What's your worst cooking disaster?

[Julia1996]

And you cooked hiM?

That's gross! Normal people don't eat dogs! Now I have a few recipes for roasted cats but cooking dogs is just messed up.

[Faith]

I don't know what the actual disaster was. When I came home from work one day the cabinet and ceiling above the stove was solid black. That was, hmmm, 15 yrs ago? The ceiling is still gray from it. I think she touches it up now and then.

[V M]

And you cooked hiM?

LOL... No, due to my injuries I decided to give him to a family with a bunch of children *Sigh* Miss the little guy

[Gertrude]

One of my kids washed my Dutch oven and didn't rinse the soap out well. I used it to make lentil soup and it wasn't right to say the least.


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[Dena]

Probably the worst was when I was a child. My mother was making home made grape jelly in the brand new pressure cooker and wanted to open it up. Instead of properly cooling the pressure cooker, she took the pressure regulator off. The result was to turn the celling purple.

[Cassi]

That's gross! Normal people don't eat dogs! Now I have a few recipes for roasted cats but cooking dogs is just messed up.

That's cool.  I still have my ALF - sent the cat recipes!

[Julia1996]

That's cool.  I still have my ALF - sent the cat recipes!

What's a ALF?

[Faith]

What's a ALF?

you don't know ALF !!??!!

what a sheltered life you must have led ......

[Julia1996]

you don't know ALF !!??!!

what a sheltered life you must have led ......

I do now. I googled Alf and figured it had to be the TV show since none of the other matches seemed even remotely relevant. That show was before I was born. So.....there was actually a TV show with a puppet as the star?  Was everyone high back then? Lol!

[Faith]

..That show was before I was born

age is no excuse.

Was everyone high back then? Lol!

I think so, not me. Which is why I knew the show, watched it a few times, but I didn't get into the whole 'got to watch, can't miss it' mode. I don't think I had a VCR at the time. Do I have to explain VCR? 

[Julia1996]

age is no excuse.
I think so, not me. Which is why I knew the show, watched it a few times, but I didn't get into the whole 'got to watch, can't miss it' mode. I don't think I had a VCR at the time. Do I have to explain VCR? 

No. I know what a VCR is. My grandparents still have one and it's huge and heavy. They have a million tapes for it too since the device itself wasn't capable of storing movies and TV shows like a DVR. My dad told me they had places all over town to "rent" movies for it. Everything was so much more work then. You had to actually go into a store and rent a movie rather than just stream it or order it on PPV with the DVR. My grandparents do have cable at least but the TV is old and huge and boxy. I asked them why they don't get a flat screen and they say because their old TV still works fine. Ughhh. I'm sure there are ringer washers that still work but who would want one?? My neighbor told me about those washers.  She said when she was growing up her mom didn't even have that and washed all the clothes by hand in big tubs and then hung it up to dry. She didn't have a vacuum cleaner either so they took the rugs outside and hung them up and beat them with a stick to clean them. That is so sad! That poor woman.

[Cassi]

Ah, the good ole days.  I began saving movies and tv series on VHS tapes then dvds, now it's all digital on external harddrives.

Anyone for listening to an 8 track?

[Cassi]

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ALF - Alien Life Form, Eater of Cats, Scourge of Willie!

[Cassi]

"Was everyone high back then?"

Still are sweetie

[Faith]

No. I know what a VCR is. My grandparents still have one and it's huge and heavy. They have a million tapes for it too since the device itself wasn't capable of storing movies and TV shows like a DVR. My dad told me they had places all over town to "rent" movies for it. Everything was so much more work then. You had to actually go into a store and rent a movie rather than just stream it or order it on PPV with the DVR. My grandparents do have cable at least but the TV is old and huge and boxy. I asked them why they don't get a flat screen and they say because their old TV still works fine. Ughhh. I'm sure there are ringer washers that still work but who would want one?? My neighbor told me about those washers.  She said when she was growing up her mom didn't even have that and washed all the clothes by hand in big tubs and then hung it up to dry. She didn't have a vacuum cleaner either so they took the rugs outside and hung them up and beat them with a stick to clean them. That is so sad! That poor woman.

