What's your worst cooking disaster?

[Colleen_definitely]

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

You know?  In a totally junk food sort of way it might not taste entirely bad.  I'd try a bite or two anyway.


Let's see for me?  I totally ruined a batch of pumpkin pies by absentmindedly adding nutmeg like it was cinnamon.  (no, I don't use measuring spoons when doing pies)

I made a big talk about how great of dinner rolls I make only to realize too late that I had a bum batch of yeast and dough that wasn't rising.  This is why I always proof my yeast before I add it now.

I tried letting some bread rise overnight in the refrigerator in a fridge that was either too warm or with yeast that was bred for arctic duty because I ended up with dough covering an entire shelf and a fridge that smelled like a brewery.

A friend of mine years ago had a game of buying random stuff from the Asian market and cooking it while drinking beer.  Well this night we got into the beer a little too heavy and only noticed there was a problem when the grill started glowing red.  We incinerated a bunch of pork belly and otherwise delicious Filipino sausages. 

[Quinn_Elizabeth]

I fell asleep after putting a pizza in the oven. I woke up an hour and a half later... it came out looking like a round piece of charcoal. 😓😓😓

-Quinn💖

[V M]

I never really had to cook until I moved into my current place of residence and so I didn't have much of any skill level beyond Pancakes and Mac n' Cheese

Thus it has been an interesting adventure of trial and error Luckily I am finally getting to the point where there are more successes than failures 

[Julia1996]

I never really had to cook until I moved into my current place of residence and so I didn't have much of any skill level beyond Pancakes and Mac n' Cheese

Thus it has been an interesting adventure of trial and error Luckily I am finally getting to the point where there are more successes than failures 

Yeah I have an uneasy relationship with Mac & cheese. I like mine but it was a while before I could eat it at all. Growing up my mom just refused to cook. She had lean cuisine frozen dinners for herself and that was it. So that left my dad to feed my brother and I. He did his best but he really overdid the Mac n cheese. The Mac n cheese shells with velveeta isn't what I would call good but if you're hungry it's eatable. My dad didn't use that. He used the really nasty kind with the powdered cheese sauce. I would always end up getting a bite with a clump of the cheese powder that didn't get mixed in and I would get a mouthful of that gross super salty cheese taste. He would put all kinds of stuff in the Mack n cheese. One particularly nasty combination he did was to add cream of mushroom soup and tuna. Ewwwwww!!! He also used cut up hot dogs, spam cubes, a can of hot dog chili and ground beef in it. Once we didn't have any hot dogs so he put cut up Vienna sausages in there. And once he tried putting a can of corned beef hash in it. Just.....Ewwwwww!   One thing he made that I really liked was what he called s### on a shingle. It was creamed beef on toast.

[Cassi]

Yeah I have an uneasy relationship with Mac & cheese. I like mine but it was a while before I could eat it at all. Growing up my mom just refused to cook. She had lean cuisine frozen dinners for herself and that was it. So that left my dad to feed my brother and I. He did his best but he really overdid the Mac n cheese. The Mac n cheese shells with velveeta isn't what I would call good but if you're hungry it's eatable. My dad didn't use that. He used the really nasty kind with the powdered cheese sauce. I would always end up getting a bite with a clump of the cheese powder that didn't get mixed in and I would get a mouthful of that gross super salty cheese taste. He would put all kinds of stuff in the Mack n cheese. One particularly nasty combination he did was to add cream of mushroom soup and tuna. Ewwwwww!!! He also used cut up hot dogs, spam cubes, a can of hot dog chili and ground beef in it. Once we didn't have any hot dogs so he put cut up Vienna sausages in there. And once he tried putting a can of corned beef hash in it. Just.....Ewwwwww!   One thing he made that I really liked was what he called s### on a shingle. It was creamed beef on toast.

Love SOS and Stouffers has it but calls it chipped beef.  I make my own version and call it BirdSOS which is made of hamburger and mushroom soup

[Julia1996]

Love SOS and Stouffers has it but calls it chipped beef.  I make my own version and call it BirdSOS which is made of hamburger and mushroom soup

My dad used some kind of canned cream gravy to make his. Cream of mushroom soup? Noooooo! OMG I don't allow that stuff in the house. I love mushrooms but cream of mushroom soup is totally nasty and nothing fit for human consumption has ever been made with cream of mushroom soup.

[Colleen_definitely]

Ah SoS, I haven't made that in far too long.

[V M]

Ah yes, SOS - Another fine military staple

Splat!!! There ya go...

