Do you have a food disaster story?

[Fern]

Here's one that got written up in the local newspaper, complete with a reenacted photo ofme adn SO, around Thanksgiving time.

I was having a small dinner party with another couple. I wanted to make an impression as it was the first time they were over my house. On the menu was cream of carrot soup, a recipe i hadn't tried before. It called for cooking the blended ingredients together on the stovetop, then transferring it to a blender to puree. I poured it in the blender, then turned it on, and the soup was by this time scalding hot, instantly heating up the rubber blender top, so i let go of it and of courses the top went flying off, the orange soup coated my walls and ceiling. What an embarrassment. We did salvage some of the soup that was in the blender and it was really delicisous!

But i'll never forget that disaster!

[boefixepa]

Oh my...What a mess.

I was baby sitting once at someone's house and went to make a baby bottle from formula. I didn't get the top on right and when I shook it ... oh that is what your story reminded me off. Milk everywhere!! Ceiling, wall, floor....and I still had a screaming baby in my arms and few others running around....not a good night

[PrincessPerky]

oops!

I did the blender disaster with hot broth and flour in a 'shaker' apparently you are supposed to use cold water! (that was the first time I tried to make gravy in a shaker and the last for quite some time!)

[robex]

We had new friends over for dinner one night, and I was making deep fried wontons. I used the same old cooking pot that I always fried stuff in, even though dh had told me more than once that is wasn't a good idea to use it...yup... you guessed it! A good old fashioned kitchen fire in full force--not one of my proudest moments!

[marjorie]

I made stuffing for my first turkey, and since what I liked was different from what my then boyfriend liked, his was placed in a bowl, in the oven. I didn't know it would cook so much more quickly than what was in the bird... Do you know that stuffing, cooked long enough is strong enough to dent walls? :0

[cschin4]

I decided to cook bacon on the grill! Put a pound of bacon on without foil, next thing you know, large grease fire! Hubby comes outside and asks if I need help. I say, no, everything is under control as I wait for the bacon to burn itself out! I felt like a doofus!

[allyourworth]

I didn't make this...my son did when he first left home and lived with a few other guys.

He made 15 bean soup. He didn't realize one packet of those dry beans make a lot so he used several packages of them. Needless to say... they had enough soup to last a year!
LOL!

[Bookie]

LOL Someone (who will be nameless) made a similar discovery the first time he cooked rice.

When all else fails, read the directions.

[CheaplyClever]

I have two. Years ago my first husband decided to make chocolate milk shakes. He put everything in the blender and turned it on- without the lid. You guessed it, another blender disaster. Chocolate goop all over the ceiling, walls and floor.

I have another. I wanted chicken soup so I boiled a chicken. When it came time to take the chicken out of the pot to cool I decided to get "clever" and used the collander. I didn't think to put a bowl or pot under the collander and watched that beautiful broth run straight down the kitchen sink........

[lrjohnson]

Many years ago. Chicken carcass. Pot of water. Clever idea to boil to make a nice broth. Overnight on at the very lowest possible temperature. Didn't end up cooking it, just accelerated it rotting/decaying.....in the morning the kitchen had the funkiest smell. Just ghastly.

[sakigt]

Wanting to save money instead of going to Taco Bell, my boyfriend and I bought the ingredients for tacos.

We put the hard shells in the toaster oven and according to package instructions they would take 5 minutes to heat up. 1 minute later I see smoke coming out of the oven. I opened it up and *poof* the oxygen hit it and it turned into a full blaze. I paniced and grabbed the nearest powder I could find (since water would be a big no no)...unfortuantly when the sugar hit the fire, it carmalized and THAT lit on fire as well.

My boyfriend calmly walked into my closet and grabbed the fire extinguisher (which I forgot about) and put it out. Charcoal, caramel and yellow dust was EVERYWHERE. I just looked at the mess, grabbed the keys, and drove to Taco Bell.

I left a note for my roomates that said "Dont Ask" and left it on the counter. It was pretty amusing.

[PrincessPerky]

Sakigt, sounds like your boyfirend was nice and levelheaded

I started a fire in my MILs oven when trying to make lunch last trip home. I put frozen breaded chicken on a tray in teh oven and came back 15 minutes later to a fire in the oven. I turned the oven off and got the kids out calling DH to take care of the fire...

And now I never want to go back there again! I still don't know if they had to get a new oven or not...

[boefixepa]

Oh my! I've only had a small grease fire in a pan as a 15 year old. Started screaming, my dad can in and calmly put a lid on the pan, no more fire......I realized I over reacted.

Taco Bell all the way!!

Talk about MIL story...OMG

[Evad]

Slightly different but I was down at the atlantis in the bahamas recently and ordered the feature of the evening and a bottle of wine. My waiter almost made it to my table when he tripped and fell. I watched helpless as my $70 steak and $300 wine fell to the floor. Such a waste but they were nice enough to comp the meal to me after that.

[CheaplyClever]

Originally Posted by Evad

Slightly different but I was down at the atlantis in the bahamas recently and ordered the feature of the evening and a bottle of wine. My waiter almost made it to my table when he tripped and fell. I watched helpless as my $70 steak and $300 wine fell to the floor. Such a waste but they were nice enough to comp the meal to me after that.

There is certainly nothing frugal to your story!

[rusty@saving]

jacuzzi and jello....enough said,LOL

[abowers]

Originally Posted by Evad

Slightly different but I was down at the atlantis in the bahamas recently and ordered the feature of the evening and a bottle of wine. My waiter almost made it to my table when he tripped and fell. I watched helpless as my $70 steak and $300 wine fell to the floor. Such a waste but they were nice enough to comp the meal to me after that.

I would expect them to... it was their mistake, not yours.

[Kris10Leigh]

For us it was the Thanksgiving of 2004. For some reason, in my head, it was all about the gravy. The entire dinner centered all around the perfect gravy I was going to make. (I had watched a few too many episodes of "Good Eats". DH cut the bag that the finished turkey was in and a good portion of the wonderful juice spilled out onto the stove top. Then, after the turkey was removed and all the turkey goodness remained in the pan, DH lifted the pan to pour it into a second pan, and in slow motion before my eyes we had turkey juice and grease all over my kitchen floor. Any thoughts on how slippery that is? And how hard to clean up?

[toys]

I often cook without (directly using) recipes. I enjoy creating totally new dishes... by incorporating aspects of a variety of recipes. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, however...

This one time I was trying to make something chocolately, something similar to a brownie, but healthier (being hypoglycemic I avoid sugar and carbs like the plague). I forget whatall I used, but I know it involved whole wheat flour and cocoa. After an hour in the oven, it still hadn't harden, so I let it go for another half hour, and still nothing changed. It remained just as liquid as when I started. Finally after 2 hours, I gave up, decided a liquid confection might be just as tasty. I left it out to cool, for about fifteen minutes. It finally hardened... to a solid inedible brick. No amount of scraping, scrubbing, and soaking would save that pan. And no, even the dog wouldn't touch it.