[Danielle G.]

What are your unforgettable cooking mishaps?​

G’day, you lovely folks! I hope your day is rolling out nice and fresh, better than the batch of fried spring rolls I accidentally burnt while cooking. I admit it was all my fault. I was so busy chatting with my sister that I didn’t notice them turning black. Now, I have a few pieces of (extra) toasted rolls all to myself. Do you have an unforgettable cooking blunder? Share them here.

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[goatwhisperer]

Very early days of microwaves. Needed to thaw out a slice of bread. Hit the button for 10 seconds , walked out the back door to do something, (can't remember what). Came back into kitchen to an awful odour. Opened the microwave to see a shrivelled black bit of "bread" about the size of a postage stamp. Had put the microwave on for 10 minutes on high!

 

[OBrien109]

When trying microwave for first time many years ago.i put a bread roll in mwave for 2 mins not 4 secs.turned into hardness of a cricket ball .threw it at fence and paling fell off!!!! paling

 

[Suzanne rose]

Me personally No but a couple of weeks ago my daughter made carrot cake and mistakenly put salt instead of sugar.

Not sure how that happened as I have everything labelled and she followed my recipe which uses brown sugar not white.

She made it in a hurry in between getting ready for work at the gym and doing uni work . I've told her time and time again not to rush cooking

 

[Suzanne rose]

When trying microwave for first time many years ago.i put a bread roll in mwave for 2 mins not 4 secs.turned into hardness of a cricket ball .threw it at fence and paling fell off!!!! paling

what a funny story

 

[Bullwinkle]

Not being very skilled in the kitchen or any interest in cooking as an early teenager….
I wanted to cook chips….mum said make sure the oil is hot, you’ll be fine. Just remember when you are finished put the oil back in the container and clean up after yourself…..easy
I finished cooking my chips, poured the oil back in the container (plastic) which melted in front of me, oil everywhere….mum to the rescue!!

 

[RFG]

Probably too many late in life kitchen mishaps for me.

 

[Suzanne rose]

Not being very skilled in the kitchen or any interest in cooking as an early teenager….
I wanted to cook chips….mum said make sure the oil is hot, you’ll be fine. Just remember when you are finished put the oil back in the container and clean up after yourself…..easy
I finished cooking my chips, poured the oil back in the container (plastic) which melted in front of me, oil everywhere….mum to the rescue!!

A lesson learnt

 

[Suzanne rose]

Probably too many late in life kitchen mishaps for me.

 

[Clancieblue]

I remember my youngest daughter making her first cake mix.
I'm ok Mum, I can do it (She is a chef now). The packet said add 2/3 cup of water. She couldn't decide so added the full 3 cups . It took us a long time to explain her mistake. Very moist cake

 

[mangles]

When I first got married, I wasn't that good in the kitchen. I decided to make sausage rolls which turned out pretty good, put then in the oven for the correct time. When I opened the oven my sausage rolls had drooped between the wire rack. I didn't put them on a tray. And of course they were not cooked......

 

[SirExton]

I was living in Woburn, part of the Hutt valley, of Wellington New Zealand. My then faience, came home from her Hutt Hospital nursing job at the end of morning shift, mid Sunday afternoon. As was the want for Sunday dinner, I took the succulent 2 Kg Topside beef joint, and placed in the oven at 180oC to cook.
We ended up in the bedroom getting quite amour us and making mad passionate love. We fell asleep in orgasmic bliss, for as it turned out, four and a half hours or so. On waking.....Hmmmm! What is that smell? Bugger the Topside roast is still cooking! I jumped up and ran to the oven, opened the oven door, to find a near black shriveled, tiny piece of beef that weighed possibly 350 grams and dry as a bone! Love to all at SDC from me in Perth WA. Ox

 

[JillTAS3624]

Making a pavlova…
eggs separated
Whites to beat using Barmix……fastest way…………….
17 minutes and I had to give up. no change in other than they were white not clear…
Found out … YOU GOT TO to beat by hand… haven’t tried again YET.. maybe soon … that was approximately 2013

 

[Still Ebby]

l remember making a double batch of fudge and putting it in the microwave .lt was in a pyrex bowl which l thought was safe anyway it exploded .Oh what a mess and waste!.

 

[Jo Piper3]

Plenty of cooking mistakes that I have learned from but my recent shopping mistake - I was making hamburgers and bought diced beetroot instead of sliced beetroot as I don't usually use my glasses when shopping! I now have a stock of sliced beetroot in my cupboard.

 

[Suzanne rose]

I remember my youngest daughter making her first cake mix.
I'm ok Mum, I can do it (She is a chef now). The packet said add 2/3 cup of water. She couldn't decide so added the full 3 cups . It took us a long time to explain her mistake. Very moist cake

 

[Suzanne rose]

Making a pavlova…
eggs separated
Whites to beat using Barmix……fastest way…………….
17 minutes and I had to give up. no change in other than they were white not clear…
Found out … YOU GOT TO to beat by hand… haven’t tried again YET.. maybe soon … that was approximately 2013

You can use any electric mixer . I do every time

 

[Suzanne rose]

Plenty of cooking mistakes that I have learned from but my recent shopping mistake - I was making hamburgers and bought diced beetroot instead of sliced beetroot as I don't usually use my glasses when shopping! I now have a stock of sliced beetroot in my cupboard.

I love diced beetroot in a tuna salad

 

[Suzanne rose]

l remember making a double batch of fudge and putting it in the microwave .lt was in a pyrex bowl which l thought was safe anyway it exploded .Oh what a mess and waste!.

 

[Suzanne rose]

I was living in Woburn, part of the Hutt valley, of Wellington New Zealand. My then faience, came home from her Hutt Hospital nursing job at the end of morning shift, mid Sunday afternoon. As was the want for Sunday dinner, I took the succulent 2 Kg Topside beef joint, and placed in the oven at 180oC to cook.
We ended up in the bedroom getting quite amour us and making mad passionate love. We fell asleep in orgasmic bliss, for as it turned out, four and a half hours or so. On waking.....Hmmmm! What is that smell? Bugger the Topside roast is still cooking! I jumped up and ran to the oven, opened the oven door, to find a near black shriveled, tiny piece of beef that weighed possibly 350 grams and dry as a bone! Love to all at SDC from me in Perth WA. Ox

Did she end up marrying you !