Kitchen

[ECBG]

Yesterday, I worked, drove to the other side of the county to get DIL's Christmas from a Guild craftsman, then went to the grocery store.

We had leftovers for dinner, and I started on the fudge.  I was rolling along, wishing I could manufacture time, even though I had carefully timed and planned all I have to do and BOOM!  There sat the evaporated milk!  I was to the cooking stage where it couldn't be added.  

SHOT DOWN!

Cooking disaster you'd like to share?

We might as well all laugh together!!!

[Desertdi]

I would finish it and see what happens.  You might have "invented" something NEW..........

[ECBG]

@Desertdi 

Thanks, with my background in chemistry, I knew it was a "train wreck"!

[kitcat51]

I made lasagna & forgot to put cheese between the layers, of course it happened the first time I made dinner for my finance parents...his mom asked me, Oh my, what happened here dear? 

[chickenbutt]

Oh no!      BTDT in a few ways over the decades.

One thing I did, just some point in the last few years I'm pretty sure, was making pumpkin pies.

Aside from blind-baking the crusts, the first thing I do is mix up the dry ingredients in a small bowl and put that aside.

Then I start on the wet ingredients, it all ends up together, etc.  Well, on that day it didn't.  I totally forgot to put in the dry ingredients, put them in the oven, was cleaning up, and found the bowl of dry ingredients.

D'OH!    Well, I pulled them out of the oven, poured it all into a bowl, added in the dry, and back into the crusts.   I guess the good thing is that I don't even remember how well they came out but I just remember that they did come out well enough to use so I guess they were ok.

That was a drag because it got all over the outer crust parts so I had to clean that off as well as possible.

[AuntG]

DH and I decided to make toffee treats together. It's a simple recipe using saltine crackers as the base. His job was to stir the sugar/butter mixture and let it boil gently for three minutes. I decided not to micro-manage him and did other things as he stirred and stirred. Well the mixture turned almost black instead of pale brown. When I discussed it with him later, he said he didn't  realize those little bubbles around the edge of pan were part of the boiling process. He thought it had to be a full, rolling boil. We're making another batch tomorrow.

[Venezia]

I made a seafood dish, as a relatively new cook, that called for Tabasco Sauce.  Something I'd never used before.  I didn't think anything was coming out of that tiny little bottle, so I just kept shaking it (the recipe called for two drops) until I finally said to heck with it.

Can I say inedible?  Burn your mouth off blazing hot?  I've never used Tabasco Sauce again.  But I did learn why that plastic stopper was in the neck of that small bottle.  

[homedecor1]

The one that comes to mind as the biggest disaster ever was years ago making saltine cracker toffee.

As @AuntG stated in her post the "toffee" mixture needs to be constantly stirred & it's extremely hot in temperature.

Well, I pulled the spatula out of the drawer and started stirring.  Then slowly I noticed something was wrong - the spatula was MELTED into the mixture😲😲😲only the handle was left🤦‍♀️

I then realized I used a "plastic" one  vs. the "silicone" one🤦‍♀️😡

Oh my, what a mess!  that was the worse one I can think of, but, there have been more in my 50+ years of cooking😉

[Leggett28]

I made tuna casserole and forgot the tuna.

[Azcowgirl]

A week ago, I made pumpkin walnut chocolate chip miffins .The recipe called for a half cup of oil. The oil I used was an old one that had been in the back of the spice cupboard, that I didn't realize was rancid . 😝 It sure ruined the muffins, that rancid oil taste.....blech. In the trash it went.