After reading a post in what are you having for dinner I got the idea for this one. So, what is your worst cooking disaster? It doesn't necessarily have to be yours, any cooking disaster you have witnessed is good too.
Mine was the first time I ever made chicken and dumplings. I messed up the dumplings and I had a pot of chicken with flour slime all over it. It was nasty. Lol. The worst disaster I witnessed was when a friend made spaghetti and she dumped the jar of sauce into the pasta without draining it. That was pretty gross. Spaghetti with chunky red water.
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One from the hefty tome of "Seph can't cook to save her life".
So, couple of years back I had a microwave/grill/oven combi. Was on some pretty serious painkillers and a bit out of it. No... a lot out of it. Decided I fancied a cheeseburger. Put the burger under the grill. Cooked it for 20 minutes. Was practically salivating at the thought of a delicious cheeseburger. Something smelled not quite right but I didn't really notice. Burger looked a lot smaller than it should have done... again didn't really pay it too much attention. Put some crisp, fresh lettuce on the bun, slice of cheese... carefully placed the burger in the bun, put the top on, took a bite... almost broke my jaw.
In my heavily medicated state I'd forgotten to set the combi to "grill" and left it on "microwave". So I actually microwaved a raw beefburger, for 20 minutes on full power, into the state where it looked, and tasted like a hockey puck.
Yay. >_<
Good one
Quote from: Sephirah on January 05, 2018, 06:10:55 PM
So I actually microwaved a raw beefburger, for 20 minutes on full power, into the state where it looked, and tasted like a hockey puck.
Yay. >_<
You mean you actually read my Mom's cookbook?
Four delicious Rib Steaks on the grill and while taking them all off. Dropping the plate. The dog thought he had died and went to heaven.
Yes, and nowhere, and I mean nowhere did the RACK OF LAMB recipe say anything about using a pan.
Quote from: DawnOday on January 05, 2018, 06:26:05 PM
You mean you actually read my Mom's cookbook?
Does that also include recipes for exploding stew, cremated potatoes and scrambled eggs that looked like they came from an airplane sick bag. If so then I have those mastered. ;D
Worst one I ever saw (and ate) was a pasta disaster. The kids wanted Uncle Joe to make the pasta, because they said his was cool. So Uncle Joe was allowed to make the pasta. About five minutes before dinner someone asked Uncle Joe what his secret was.
Uncle Joe: "I don't stir it."
Dave: "Doesn't it stick together?"
Kids: "Yeah, that's the cool part!"
Uncle Joe: "They love it."
And that's what we got, spaghetti cooked together into hard, starchy sheets. Thanks, Uncle Joe.
Sephirah's Road Kill Cafe!
Quote from: DawnOday on January 05, 2018, 06:28:20 PM
Four delicious Rib Steaks on the grill and while taking them all off. Dropping the plate. The dog thought he had died and went to heaven.
Dogs travelling to a dropped steak break the speed of light.
Quote from: Sephirah on January 05, 2018, 06:38:57 PM
Does that also include recipes for exploding stew, cremated potatoes and scrambled eggs that looked like they came from an airplane sick bag. If so then I have those mastered. ;D
We should move in together. Sounds like home.
Quote from: Cali on January 05, 2018, 06:42:37 PM
Sephirah's Road Kill Cafe!
You have no idea, lol. It's not "Can't cook, won't cook". It's "Can't cook, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a kitchen." ;D
Quote from: DawnOday on January 05, 2018, 06:51:03 PM
We should move in together. Sounds like home.
Haha awww. Well, at least she got the recipe right for a wonderful daughter. :)
Quote from: Sephirah on January 05, 2018, 07:02:51 PM
You have no idea, lol. It's not "Can't cook, won't cook". It's "Can't cook, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a kitchen." ;D
Haha awww. Well, at least she got the recipe right for a wonderful daughter. :)
All it took was for a little DES. Or maybe not so little.
I have to pick a worst one? LOL
It would probably be when I overfilled the deep fryer with too much oil and it boiled up and allover the counter top and the kitchen floor :o A close second would be the various items exploded in the microwave or a few of the stove top mystery surprises I've created
When I accidentally burn something I just call it Cajun style :D
Quote from: DawnOday on January 05, 2018, 06:28:20 PM
Four delicious Rib Steaks on the grill and while taking them all off. Dropping the plate. The dog thought he had died and went to heaven.
