Cooking disasters?

[JHowse]

Come on! You know you want to share with us what you have burned!

I've successfully burned Minute Rice, Bread, and a 3 Egg Omelette! Can you tell I'm a bachelor? http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif Somehow, I can manage, though. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif ....barely. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

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Does driving a car from Saturn make me an alien?

[liltaz]

I've burned water twice...

I put it on to boil and forgot about it...all the water evaporated and I was left with a burned pot that smoked and smoked and smoked...http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

- Samuel Butler

[possum37]

A carton of eggs.

I was making eggs, and thought I turned on the front burner, when in fact I had turned on the back burner - the one with the cardboardish egg carton on it.

It was kinda interesting to see at first. At first.

I was lucky to survive...

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My knob tastes funny.

[Always An Alien]

Well, I told you about the overcooked hard boiled eggs. They exploded and yellow yokes were bouncing everywhere.

Then there was the time we bought this new home, I was heating oil in a skillet to make eggplant or something. Forgot all about it and when I lifted the lid the flames reached out and licked my hand. I got it under control but the fire department came and had to air out the house. I had never burned a dinner or anything before that. It left a nasty mark on the kitchen wall behind the stove. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/hmph.gif

[possum37]

See, everyone? AAA's story just goes to show you - just say NO to eggplant! http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/sickpuke.gif

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My knob tastes funny.

[Beaker]

The best cooking disaster I ever saw was on iron chef when one of the chefs scalded his helper with a pot of boiling tofu.

Beaker

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[liltaz]

So far mine takes the cake http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif...burning water...

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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

- Samuel Butler

[Al]

I dunno, I think poss is the best burner here.
Well, mine involved me baking a pan pizza and one of my siblings misplacing a plastic cutting board in the bottom broiler. Smoke and Flames were coming out of the oven, with all of us evacuating the house as the fire dept came. When we got back the pizza was all covered in plastic but it still looked good to eat.


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" I'll take 'the-rapist' for $200, Alex "

[mthrlangl]

One night I was having some friends over for dinner while my parents were out of town. I had made cheesecake in the springform pan the night before. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that some of the butter had leaked out of the bottom of the pan until I put the bread in to bake. Of course, I hopped in the shower while it was baking because I'd just run home from work, and they would be there any second, so I didn't see or smell the smoke coming out of the oven. The whole freaking house smoked up, and the first thing they did when they got there was turn on every fan and open every window. It wasn't a half-bad night, though, overall. Except for the fact that I can make yeast bread from scratch to save my life.

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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year. ~ Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here)

[WaterB]

i was trying to make a black pepper steak sause on an electric stove.. couldn't control the heat and had black stuff melted into the sauce pan.. *sigh* i miss gas stoves...

[liltaz]

yeah I guess you're right...that's one thing I always check - are those burners off? and I make sure I don't leave anything on the stove even if they are off.

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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

- Samuel Butler

[JHowse]

I think Poss' flaming dozen gets the prize, so far, though Al's plastic pizza and Mth's bread based smoke bomb are pretty good contenders. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/supergrin.gif http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/tongue.gif http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/wink.gif

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Does driving a car from Saturn make me an alien?

[kezzer]

OK OK! You wanna hear a good one?! Well here goes: A few years ago I was going to make the hubby a nice pumpkin pie. Well the instructions say to bake in a well preheated oven. So I turned it up and then went to give my daughter a bath. All of a sudden there's smoke all over and the smoke detectors in the bedroom and the hallway are going crazy! I go into the kitchen and there is black smoke pouring out of the stove. I open it up to see what was going on and there was a pizza box in there! In the meantime, the people in the apartments upstairs think the whole building is on fire! At least 5 different people have called the fire department, my daughter who was just barely 2 is so scared and outside wrapped up in a blanket and towel with still wet hair in November! The fire department showed up, sprays down the stove, carries it outside where it stayed for a week to remind the whole town that I tried to burn the building down with a pizza box! Needless to say I never did make hubby that pie!

[spidergoolash]

jeez kezzer. that's embarrassing http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

i made "polyethelene" carrots a few thanksgivings ago. i was rushing around and had a dish of maple-ginger carrots sitting on the counter - covered with PLASTIC SARAN WRAP mind you. well, instead of popping that bad boy into the microwave, i popped it into the regular oven instead. heh, i realized what i'd done after a few minutes and we ended up EATING THEM ANYHOW after scooping off the bum top layer - bwaahhhaahha.

my sister is always fond of bringing these types of cooking memories back to me every chance she gets ...

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"i like crumbs ..."

[meezercat]

ROFL that pizza box in the oven story was great!

