What are some cooking mistakes you've made?

Question

What are some cooking mistakes you've made where you just can't help but look back and laugh.

My worst one was when I was trying to make cookies. I mixed all the ingrediants in or so I though and i set them in to bake. The recipe said to roll them into little balls to bake them but they just were a little to runny for that. I didn't think anything of it and just dapped the dough on the tray. I put them in to bake and when i checked on them, the baking sheet was just covered in this doughy slim. It took me till the end of the day to realize I forgot the main ingrediant.....FLOUR!!!

Answer 1

I've done that!! Forgot the flour!!

I've forgotten to turn on the oven, I used 1/2 cup of salt instead of sugar for cookie recipes, I've forgotten to turn on the timer and the dish was unrecognizable and black and had to throw out the whole pan too, I put a bag of soup in a pot of boiling water and didn't move it around and the plastic melted so I had to throw it out. I used a plastic/acrylic coated whisk once for sauce and the coating melted into the sauce. And there's a running joke that my polenta only turns out 40% of the time.

It's all funny. If nobody had cooking disasters they can't look back on and laugh, how do we all learn?

Answer 2

My spouse died a number of yrs in the past so wager who has the cooking responsibilities. i'm sixty seven. #a million- i wanted some mac. salad. Recipe suggested as for 16oz. of mac. The container suggested 16 oz.. suited. not. might want to were 2 cps uncooted. not the finished dam container. Oh properly. #2- 13 yrs previous. mom suggested i can make some baking soda cookies. i'm thinling 'what's a tsp'. I grabbed a tablespoon and away I went. did not ought to percentage more advantageous than 3 bites with my 3 brothers. Boy hi there. replaced into I luck or what? And certain I ate each and every very last one in each and every of them. i'm sixty seven and each and each and every time I see those 6 letters i imagine of those cookies. YUK YUK YUK!!!

Answer 3

Once I burned most of my eyebrows and eye lashes. off de-glazing a hot pan w/ cognac.
I made a fresh lime sorbet and ad dded way too much lime zest. When I tasted it , the inside of my cheeks just immediately met in the middle of my mouth. Talk about a palate cleanser.
The worst was long after I got out of school and really really should have known better,
I was making a horseradish mayonnaise sauce using fresh horseradish . I pulsed the raw root in a processor and put my face over the opening of the processor to check for the size of the product,WRONG!!!. Fluid was coming out of every opening in my face and all at the same time. but the sauce came out great.

Answer 4

I'm a fairly decent cook now but when I was about 9 yrs old I tried my hand at baking a pecan pie. (I was a latch-key kid.) I had all the ingredients and combined them correctly. The screw-up came with the crust. I didn't know that there was difference in crust and the only one we had was a graham-cracker no bake crust. Needless to say, it burnt, but the inside of the pie was really good.

Answer 5

I used to always mix up baking powder and baking soda, no matter how many times I'd read the recipe.
Making rice was always easy for me, but I tried Basmati rather than Jasmine and I would end up with a gross gooey lump all the time. I finally read the directions and realized I was adding too much water. (Too bad I didn't figure that out before I cooked for my new in-laws LOL)

Answer 6

I just do things like catch myself trying to put milk in the cupboard.

My cousin Vinnie has one I'll share with you... he was helping prepare dinner at a friend's house. He took what he thought was vinegar out of the kitchen cupboard and drizzled it over the salad. When everyone was seated at the table, they all realized it was ammonia.
He also made a pot of beans one day, turned off the heat and went to work. He threw them out 3 days later, as they were quite rancid!

Answer 7

When I was first learning to cook, I was making a stew and the recipe said "salt and pepper to taste". I had no idea what that meant exactly so I put about 1Tablespoon of black pepper in it! It was so hot that it was inedible! I have never forgot this or repeated this mistake.

Answer 8

I made pizza dough. I read the recipe wrong and thought it said 2 cups of sugar when it really said 2 tablespoons. It was some really sweet dough, but it was still edible!

Answer 9

I didn't make this mistake but my dad did. He accidentally put vanilla in beef stew instead of the browning sauce. The house smelled like vanilla and we thought he made dessert. He was the only one who tried to eat it. Lets just say he didn't get to the second bite.

Answer 10

I was once living in a foreign country whose language I didn't know well and went to the market wanting to buy zucchini. I thought I bought zucchini but when I cooked them I realized they were cucumbers!