This was told me by a friend. When he was about 8, he decided to surprise his mother & make her a cake. A big cake, a really big cake. Starting with a whole 5 pound sack of flour (about 2.25 kg) and something like a dozen eggs. He needed something big to mix it in, and found the perfect thing.
The washing machine.
OMG!!! Please don't tell my daughter about that. I'm sure she would try the same thing, probably for Mother's Day. Then she would probably realized that our little oven won't bake a cake that big and scrap the whole project. And knowing her she would forget and I would be cleaning semidried cake dough out of our washing machine the day after Mother's Day.
When I was about 15 my folks left me home alone for the weekend. Having heard about wine sauces I thought I would give it a shot with my then favorite wine, Strawberry Hill. Had to throw the whole meal out. Fortunately my taste in wines has improved slightly since then.
I do a bit of bbq and one time at about three a.m. I was rearranging the hot coals in my smoker to be a better burn. I didn't notice that one fell out onto the wooden deck until I stepped on it with my bare foot. Not only did I have to contain my mouth but I had to get the hose out to douse the coal before the deck caught on fire; before I could tend to my foot. I had a nice whole in the bottom of my foot for a couple of months.
Boones Farm Strawberry Hill? It can just imagine what kind of sauce that was!
Ouch! You probably shouldn't bbq at 3am, Stan.
I remember having a real craving for cheesecake, which I had made many times with my mom's time trusted recipe.
Couldn't understand why it tasted so awful until I realized that I had used cracker crumbs instead of graham cracker crumbs!
When I was at school we made a quiche as part of our Home Economics class, I was 15 years old. A couple of weeks after the Home Ec class, I decided to give my Mum a rest from cooking and volunteered to make the quiche again; as it turned out ok the first time my Mum agreed.
During the quiche making, my friend telephoned so I chatted with her for about 30 minutes and took a break. I went back to the cooking and all went well, so I thought. I proudly served the quiche up to my parents and they both took a mouthful and as they were eating it they were looking at each other weirdly. I was then informed I had forgotten to put the cheese in, so it was effectively a ham and egg tart and it just didn't taste right without the cheese! I never attempted to make a quiche again after that!
My other mistake was attempting a chicken tikka masala after I had been taught it as part of a cookery course I went on in Kerala, India a couple of years ago. I followed the instructions but it turned out so hot we were crying as we ate it...it was almost inedible but we have a high threshold for spiciness, so it was sort of ok. I think this mistake was a case of the chillis being a different heat between countries, rather than anything I did wrong.
#16.re:"chicken tikka masala".Hope you did not use the infamous "ghost chillies" by mistake?
You and your family might all have been in hospital or worse if you used even a single whole "ghost chilli" :))
Using a shop bought SWEET shortcrust pastry to make a quiche.
Making a middle eastern lamb & okra stew, deciding that the okra couldn't possibly cook in the short time stated & ending up with a bowl of snot.
I made some quiches several years ago. I actually didn't expect them to turn out (I'm not sure why) but they were quite good. Unfortunately, my family isn't much into quiche so I don't do them often. You should try again loubby, but turn off your phone first. (I used a shop bought dough but it wasn't sweet)
A grocery store near me has frozen okra. I always wondered how in the world that could be edible. Okra is probably the most picky vegetable ever grown (can't be too dry or too mushy or it just doesn't work).