Once when I made steaks Tyler got his and then put his plate on the table while he went to the bathroom. When he got back he called me into the kitchen and wanted to know where his steak went. The potato and vegetables were still there but no steak. My dog was in the corner scarfing it. I always tell my brother to keep the chairs pushed in so she can't use them to climb up on the table. After that he started listening to me.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 05, 2018, 07:30:09 PM
Once when I made steaks Tyler got his and then put his plate on the table while he went to the bathroom. When he got back he called me into the kitchen and wanted to know where his steak went. The potato and vegetables were still there but no steak. My dog was in the corner scarfing it. I always tell my brother to keep the chairs pushed in so she can't use them to climb up on the table. After that he started listening to me.
I have a husky that love, love loves to climb up on the island. So we have to make sure there is nothing available to get to. She's gotten a pizza and a loaf of bread. I get to clean up the Hershey squirts.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 05, 2018, 07:30:09 PM
Once when I made steaks Tyler got his and then put his plate on the table while he went to the bathroom. When he got back he called me into the kitchen and wanted to know where his steak went. The potato and vegetables were still there but no steak. My dog was in the corner scarfing it. I always tell my brother to keep the chairs pushed in so she can't use them to climb up on the table. After that he started listening to me.
A few years ago I had a Cocker Spaniel who managed a steak and a few other items from off the cutting board on my kitchen counter
Didn't think the little guy could jump that high LOL
And you cooked hiM?
Quote from: V M on January 05, 2018, 07:54:30 PM
A few years ago I had a Cocker Spaniel who managed a steak and a few other items from off the cutting board on my kitchen counter
Didn't think the little guy could jump that high LOL
It's amazing what a dog can do when it comes to food. Mine is a little 14 pound dachshund with stubby little legs. She can't jump very high but she sure can find ways to climb.
Quote from: Cali on January 05, 2018, 07:58:50 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: Cali on January 05, 2018, 07:58:50 PM
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
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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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.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 05, 2018, 08:13:02 PM
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!
Quote from: Cali on January 05, 2018, 10:35:48 PM
That's cool. I still have my ALF - sent the cat recipes!
What's a ALF?
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 06, 2018, 08:21:09 AM
What's a ALF?
:o
you don't know ALF !!??!!
what a sheltered life you must have led ......
Quote from: Faith on January 06, 2018, 08:25:32 AM
:o
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!
Quote..That show was before I was born
age is no excuse.
QuoteWas 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? ;D
Quote from: Faith on January 06, 2018, 08:42:34 AM
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? ;D
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.
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? :laugh:
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ALF - Alien Life Form, Eater of Cats, Scourge of Willie!
"Was everyone high back then?"
Still are sweetie :)
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 06, 2018, 09:05:06 AM
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.
Quote from: Faith on January 06, 2018, 09:59:47 AM
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.
awesome story. She definitely pulled one on you, great sense of humor.
um, I remember those vacuums as well :P
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!
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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!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Maddie86 on January 06, 2018, 12:08:01 PM
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!
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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!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
OMG, how gross! That's hilarious. I could totally see my brother doing something like that.
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
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 06, 2018, 12:13:36 PM
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.
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💖
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 :eusa_pray: Luckily I am finally getting to the point where there are more successes than failures ;D
Quote from: V M on January 06, 2018, 06:42:26 PM
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 :eusa_pray: Luckily I am finally getting to the point where there are more successes than failures ;D
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.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 06, 2018, 07:13:46 PM
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 :)
Quote from: Cali on January 06, 2018, 07:22:32 PM
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.
Ah SoS, I haven't made that in far too long.
Ah yes, SOS - Another fine military staple
Splat!!! There ya go...
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
Quote from: V M on January 06, 2018, 08:07:42 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: Laurie on January 06, 2018, 08:12:40 PM
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 :)
Quote from: Cali on January 06, 2018, 08:27:13 PM
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.
I'm laughing hysterically at "exploded seagull"
Mayo over mustard and tomato sauce, yeah.
Quote from: Laurie on January 06, 2018, 08:12:40 PM
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 ;D And I'm sure you must know what happens if SPAM is mentioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFrtpT1mKy8
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 06, 2018, 08:13:44 PM
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. >:-) >:-) >:-) >:-) >:-) >:-)
Thanks V.M. I hadn't seen that.
Quote from: Cali on January 06, 2018, 08:51:25 PM
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
Yes, a contingency of Marines on every ship, not to mention that the majority of SEAL teams are comprised of Marines
Quote from: Laurie on January 06, 2018, 08:12:40 PM
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
OMG, sos made with tuna?? Ok I'm traumatized now! Ewwwwww doesn't even cover that kind of nasty! And spam....it's just.....wrong. Do they serve lots of spam in the marines too? I can't imagine any other way my dad would develop a taste for that stuff. He likes it fried with mayo in a sandwich. I make it for him but...Ewww.
