Horrible Cooking Mishaps You've Made or Heard About
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Hmmm...never really screwed anything up cooking personally...always had a knack for it. An aunt of mine, however, was awful. She once tried to boil rice, but did not realize that the rice expanded when cooked, so she filled most of the pot with rice before heating it. Needless to say, the stove and kitchen floor was quite messy within a few minutes.
I tried making myself a quorn curry a year or so ago and cooked the rice in cooking oil (never really made food more complicated than a sandwhich before) then added the sauce and rice, it didn't tase very nice 
I did cheese on toast under the grill..walked away and forgot about it. Came back when there was smoke everywhere to find that it had caught fire. Grabbed grillpan and tossed the whole blazing lot out the back door on to my concrete patio. It was not my finest hour.
Next morning when I realised the grill pan was missing I found there was not a single trace of the fire...something desperate had eaten it..
Oh and my brother tried to cook meringue in school cooking class..forgot to add sugar, or cook it, and served us with a lovely lovely portion of whipped egg white..mmmmm
Next morning when I realised the grill pan was missing I found there was not a single trace of the fire...something desperate had eaten it..
Oh and my brother tried to cook meringue in school cooking class..forgot to add sugar, or cook it, and served us with a lovely lovely portion of whipped egg white..mmmmm
My roomate, freshman year of college made some easy mac but didn't put any water in the bowl, just the noodles. He burnt the shit out of it and the room smelt like shit for over a month. No matter what we did the room would not get rid of that awful smell.
I have too many stories to tell. Let's just say that all my friends and family joke about me being able to burn water.
I have two...
1)
My sister once tried lighting our gas BBQ. She lit the gas vent closest to her first, but the flames were so hot that she couldn't put her arm over it to light the innermost one. While she as trying, the gas reached the first vent, and a huge ball of fire burned off 1/3 of the hair on her head. Once I found out that she was OK, I LOL'ed. To this day, it ranks as one of the funniest facial expressions I've ever seen. No eyebrows = Win!
2)
During cooking class at school, my group made a stew. I forget which kind it was, but nevermind that. Seeing as it was a group effort, I was set to chopping vegetables, and thus I didn't really have any fault in how the monstrous thing ended up tasting. Anyways, the idea was that every group made a meal, and the teacher would sample them all and grade them based on the result in addition to efforts made in the kitchen in general. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted, so after we'd filled our own plates, we tossed the rest of it out of the window, and told the teacher that we'd eaten it all up before she came around to our group to taste it. The window faced a forested area that no one really went to anyways, so we figured it'd be safe. Let's just say that everything went according to plan until a teacher came up from the floor below, telling our teacher how something brown and disgusting had hit an open window in their classroom.
1)
My sister once tried lighting our gas BBQ. She lit the gas vent closest to her first, but the flames were so hot that she couldn't put her arm over it to light the innermost one. While she as trying, the gas reached the first vent, and a huge ball of fire burned off 1/3 of the hair on her head. Once I found out that she was OK, I LOL'ed. To this day, it ranks as one of the funniest facial expressions I've ever seen. No eyebrows = Win!
2)
During cooking class at school, my group made a stew. I forget which kind it was, but nevermind that. Seeing as it was a group effort, I was set to chopping vegetables, and thus I didn't really have any fault in how the monstrous thing ended up tasting. Anyways, the idea was that every group made a meal, and the teacher would sample them all and grade them based on the result in addition to efforts made in the kitchen in general. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted, so after we'd filled our own plates, we tossed the rest of it out of the window, and told the teacher that we'd eaten it all up before she came around to our group to taste it. The window faced a forested area that no one really went to anyways, so we figured it'd be safe. Let's just say that everything went according to plan until a teacher came up from the floor below, telling our teacher how something brown and disgusting had hit an open window in their classroom.
When I was very young (4 or 5 maybe) I really wanted Kool-Aid and my parents kept not making any so one morning I decided to make my own.
Problem was, I didn't seem to realize there was a difference between sugar and flour....
I was persistant, and ruined basically every bit of flour we had in the house. My mom wanted to be mad, but she always raised me to be proactive and to have a mindset that if you want something, do it. After that, she taught me to make Kool-Aid and the rest is history.
Problem was, I didn't seem to realize there was a difference between sugar and flour....
I was persistant, and ruined basically every bit of flour we had in the house. My mom wanted to be mad, but she always raised me to be proactive and to have a mindset that if you want something, do it. After that, she taught me to make Kool-Aid and the rest is history.
down here in the southern US, we always hear about some idiot trying to deep fry a turkey on thanksgiving only to have it explode and end in a fiery blaze with a house burning down.
Oh the stories I have.
In my Baking I course in college a woman was making biscotti and put in 5 ounces of salt instead of .5 ounces. She left the class soon after.
A friend of mine in my college Baking II course was making whipped cream, whipped it for too long and made butter.
In my High School international foods class, some of my other classmates were trying to make a cheese sauce. They melted butter in a saucepan, then added some milk and then the cheese. They noticed it wasn't thick enough, then added more cheese, then more cheese. Then some heavy cream, then all the cheese that was left in the class. Can anyone guess what they did wrong?
In my Baking I course in college a woman was making biscotti and put in 5 ounces of salt instead of .5 ounces. She left the class soon after.
A friend of mine in my college Baking II course was making whipped cream, whipped it for too long and made butter.
In my High School international foods class, some of my other classmates were trying to make a cheese sauce. They melted butter in a saucepan, then added some milk and then the cheese. They noticed it wasn't thick enough, then added more cheese, then more cheese. Then some heavy cream, then all the cheese that was left in the class. Can anyone guess what they did wrong?
One of my flatmates tried to cook steaks and then managed to set his eyebrows on fire. (I don't quite know how he managed it, and he won't tell us). He now cooks wearing his full face motorbike helmet and gloves. So everytime he cooks its like watching a domesticated power ranger.
I've seen the 'metal in the microwave' thing happen on 4 separate occasions, twice by the same person.
That person also once heated a frying pan full of oil - and nothing else. When it began to sizzle and smoke, he proclaimed, "it's okay guys! I've got this," whereupon he removed the pan from the stove... and then immediately replaced.
This person also tried to heat up leftovers straight out of their Tupperware... using the stove.
This person also once fried an entire pound of bacon... and ate it for breakfast. He then fried a second pound of bacon... and ate it for lunch. He finished the day by - you guessed it- frying a third pound of bacon and having that for supper.
This person also once cooked some very greasy noodles in a pot, then brought the pot up to his room... where it stayed until we moved out of the house.
I no longer live with this person.
That person also once heated a frying pan full of oil - and nothing else. When it began to sizzle and smoke, he proclaimed, "it's okay guys! I've got this," whereupon he removed the pan from the stove... and then immediately replaced.
This person also tried to heat up leftovers straight out of their Tupperware... using the stove.
This person also once fried an entire pound of bacon... and ate it for breakfast. He then fried a second pound of bacon... and ate it for lunch. He finished the day by - you guessed it- frying a third pound of bacon and having that for supper.
This person also once cooked some very greasy noodles in a pot, then brought the pot up to his room... where it stayed until we moved out of the house.
I no longer live with this person.