Recipe or cooking disasters.

[classical_hero]

Tonight my mother made a mistake when she was cooking tea tonight. By mistake when she was adding salt she accidently put the whole container of salt in the recipe, when she was trying to just grind a bit of salt to add some flavour. She was able to get some of it out, but it still tasted awful.

Now, I'll tell of a cooking disaster of my own. I was making a banana cake, and I thought I was following the instructions, but the intructions normally called for 1/4 of a teaspoon of baking soda, but I put in 1/4 of a cup of baking soda. So as you might imagine, the cake rose very quickly and collapsed. The cake was useless, even our dog did not want to touch it.

So tell us of your own cooking disasters or someone in your family's disasters.

 

[Turner]

I've been trying to make Garlic Mashed Potatoes for some time, with some, um, 'tasty' results.

 

[madviking]

let me think............
OH YEAH!! One time my mom was making french fries, and the deep fryer broke. Then she had to take them out and fry em the old way, but they tasted bad.

 

[Flak]

Just a small translation for Americans: When English and Australians say 'tea', they mean the evening meal.

My first attempt at a cheescake from scratch was an absolute disaster (too little sugar, too much egg). The journey of this cheesecake is still a humorous story told at Christmas family gatherings when I'm not in the room.

 

[YNCS]

My worst cooking disaster was when I was going to put a shake of oregano into pasta sauce and the lid came off the bottle. A pinch of oregano is fine, a quarter cup of it isn't.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I managed to burn a couple kg of rice once. Could be the worst.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Once I tried to make rock candy (dissolve sugar in water, then boil the water away). Unfortunately, I laid down for a minute, fell asleep and awoke to the house filled with smoke, sirens outside, and my sister screaming her head off

 

[The Last Conformist]

Once I tried to make rock candy (dissolve sugar in water, then boil the water away). Unfortunately, I laid down for a minute, fell asleep and awoke to the house filled with smoke, sirens outside, and my sister screaming her head off

I suppose the avoidance of things like that is a fringe benefit of not falling to sleep easily.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Im bad that way, I could fall asleep hanging from a meat hook.

 

[classical_hero]

You would normally be dead, if you were hanging from a meat hook.

 

[The Last Conformist]

You would normally be dead, if you were hanging from a meat hook.

Don't say that. There's apparently a subculture of folks out there who hang from meathooks for fun.

 

[YNCS]

There are people who punch holes in their bodies with hooks and hang from the hooks?

 

[Rambuchan]

I had a girlfriend who took a job in a nursery. She had to cook lunch for the kids on the first day. So she turned the oven on and put a can of baked beans in the oven, without opening the can. That was so dumb, but she was gorgeous, witty, clever and fun.

 

[The Last Conformist]

There are people who punch holes in their bodies with hooks and hang from the hooks?

Apparently, yes. The was an article about it in a newpaper here a while ago.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Wife: Honey, Im worried about Junior, I think he's becoming a meathook enthusiast.

Husband: Oh jeez, I was afraid of that, I better go have a word with him. I told you he was hanging around with a bad crowd.

 

[Rambuchan]

There are people who punch holes in their bodies with hooks and hang from the hooks?

Yes there are. The practise is called 'Redemptive Suffering' or the non-believers call it 'self flagilation'. It happens all over the world. I researched on a documentary about it a few years back. I will start a thread on it someday, it's a fascinating subject. And the photos are shocking.

 

[classical_hero]

Wife: Honey, Im worried about Junior, I think he's becoming a meathook enthusiast.

Husband: Oh jeez, I was afraid of that, I better go have a word with him. I told you he was hanging around with a bad crowd.

BTW, I was referring a mob hit, if you did not know. Also, I did not know about this group of meathook enthusiasts. They are

 

[YNCS]

I should never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

 

[Grisu]

Just a small translation for Americans: When English and Australians say 'tea', they mean the evening meal.

thx for the note, i was already thinking what kind of sick person would want to put salt into tea...

i haven't really had any major desasters so far. well once in cooking shool I cooked my ratatouille on the highest setting, it got really bitter and inedible. but i wouldn't call that a desaster since I hate ratatouille

 

[Bozo Erectus]

BTW, I was referring a mob hit, if you did not know. Also, I did not know about this group of meathook enthusiasts. They are

Yeah I wasnt thinking of those wackjobs either, but now that its come up, I do recall hearing about it. Pretty pathetic.

@ram, thanks but no thanks, I'll pass on the pics