Quote from: zirconia on January 06, 2018, 08:20:20 PM
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.
That's sad but its funny too.lol
When I was a teenager I worked at McDonald's. My family loved the french fries so I decided to make them at home. I boiled the oil and insert the fries. Once done I poured the oil into a glass jar and whammy, oil all over the place; fries, counter, floor, my right hand - ouch!
What can I say, I'm a natural blond :)O
I got hooked on watching Emeril quite a few years back.
I noticed he used wine on almost everything.
Wine on pepperoni pizza wasn't that great.
Making chips drunk + stoned = chip pan fire
Two spring to mind both while travelling with Rebecca around Australia in our caravan and 4WD in 1985. Yes Julia there was a world in 1985!
The first was on the Nullarbor Plain, a lonely place to say the least. We had 2 sausages left, Rebecca was cooking, they were a bit off or had a green colour to them that was not due to herbs. So she kept adding chilli powder to disguise the taste. She hadn't had experience with chilli powder so kept adding it until she could smell it. The aluminium in the pan started to dissolve so she served them up. The pan was the lucky one.
The second was when I collected some fresh roo road kill and thought it would make good steaks. I cooked it up and as we started to eat I warned her not to eat the little white bits. She thought they were big bits of rice but they weren't. She still brings that one up during arguments for some reason.
Lol!
The white bits are just extra protein, if you can catch them.
Quote from: Cindy on January 07, 2018, 05:53:27 AM
Two spring to mind both while travelling with Rebecca around Australia in our caravan and 4WD in 1985. Yes Julia there was a world in 1985!
The first was on the Nullarbor Plain, a lonely place to say the least. We had 2 sausages left, Rebecca was cooking, they were a bit off or had a green colour to them that was not due to herbs. So she kept adding chilli powder to disguise the taste. She hadn't had experience with chilli powder so kept adding it until she could smell it. The aluminium in the pan started to dissolve so she served them up. The pan was the lucky one.
The second was when I collected some fresh roo road kill and thought it would make good steaks. I cooked it up and as we started to eat I warned her not to eat the little white bits. She thought they were big bits of rice but they weren't. She still brings that one up during arguments for some reason.
What were the white spots? Lol, I know there was a world in the 80s. My dad says it was fun growing up in the 80s.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 07:46:29 AM
Quote from: Cindy on January 07, 2018, 05:53:27 AM
Two spring to mind both while travelling with Rebecca around Australia in our caravan and 4WD in 1985. Yes Julia there was a world in 1985!
The first was on the Nullarbor Plain, a lonely place to say the least. We had 2 sausages left, Rebecca was cooking, they were a bit off or had a green colour to them that was not due to herbs. So she kept adding chilli powder to disguise the taste. She hadn't had experience with chilli powder so kept adding it until she could smell it. The aluminium in the pan started to dissolve so she served them up. The pan was the lucky one.
The second was when I collected some fresh roo road kill and thought it would make good steaks. I cooked it up and as we started to eat I warned her not to eat the little white bits. She thought they were big bits of rice but they weren't. She still brings that one up during arguments for some reason.
What were the white spots? Lol, I know there was a world in the 80s. My dad says it was fun growing up in the 80s.
Maggots ::)
Quote from: Cindy on January 07, 2018, 07:52:10 AM
What were the white spots? Lol, I know there was a world in the 80s. My dad says it was fun growing up in the 80s.
Maggots ::)
OMG,OMG,OMG! That's horrible! Lol
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 08:02:28 AM
OMG,OMG,OMG! That's horrible! Lol
Survivalist swear by them :)
Quote from: Cali on January 07, 2018, 08:06:11 AM
Survivalist swear by them :)
They eat maggots??? I'm really glad I haven't eaten breakfast yet.😖
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 08:09:38 AM
They eat maggots??? I'm really glad I haven't eaten breakfast yet.😖
Yes, all sorts of yucky thangs. Protein.
Survival training 101: everything tastes better with hot sauce. ;D
I haven't tried roadkill, though I was awfully tempted to go carve off a piece of the deer that totaled my car in May.
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 07, 2018, 10:05:24 AM
Survival training 101: everything tastes better with hot sauce. ;D
I haven't tried roadkill, though I was awfully tempted to go carve off a piece of the deer that totaled my car in May.
