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I've had a couple actually but the one that always comes to mind as a mistake I will only make once is...
I decided one day after 10lb bags of potatoes had gone on sale I would be nice and make everyone up trays of Scalloped Potatoes and Ham(A family favorite here)and deliver them to my :Mom and Dad,Brother,and Sisters families the next...a day off from cooking for everyone yeah to me right...how nice huh?...
well...I decided to make them up the night before....sliced all the potatoes divided them amongst tin pans...made the cheese sauce poured it over the tops layered in the ham..sprinkled with extra cheese,a little dash of paprika...ooooh I am SO the sister and daughter
Lined them in the fridge and went to bed....got up the next day...loaded them all in my car and....... accidentally/luckily slipped and ripped the tin foil off the top of one ..........oh my God...the potatoes had all turned this horrible shade of brown and it was floating in all this watery muck!!!!!!
I didn't know weather to or
So now I just deliver baked goods!!!
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Ewww! Do you know what happened? LOL
Besides my dinner experiments, the worse thing that has ever happened in my mother-in-law setting her oven on fire one Thanksgiving! The only one who knew what to do was an ex-aunt! Thank goodness for her!
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I didn't partially cook them and am assuming the starch in them just went haywire.They turn all brown and nasty like apples...don't know about the whole watery thing...but trust me it was :hurl: bad:hurl:
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I don't have anything gross like that - but I can guarantee ya - 8 out of 10 times I will burn the garlic bread to a black smoltering crisp because I forget to set the timer
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I think my personal worst cooking disaster was when I turned my 3 quart stainless steel saucepan into a contestant for the "Blackest thing possible" contest. I love making stovetop popped popcorn. My standard method is to heat the oil and place 2 kernels of popcorn in the heating oil. When both have popped I know the oil is hot enough and can pour in the rest of the popcorn. Anyway, I set this up, a little bit of vegetable oil, two kernels of popcorn, turn the heat onto Gas Mark 4, place the lid on the pot and I got distracted (I think a cat threw up and then I sat and read a book). Half an hour later I smell the burning! I pulled the pot off the stove and checked out the damage. The entire interior of the pot is now hard carbon. The lid was mainly still covered in smokey carbon and I was able to clean it off fairly easily. The exterior of the pot changed colour too, the steel lost its shine and kind of turned a rainbow heat tarnish grey. It took me about a year of scrubbing using steel wool, Barkeeper's Friend (which restored some of the shine) and lots of elbow grease to get the pot to a place where it didn't bleed the occasional little piece of black stuff into food. The pot will never look the same again, but it still works perfectly well.
So if you want a pot that'll survive burnt food in the extreme, get a Farberware stainless steel pot. :D
Possibly the funniest food disaster is the 1st Christmas DH and I were together. We went shopping on the 24th for that night's dinner. And somehow accidentally bought a frozen turkey. DH decided to defrost the darned thing using hot water (?!?!?) and eventually put it in the oven still half frozen (he got the giblets out and gave up on the hot water). It took about 7 hours to cook (in a tiny oven on the boat we were living on) and how neither of us got food poisoning I don't know.
Then there's the time, when I was about 14, when I misread one of mom's recipes. I grew up in South Africa, where things are in metric. Her recipe was in Imperial and I set the oven to 200°C instead of 200°F (which is 100°C). Turned the meringues I was making into neat little piped piles of browny black charcoal.
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ok my worst was when making a box of rice a roni i put the butter in like it says then when that part was done i added the seasoning and that was it i forgot the water and i baked it in my microwave for 18 minutes it was a flat hard rock and i had to throw out my casserole dish it was that bad.. dh will never let me live that one down.
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NOT ME, DH! He was being sweet and cooked dinner for me useing one of our favorit recipes. He made baked spaggetti and forgot to cook the past first. IT's basicly a lasanga. I laughted so hard and all he could say was "well, it didnt say to boil the pasta first".
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2little ladies.... that's funny!!!
not a cooking disaster...but my husband spilled the entire pitcher of kool aid on the floor while he was home...
couldn't figure out why the mess kept getting worse as he was trying to mop it up...
didn't realize you had to twist the mop to ring it out...he kept just pushing the end down...
nitwit
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First time I made apple pie from scratch my dh said the crust was salty. I had followed the recipe and didn't know better. It said 1 T salt so that's what I put in it. I didn't realize it was a misprint and should have been 1 tsp.