I just read on the "flour" thread that Sara once burnt a hard boiled egg. I want to hear that story along with everyone elses cooking disaster stories.

Once I microwaved a potato for 15 minutes. Yep 1 potato. I had never just cooked 1 before, so I didn't think to lower the cooking time. What was left was a hollowed out, blackened potato skin. AND a paper towel (cooked potato on it) with a big black burned out spot in the middle. AND a discusting stench that lived in the microwave for 3 months.

Another time, about a week after the potato insident I cooked a frozen pizza on the cardboard it came with. IN THE OVEN! It cased a small fire, that luckily was just contained to the pizza. The oven also smelled for a while. It was not a good week. :D

Okay, now I want to hear your cooking disaster stories.

Christy

Not much to my burnt hard boiled egg story. I have an electric stove and was using this silly princess house pan. Totally forgot about them. The smell lingered for a very long time. I got pizza that night. *LOL* (hubby always offers pizza when I do something ridiculous in the kitchen) I have been known to try and create a new and delicious meal and have often made something so terrible that I get pizza. *LOL*
I have melted egg cartons with the eggs in them to the stovetop by turning on the wrong burner. Many a melted bread bag too. I have exploded coffee in the microwave by accidentally pushing too much time for reheat.
My worse thing is that I have the "dropsies". I drop so many things, it's like a circus act. Once I have done it once in a day, I know it will happen a few more times before the end of the day. *LOL*
As for small fires..I have done that too. I did once have a fire in my toaster that caught the cabinets on fire a bit. Melted a few tupperware cups to the cabinet *LMAO* This was a long time ago though.

Sara

Early on in my cooking I didn't think to poke holes in these 4 huge baking potatoes-after about 40 minutes there was a huge bang in the kitchen-really sounded like someone had come busting in. Found 4 empty skins and a huge pile of flaming potatoe insides on the bottom of the oven . Not too long after that I left microwave popcorn in for too long:eek: when I took it out, instead of putting it out in the sink, right next to the microwave, I ran it outside a dropped it into the garbage can, which then caught fire, there was snow on the ground so here I am trying to put snow on the fire, in my pajamas and barefeet-what a sight.

Most recently just as my guests were arriving for one of my "Fiesta" nights, I got distracted while making plantains and burnt them in hot oil which stank--luckily they were close friends;)

Ok...once I baked one of those cookies you find in the refrigerated section of the store ( this was way before my frugal days began ) and didn't realize there was a plastic film over the cookie. It came out with little plastic thingys on it...ugh.

Another disaster happened when dh and I were making stir-fry. We both put in the spices. It was so hot we couldn't eat it.

I made soup for a group of people to eat after my granddaughter's music program. I thought a nice bowl of soup and fresh bread would be good. I don't know what I did wrong but, the soup was awful:yucky: I still get teased about my awful soup:chef: No matter how many good pots of soup I make,I can't seem to live down that one awful pot:eek:

When I made my first turkey, I was a young Mom and did not know a thing about cooking a turkey, I did know that they put "things" inside of the turkey so when I found the neck bone stuck inside of the top cavity of the turkey I thought I had gottent the "things" out. I baked and basted it and it looked lovely when I got it out of the oven, but when I got it to the table, I was mortified to find the plastic bag of giblets still in the OTHER cavity of the bird. :shame: