What is your biggest disaster food dish that you have made?

Question

What went wrong? Did people eat it?

Answer 1

Financially and taste-wise, it woudl have to be the artichoke crab bake I made for the guy who I'm now married to. I spent, gosh, $20-30 on ingredients and worked on it all afternoon. It was ghastly. He wouldn't eat it. I threw it all away. Two trays of it.

Another lovely disaster was my first and only attempt at Jell-o jigglers. I put the red jello into the rimmed baking sheet -- before putting it in the fridge. Trying to then carry it to the fridge and get it in there while keeping the fridge door from closing, I spilled so much that it looked like a murder took place in the kitchen. And much of it spilled actually under the fridge, which I didn't find out until the fridge died and they moved it out. YUCK!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I had been cooking lentil curry... it had been in the pot for about a week, and I wanted to finish it off because I was going on a trip... anyway, I think I added too much water, so it got soupy. I couldn't be bothered to wait for it to boil down so I decided to add flour, and I think I ended up trying to fry it like a pancake, with no success... it became a disgusting gruel, and I had to throw it out of my window into the bushes... man, I felt really sick, maybe some kind of insects will have eaten it, maybe ants or cockroaches?

Up until that gruel, I was a confident cook, really enjoying spending lots of time cooking every evening... after that gruel, all my confidence was gone, it took ages to cook anything right again. It was a sort of watershed dish for me...

Answer 4

Oh, where to begin?! I made a veal piccata sauce once and the only white wine I had on hand was viognier. I hate viognier. It had gotten corked and the taste of the sauce was horrible. So we ordered out.

Another time I made a crab bisque and I had grabbed the wrong cream off the shelf at the store, I got baker's cream. It was so sweet we couldn't eat it. So we ordered out.

Another time I was making corn chowder and forgot to turn the heat down. The bottom of the pan scorched, and when I stirred it, black bits came up and it tasted burnt. So we ordered out.

Heh, happens to all of us. :)

Answer 5

When I was little, my Mum used to cook tripe and onions. It was always very tasty.
Many years later I saw tripe in the butchers, bought some and proceeded to cook it in a nice sauce.
It looked fine, smelt fine.
I put it onto the plates, and we took a mouth-full.
It was slimy and totally inedible. The whole lot went into a bin liner.
It was good old beans on toast for diner that day!

Answer 6

Im not a chef or professinal cook , but one hell of a soul food cookin mama.....lol

I usually make the buffet selection for my family reunions (family of 57 cousins...now add in their kids, parents, SO's etc) I have constantly been called on to prepare the ptluck lunches for work and I even taught my home ec teacher a few things back in HS.lol. (I'm only 22 btw)

But to this day the only thing I cant make right is a DAMN PANCAKE!! lol. they're always edible...just not pretty. Usually the guys in the family love 'em. They say it saves them time from having to cut them up.lol

Answer 7

My biggest disaster was when I spent about four hours preparing an avenging meal for our guests only to find that I had totally got the date wrong and was a week early. so in answer to your question No they didn't eat it lol...

Answer 8

Newly married, we had friends around for Sunday lunch. I was taking the chicken and roast potatoes out of the oven and I dropped the lot. There was chicken and potatoes skidding all over the floor. I called my husband in from the lounge and together we gathered it all up, rinsed it under the hot tap and put it back in the pan. We confessed to them twenty years later.

Answer 9

First, congratulations on your impending conversion! Second; if your rabbi is Orthodox, then the answer is no. You would be able to make a meal for the rabbi and his family in their kitchen or in someone else's kitchen, someone whom they trust, but most Orthodox rabbis only eat in their own homes. If your rabbi is conservative, there is a chance he does not even keep kosher, so there will not be a problem. The best thing to do would be to ask the rabbi's wife. (Unless your rabbi is a woman, in which case there is a slim chance that she would keep kosher).

Answer 10

My very first home made pie crust and cinnamon strips. I was 16 and wanted to make a cherry pie for my father in law. It was absolutely beautiful looking when it was done.

He camein from work and grabbed a cinnamon strip and asked..."Who made the Pig Skins? needless to say later when hubby and FIL went to cut the pie they couldn't.... They teased me saying "We could wash this out and use it for a frisbee"

We all laughed about that for a few years..