Kitchen

[novamc1]

@Harpa

Is that a serious question?  Good grief...........I've earned top honors for kitchen bloopers.

The ones that make me the maddest are when I accidentally dump a whole lot of black pepper on something when I meant to give it a sprinkle or two, or I unintentionally double the amount of water to cook some rice.........or I could go on from here.  But you get the idea.

I can be dangerous in a kitchen.

[house_cat]

My perspective might be a little different regarding "disasters".  I tend to think of them as trial and error, and yes... there have been many errors. 

I can't recall any that happened when I had guests, but my kids would sometimes say, "It's good Mom, but don't make it again". 🤣

I do cringe when I think back on some of the dinners I served my mom and dad and my in-laws when I was a newbie in the kitchen.  I can imagine the conversations they had in the car going home.

[house_cat]

I just thought of something, though it can hardly be called "cooking".  I decided to serve Kool-Aid at my son's 2nd birthday party.  Please don't judge me... I was otherwise a good and caring mom, lol.  Anyway, I was surprised that all the older kids hated it and drank water instead.  When DH tried it he asked how much sugar I had added.  Sugar?  I was supposed to add sugar?

[novamc1]

@house_cat

I remember my first attempt at cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my parents in my new apartment.  The turkey was seriously undercooked.  Parents were polite, but I could sense the undertones of their amusement.

[Scooby Doo]

I had a doozie.  Couple of years ago I was canning tomatoes.  I put 6 quarts of tomatoes in the canner on top of the stove to boil.  Then I went downstairs and turned on my computer to study for a test.  I got so involved in studying that I completely forgot about the tomatoes.

I heard a loud noise and thought What was that?  I went running up the stairs and got to the edge of the kitchen when it exploded again.  The pot boiled out all the water.  So I was cleaning the kitchen until 4 am.  Tomatoes and broken glass were all over the cabinets, walls, ceiling, floor,  light fixture, behind the appliances.  I took down the vent over the stove and threw it in the garbage.  Looked like a massacre happened in my kitchen.

I haven't canned in my kitchen since.  Now I put the canner on a table out my back door and run an extension cord to a portable burner. 

[tiny 2]

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@Hoovermom wrote:

Yes, everytime i turn on the oven!!

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@Hoovermom, Of course you know that it is the oven!!!!

[ScarletDove]

Years ago my MIL left out the sugar in the pumpkin pie she made for Thanksgiving....it truly was awful!

[ScarletDove]

I am a baker, have experimented with many ingredients and baked many different kinds of breads in my years.  Love to try lots of different ingredients and grains, and needless to say, I have had many failures.  Mostly poor balance of ingredients, outdated ingredients, not enough or old yeast.   I have also killed the yeast with too warm liquid....

[ScarletDove]

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@Scooby Doo wrote:

I had a doozie.  Couple of years ago I was canning tomatoes.  I put 6 quarts of tomatoes in the canner on top of the stove to boil.  Then I went downstairs and turned on my computer to study for a test.  I got so involved in studying that I completely forgot about the tomatoes.

I heard a loud noise and thought What was that?  I went running up the stairs and got to the edge of the kitchen when it exploded again.  The pot boiled out all the water.  So I was cleaning the kitchen until 4 am.  Tomatoes and broken glass were all over the cabinets, walls, ceiling, floor,  light fixture, behind the appliances.  I took down the vent over the stove and threw it in the garbage.  Looked like a massacre happened in my kitchen.

I haven't canned in my kitchen since.  Now I put the canner on a table out my back door and run an extension cord to a portable burner. 

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@Scooby Doo

Ouch, that was nasty.  Have not done it with glass jar canning but have boiling eggs, ran out of water and they started to explode......messy and lots of work cleaning the pan!

[novamc1]

@ScarletDove

I had a pan of boiled eggs run dry one day.  The  explosion, plus what it did to the paint on the walls near the stove, was pretty amazing....like a science experiment gone bad.

And maybe I could tell the story about the old days when DH liked deep-fried chicken made at home, and  the huge can of hot Crisco grease that managed to slip out of my hands, and the major cleanup that followed, and then what happened when the same can of grease slipped out of my hands again, and the more hours spent cleaning that up..................

And to think, the OP asked if anyone ever has cooking

disasters?

As some might guess, that chicken-frying incident was the last time any fried chicken was ever cooked in our house again.  No Crisco ever used for anything, either.  (Back then, we didn't even know it was poison in a can.)