Your biggest cooking disaster

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Hamdingers		#41	[-]
Posts: 6898 (05/12/08 3:32 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	No, THIS is the Spawn:
darlingal		#42	[-]
Posts: 8466 (05/12/08 3:33 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My mom makes fried spaghetti. She heats oil and then fries uncooked spaghetti till it's brown and salts it. "That was their snack as kids because they were poor and walked four miles uphill to school......ect."
BlackCatTux		#43	[-]
Posts: 2207 (05/12/08 3:34 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I witnessed a cooking disaster in one of my first apartments. I am not a cook and was not a participant. One of my roommates wanted to make something that required a small amount of cornstarch. A co-worker had given her the recipe and provided her with a small jar of cornstarch. She put the leftover cornstarch in the cupboard. Several weeks later another roommate ended up destroying the top of a can of baking powder she was trying to open. Once she finally got the top off, she put the baking powder in a jar. Several weeks later one roommate wanted to make a pineapple upside down cake from scratch. The following convo ensued: Roommate #1 (from the kitchen) "I know we bought baking powder. What happened to it?" Roommate #2 (from a bedroom) "I messed up the can when I was opening it, so I had to put the powder in a jar. It's in the cupboard over the bar." The resulting "cake" looked like a pan of yellow volcanoes. A mandatory meeting of all roommates was held in the kitchen. The full Investigation revealed the problem to be 2 unlabled jars of white pwder in the same cabinet. Money in our household was tight. We had all been raised by mothers who were thrifty and not wasteful. We decided that the pineapple slices and cherries could be salvaged, so we sliced them off the yellow sludge and had that for dessert. Last Edited By: BlackCatTux 05/12/08 3:49 PM. Edited 1 times.
Buggles73		#44	[-]
Posts: 25687 (05/12/08 3:36 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I opened a box of Kraft Dinner and poured it into the boiling water without removing the powdered cheese packet first. Pretty much the worst day of my life.
Dharmit		#45	[-]
Posts: 7385 (05/12/08 3:40 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Buggles! I love that avi. That will always be "Buggles" to me. My sister saw it once when I was showing her my profile here and she said, "I bet that guy is fun!" I told her.. "I have no idea."
Buggles73		#46	[-]
Posts: 25688 (05/12/08 3:42 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'm really not that fun at all.
r		#47	[-]
Posts: 2347 (05/12/08 3:44 PM) Registered loser Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Until something explodes you haven't really survived a cooking disaster. A can of sweetened condensed milk left to boil in a pot of water and forgotten. It literally exploded and made a mess like you would not believe. A year later we were still finding places it reached that we didn't know about.
PatadyBag		#48	[-]
Posts: 5221 (05/12/08 3:49 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	When I was a kid I was chilling in the kitchen while my mom was making cookies. She handed me a bag of nasty old brown sugar and asked me to soften some of it up in the microwave. I put the entire bag in the microwave. With the twisty-tie still on. Fifteen seconds later the brown sugar was on fire. I haven't tried cooking shit since then.
HoboKitty		#49	[-]
Posts: 589 (05/12/08 3:51 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Well, if you want to talk explosions....when I was 15 I decided to bake a cake one afternoon and accidentally turned on the gas in the oven for a good few minutes before lighting it (thankfully I just had to press a button instead of sticking a hand in there with a lit match), and so a hoard of flames burst open the oven door and nearly got me. Nearly. Oh, and there was also the time I put a frozen Capri-Sun in the microwave, but I managed to press the stop button once sparks started flying. I really don't know how I've lasted this long.
jessica has spoken		#50	[-]
Posts: 6182 (05/12/08 3:59 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I used too much baking soda in cookies once and they ended up tasting like chocolate chip cheerios. I have never blown anything up. Oooh! Although, when I was a kid, I put a frozen pizza in the oven sitting on top of the cardboard box. IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE THAT ON THE STOVE WHEN IT WAS DONE. I didn't know. My mom tells everyone I know that story whenever she gets the chance.