[Laurie]

Alright Julia,

  Do you think you can plagiarize my saying and get away with it? Besides I disagree with you about cream of mushroom soup. It isn't bad as a sauce base for meats like hamburger patties, pork chops, and I will even eat it for a soup lunch. So my dear young lady it is too fit for human consumption! So there! :-P
    Chipped beef on toast IE SOS is good as was the same thing made with canned tuna fish. I called that "exploded seagull" when my mom made it. As a military you ate what was put in front of you or you didn't eat. Even Pork and Beans with cut up shudder hotdogs in it.  And pigs in a blanket which was dough wrapped hotdogs bake in the oven. Either of those were preferred over shudder boiled hotdogs. ewwwww. We also had several dinners where spam was the meat ingredient.

Hugs,
  Laurie
   Laurie

[Colleen_definitely]

Ah yes, SOS - Another fine military staple

Splat!!! There ya go...

Lol yep. The best part was you could be fairly confident that they didn't screw it up.

[zirconia]

My own worst disaster occurred around a year after my parents left and I started living alone. When some people came over I prepared them the best meal I could muster. Salad, rice, soup and the main dish—tempura—which consisted of battered deep fried vegetables, shrimp and such served with broth sauce and grated radish.

I won't forget the confused and pained expression of the first person who took a bite of the shrimp. When I tried it myself I was so embarrassed I wanted to go somewhere and hide. It tasted like something salvaged from a garbage pile.

At the time my entire food budget was about equivalent to $100 a month, so I usually lived on scraps and kept anything really nice I found for something I could afford in the freezer for special occasions. What I hadn't realized was that since I'd set the freezer compartment temperature just low enough to keep things frozen (to save electricity) it wasn't cold enough to prevent decomposition. The shrimp had been there for almost a year so it was utterly rancid.

After that I turned down the temperature and started to eat the nice things fresh, when they were at their best.

[Cassi]

Alright Julia,

  Do you think you can plagiarize my saying and get away with it? Besides I disagree with you about cream of mushroom soup. It isn't bad as a sauce base for meats like hamburger patties, pork chops, and I will even eat it for a soup lunch. So my dear young lady it is too fit for human consumption! So there! :-P
    Chipped beef on toast IE SOS is good as was the same thing made with canned tuna fish. I called that "exploded seagull" when my mom made it. As a military you ate what was put in front of you or you didn't eat. Even Pork and Beans with cut up shudder hotdogs in it.  And pigs in a blanket which was dough wrapped hotdogs bake in the oven. Either of those were preferred over shudder boiled hotdogs. ewwwww. We also had several dinners where spam was the meat ingredient.

Hugs,
  Laurie
   Laurie

Right On Laurie!!!!!

I'll take mushroom soup over a tomato based sauce anyday

[Laurie]

Right On Laurie!!!!!

I'll take mushroom soup over a tomato based sauce anyday

   Now, I won't go quite that far Cali I like tomato based sauces. Nothing like a great marinara sauce that's been cooked most of the day.

[Colleen_definitely]

I'm laughing hysterically at "exploded seagull"

[Cassi]

Mayo over mustard and tomato sauce, yeah.

[V M]

Alright Julia,

  Do you think you can plagiarize my saying and get away with it? Besides I disagree with you about cream of mushroom soup. It isn't bad as a sauce base for meats like hamburger patties, pork chops, and I will even eat it for a soup lunch. So my dear young lady it is too fit for human consumption! So there! :-P
    Chipped beef on toast IE SOS is good as was the same thing made with canned tuna fish. I called that "exploded seagull" when my mom made it. As a military you ate what was put in front of you or you didn't eat. Even Pork and Beans with cut up shudder hotdogs in it.  And pigs in a blanket which was dough wrapped hotdogs bake in the oven. Either of those were preferred over shudder boiled hotdogs. ewwwww. We also had several dinners where spam was the meat ingredient.

Hugs,
  Laurie
   Laurie

I'm confused, are you trying to conjure up fond memories or nightmares? LOL    And I'm sure you must know what happens if SPAM is mentioned

[Cassi]

Lol yep. The best part was you could be fairly confident that they didn't screw it up.

The fine cooking of SOS is dependent on which branch of the service prepares it.

[Laurie]

Thanks V.M. I hadn't seen that.

[Laurie]

The fine cooking of SOS is dependent on which branch of the service prepares it.

Of course it does Cali.. The Navy does it best and that includes the Marines since they are just a part of the Navy.

  Hugs for ya Cali, (((Hug)))
  Laurie

[V M]

Yes, a contingency of Marines on every ship, not to mention that the majority of SEAL teams are comprised of Marines