Your greatest cooking failure :D

[Fireside_Hindu]

I was excited about making a gingerbread sculpture this past Christmas and thought I would be super ambitious by making 3-D rounded sculpture but using tin foil and metal mesh you can buy at a craft store. I couldn't imagine why no one had ever thought of it! (because I'm so ahead of my time)

I was going to make a gingerbread Angel for my mother in law. Flowing skirt, wavy hair -the whole deal. I put my well crafted, perfectly curved and in the round gingerbread sculpture in the oven...

And it just melted into a puddle of gingerbread smoosh. *shakes fist at the sky* Curse you gravity!

:camp:

 

[Benst]

I don't want to say my worst... it still brings a tear to my eye...

But a recent calamity involved some Melton Mowbray pork Pies I made from scratch. I made the pastry, made the filling, got all the minipies set up and put into the oven. This was my second attempt at making them. So, I'm making a batch of seven small pies, as opposed to the recipe which is one big pie. I leave them in a bit too long and the pastry burns slightly.

It's okay, they're not burned. So a good melton Mowbray is determined by the gelatine. I make it and pour it into cooled down pie, but it seems to just come out the bottom. Great.

Then when I cut into one the next day... the pastry was too thin all along. Still tasted okay, but were not as good as my first batch.

 

[Secret Chief]

A cake I forgot to put eggs in?

A tray of flapjacks that took over the oven and chased after the cats???

 

[Smart_Guy]

I'm not a good cook. I can barely prepare instant noodles!

Don't even know how to boil eggs!

I once tried to come up with my own dish. I boiled eggs with no crust with water (but not mixed) thinking the contents will solidify alone leaving the water completely out of it, and added salt and some spices I didn't even know what they were, but I tried to identify them as pepper and cumin, and in big amounts!

The result was an abomination and I hated my self that time after tasting it!

I once boiled unpeeled shrimps with thyme! I mistook thyme for pepper

The taste was funny :areyoucra

 

[methylatedghosts]

It sounds like someone needs a handy dandy timer

As it happens, the oven comes equipped with one of those! It's just that this was one of those 1-in-100 occasions where it reaches the end, stops the timing part, but fails to set off the very loud ring... I've had a couple of close calls with this oven. Baking in my kitchen is always an adventure!

 

[YmirGF]

As it happens, the oven comes equipped with one of those! It's just that this was one of those 1-in-100 occasions where it reaches the end, stops the timing part, but fails to set off the very loud ring... I've had a couple of close calls with this oven. Baking in my kitchen is always an adventure!

Hehe. That's why I use a portable timer. It's very useful when working in the yard.

 

[Falvlun]

So, I tried to make my great auntie Shirley's strawberry pie.

It turned into the evil pink slime controlled by a psycho painting:

 

[DreadFish]

So, I tried to make my great auntie Shirley's strawberry pie.

It turned into the evil pink slime controlled by a psycho painting:

That's excellent. Also, my grandmother has that same dish on the left.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Mine are pancakes. Such a simple thing to make, yet I can never get them right. They are either too thick and don't get done, they are sometimes burnt, and they taste awful and floury, although I have gotten better at that. I can make everything else for breakfast, but a pancake is something I am lucky if I can get just one good one out of a bowl of batter.
I also made this Asian sauce once that was made with corn syrup, and without really thinking about what it was that I was making, I let it cook for too long and realized what was happening when the bubbling began to change and the sauce was in the early stages of threading from the spoon I was mixing it with. It turned into a very thick, almost taffy like sauce that was served on chicken and rice, and what was left in the skillet turned into hard candy.

 

[sacredmeow]

8 years old and tried to bake a cake based on a recipe I found in one of my mom's cookbooks. I got baking soda and baking powder confused... an unfortunate mistake.

 

[psychoslice]

I use be a baker, and I forgot to put salt in about a thousand loves of bread, that is the dough, had to chuck it all out, It was so embarrassing, but thank god I wasn't the only one who did that lol.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I use be a baker, and I forgot to put salt in about a thousand loves of bread, that is the dough, had to chuck it all out, It was so embarrassing, but thank god I wasn't the only one who did that lol.

It's not too uncommon for me to forget an ingredient. I've had some funny textured cookies for forgetting the baking soda.

 

[RLightning]

I put eggs inside my microwave.. the agony...

 

[Tumah]

When I was, maybe 14, I decided to make my parents a dinner for their anniversary, with very little prior cooking experience.

So I made this loaf of bread in the shape of a heart. We probably could have chipped the table with it. I'm sure someone out there is using it to prop up an old car in place of a cinder block.

Well, my father still tells me that the onion soup was good.

I put eggs inside my microwave.. the agony...

I do that when I'm in a rush to make eggs. It's not great, but its not horrible.

Well ok it is horrible. But its edible. Almost.

 

[Desert Snake]

I put eggs inside my microwave.. the agony...

Works great, you just have to do it right.

 

[Desert Snake]

I do that when I'm in a rush to make eggs. It's not great, but its not horrible.

Well ok it is horrible. But its edible. Almost.

Shouldn't be bad, I think you're getting the time wrong, may be the container as well/

 

[Tumah]

Shouldn't be bad, I think you're getting the time wrong, may be the container as well/

I just throw it in a plastic bowl and weight until either the eggs stop puffing up or the bowl starts melting. Whichever comes first.

 

[Desert Snake]

I just throw it in a plastic bowl and weight until either the eggs stop puffing up or the bowl starts melting. Whichever comes first.

Haha yeah I've ruined eggs in the microwave as well,

 

[zenzero]

Friend crossfire,

Talking Your greatest cooking failure

Failure in cooking? me?
how can it be when I never cook?
Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joking but seriously do not need to cook on any regular basis but once in a while do so for enjoyment or a survivor cook. In such cases who complains? no praise too!
Well since its about failure, will pass!

Love & rgds

 

[kashmir]

Put a homemade pizza in the oven and forgot about it due to drinking beer and taking a couple purple footballs.
A couple hours later, a friend was like,
"the pizza!!!!!!"

Looked like a pure black Frisbee.