What's your worst cooking disaster?

[Julia1996]

I don't really remember any huge mistakes, but once I was converting a cookie to gluten-free and I was doing a test recipe. I was only going to use 10% of the original because the math was easy.
For one ingredient, gum arabic (it helps give a chewy consistency and helps hold things together), instead of dividing by 10, I multiplied.
I ending up with rubbery, bouncy cookie balls. You could have played Jacks with them. (For Julia: How to play Jacks)

Thank you. I never heard of jacks before I clicked the link. Kids had some totally dull toys in the past. Lol

[zirconia]

That's sad but its funny too.lol

Yes... it's pretty funny looking back. My family had some other doozies as well, like my father's exploding egg and my mother's exploding sourdough starter.

[Sno]

I have a medication special, it's only been repeated once in the last 30 years, recently. I call it my medication special, others would call it melted blue colander that almost caught fire.

When it happens, I can relax a bit, as I know the drugs are working... 


Rowan

[Cassi]

Thank you. I never heard of jacks before I clicked the link. Kids had some totally dull toys in the past. Lol

Back in the olden days of the mid 20th Century we kids had to use what we had - our imagination when playing.

[Colleen_definitely]

The weirdest thing is that kids would actually go and interact with each other in person OUTSIDE THE HOUSE!

Twas a strange era

[Cassi]

The weirdest thing is that kids would actually go and interact with each other in person OUTSIDE THE HOUSE!

Twas a strange era

Sounds sooooo dangerous also.

[Julia1996]

The weirdest thing is that kids would actually go and interact with each other in person OUTSIDE THE HOUSE!

Twas a strange era

Outside? What was there to do outside except sports? ?

[Cassi]

Outside? What was there to do outside except sports? ?

Hopscotch, tag, hide & seek.............

[Colleen_definitely]

Climbing trees, building tree houses, hiking down a trail just to see where it goes, riding bikes around like a pack of feral animals, etc...

[Cassi]

Climbing trees, building tree houses, hiking down a trail just to see where it goes, riding bikes around like a pack of feral animals, etc...

Careful Colleen, we'll have Julia all freaked out. 

[Colleen_definitely]

Oh just wait.

Text messaging was done on paper, in class, and had to be passed physically from person to person at great risk to all involved.

If you took a selfie you had to wait until you burned up the rest of the roll of film then go pay to get it developed to decide if you look good enough in it to share it.  (well unless you had a polaroid)

The scariest part?  There was only one phone in the house and you actually had to remember phone numbers!

[KarynMcD]

The scariest part?  There was only one phone in the house and you actually had to remember phone numbers!

It was a beautiful day when those 25 foot phone cords came out.
"I'm sitting in another room and I'M STILL ON THE PHONE!!!!"

[Julia1996]

Climbing trees, building tree houses, hiking down a trail just to see where it goes, riding bikes around like a pack of feral animals, etc...

Why would anyone want to climb a tree?? I hate outside. It's either too hot and bright or it's cold and snowy.

[Colleen_definitely]

Kids these days....


Guess I'm officially in the old fart club

[Julia1996]

Oh just wait.

Text messaging was done on paper, in class, and had to be passed physically from person to person at great risk to all involved.

If you took a selfie you had to wait until you burned up the rest of the roll of film then go pay to get it developed to decide if you look good enough in it to share it.  (well unless you had a polaroid)

The scariest part?  There was only one phone in the house and you actually had to remember phone numbers!

I heard about all that stuff from my grandparents.  The waiting to get your pictures was crazy. And then you had to store them in albums and boxes. And the phone thing was just sad. It would be awful having to stay in one spot to talk on the phone. And the phones didn't even do anything else. You could only use them for talking. Ugh. Lots of times I want to talk to someone without actually speaking to them. Without texting you couldn't even do that. And it would be so dangerous to leave home without a phone. What if something happened?  You couldn't even call for help. That's awful. I just really can't imagine how people got along without a phone. You can't do ANYTHING without a phone, tablet or laptop. You couldn't look stuff up or anything. I don't know how people even learned anything back then. Very very sad.

[Julia1996]

Kids these days....


Guess I'm officially in the old fart club

Lol, you're not an old fart. You look my dad's age and he's not an old fart. Lol

[Dena]

My father had a pickup in the 50's that he used to haul all the things he needed to keep the equipment running. This included tools, lubricant, a fuel tank and wire cable. Seeing he lacked any way to get updates on potential jobs, he asked about a mobile phone for his pickup. The telephone company told him he had two choices. He could lose the passenger side of the pickup or half the box as it would take that much room for the equipment. As he needed both spaces, he decided a phone was out of the question.

[Cassi]

It was a beautiful day when those 25 foot phone cords came out.
"I'm sitting in another room and I'M STILL ON THE PHONE!!!!"

Ah, I miss the old phones so much I actually found a ringtone that sounds just like the old ringing one

[Julia1996]

My father had a pickup in the 50's that he used to haul all the things he needed to keep the equipment running. This included tools, lubricant, a fuel tank and wire cable. Seeing he lacked any way to get updates on potential jobs, he asked about a mobile phone for his pickup. The telephone company told him he had two choices. He could lose the passenger side of the pickup or half the box as it would take that much room for the equipment. As he needed both spaces, he decided a phone was out of the question.

A mobile phone in the 50s??? How would that have been possible? There were no cell towers. They didn't even have satellites for SAT phones.

[Cassi]

Oh my, we won't even talk about how color tvs didn't really come out into homes until the mid-late 1960's.  And tv was free to watch.