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doinkdom -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/24/2008 3:30:37 PM)

oh my recent blunder was this last weekend

I was frying an egg and reached in the cabinet for the salt and pepper to season it. Because apparently, I now need my reading glasses for MORE than reading...I thought I had the pepper and instead sprinkled cinnamon sugar all over my egg. [&:]

And then promptly dumped the whole thing in the trash so I could start over.



slushie -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/24/2008 3:44:29 PM)

I don't think that would taste that bad.... [;)]



jodavi -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/25/2008 11:43:42 PM)

When we first got married and I was still lost in the kitchen-- I used Shake and Bake to make chicken. Put the chickens in the bag and shook the bag of chicken and baked them not knowing that I was suppose to remove the chickens from the bag. Thankfully my husband smelled the burning plastic right away.



Leslie_JnJs_mom -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/25/2008 11:54:19 PM)

I thought of a yummy dish that was meat and chili sauce on the bottom with cornbread on top. I did not have any baking powder so I used baking soda thinking there would be no difference. It was horrible! Icky yuck ~yuck.
Another time I left the broiler in the broiler thinking it was like the BBQ grill. Nope! My husband smelled something burning so we went into the kitchen. There was black smoke pouring out of the oven. He opened the broiler to see flames come boiling out. The kitchen window was open and had no screen so he just threw the flaming pan out the window.



Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/26/2008 12:58:52 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: BJinWA
this is a story told by some dear friends long ago....

she was a young bride during WWII. he was coming home on leave from the army after just winning 3 pounds of butter in a poker game. telegraphs were expensive and you were charged by the word......so he telegraphs her---"arriving 10:30 train have 3 pounds butter"

so she is frantically trying to barter/sell her gas ration coupons and come up with the money to buy 3 pounds of butter. she laughed as she explained that she had no idea why he wanted 3 pounds of butter, but she sure was going to make sure he got it.

and yes, then they had 6 pounds of butter

Oh! This is just so sweetly precious! Thank you for telling this!
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I was a (very) young bride in early November of 1968. I had been reared in a home in which my mother was really a very bad cook but a wonderful bread-baker. My childhood family was extremely poor, so Mother was afraid to let me cook, for fear I would ruin food, so I didn't. I entered marriage completely unprepared in a time when women did everything in the home, whether or not they worked outside the home as well.

Undaunted, before I got my job as a dental assistant, I dove in there and created disaster after disaster in my home-keeping, until I got some things right [:D]. But for some reason -- probably because Mother could do it -- I thought I could bake bread.

I worked all day. When Pat came home, I proudly put my beautiful loaves out for him to see. And they were beautiful! I had good reason to be proud! I have no idea now how I got su much bread out of that recipe, but there was a beautiful, properly-browned braided loaf not less than 10 inches long, a loaf I had baked in a regular rectangular bread pan, a couple tiny loaves, and a few dinner rolls. I was so proud! And so was HE!!!

I cooked dinner and placed the larger loaf on a plate on the table. He picked up the knife to slice off bread for us -- and he tried, and he tried, and he tried! After awhile, we started laughing with wonder at this gorgeous bread that would not slice! The knife literally would not go through it!

When he saw that I was in good humor about the whole thing, he asked me, "Would it bother you if I tried something?"

I answered no.

He tossed the bread across the room at the wall, just to see what it would do. Okay, I am not kidding. It bounced off the wall and hit the refrigerator, putting a tiny dent in it!

We both nearly fell out, laughing!

Of course, I realized that we would not be able to eat the bread, so we threw away most of it, except the long, fat, braided loaf. I iced it, put candied cherries on it, and left it on the kitchen table as a decoration. I finally threw it away after a couple months, because I could no longer keep the dust off it properly.
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Oh, and I have more . . . later.



Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/26/2008 9:45:57 AM)

I used to think Mother was a bad cook, and indeed, my daughter at age 11 was a better cook, but the fact is that I am not a good cook either. I can be REALLY bad! So bad that sometimes, I don't even try.