BlackCatTux		#51	[-]
Posts: 2209 (05/12/08 4:10 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yeah, explosions can be pretty stupendous. When I worked at Coke, I was friends with one of the chemists. Somebody came up with an idea for a frozen Coke "sludgie." It worked pretty well in the freezer labs at work. But they knew that there is a lot of variability in consumer's fridges. My friend was persuaded to be one of the at-home testers. So she took the test can home and put in her freezer like they told her to do. She and her roommate waited the prescribed amount of time and then decided to test the product. They spent the rest of the evening cleaning the ceiling of their apartment kitchen. Now you know why you've never seen a frozen can of Coke in your grocer's freezer.
ashley madison		#52	[-]
Posts: 7227 (05/12/08 4:19 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	my first pot roast- I still have the pic- I didn't know it had to cook so long
Axle the Bulldog		#53	[-]
Posts: 195 (05/12/08 4:25 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	A friend of mine was making a Croatian dessert and when she grabbed the pot of boiling water, it slipped and splashed on her face and arms, then she dropped it of course and it splashed her on her legs. She ended up in the hospital with second degree burns. I've managed to smoke the house with fried oil and garlic (for a soup) because I left it too long on the stove. Note: If you're cooking, don't leave the room and start something else.
GameShowMyAss		#54	[-]
Posts: 3516 (05/12/08 4:30 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Fried fish grease fire. Drop ceilings melt fast. ::bubabu
smartguy24		#55	[-]
Posts: 2154 (05/12/08 4:36 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	jessica has spoken wrote: Oooh! Although, when I was a kid, I put a frozen pizza in the oven sitting on top of the cardboard box. I did this once...but it was anything but a disaster...the pizza turned out delicious for some strange reason. The crust was nice and soft and doughy...go figure.
Althea Xegony		#56	[-]
Posts: 89 (05/12/08 6:31 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I was only PART of this horrible disaster, and I still get remarks about. First, a lil history. My grandmother's banana pudding was famous in the town I grew up. One very hot summer's day, (no central air in her house btw) granny announced my two uncles were comin in from Georgia, and she wanted to make a banana pudding. No problem granny! I'll help. I was 15 at the time? Anyways, the banana pudding came out perfect. Time to do the meringue. Uh oh! The blender is broken, so granny said she would do it by hand. HUH? By hand? So she breaks the eggs then tells me to go in the BLUE container and get a cup of sugar out. Only add it in as she instructs. So here this big old lady is, beating the hell of the eggs by and, sweat dripping down her forehead. I go to the cannister, hmmm it's green, not blue. I open it, ahhh! Blue cup in the container, not blue cannister. I add it in ever so carefully as she instructs, and it's a masterpiece. The most beautiful meringue you've ever seen. No one could touch it. Uncle no. 1 gets there, takes pleasure in getting the first piece, comments how beautiful it is, and throws a shovelfull into his mouth. Then spits it right out. Now then, what was in that green container that looked like sugar? Not just SALT...but CANNING SALT. Twentyseven years later, the family still calls me Briney.
leeter		#57	[-]
Posts: 2298 (05/12/08 6:39 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Cut through the cooking tin holding a turkey. Fat drained out into the stove. Unfun.
Poverteeflatz		#58	[-]
Posts: 14509 (05/12/08 6:49 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Hamdingers wrote: The other one was my stepson was doing something with one of those Pyrex dishes, some funky desert thing, and he put some sort of liquid in it when it was too hot and it just exploded. Admittedly, that pretty cool. I just did that day before yesterday. I cooked a pork loin in it and transfered it to a plate and put the dish in the sink with hot water running over it. I cracked into a million pieces.
Tres Gay		#59	[-]
Posts: 3307 (05/12/08 6:49 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I've set kitchens on fire countless times. I never "try a new dish" unless I have pizza money in case things don't work out. Ask my mom about her lasagna
mellydramatic		#60	[-]
Posts: 1291 (05/12/08 7:17 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My mother wasn't much of a cook, and thank the Lord above that she didn't feel compelled to share her slight knowledge with me. The memorable dishes in our house were brown banana jello, and the spaghetti sauce/chili/goulash (three consecutive nights) that basically were hamburger and tomato sauce with beans added on chili night, and cooked elbow macaroni the third night. My first year of marriage nearly killed Mr. Melly. One of the memorable dishes was chicken and rice. I thought all rice was minute rice. There were dental bills associated with that one. Then there was the big family dinner with lasagna. Although Mr. had lived in the apartment for nearly a year, apparently he was unaware that the oven wouldn't stay lit. I have memories of my 6'5" father laying on the floor relighting the lower burner each time the oven temp clicked off. Driest.red.shit.ever. Oh, and gravy looks deceptively easy to make.

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