C-Rats - Tabasco Sauce!!!!!!
Quote from: Cali on January 07, 2018, 10:17:28 AM
C-Rats - Tabasco Sauce!!!!!!
OMG rats????? You can get diseases from rats, they're filthy animals.
Road kill?... Broken GMC pickup?... I wonder what that mule would have tasted like? OMG the ribbing I got. "Hey, I heard you got a piece of ass" "Mule skinner" etc.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 10:38:32 AM
OMG rats????? You can get diseases from rats, they're filthy animals.
C-rat is short for C-Rations. Military food from the days before the MRE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Combat,_Individual_ration
MREs benefitted greatly from hot sauce, apparently the c-rats REALLY needed it.
Once blew up a steak & kidney pudding by putting it in a pan of boiling water without making holes in the tin.
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 (https://www.grandparents.com/grandkids/activities-games-and-crafts/jacks))
Quote from: KarynMcD on January 10, 2018, 01:28:21 PM
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 (https://www.grandparents.com/grandkids/activities-games-and-crafts/jacks))
Thank you. I never heard of jacks before I clicked the link. Kids had some totally dull toys in the past. Lol
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 06, 2018, 09:43:17 PM
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.
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
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 10, 2018, 03:33:36 PM
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.
The weirdest thing is that kids would actually go and interact with each other in person OUTSIDE THE HOUSE!
Twas a strange era
;)
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 11, 2018, 12:20:53 PM
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.
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 11, 2018, 12:20:53 PM
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? ?
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 12:25:41 PM
Outside? What was there to do outside except sports? ?
Hopscotch, tag, hide & seek.............
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...
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 11, 2018, 01:01:26 PM
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.
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!
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 11, 2018, 01:13:09 PM
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!!!!"
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 11, 2018, 01:01:26 PM
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.
Kids these days....
Guess I'm officially in the old fart club
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 11, 2018, 01:13:09 PM
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.
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 11, 2018, 02:08:14 PM
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
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.
Quote from: KarynMcD on January 11, 2018, 01:19:26 PM
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 :)
Quote from: Dena on January 11, 2018, 02:26:51 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 02:32:04 PM
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.
A long cord perhaps. Or a more likely a radio phone.
Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 02:31:08 PM
Ah, I miss the old phones so much I actually found a ringtone that sounds just like the old ringing one :)
OMG, my grandparents still have a wall phone in their kitchen. The ring is so annoying and loud! And you can't even put it on silent either or at least adjust the ringer volume.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 02:34:58 PM
OMG, my grandparents still have a wall phone in their kitchen. The ring is so annoying and loud! And you can't even put it on silent either or at least adjust the ringer volume.
Cellphones direct radiation into the brain. I want a lineline with a very long cord!
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 02:32:04 PM
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.
They were radio telephones and they probably had a range approaching 50 miles. The problem was there were only about 7 channels so only 7 people could talk at the same time in a city. The service what rather expensive but this was before CB radio so it was the only way you could communicate mobile without a Ham license. You would contact the operator and the operator would complete the call for you.
Quote from: Dena on January 11, 2018, 02:45:11 PM
They were radio telephones and they probably had a range approaching 50 miles. The problem was there were only about 7 channels so only 7 people could talk at the same time in a city. The service what rather expensive but this was before CB radio so it was the only way you could communicate mobile without a Ham license. You would contact the operator and the operator would complete the call for you.
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Talked about derailing a topic.....
Someone put the locomotive back on the track and make sure the caboose follows.
If I remember right this was a cooking disaster thread, wasn't it?
Quote from: Laurie on January 11, 2018, 03:00:59 PM
Talked about derailing a topic.....
Someone put the locomotive back on the track and make sure the caboose follows.
If I remember right this was a cooking disaster thread, wasn't it?
Sorry miss Laurie . I just get curious about old technology.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 03:07:18 PM
Sorry miss Laurie . I just get curious about old technology.
Yes, Miss Laurie! Julia wanted to know about the times before microwave ovens. We didn't go back far enough into the early 1950s when ice boxes were ice boxes.
If you must show your age try this thread..
Old things Julia1996 might like to know (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,232886.new.html#new)
HUgs,
Laurie
Well heres a disaster , no didn't try to cook a phone (felt like it as cant down load photos) anyways tried to make so garm floor rolls , it should pour into tray and dry in 10 mins to roll up. It went lumpy , might have got it to hot in pan, and it wont smooth out or dry . It does say its hard to get right in book.
