Cooking Blunders and Mishaps?

"Day Dreamer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Aw, these are all great! Please, keep `em coming! I`m really getting a
good chuckle!

Me - I`m pretty good in the self-injury category - usually a burning,
but sometimes a cutting or stabbing. I tend to commit the act of
"drinking while cooking", (wine) hence forgetting the usefulness of
potholders and oven mitts.

BWAHAA! I do the same thing!
Teri

The last time, I leaped when my oven timer

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went off to take out a pan of baked chicken and stuffing - grabbing it
without potholders. Ouch!!! I got it just out of the oven and then
dropped it upside down on the inside of the open oven door when the
searng pain hit. BF removed the food from the oven door, and we ate it.
But ooooh, the blisters I had on my fingers!

Day Dreamer said:

After hanging around this group for awhile, I thought it might be
interesting and perhaps humourous to hear of the worst cooking
blunders everyone has ever made.
Ever completely screw up a recipe? Try to improvise and have it go
wrong? Start a fire? Drop the food? Injure yourself?

Bonus points if said blunder happened while cooking for a large group
of guests!

Not points. When my mother was out of town due to a family emergency I
broiled hamburgers for my dad and brother. I'd watched my mom do this and
figured how hard is this? Apparently quite difficult. The burgers were
nicely browned on the outside and completely raw on the inside. Dad and my
brother pretended they were good but I took one bite - oh hell no! I like
medium-rare burgers but these were still raw, even cold inside. Nope.
Luckily it was something I could pop back under the broiler (lowering the
rack) and cook them until they were more palatable.

Jill

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:34:11 -0400, [email hidden] (Day

Dreamer) said:

Aw, these are all great! Please, keep `em coming! I`m really getting a
good chuckle!

Me - I`m pretty good in the self-injury category - usually a burning,
but sometimes a cutting or stabbing. I tend to commit the act of
"drinking while cooking", (wine) hence forgetting the usefulness of
potholders and oven mitts. The last time, I leaped when my oven timer
went off to take out a pan of baked chicken and stuffing - grabbing it
without potholders. Ouch!!! I got it just out of the oven and then
dropped it upside down on the inside of the open oven door when the
searng pain hit. BF removed the food from the oven door, and we ate it.
But ooooh, the blisters I had on my fingers!

I decided one Saturday morning that I would surprise my wife and make
pancakes for breakfast. I got out a plastic mixing bowl and stirred up
the pancake batter from scratch. I placed the frying pan on the
electric cook top and decided to warm it up while putting the pancake
ingredients away. In our little cramped kitchen at the time, there
wasn't much counter space. So I placed the plastic mixing bowl, full
of pancake batter, on an unheated electric burner on the cooktop. Or
so I thought. As I was putting the milk in the fridge, I see smoke
rising from the cook top, but not from the frying pan. It's coming
from the bottom of the plastic mixing bowl. I grabbed the bowl off the
burner. The bowl came away from the burner, but the bottom didn't. It
stuck on the still heated burner and pancake batter poured everywhere
over the cook top. I turned off the burner. After everything cooled
down, I cleaned up the spilled batter. The bowl bottom was still fused
to the electric coils of the burner. With nothing to lose, I turned
the burner back on and when the plastic bowl bottom softened, I
scraped it off with a metal spatula. When I finally got the mess
cleaned up we had cold cereal for breakfast.

To this day I don't like plastic mixing bowls or electric stoves.

Rusty

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I have two good ones--provided by my husband--blunders by his ex:
He asked her to make stuffed chicken and she put the loaf of
bread(plastic and all) in the chicken....(no one is that dumb, I think
she was trying to get out of work)
And in seasoning a pan--the directions called for using oil--she used
WD 40, lol....now that I can believe she'd do...
Stephanie in PA

WhoGivesAF said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

WhoGivesAF said:

Monsur Fromage du Pollet wrote:

>I was frying up some home fries...Thought they needed some more oil.
>So I squirted in some, from a recycled plastic bottle. I used similar
>bottles to hold the oil and the Dish Soap, another plus was the soap
>and the oil were close to the same colour. I didn't notice
>immediately...but did wonder WTF when I started to get suds in my fried
>potatoes.

I think this belongs in "the cook is an idiot" file. Were you always
this stupid or is it a recent development?

Were you always this rude and obnoxious, or did it require special
training?

Carol

Yes, I've always been this rude and obnoxious but only to people who
deserve it -like the "home fries" idiot. Sooner or later they will
probably be listed in the "darwin awards". I mean the Dish soap is near
the sink or under it. The oil is probably somewhere else if they
have any intelligence. They have to be a moron to have grabbed the
wrong one.

I guess this would be a bad time for me to mention the time I tried to
thicken the Thanksgiving gravy with powdered sugar, huh? LOL! Dad
had the flour and powdered sugar in identical containers. A Thanksgiving
that will live in infamy.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

"WhoGivesAF" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Yes, I've always been this rude and obnoxious but only to people who
deserve it -like the "home fries" idiot. Sooner or later they will
probably be listed in the "darwin awards". I mean the Dish soap is near
the sink or under it. The oil is probably somewhere else if they
have any intelligence. They have to be a moron to have grabbed the wrong
one.

