What is your worst mistake in the kitchen?

Question

Mine was over filling a cobbler, and it spilled into the oven, I wasn't watching, and it got smoky, smelly, and a real mess...

Answer 1

I was making coffee with the old glass coffee pot that you put on the stove. I added the coffee but forgot to fill it with water and it exploded on the stove.

Answer 2

I have experienced the worst mistake I made the last time
when I was in the kitchen cooking a meal for my family on
a Sunday noon lunch.
It was a tragedy, I would say. I was deep frying some nice and
juicy chicken pieces and was almost complete in the cooking,
when suddenly, my cat playfully jumped and knocked into a
small stool which came to my direction hitting my ankle. I
suddenly slipped and in the process, my hand hit and toppled
the frying pan with the hot boiling oil splashing down onto
my upper body. Can you imagine the excruciating pain the
hot boiling oil had done to me? I was quickly taken into the
hospital at the A&E section for immediate treatment for oil
burnts. Today, there are scars of oil burnt on my body and
arms. Anyway, life must carry on.

Answer 3

My worst mistake involved an apple pie.

My mom bought me this thing called a pie dart. It is used to roll out the perfect pie crust. It comes with platic tools for meauring. The one tool looks like a double sided spoon. One side is really large-cup size. The other size is small and is teaspoon size. Well, I was readding the directions and it said to fill the "scootea" half way with salt to add to the mixture for the crust. I thought this spoon was the scootea, not realizing that it meant the smaller side. Because of this confusion I ended up putting a 1/2cup salt in my crust mixture rather than 1/2 tsp. I remember thinking that seemed like a lot of salt. But I didn't realize the mistake until we all ate the pie. YUCK!!!

Answer 4

Funny you should ask! I got home from a bar one night and decided I was hungry. I got some hot dogs out of the fridge and put them on to boil. I went and turned the TV on and started watching it. I fell asleep or passed out whichever suits you better. lol! I woke up to someone beating on the door and a house filled with smoke! I ran to the kitchen and grabbed what was left of the pan with a rag and ran to the door to toss it out and guess who was at my door. The police with the fire department coming up the steps. I have never felt like such a butt in all my life. The water boiled out of the pan burnt the hot dogs into soot and melted the bottom of the aluminum pan out. It was a huge mess to clean up and I never did get all of the aluminum off of the stove. It was still on it 4 yrs later when I gave it away. By the way I was 20 yrs old when I did that. I'm 36 now and much wiser for it. Hope this entertains you. lol!

Answer 5

I have two. They were both when I was living in England for a year in 2004. The first was when I tried to make a lamb pot roast and I put a whole jar of honey in it, it was so sickly sweet you couldn't even smell it, let alone eat it. The second was when me and my English flatmate put a chicken in the oven to roast and then got really pissed on the local rough apple cider (Thatcher's Cheddar Valley to be precise) and forgot all about the chicken in the oven. By the time we remembered it was the next morning and the chicken was the size of my fist and burnt to a crisp, we threw it and the roasting tray in the rubbish together.

Answer 6

Opening the pressure cooker before I let all the steam out. Boom! Food on the ceiling and all over the place. Talk about mess...

Grilling in the back yard. Forgot about it. I remembered it when the fire department came knocking at the door and asked if something's burning. True enough, the ribs were burnt and on fire. Neighbor called 911.

Answer 7

When my husband & I were first married 43 years ago I decided to make yeast rolls for my husband. Now, mind you, I had been cooking all by myself since I was 9 years old, & I had become a very good cook, but in all those years I had never made yeast bread.

Anyway, I diligently followed the recipe, or at least I thought I did, & my rolls were beautiful when I pulled them out of the oven & buttered their hot golden tops. My husband was delighted! And I was delighted because he was delighted! At least until he tried to pull, cut, & STAB them open. To my horror nothing worked! Again, to my horror, he & his pre-teen nephew played ball all day with them. I was so embarrassed that I vowed to him that I would NEVER make yeast bread again as long as I lived.....& for 43 years I have kept that promise!!!

It's funny now, but it certainly wasn't then! lol

Answer 8

this is a good one... not me, but the good ol' bf.... this past sunday too!

he decided he wanted to make his own plastic fishing worms instead of buying them. so he melted the plastic in a pyrex measuring cup (against my approval) and the set the HOT glassware on the other COLD electrical burner and it shattered... EVERYWHERE. he added some type of fish attractant (like a crawfish smell) and so the house smelled like burning plastic and a rotten stench of crawfish attractant. luckily the plastic is very flimsy so it came off of everything very easily, but man, did it smell like sh*t.

my dad also left a chicken the BBQ overnight on high. all that was left was a VERY charred skeleton! he woke the whole family up at 4am thinking there was a fire in the house... the burnt smell managed to make it upstairs to the other side of the house! it was hilarious, but when you think your house is on fire... not so funny.

i never mess up in the kitchen, for real!

Answer 9

I burned a salad. I put some water to boil for pasta on a back burner, and accidentally turned on the front burner by mistake which is where I was cutting salad ingredients.

Answer 10

Making biscuits! I forgot how after home economics class in the eighth grade. I tried making them after I moved out on my own and my dog wouldn't even eat them.