Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:59 am
Err...
I was cooking soup, and I accidentally dropped a pack of rockets I was eating into the soup...
I was cooking soup, and I accidentally dropped a pack of rockets I was eating into the soup...
Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:12 pm
I don't really cook that much so I can't say I've had any major disasters. Although if I cooked more, all of the food I cook will turn out disastrous. My dad burns toast though. All the time!
Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:18 pm
Me. Cook. Yeah right.
Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:27 pm
_jade_em_ wrote:Me. Cook. Yeah right.
Hehe, I thought I was the only one
Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:59 pm
Me cooking is generally regarded as a disaster.
Nah, I'm not *too* bad. Just not very good.
Nah, I'm not *too* bad. Just not very good.
Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:19 pm
One time I tried to make cookies. Except for some reason it didn't work.
The result - a flat, sugary mess sticking to the thingy you cook them on.
And then there was the time I managed to mess up those ready-made cake mixes by misreading how many eggs and how much water you add to it.
The result - a flat, sugary mess sticking to the thingy you cook them on.
And then there was the time I managed to mess up those ready-made cake mixes by misreading how many eggs and how much water you add to it.
Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:44 pm
When I was in my uni, I brought a garlic and place the whole thing, including the aluminium foil into the mircowave oven. I saw sparks inside the oven and switched the whole thing off.
The oven was in our school studio and there will complains about the spoilt oven the next day. I did not own up.
A year later, my friend did something similar to the new mircowave oven. She brought a turkey sandwich and she never use a mircowave oven before. She thought that the oven may need at least a 25 mintues to cook a sandwich. She put the sandwich into the oven, set the timer for 25 minutes and goes off to work on her project. Soon our open studio fills with smokes. She realise what is happening and quickly switch off the mircowave oven. The moment she switch off the oven, our studio fire alurm went off. The next thing she sees our studio security guard dashed in. After he realise what happen, she got a good scolding from him.
The story do not end here. Ten mintues later, she saw a big group of firemen dashed into our studio. We have a good laugh when she told us the story.
The oven was in our school studio and there will complains about the spoilt oven the next day. I did not own up.
A year later, my friend did something similar to the new mircowave oven. She brought a turkey sandwich and she never use a mircowave oven before. She thought that the oven may need at least a 25 mintues to cook a sandwich. She put the sandwich into the oven, set the timer for 25 minutes and goes off to work on her project. Soon our open studio fills with smokes. She realise what is happening and quickly switch off the mircowave oven. The moment she switch off the oven, our studio fire alurm went off. The next thing she sees our studio security guard dashed in. After he realise what happen, she got a good scolding from him.
The story do not end here. Ten mintues later, she saw a big group of firemen dashed into our studio. We have a good laugh when she told us the story.
Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:48 pm
My parents used to own this one microwave that could also double as an oven. I was trying to cook sausage rolls one day in this oven but sadly I forget to put a temperature setting in so it just microwaved the sausage rolls for 8 minutes straight. When I finally came back I had nothing but a smoke filled microwave and chunks of charcoal and dieing embers - not good.
Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:05 pm
I usually do pretty good when I'm cooking. Though things like to boil over the moment I turn my back, which can be pretty annoying, but not too disasterous.
One time though, I was making pasta, and I was mixing up the sauce, and I added way too much water, so it ended up being sort of... half soup.
Oddly, I can make cookies fine from scratch, but when I try to use ready made cookie dough, they always burn, or else turn out raw.
I've also had the disaster of flipping a cake out of a pan, and the cake falls apart.
My mother and I tried making a pineapple upside down cake a couple of weeks ago. And she forgot to drain the pineapple juice before adding the pineapples. So the whole thing was realllly moist, and totally fell apart. It still tasted good.
Emma (Jellyoflight) likes this story... I was trying to make porridge, and I'd already heated the milk. But I forgot to turn down the heat, and the pan was way too hot. I poured the porridge in, and I forgot to stir it the whole time, and the porridge hit the bottom of the pan and immediately burned. So these flakey pieces of burned porridge floated back up to the top of the milk, and it looked so nasty. I threw the whole thing out and started over.
I was eating soup once, and trying to read at the same time. And my bookmark fell right into the bowl. It was gross. XD
One time though, I was making pasta, and I was mixing up the sauce, and I added way too much water, so it ended up being sort of... half soup.
Oddly, I can make cookies fine from scratch, but when I try to use ready made cookie dough, they always burn, or else turn out raw.
I've also had the disaster of flipping a cake out of a pan, and the cake falls apart.