This dumb story has been around for years Slightly different versions.
Recycled bottles, partly blind, etc. The only dumb people are the ones that
continue to believe it.

Monsur Fromage du Pollet said:

Serene wrote on 08 Apr 2005 in rec.food.cooking

I like to recycle and I buy large bottle stuff at Costco. That said:

I was frying up some home fries...Thought they needed some more oil.
So I squirted in some, from a recycled plastic bottle. I used similar
bottles to hold the oil and the Dish Soap, another plus was the soap
and the oil were close to the same colour. I didn't notice
immediately...but did wonder WTF when I started to get suds in my fried
potatoes.

I don't believe this. Dish soap is water-based and would have sizzled,
sputtered and damn near exploded. You would have noticed immediately.

Pastorio

Day Dreamer said:

After hanging around this group for awhile, I thought it might be
interesting and perhaps humourous to hear of the worst cooking

blunders

Quoted message said:

everyone has ever made.
Ever completely screw up a recipe? Try to improvise and have it go
wrong? Start a fire? Drop the food? Injure yourself?

Bonus points if said blunder happened while cooking for a large group

of

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guests!

Only bad I did was make a pumkin pie without sugar. Threw it away.

When I worked as an undergrad, I broke a 5 L glass beaker full of pure
ethanol, though. Man, that was a mess...

-L.

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-L. said:

Day Dreamer said:

After hanging around this group for awhile, I thought it might be
interesting and perhaps humourous to hear of the worst cooking

blunders

Quoted message said:

everyone has ever made.
Ever completely screw up a recipe? Try to improvise and have it go
wrong? Start a fire? Drop the food? Injure yourself?

Bonus points if said blunder happened while cooking for a large group

of

Quoted message said:

guests!

Only bad I did was make a pumkin pie without sugar. Threw it away.

When I worked as an undergrad, I broke a 5 L glass beaker full of pure
ethanol, though. Man, that was a mess...

-L.

Heh, if you want to talk lab accidents, I once tipped over a 500 ml.
container of wrights stain onto the counter and floor.... ;-(

My boss heard me exclaim "Oh Sh**!!!" and came out of his office to see
what had happened. ;-) I don't normally swear at work.

They had to strip the floor to get it cleaned up.
I got razzed for weeks about it, until a couple of my other co-workers
pulled similar stunts. <G>

Other than that cabbage and sausage cassarole I made way back when I was
first learning to cook, (it was AWful), I can't think of any major
cooking blunders, unless you want to include stuff that's been
undercooked (easy to fix) or overcooked, and overcooked meat gets
recycled into meat salads. It works ok there most of the time......
--
K.

Sprout the MungBean to reply

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see, I have friends in both places." --Mark Twain

In article <080420051504509756%shiver@me_timbers.com>,

SHIVER ME TIMBERS shiver@me_timbers.com said:

Not exactly a cooking story but many years ago in my youth and first
marriage honey bunch and me had a Russian Wolfhound (borzoi).

One day we had decided to try baking bread from those frozen
supermarket dough packages and had put three of them into
bread pans and left them by the living room window to thaw and rise.

As you can imagine we forgot about them and actually left the house
to go visit the neighbours for coffee.

The dog ate all three and I go to sit up most of the night listening to
the moans and groans coming from the dog's stomach.

Borzois are wonderful dogs, but they have streamlining where their
brains ought to be (as a friend of mine put it).

Miche

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WWMVD?

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(Day Dreamer) said:

Aw, these are all great! Please, keep `em coming! I`m really getting a
good chuckle!

Me - I`m pretty good in the self-injury category - usually a burning,
but sometimes a cutting or stabbing. I tend to commit the act of
"drinking while cooking", (wine) hence forgetting the usefulness of
potholders and oven mitts. The last time, I leaped when my oven timer
went off to take out a pan of baked chicken and stuffing - grabbing it
without potholders. Ouch!!! I got it just out of the oven and then
dropped it upside down on the inside of the open oven door when the
searng pain hit. BF removed the food from the oven door, and we ate it.
But ooooh, the blisters I had on my fingers!

I managed to cut a small slice off the pad of my right thumb once when
cutting up potatoes for soup.

Miche (who has a round scar there now)

--
WWMVD?

Miche said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Day Dreamer) said:

Aw, these are all great! Please, keep `em coming! I`m really getting
a good chuckle!

Me - I`m pretty good in the self-injury category

I managed to cut a small slice off the pad of my right thumb once when
cutting up potatoes for soup.

Miche (who has a round scar there now)

Hey, my dad did that too! Had to get stitches. OUCH.

Jill

In article <[email hidden]>,

Damsel in dis Dress said:

I guess this would be a bad time for me to mention the time I tried to
thicken the Thanksgiving gravy with powdered sugar, huh? LOL! Dad
had the flour and powdered sugar in identical containers. A Thanksgiving
that will live in infamy.

