Have you ever cooked something for the first time that was a disaster?

Question

I remember reading about someone who bought a fresh turkey (meaning its insides had NOT been removed) which exploded in the oven. I didn't do anything THAT bad but...........

Answer 1

yea. I tried to make fried rice and just cracked the egg into the rice and ended up with a gooey mess.

Answer 2

I have wrecked many new recipes. Usually I substitute something badly and end up with edible, yet odd textured or looking results. Once I tried to make beet hash like my mom's and used the wrong blade to shred the beets and potatoes. I ended up with beet and potato paste. It was so thick and gooey that it barely came out of the spoon.

Generally I am a good cook, but I cook from memory a lot and that doesn't always work. Even sometimes I will use a recipe and will still manage to do transpose tablespoons and teaspoons or something like that.

Answer 3

I could also write a book about my cooking catastrophies.

One of the grossest, I had to dump a whole dish I was trying for the first time because mice had gotten into the box of rice, and did what mice do. I was carefully following the recipe, measuring everything and such. I didn't notice until had dumped the dry rice into the pan. I was stirring it, looking in the pan thinking I had burned some of the rice, but how come nothing else had burned? Then I looked in the rice box. GROSS! We ordered pizza that night.

Then there was the time I figured baking soda and baking powder had to be the same thing.... It isn't.

Answer 4

Yes, pretty much everything!

worse yet, I did get to the point years ago where I was a really good cook/baker. Then I went back to school and stopped cooking for 3 years...when I started cooking again this year for my new husband, I ruined everything! My friends were offering recipes for toasting bread and boiling water, that's how bad I was!

So I guess it takes constant practice, or you'll lose your cooking mojo like I did!

Good luck.

Answer 5

I follow the recipes EXACTLY the first time to avoid disasters.

I that learned from experience. The first time I made spaghetti sauce, I left the lid off during simmering. Sauce was all over the stove, the fridge and the ceiling.

Answer 6

once I 1st meet my bf he took me out for dinner to a complex eating place. For starters he had a pepper crammed with mince meat and rice! So as quickly as we've been given are own residence and valentine's day got here up i presumed it could be advantageous to recreate the meal, different than i over cooked the mince making it annoying, and under cooked the rice making that annoying aswell. i presumed i did a gorgeous interest as i did not consume it (i do in contrast to pepper's) and he in no way complained on that night and consume maximum of it. some day's later we grow to be having lunch with my sister and that i grow to be telling her how romantic i've got been. And my companion instructed all of them how undesirable it have been i grow to be so embarrassed and 3yrs later all of them nevertheless take the pee out of me risk-free to assert i've got not made it for him lower back. ok x

Answer 7

I've had several disasters happen in the kitchen, but I just got a couple cases of frozen meats from this place called Capital Meats - like Omaha Steaks, but better - and this stuff makes cooking so simplistic. Check it out...

Answer 8

I didn't do it, but this guy in my town did. He bought a turkey fryer--and actual giant deep fryer in we have in the south. It somehow exloded while cooking in his garage, burned down his house to the ground and caught the neighbor's house on fire!!
Happy Thanksgiving! It was all over the news for days...

Answer 9

First time I ever baked bread, I didn't realize the yeast was too old, and I ended up with a flat, chewy disk. I tried it again, and when I showed a friend how the yeast wasn't bubbling, she said I would have to get new yeast because it was too old.

Answer 10

a couple years ago, i made a cake and it said to add ground rice. ground rice is this kinda very smooth, powdery white stuff that is rice from the ground. but I took some rice and ground it up as much as i could. it tasted gritty and horrible! and also I tried to make hot chocolate and put the heating up too much and it completely boiled over and went everywhere!!!lol

Answer 11

Where do you want me to start??? It took me a while to master polenta, my cookies always burn, my bread burned the first time (and times after!), the first time I made real baked mac & cheese I forgot the CHEESE, and the first time I made dal I didn't cook it long enough.

God, I could write a book on all my disasters. There's a lot more.