My mother and I tried making a pineapple upside down cake a couple of weeks ago. And she forgot to drain the pineapple juice before adding the pineapples. So the whole thing was realllly moist, and totally fell apart. It still tasted good.
Emma (Jellyoflight) likes this story... I was trying to make porridge, and I'd already heated the milk. But I forgot to turn down the heat, and the pan was way too hot. I poured the porridge in, and I forgot to stir it the whole time, and the porridge hit the bottom of the pan and immediately burned. So these flakey pieces of burned porridge floated back up to the top of the milk, and it looked so nasty. I threw the whole thing out and started over.
watericesage wrote:I was cooking soup, and I accidentally dropped a pack of rockets I was eating into the soup...
I was eating soup once, and trying to read at the same time. And my bookmark fell right into the bowl. It was gross. XD
Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:50 pm
Sapphire Faerie wrote:My mother and I tried making a pineapple upside down cake a couple of weeks ago. And she forgot to drain the pineapple juice before adding the pineapples. So the whole thing was realllly moist, and totally fell apart. It still tasted good.
Phew, I thought I was the only person that ever happened to. Forgot about it until I read that.
This wasn't really a diasaster, just something really dumb I did when I was about 6.
I wanted to make a scratch 'pie'. So I thawed some strawberries, and didn't have a clue what you made a pie with. I thought the crust came to be when it was cooking, and that you didn't have to make it. I wrote the recipie down somewhere, but I'm not going to bother to look it up. It went something like this:
6 tablespoons flour.
9 tablespoons strawberry juice.
5 tablespoons sugar.
3 teaspoons baking powder.
5 teaspoons beat juice.
Cook for 50minutes.
Hahaha.. what a mess. I remember I ate it, and I said it made 6 servings. Ewwwww.
Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:31 pm
Sapphire Faerie wrote:My mother and I tried making a pineapple upside down cake a couple of weeks ago. And she forgot to drain the pineapple juice before adding the pineapples. So the whole thing was realllly moist, and totally fell apart. It still tasted good.
I know someone who did something like that-only they werre making rum cakes and forgot to drain the rum
Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:17 am
Well. I am a horrible chef. So let's choose one of my more favorite very recent food making stories.
I wanted to make orange smoothies, because they sound really good. So I took an orange, peeled off all the skin and started mushing it up in a bowl taking out the seeds and whatnot. Mind you, I have no idea how to make smoothies obviously. So I took all that orange, some ice and put it in a blender. Yeah...that is NOT how you make orange smoothies apparently.
My taste buds still haven't forgiven me.
I wanted to make orange smoothies, because they sound really good. So I took an orange, peeled off all the skin and started mushing it up in a bowl taking out the seeds and whatnot. Mind you, I have no idea how to make smoothies obviously. So I took all that orange, some ice and put it in a blender. Yeah...that is NOT how you make orange smoothies apparently.
My taste buds still haven't forgiven me.
Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:43 am
All I cook is smoothies and pizza. No disasters are really possibly.
My sister, however... well, in that area I have quite a few stories to tell.
My sister, however... well, in that area I have quite a few stories to tell.
Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:58 am
Hmm, whenever I cook its a disaster, but I throw it away and no one really knows about it.
Execpt one time:
Last year, I was making rosoto (or however you spell it) and the recipe called for a little salt. I gave the contaner a shake, but the top came off and all of it went in (and I had just refilled it the day before). I was too lazy to remake it and I was also too embaressed to admit my mistake and I pretended I added the normal amount of salt.
I dont think we've had rosoto in my house since then.
Execpt one time:
Last year, I was making rosoto (or however you spell it) and the recipe called for a little salt. I gave the contaner a shake, but the top came off and all of it went in (and I had just refilled it the day before). I was too lazy to remake it and I was also too embaressed to admit my mistake and I pretended I added the normal amount of salt.
I dont think we've had rosoto in my house since then.
Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:58 am
I often randomly change the amount of one ingredient or another in chocolate chip cookies, but they've always still tasted good, so I guess that doesn't count. =P
The only thing that comes to mind isn't even my own fault. I was making a potato layer at school. It wasn't done at the end of class, so I went to maths, leaving it in the oven to finish cooking. My food teacher then forgot it was in there and switched off the oven. I ended up missing the bus and spilling milk all over my coat. Fun. =P
The only thing that comes to mind isn't even my own fault. I was making a potato layer at school. It wasn't done at the end of class, so I went to maths, leaving it in the oven to finish cooking. My food teacher then forgot it was in there and switched off the oven. I ended up missing the bus and spilling milk all over my coat. Fun. =P