Comments on: Share Your Kitchen Mishaps

By: beverlyb

beverlyb — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:54:31 +0000

Several years ago I was making a pie where you put everything in a blender, then pour into the pie plate. It makes it’s own crust and everything. It was just about full, when I could tell it was leaking at the bottom of the glass container. Before I could do anything, the bottom fell out of the glass container and all of the ingredients with it. I had glass, and milk, and coconut, and eggs splattered all over the floor, counter top, my recipe book and me! It took me a year before I could make that pie again, but I have and it is still a good recipe!

By: Bonnie from Louisiana

Bonnie from Louisiana — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:14:42 +0000

My son was in High School at the time, back in the late 90’s. He asked me to back some cookies for a fund raiser they were having for their Prom. Sure, no problem. What kind would you like me to make? Oh, those Oatmeal Scotchies you make would be great!.. Ok.. Got everything together, made the dough, scooped the amts on to one sheet, put it sheet in the oven. Was filling up the second sheet, when someting caught my eye.. The inside of my oven was filled with flames. On closer inspection, what used to be neetly placed mounds of cookie dough had turned into this melted mass of goo that was dripping off the sheet and onto the bottom of my oven, and then catching fire. Looked lovely really, like looking through a glass fireplace screen at a lovely fire. Tasted the dough, and realized that i had not only fogotten to put in the oatmeal, but had only added about half the flour. Was enough to resemble cookie dough, but not enough to withstand the heat for baking. We laughed untill we were crying.. And what a mess to clean.. I stll tell that story.

By: Cathy Mackay

Cathy Mackay — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:08:18 +0000

I’ve had quite a few disasters in my life, but there is one that my family love to bring up time after time – it always provides a lot of laughter. I cooked the most fabulous beef mince curry which the whole family thought was delicious – hey they did, no really they did love it – it wasn’t till much later my mother asked me which mince I had used. After telling her I had used the mince that was in the blue packet, she informed that I had used the cat mince!!!! Of course all the complements went out the window and everyone was going ooh, yuk. Hey, but it wasn’t really my fault – my mother didn’t tell me which one was the cat mince and which was for people. I’ve improved since then – mostly – but I still have the odd disaster

By: Sid's Sea Palm Cooking

Sid's Sea Palm Cooking — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:16:30 +0000

I’ve had a few, ummm, adventures in the kitchen. The first time I roasted a turkey and didn’t get the paper bag full of giblets and heart out of the neck cavity (I didn’t know they hid them there), and discovered them as I carved the turkey in front of some friends who I was trying to impress. I search every cavity on the bird now. Have never found a bag hidden in the neck cavity since.
A few months ago, just before a houseful of guests arrived for our monthly Tapas gathering, I placed a ziploc bag full of seasoned flour right onto a hot element on the stove. And when I realized I’d done so, I jerked the bag off in a hurry and managed to spread seasoned flour all over the freshly wiped stove, the still damp freshly mopped floor and myself in my black shirt and pants. And the lovely burnt plastic smell in the air did not help. I managed to get it mostly cleaned up just as the first guests were arriving.
A memorable evening, but not the right way.

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 03:47:39 +0000

We were making bacon wrapped jalepenos for New Years eve a couple of years ago. Stuffed them with cream cheese, wrapped them in bacon and popped them in the 450 degree gas oven. 15 minutes later we realized we had used a completely flat cookie sheet when the inside of the oven caught on fire, filling the house with smoke. No biggie, really. Just leave the door closed and shut the oven off until it goes out, so that’s what we did. Went to clean the oven, caught on fire AGAIN because of all the bacon grease in the bottom. The topper, ended up in the ER with my 1 year old with a case of croup because of the smoke inhalation:(

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 01:58:15 +0000

When I was younger but it is worth noting just so no one else makes this mistake! haha I used corn syrup instead of vegetable oil for a pie crust….um yaaaaa hard as a rock!

By: Teresa R.

Teresa R. — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:48:57 +0000

There are so many but the most recent happened last week. I was baking a cake for my daughter’s birthday and an earring fell into the batter. I didn’t know the earring was missing until my daughter cut the cake. The earring was In the very first piece of cake!

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:10:18 +0000

I made heavenly shortbread cookies and a hot chocolate mix to give away for Christmas presents, be glad you didn’t receive them! Both used powdered sugar which I was out of but in my Vita-Mix blender I can make powdered sugar out of regular sugar and cornstarch, which I did. But I did find the gasket that fits between the Vita-Mix canister and plastic cover was missing. No problem, it was old and cracked and I had a new one waiting in the drawer.

I made the cookies and noticed small bits of a rubbery material in them, a puzzle! I made some of the hot chocolate and there were bits of a rubbery material floating in the hot chocolate, a conundrum indeed!! To make a long, confusing story short, the rubber gasket must have fallen in the bottom of the Vita-Mix and I ground it up with the sugar!! Thank heavens I had not given any of them away!!!

By: Bitty

Bitty — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 23:39:45 +0000

The fall I was planning my wedding, I had a large stockpot full of chicken and dumplings on the stove one day. I’d been extremely moody (attempting to find a birth control that didn’t make me into a raging Godzilla) and my roommates were excited for chicken and dumplings for supper.

The dumplings weren’t cooking as they should and I…sigh…I turned up the heat.

The bottom scorched, of course (cheap stockpot) and the entire batch tasted of a horrible, burnt flavor.

One of the few times in my life I Lost It. I cried, I yelled, I threw my oven mitt, and I checked myself into a local B & B for the night (not kidding).

Which begs the question: what’s funnier, the mishap, or the reaction?

By: Pammy

Pammy — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:43:16 +0000

I forgot about the time I was making fried ravioli and the mercury thermometer broke in the pan. I thought the fumes were going to kill me.