When i was first married i bought two very expensive steakes
to pan fry, heated the fry pan, reached under the sink cupboard to grab the oil, poured Pinesol in instead, dropped steaks in quick, cried the rest of the night.

steaks went in the garbage, kitchen smellt spotless clean.

All of them! :gag:
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

My friend worked in a staff canteen and once made cheese scones with sugar in; they didn't do particularly well in terms of repeat sales! :hihi:

lol. ups!

I ruined a Birds Eye Roast Chicken Dinner, pretty unbelievable actually, as all you have to do is put it in the microwave for 10 minutes.

I didn't really rein it... just forgot about it and after reheating it, it didn't taste too good. :(

Just remembered another!

I'm very undomesticated and once cooked a Freschetta 'bakes and rises' pizza with disaterous results.

Guess who forgot to remove the shrinkwrap? :hihi:

Oh well, at least it wasn't my oven...

K x

Whats Pinesol ? Is that disinfectant ?My hubby was once talking to a fishing mate in our house while making him a cup of tea. They were so engrossed in talking about fishing that he put salt in his mates tea instead of sugar. Four teaspoons full at that. His mate nearly choked himself sick when he tasted it !

I once tried making a Birds Trifle, and being the modern woman I am, I thought i'd save time by mixing the jelly in cold water and microwaving it...

I waited....

and waited.....

Originally posted by pattricia
Whats Pinesol ? Is that disinfectant ?My hubby was once talking to a fishing mate in our house while making him a cup of tea. They were so engrossed in talking about fishing that he put salt in his mates tea instead of sugar. Four teaspoons full at that. His mate nearly choked himself sick when he tasted it !


Pattricia,
Pinesols a cleanser, looks just like oil, same shaped bottle too, has a strong but clean smell , thanks for pointing that out, forgot you might have another name for it.

Dont forget to give us the English names,Poppy.Then we will "Get It".

Whats the worst cooking experience you've ever had? The first time I did Italian I put that much oregano in it you could have smoked the meal and got stoned!

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The first time I cooked a chicken when I left home was a disaster. I left the giblets inside ......... in the plastic bag!! The smell of melted plastic was a bit of a give away lol!

Ruined by mistake? Never!

As an expert cook I DELIBERATELY screw up my creations! :)

I once put a pizza in the oven and neglected to remove the polystyrene 'plate' that the pizza sat on. I thought the base was a bit tough and plasticky tasting... ;)

I've also done the trick of leaving the giblets in their plastic bag in the chicken.

Joe

Why I insisted on cooking this special meal I can't remember now. I had attended a conference in Stafford, and the heavy rain made road conditions atrocious as I travelled to Hull. I flew into a Tesco near Doncaster to buy the ingredients, and continued the journey, arriving late of course.

Our guest, a Vietnamese friend, had already arrived. So I quickly set to work cooking this really special Italian meal. But I'm used to cooking on gas - and my partner's cooker is all-electric. When the spaghetti began boiling, I found that the electric hob just didn't respond quickly enough when I turned down the temperature, and the stuff just boiled over. So, I turned it down some more, only to discover it then stopped cooking completely. And, I remember saying 'No thank you' to my partner, 'just leave me alone' and 'I'll get the hang of this cooker', as I ushered him out of the kitchen.

I made some garlic bread, and turned on the oven to warm it through, as we finally sat down to the first course of anti-pasto. What a pity that I hadn't checked if our guest liked salami. Never mind, he did eat the lettuce, tomatoes and olives.

Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, the spaghetti had now been on the boil too long, and was nothing but a sodden, and inedible, mass. Ugh! :gag:

And what was that burning smell? I opened the oven, to discover that the garlic bread was black and had nicely turned to cinders! :gag: In my haste I'd turned the grill on in mistake for the oven!

This was indeed a special meal - though not quite as I'd planned it! I dished everything in the bin, and instead we had an enjoyable Chinese takeaway. Now, that was special! :hihi:

Originally posted by pattricia
Whats Pinesol ? Is that disinfectant ?My hubby was once talking to a fishing mate in our house while making him a cup of tea. They were so engrossed in talking about fishing that he put salt in his mates tea instead of sugar. Four teaspoons full at that. His mate nearly choked himself sick when he tasted it ! US version of Detox!:gag:

I had a bad experience with giblets too. I took them out of the chicken in their little plastic bag and absent mindedly put them on top of the tall fridge freezer. After a week the house stank vile. I cleaned everything in sight but couldn't get rid of the smell. It was almost two weeks later when I found the festering, green and bubbling giblets on top of the freezer:gag: I've never smelled anything so bad in my life!

