carbon base. I was 10 years old, and it's my first vivid memory of my mom crying and laughing at the same time... Since I am a chef, people always ask me if my mom taught me to cook, and it always puts my family into hysterics!