Similar to Liltaz, I've forgotten about boiling water and ruined the pan. But I also had eggs or chicken boiling in the water. Having to throw away a pan turned into charcoal is not too fun... Good thing they weren't expensive pans (yes, I've done it more than once, more than twice...sigh)

[liltaz]

that pizza box oven story's great! http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif



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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers

[CKH]

Well, I haven't gotten into any kitchen accidents (considering I never cook), but I do have a tendancy to drop food. I can barely drink a glass of water without spilling it on myself.

[meezercat]

ROFL CKH... I spill things on myself too.... My SO and I were having breakfast last weekend, when I dropped a piece of jellied toast in my lap. My SO looked at me with a weird grin on his face and said "DID YOU MISS YOUR MOUTH???"

And, uh, yep, I did. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/blush.gif

[liltaz]

so you have a hole in your chin? http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif That's what my mom used to say if I spilled drink on me.

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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers

[jadedskies]

Anyone ever tried cooking merangues without egg whites? Green merangues? The result - a tray covered in hard green icky stuff. Not good.

[MrsD]

How could you make merangues WITHOUT egg whites? It's basically nothing BUT egg white, isn't it? I made a bunch of homemade brownies and left out the oil. Looked like something Pimp Daddy would post about!!

[Rumsfeld™]

Mine's really similar to Lil' Taz's - I left a full kettle on high for about an hour and walked downstairs and smelled something, remembering that I completely forgot to take it off after it boiled... the entire pot had scorched and cracked in many areas. I had to leave it in the sink for the rest of the night before anyone could touch it or run the water.

[MrsD]

I did that once with a copper bottomed pan. The bottom actually melted and formed around the burner. I had to toss everything out - what a mess!! Ever leave eggs boiing in a pan until all the water is gone? PPHHEEEEEEEWWW what a mess THAT was!!

[Rumsfeld™]

I did that once with a copper bottomed pan. The bottom actually melted and formed around the burner. I had to toss everything out - what a mess!! Ever leave eggs boiing in a pan until all the water is gone? PPHHEEEEEEEWWW what a mess THAT was!!
awww that sure beats mine... the water that was in my pot was just for soup or something....I can't imagine what it would have been like with eggs or other food :oddgrin:

[MrsD]

Oh, it's gross! The eggs actually explode (if their shells weren't cracked already) and burn - it stinks like hell.

[Rumsfeld™]

Oh, it's gross! The eggs actually explode (if their shells weren't cracked already) and burn - it stinks like hell.
That kind of reminds me when in Chemistry class last year my professor got an egg and immersed it in a vat of Hcl... it kind of imploded in a strange way, and you could literally see it being cooked as it rose to the top. Then she ate it...

[monsieurjohn]

How could you make merangues WITHOUT egg whites? It's basically nothing BUT egg white, isn't it? I made a bunch of homemade brownies and left out the oil. Looked like something Pimp Daddy would post about!!
sure, except big pimp daddy was about 9 the last time someone posted in this thread! :lol:

[MrsD]

Party Pooper, MJ!!!!

[Rumsfeld™]

Scary, I would have been 13.5 att of this thread's creation. But anyway,it's always fun to go grave digging and brush the dust off an old topic that people have long forgotten about. It keeps the old clock tickin'

[MrsD]

That's how I feel about it too, Rums!! Hey - we weren't here when these threads were started - we're here NOW, so we can add our own "newby-isms"!! Regeneration is a GOOD thing!!

[Rumsfeld™]

Ahhhh, yes. It makes one feel good to be alive. To troll forums, to post replies, to quote others, the art of discussion, the revival of threads, all have in common that cyber breath of fresh air.

<3
+rep plz ;D

[enelya]

ha, i had a recent cooking disaster.

my parents went out for mothers day, so i decided to cook for my siblings.
okra, and catfish and a caesar salad. yes a weird combo, but it was pretty much all we had worth fixing. i went on to start cooking my okra the way i normally do(and it usually comes out fine) until my older sister decided to tell me how to do it. she took the pan off the burner and put both bags of okra in there after the oil had cooled down. and another problem was that there wasnt enough oil to cook it in(at least the way she wanted to) but i went with it...then came time to stir/flip the okra. ive never done anything harder! it was impossible to filp or stir since they were so clumped together that all the breading would fall off, so i waited a little longer, then managed to turn over most of it only to see that the bottoms of all the okra was pitch black burnt. and to make it better, she said for me to cook the fish in the same pan. eugh. disgusting. when i flipped the fish, the already cooked side was black from being covered with the burn crumbs of the okra, and then the fish breading started to fall off...oh my gosh. it was horrible. but the salad was good.:)