Your worst cooking disaster?

[Monte Cristo]

My first Thanksgiving with my wife we had her and my whole family over and dinner was pretty good for a first timer. The next day we were having my family over again for turkey sandwiches and leftovers when I opened the regrigerator to find...........






NOTHING. NO LEFTOVERS IN THE REGRIGERATOR.








I open up the oven.....and there everything was. I had put it there the day before in case anything on the table ran out and I needed more. At least the pizza we had that night was good.

 

[JunieJay]

The first time I made risotto. I didn't see the point of "ladle of stock and stir constantly". I figured "It's rice for God's sake, pour it all in and boil it until the liquid is gone".

Bad, bad, bad.

I've yet to ever figure out how to make risotto. Which is why I *always* order it if available in a restaurant, because I sure can't make it at home.

 

[sPaRkLeSpAz]

I can't cook to save my life. I burnt a poptart so bad it almost caught the toaster on fire. My parents haven't been able to let me live that one down yet.

 

[BuckNaked]

I've yet to ever figure out how to make risotto. Which is why I *always* order it if available in a restaurant, because I sure can't make it at home.

I learned my lesson after that, and I make a mean risotto now. But what a disaster that first one was.

 

[agnes!]

I haven't had many, but this one's a beaut.

I was making turkey soup, the broth was *really* good, well, anyway, got distracted, went out on an errand and came home to...

(don't worry, my *house* was still there) Walked in and the smoke was hanging up around the ceiling...gave a nice smoky look to the lbrass ight fixtures though...
that awful burnt smell probably took MONTHS to completely go away.

agnes!

 

[tiff211]

When I was 16, I wanted to make my mom and stepfather dinner for their anniversary. I found a recipe for stuffed peppers and followed it to the tee. I put them in the oven and when I tooked them out, they looked so perfect, I was very pleased. I served my parents and the look on their face when they took that first bite. My mom asked me how long had I boiled the rice. Boil? The recipe never said anything about boiling the rice. I thought it would cook in the oven! Needless to say, they went out to dinner!

 

[Tazicket]

When DH and I were dating, he came over to my house for breakfast. We had a Belgian waffle maker, so I decided to make waffles. Somehow I wound up tripling the amount of oil that was supposed to go in them. They were so greasy! They tasted like fair snacks! He gamely kept eating and saying they were good until I made him stop. Fortunately, I'm usually a pretty good cook, so we haven't had many other incidents like that one!

 

[Mrs.Toad]

I blame my worst cooking disaster on the DIS!

One morning I was up early and decided to boil some eggs. I put the eggs and water in the pot, put them on the stove, turned it on and logged onto the DIS for a quick peek-see while waiting for the water to boil. After a little while I heard some water running, and I thought dd was up and washing her face or something.

The water kept going and going for a long time and I thought "what is she doing up there?"

Then I heard this knocking and popping sound... like she was banging on something, and I thought "what is she doing up there?"

So, I start to walk upstairs to see what in the heck my dd is doing and I smell something burning and think "WHAT IS SHE DOING..." Oh, no! My eggs!!

I run to the kitchen to find half an exploded egg in the middle of the floor, tiny pieces of egg all over the counters, the top of the stove, the underside of the microwave, the pot empty of water but covered with charred egg remains. It smelled horrible and was a huge mess to clean up, but I laughed about it from the beginning.

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

I was trying to make Jello & decided to boil the water in the microwave in a glass measuring cup. I was standing in front of the microwave (it's above the stove) watching & waiting for the water to boil. I can't explain it, but when it started boiling the microwave door burst open & boiling water flew all over me. Luckily I turned my head & only got hit in the neck, not the face.

The only thing I can think of is a ghost. That just sounds weird.

 

[briannesmom]

When DH and I were first married I found a recipe for Polynesian Chicken and thought I would cook him a nice dinner. The recipe said to marinate and cook the chicken in orange juice, pineapple chunks and honey. Well, we were out of orange juice but we had Sunny Delight. I thought orange juice orange drink, that should work. Well it doesn't. When cooked the Sunny Delight foamed and turned the chicken bright orange.
DH was actually able to eat it but I couldn't. He said it tasted good as long as you don't look at it.