Quote from: davina61 on January 28, 2018, 02:42:06 PM
Well heres a disaster , no didn't try to cook a phone (felt like it as cant down load photos) anyways tried to make so garm floor rolls , it should pour into tray and dry in 10 mins to roll up. It went lumpy , might have got it to hot in pan, and it wont smooth out or dry . It does say its hard to get right in book.
You can't trust those books. When I did my rack of lamb it did not say anything about using a pan. I think recipe elves like messing with us.
Quote from: Cassi on January 28, 2018, 03:31:56 PM
You can't trust those books. When I did my rack of lamb it did not say anything about using a pan. I think recipe elves like messing with us.
Yeah those cookbooks like to mess with people. When it says separate 2 eggs some people think that means putting each egg on opposite ends of the counter. You really have to watch those cookbooks. Lol😂
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 28, 2018, 04:06:26 PM
Yeah those cookbooks like to mess with people. When it says separate 2 eggs some people think that means putting each egg on opposite ends of the counter. You really have to watch those cookbooks. Lol😂
For sure, and what about the person that responds about the eggs saying I didn't know they were a couple or married?
I thought of a good one for worst disaster. About a year or two ago I decided to make some high end slow cooker fajitas. I had a beautiful, perfect slab of meat. Was way too expensive, and I bought it on a splurge. I had fresh grown bell peppers and everything. So I sear the meat perfectly, get everything setup in the slow cooker... Meat, onions, peppers (hot and sweet), seasonings, and some lime. This thing cooks for like 12 hours. I test the tenderness, and it is just... jesus, it just falls apart perfectly. But... something smelled off. I tried to put that aside, and go to taste it. ... I've never spit something out so quickly. It was what I imagine athelete's foot soaked in balsamic vinegar and evil distilled into a liquid form must taste like. (A taste I never wished to imagine.) My sister and step brother eat everything I make, even if I don't like how it turned out, and tell me it's amazing and seem to mean it even while I'm finding every flaw. Which I do a lot (I'm very self critical of my food), so they don't really believe me how bad it is. So they each try it. And yeah, they both say "Okay, this time you're right, this is awful."
I start trying to figure out what went wrong, and then someone points out the half of a lime left over smells a little odd. I take a slight taste... yep. That's the flavor. The awful, soul crushing flavor. That soaked into the expensive cut of meat for 12 hours. I go and test the rest of the bag... every last one is the same way. I've never seen anything like it. It wasn't that they were rotten, or over or under ripe, or anything. They were just fundamentally wrong. So about 15 cents of lime juice destroyed what was to be a masterpiece.
Quote from: Roll on January 28, 2018, 11:20:44 PM
I thought of a good one for worst disaster. About a year or two ago I decided to make some high end slow cooker fajitas. I had a beautiful, perfect slab of meat. Was way too expensive, and I bought it on a splurge. I had fresh grown bell peppers and everything. So I sear the meat perfectly, get everything setup in the slow cooker... Meat, onions, peppers (hot and sweet), seasonings, and some lime. This thing cooks for like 12 hours. I test the tenderness, and it is just... jesus, it just falls apart perfectly. But... something smelled off. I tried to put that aside, and go to taste it. ... I've never spit something out so quickly. It was what I imagine athelete's foot soaked in balsamic vinegar and evil distilled into a liquid form must taste like. (A taste I never wished to imagine.) My sister and step brother eat everything I make, even if I don't like how it turned out, and tell me it's amazing and seem to mean it even while I'm finding every flaw. Which I do a lot (I'm very self critical of my food), so they don't really believe me how bad it is. So they each try it. And yeah, they both say "Okay, this time you're right, this is awful."
I start trying to figure out what went wrong, and then someone points out the half of a lime left over smells a little odd. I take a slight taste... yep. That's the flavor. The awful, soul crushing flavor. That soaked into the expensive cut of meat for 12 hours. I go and test the rest of the bag... every last one is the same way. I've never seen anything like it. It wasn't that they were rotten, or over or under ripe, or anything. They were just fundamentally wrong. So about 15 cents of lime juice destroyed what was to be a masterpiece.
That really sucks. Poor thing. I once put together a nice potroast dinner in the slow cooker. I turned it on and left for work. When I got home I expected to smell it and I smelled nothing. I check the roast and it's still totally raw. My brother unplugged the slow cooker to plug in the blender for his protien shake and didn't plug it back in. I had to throw it all away because the roast was sitting out all day at room temperature.