I remember a lot of that .. most of it I don't miss. It was a lot more work. There is something to be said for not having everything immediate and convenient. I believe it increases the appreciation level to have to work a bit for something that you want.

[Julia1996]

I remember a lot of that .. most of it I don't miss. It was a lot more work. There is something to be said for not having everything immediate and convenient. I believe it increases the appreciation level to have to work a bit for something that you want.

Yeah I definitely think things are much easier than they would have been back then. I really love hearing stories about my neighbors childhood.  It's really interesting.  She also has a really good sense of humor. I started vacuuming for her last year because that's the one household chore that's wears her out. So the first time I vacuumed for her she told me her vacuum was in the garage and she hoped I wouldn't mind that it was kind of outdated. So I go out there and I find this.....thing. It looked like a big scuba tank layed out flat. It weighed a thousand pounds! Even the attachment pieces were like made of steel. So I get this thing in the house and I try to pull it and it would barely move. She told me it didn't have wheels and I asked if they broke off and she said it never had wheels. It had metal tubes on each side and that's how you pulled it around. So I started vacuuming and she was standing in the doorway watching me. She burst out laughing. She told me that she had a regular vacuum and that her husband had kept that old one in the garage for the car. She thought it was hilarious and had enjoyed watching my facial expressions when I saw that thing. She told me her husband bought that thing for her on their second anniversary. She said back then it was a deluxe model. What amazed me was that that thing still worked. It has to be 60 years old at least. She told me that back then appliances like mixers, blenders, etc were very expensive and considered luxury items so people kept them forever. When something broke they didn't get a new one they had the old one fixed.

[Faith]

awesome story. She definitely pulled one on you, great sense of humor.

um, I remember those vacuums as well

[Maddie86]

Ok so usually when I run my smoker out on the back patio, but sometimes when I'm cooking and there's a chance of rain I'll move it to the front porch where there's cover. a couple years ago I was doing a front porch cook on the 4th of July and I filled up a charcoal chimney and lit it off and went inside for a few minutes. When I came back out the little plastic table on the porch had somehow caught on fire and melted, oops! Everything was fine, no one got hurt and the food still came out great!





here's a recent one involving my sister's boyfriend. They moved out to Oregon and my mom sent my sister a jar of this really good local pasta sauce for her birthday. they decided to make lasagna with it. I guess her boyfriend was going to make it while she was at work or something, but they were out of ricotta cheese. she told him to go to the store and get some. He went to the store. He didn't get ricotta. He bought a box of mac n cheese and used the powdered cheese as a substitute!!! 

[Julia1996]

Ok so usually when I run my smoker out on the back patio, but sometimes when I'm cooking and there's a chance of rain I'll move it to the front porch where there's cover. a couple years ago I was doing a front porch cook on the 4th of July and I filled up a charcoal chimney and lit it off and went inside for a few minutes. When I came back out the little plastic table on the porch had somehow caught on fire and melted, oops! Everything was fine, no one got hurt and the food still came out great!





here's a recent one involving my sister's boyfriend. They moved out to Oregon and my mom sent my sister a jar of this really good local pasta sauce for her birthday. they decided to make lasagna with it. I guess her boyfriend was going to make it while she was at work or something, but they were out of ricotta cheese. she told him to go to the store and get some. He went to the store. He didn't get ricotta. He bought a box of mac n cheese and used the powdered cheese as a substitute!!! 

OMG, how gross! That's hilarious.  I could totally see my brother doing something like that.

[Laurie]

  I remember way back when (everything is way back when now) I was little and learning to cook, I tried making cornmeal mush or cream of wheat for breakfast. After the water boiled I started stirring the dry whatever into the water, I of course poured it too fast and too much of it. It was inedible with all the moist lumps with dry inside cereal inside.
  Another one was when my daughter cooked us hamburger patties for hamburgers. She had watched Daddy do it many times and picked up on my penchant to add diced onion, seasonings and Worcestershire sauce and the like into the hamburger before cooking them. That night we discovered that a liberal amount of Allspice has no place in burgers. Cookies and pies yes, burgers no.

Hugs,
  Laurie