Amy

 

[inslady]

I made split pea soup the first few months of married life and it was so horrible my husband buried it in the back yard. We didn't have a garbage disposal.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

I broke a pan while trying to make Ramen Noodles

 

[freckles and boo]

Our worst disaster involved a run to the emergency room. When he had more time, my husband brewed his own beer. He was pouring boiling all-grain mash through a strainer and slipped. He received second degree burns all over his legs, hands, feet, and head. The hot, sticky mash (think the consistency of maple syrup) covered the kitchen, went down the heat vent, and dripped all over the washing machine in the basement below the kitchen. I called his sister and her girlfriend and they cleaned up the mess so I could drive him to the hospital. If they hadn't it would have taken a jackhammer to get the stuff up after it hardened. He went to work the next morning with gauze wrapped around his head like a turban!

 

[LadyyRedd]

My MIL told me that nothing calls for 1/4 cup of salt ever unless you're making an ocean.

Jenny

This really made me

Kimya

 

[allie&mattsmom]

Not really a disaster per se but we found it kinda funny. When DH and I were first married I made his mom's chicken and noodle recipe, served it up all nice and fancy at the dinner table but as we were eating it we realized I had forgotten to add the chicken! Oops! Even to this day I still do airheady (lol, I know, not a real word) things like that. Guess that's just the way I am.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I screwed up Jello. Yup...JELLO. Had some bottled water leftover, eyeballed it and said, "yeah, that's probably about a cup." Needless to say...it was more than a cup. First time I've ever had to drink Jello.

I can't make Jello to save my life. I'm even sure what I do wrong. I follow the instructions but it never turns to a solid. It just stays liquid.

One time I made a chicken casserol that had rice in it. I thought it looked a little watery before I put it in the oven, so I added more rice. Well, I added too much and it was so dry it was unedible!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Once, we had some leftover burgers from Checkers from the night before, so I stuck one in the microwave and walked about. Exactly two seconds later, I saw the most amazine sparks flying from the kitchen and realized that I had left the foil wrapper on it. Stupid, stupid, stupid.


An old coworker asked what I was making for dinner one night, and I said pork chops. She raved on and on about this awesome receipe with cream of mushroom soup, green peppers, some Spanish seasoning, and I decided to give it a try. What the result turned out to be were 4 pieces of gray rubbery meat with slimy green peppers with a stinky sauce. Neither my husband or myself could bring ourselves to eat it, so we went to Chic Fil A instead


My ex-husband's grandmother made cornbread one Thanksgiving. Calling it gross would be an understatement. As I choked my way through a piece, I asked how she made it, and she said that she cooked it halfway through and remembered she needed to run an errand, so she took it out of the oven and left it on the counter for a few hours. When she returned home, she put it back in.

BLLEEECCHHH.

 

[paintnolish]

Back, way back, when xh and I were dating, he attempted to make biscuits and gravy. However, instead of milk and flour as the base for the gravy, he used flour and water, which actually makes paste. Since we were still a new couple, I tried to be nice and choke some down. Horrible. I managed to get through kindergarten with out ingesting paste, only to eat it in my late teens.

 

[MouseJunkie]

Well it's not my disaster, but my cousins wife. She cooks for me at least once a week. She takes pity on my poor single non cooking but. So I know she's a good cook normally. Anyway, yesterday she was having an off day. She made potato salad. Then she was going to do the cheeseburger/hot dog thing on the grill. She peeled 5 pounds of potatos put in all the mixings. Then she tasted it. She made a funny face. She then called my cousin/her husband in for a taste. He wrinkled his nose too. He said "were the eggs bad?" "No." she says. It turns out the mayo was bad. It was from October 05. I was like you trying to kill me? In the mean time her DH had fired up the grill. It was on high. She later went out to put the dogs and burgers on. Yes, a little while later she went out to check on them. The burgers were burnt to a crisp and the hot dogs were disentegrating. She forgot to turn the grill off high. I felt bad for her, but couldn't help but giggle. She was doing the laugh/cry thing. Pizza Hut to the rescue!

 

[HOGFAN]

not me but my aunt

she put soap flakes instead of sugar in some brownies
they were TERRIBLE!