I once tried to thicken a stew with a slurry made from water and baking
powder. It foamed up but didn't thicken. I then realised my mistake,
tasted the stew to see if it was OK (it was), then got out the cornflour
(cornstarch) and thickened it properly.

Miche (flat kitchen, improperly-labelled jars)

--
WWMVD?

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jmcquown said:

Miche said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Day Dreamer) said:

Aw, these are all great! Please, keep `em coming! I`m really getting
a good chuckle!

Me - I`m pretty good in the self-injury category

I managed to cut a small slice off the pad of my right thumb once when
cutting up potatoes for soup.

Miche (who has a round scar there now)

Hey, my dad did that too! Had to get stitches. OUCH.

I didn't need stitches, but I now have a good understanding of the term
"bleeding freely".

Miche

--
WWMVD?

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Day Dreamer) said:

After hanging around this group for awhile, I thought it might be
interesting and perhaps humourous to hear of the worst cooking blunders
everyone has ever made.
Ever completely screw up a recipe? Try to improvise and have it go
wrong? Start a fire? Drop the food? Injure yourself?

Bonus points if said blunder happened while cooking for a large group of
guests!

As a beginner cook, I was making deep-fried eggplant beignets for the
first time. I heated the oil too much, it took fire. Thick smoke, I
couldn't breath. Next to the electric range, there was the lid of the
pan and a bucket full of water. Which one would you use? I chose the
wrong one. I poured the whole bucket of water on the burning oil. Big
explosion! I am still scared of deep frying.

Mite
http://www.shopncook.com

Day Dreamer said:

After hanging around this group for awhile, I thought it might be
interesting and perhaps humourous to hear of the worst cooking blunders
everyone has ever made.
Ever completely screw up a recipe? Try to improvise and have it go
wrong? Start a fire? Drop the food? Injure yourself?

Bonus points if said blunder happened while cooking for a large group of
guests!

Many years ago trying to invent a recipe with whole grain rice & swiss
cheese. A gluggy mess.

gtoomey

Day Dreamer said:

After hanging around this group for awhile, I thought it might be
interesting and perhaps humourous to hear of the worst cooking

blunders

Quoted message said:

everyone has ever made.
Ever completely screw up a recipe? Try to improvise and have it go
wrong? Start a fire? Drop the food? Injure yourself?

Bonus points if said blunder happened while cooking for a large group

of

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guests!

In high school I liked this cute guy, so I made Chocolate Chip cookies
and took them to school. Sadly, I seemed to have used wayyyyyyy too
much salt and the cookies smelled good but were inedible. Quite
embarrassing.

nina
http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net

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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Day Dreamer) said:

After hanging around this group for awhile, I thought it might be
interesting and perhaps humourous to hear of the worst cooking blunders
everyone has ever made.
Ever completely screw up a recipe? Try to improvise and have it go
wrong? Start a fire? Drop the food? Injure yourself?

Bonus points if said blunder happened while cooking for a large group of
guests!

As a beginner cook, I was making deep-fried eggplant beignets for the
first time. I heated the oil too much, it took fire. Thick smoke, I
couldn't breath. Next to the electric range, there was the lid of the
pan and a bucket full of water. Which one would you use? I chose the
wrong one. I poured the whole bucket of water on the burning oil. Big
explosion! I am still scared of deep frying.

Mite
http://www.shopncook.com

=================

Whoa!! That IS scary! I hope you weren't hurt... <shudder> that sounds
like an awful, awful experience.

Cyndi

In article <5nR5e.7556$ox3.2431@trnddc03>,

Rick & Cyndi said:

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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Day Dreamer) said:

After hanging around this group for awhile, I thought it might be
interesting and perhaps humourous to hear of the worst cooking blunders
everyone has ever made.
Ever completely screw up a recipe? Try to improvise and have it go
wrong? Start a fire? Drop the food? Injure yourself?

Bonus points if said blunder happened while cooking for a large group of
guests!

As a beginner cook, I was making deep-fried eggplant beignets for the
first time. I heated the oil too much, it took fire. Thick smoke, I
couldn't breath. Next to the electric range, there was the lid of the
pan and a bucket full of water. Which one would you use? I chose the
wrong one. I poured the whole bucket of water on the burning oil. Big
explosion! I am still scared of deep frying.

Mite
http://www.shopncook.com

=================

Whoa!! That IS scary! I hope you weren't hurt... <shudder> that sounds
like an awful, awful experience.

Cyndi

I escaped with just small superficial burns where I was hit by oil
droplets. I was lucky. It could have been much worse.

Mite
http://www.shopncook.com

-L. said:

Only bad I did was make a pumkin pie without sugar. Threw it away.

My dad and stepmom don't do sugar or flour. I make them a sugar-free,
crustless pumpkin pie at family gatherings, and they love it. I have to
make them each one of their own, and a third one for me.

serene
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