Like when I am asked to bring food to someone in my congregation because of illness, birth, etc., I won't even cook. I go out and buy everything. Like I will tomorrow. [:)]

So one time, I invited a young single man over for lunch with my husband, my son, and me. I baked Chicken a la Orange. We sat down to eat, I took one taste, and told everyone to empty their plates back into the Chicken a la Orange dish, and I emptied it into the trash. We ate what was left on the table.

I have no idea what went wrong, what I did wrong, if I actually did anything wrong, but seriously, this time, I think it was a bad recipe. It tasted like something eaten three hours earlier that came back up. Exactly.



zoebob -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/26/2008 9:51:32 AM)

My mom was laid up for about 3 months and had meals brought to her. She said she enjoyed the couple times someone gave her take out. All the home cooked meals were of one of 3-4 varieties on the same thing: lots of pasta, lots of soups. One lady ordered pizza to be delivered and someone else who lived kind of far away gave her gift cards to Isaac's. She liked those the best and she's not one to go out to eat a lot.

Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled topic.

I think one of my first mistakes was making mashed potatoes. My mom always made them by adding back in the water they were cooked in and then adding powdered milk. Well, I never noticed the powdered milk part so the first time I made them I just used the water. Hubby took one bite and spit them out and said. Didn't you put milk in? Why mom never did? Well, I talked to her later and figured it out.



his_chosen -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/30/2008 1:03:04 PM)

Brussel sprouts will explode if you attempt to reheat them in the microwave. Makes a huge mess, too!

My biggest baking blunder... Pecan rolls are a family tradition and a few years ago I was asked to do the honor. No problem, I bake all the time. Great Grandma's recipe called for baking them in high sided dishes. A lot of her recipes are like this, simply because she always used a certain pan/bowl for certain dishes. So I figure I had a gazillion rolls to bake, and I had four jelly roll pans, I'd just use those. I make the rolls. I make the sugar sauce and put it in the bottom of the jelly roll pan and add the rolls. So far, so good. Then, I put them in the oven. Mind you, it's midnight by now, the night before Thanksgiving. Suddenly, smoke starts pouring out of the oven. The sugary sauce had spilled out of the jelly roll pans and was now burning on the bottom of the oven. All three smoke detectors (kitchen, basement and upstairs!) are going off. I couldn't even hit the bypass because the smoke was so bad! It was too late to do anything else, so I just let them finish baking. I opened the windows and had fans going to clear the smoke! The rolls came out perfectly. And luckily I had a good laugh about it. Good thing because dh told everyone!



phosadaud -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (6/30/2008 3:16:58 PM)

I do recall some garlic bread that was forgotten about in the broiler in college.... At least we learned our smoke detectors worked well... [8D]



Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (7/1/2008 11:46:49 PM)

Oh, as a very young wife, alone, my husband far away in the service, I tried to broil a lot of hamburgers at once in the broiler of the gas oven. I was so ignorant!

All hamburger was very greasy then!

I walked in the living room and heard "WHOOM!"

I ran back in to see the broiler in flames, and I lived in a 12-unit apartment building!

I thank G-d! that I at least knew not to pour water on it! But I didn't know what to put on it! No fire extinguisher in the apartment! I grabbed the Morton's salt and just poured it on the open broiler! And wonder of wonders, it put the fire out.

Later, I read not to try to smother it with flour . . . .



trinigirl722 -> RE: Cooking Bloopers 101 (7/7/2008 1:15:46 AM)

I don't have any major bloopers myself, but when my youngest sister was 12 she and a friend decided to try their hand at baking a cake for the first time. They followed the recipe and greased and floured two cake pans, but then they saw that ... all the batter fit into one pan! So why use two pans when you can fit it all into one?

Fifteen or 20 minutes later they went to the kitchen to investigate the burning smell, and yes, the cake batter was rising and spilling over the edge of the pan and onto the bottom of the oven. [:D][sm=chef.gif]



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