When I lived at home, my mom was away on holiday and left my eldest sister in charge, she once did a "boil in the bag" meal for us and emptied the "bag" into a pan!!, also, deciding she was gonna do a sunday lunch, forgot (or didnt know) to put water in the pressure cooker to cook the spuds, burnt the pressure cooker and then blamed me!! Typical.
The only "cock-up" I ever made was to make a spag bol and forgot to put the sauce in!!!!
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Making family breakfast on morning, I threw salt into the teapot and leaf tea into the porridge!!!

My Nan once poured the gravy for our Xmas dinner into the jug that was going to be used for the custard. Realising her mistake, she simply stirred the custard powder into the gravy and let us pour it all over our turkey dinner... A very strange experience :gag:

Burned corned beef stew.. smells and tastes horrid :gag:
Have never cooked it since .

Originally posted by Kristian
Just remembered another!

I'm very undomesticated and once cooked a Freschetta 'bakes and rises' pizza with disaterous results.

Guess who forgot to remove the shrinkwrap? :hihi:

Oh well, at least it wasn't my oven...

K x

Haha, I’ve done something similar although I wasn't as bad as you. I took off the shrinkwrap but forgot to remove the polystyrene base. suffice to say pizza tasted of polystyrene :gag:

My sweet and sour beef went down a storm once- haahaa!!!

When I started cooking for myself I had no idea, I thought a clove of garlic was the whole bulb until I saw someone on TV chopping a clove up. You can imagine how strong my garlic bread was !

I also used to get confused between teaspoons, desert spoons and table spoons.

I'm much better now, though I do still ocassionally arse it up.

I have great difficulty making Yorkshire puddings - I always have. Mine always seem to end up being too crispy [like a meringue] or too doughy [like a sponge]. After many failed attempts I now have a dead certain way of making sure they always turn out perfect.

I buy them cooked in beef dripping from M&S.

no-one told me it was salted herring. :(

Originally posted by JonJParr
I buy them cooked in beef dripping from M&S.

The shame.

I find with Yorkshire pudding it's essential to measure the ingredients accurately and have the oven on full belt until the fat nearly bursts into flames. Delia Smiths Yorkshire pudding recipe seems to work very well, I also cheat by putting a bit of baking power in to make it rise more. Beef dripping is essential (even if you intend to use the pudding as a desert).

Originally posted by nick2
The shame.

I know. It's my secret shame [that and where I was born] but it's what Gordon Ramsey recommends doing if you have trouble making them! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by JonJParr
I know. It's my secret shame [that and where I was born] but it's what Gordon Ramsey recommends doing if you have trouble making them! :thumbsup:

I can imagine Mr Ramsey, "If you can't make f***** Yorkshire puddings, buy the f****** things"


This made me laugh yesterday, the bit about Kitchenaid mixers, the crazy Yanks : http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/06/ford_poised_to_.html

i was once forced to make bacon sandwiches for my housemate and my best mate one sunday morning when i had the worst hangover in the world and had maybe only slept for an hour or two.

i managed to make them just fine and put sauce on and everything. i handed them over and all was well until it was pointed out to me that the bacon was still raw.

i'd forgot to put the grill on and was that out of it i hadn't even noticed.

Even better - there was a girl I knew who worked in the coffee shop at Safeway who served a customer frozen chicken nuggets with their chips and beans :D Classic!

One of my son's girfriends on saying she would cook pasta rattled it into the frying pan dry and turned on the gas.

And I was once visiting friends who owned a posh Hotel in the Dales and for Christmas dinner the sauces got mixed and guests had cheese sauce on their pud and sweet white sauce on their cauliflower. No one complained.

hazel

more than once i've strained the gravy in the colander, saved all the lumps, gravy went down the sink :blush:

I once strained hot fat through a plastic sieve and was left with a plastic rim.

hazel

Time for my three pennyworth.

I burned boiled eggs!

:blush: I can also tell you that the explode into a million pieces, and stick to every surface within the room...oh and for good measure they stink and take hours to get off ceilings. :(

I once strained hot fat through a plastic sieve and was left with a plastic rim.
Hazel that's hilarious!

When microwaves first came out (I won't even stand near one these days), I lived in France and rabbit was a kind of every day thing to eat (pre-veggie days!). I put the ingredients for lapin a l'italienne onto a plastic plate and set it on high for 35 mins. I watched in horror as the plate gradually twisted and warped and wrapped itself completely around the rabbit, and all the sauce poured out of the sides all over the oven. The rabbit was trapped for ever!

BTW, anyone ever done an egg in a shell in the microwave; messy but hysterical! You watch and watch and watch, and all of a sudden, just as you are about to blink, the yolk leaps out really quickly and sits next to the shell, whilst the white is sandblasted all over the walls.