Worste Kitchen Misshap ever!!!!

[nvmommyx6]

We were making muffins one day, now you have to understand that my pantry is organized in rubbermaid bins, EVERYTHING
So the recipe my daughter wanted to make called for brown sugar so we added all ingredients and like any cook does tasted the batter! It was not sweet at all so I said add more brown sugar and she doubled it, we of course had to taste the batter again and it was horrible
Salty and just plain nausiating!
It accured to me she was useing the damned beef bullion and we went ahead and baked the cupcakes, I figured the dog would eat them and we wouldnt waist any food, but NOOOO that dog wouldnt touch them!!
Even worse yet, my chickens wouldnt eat them and the chickens will eat almost anything!!

Everyone share yours too!!

[Rebookie]

LOL

I will have to think of one for tomorrow!

[LastDragonfly]

We were making muffins one day, now you have to understand that my pantry is organized in rubbermaid bins, EVERYTHING
So the recipe my daughter wanted to make called for brown sugar so we added all ingredients and like any cook does tasted the batter! It was not sweet at all so I said add more brown sugar and she doubled it, we of course had to taste the batter again and it was horrible
Salty and just plain nausiating!
It accured to me she was useing the damned beef bullion and we went ahead and baked the cupcakes, I figured the dog would eat them and we wouldnt waist any food, but NOOOO that dog wouldnt touch them!!
Even worse yet, my chickens wouldnt eat them and the chickens will eat almost anything!!

Everyone share yours too!!

Bwhahahahah CJ I almost wet my pants! That's hilarious. I'll have to ask my family about my mishaps, I tend to block them out bwhwhahahahahah.

[Buc-O-Mama]

I was microwaving a large spaghetti squash, as I have on many occasions. Apparently, I didn't poke the holes in the squash deeply enough, and the squash exploded, shooting out of my closed microwave (above the stove), nearly hitting my head and landing almost nine feet away. It was such a mess to clean, and we kept finding bits of squash for months after.

[mamamia]

Oh that was sooo funny...even the chickens wouldn't eat it...lolol!!

Here's my favorite mishap story.

One time, back in the day in Brooklyn, me and my BF Barbara who were both new brides at 16 were cooking a huge pot of sauce at her house. Well we were both going back and forth in the kitchen, to stir and add water. She had gone a couple of times, so it was my turn. I couldn't find her spoon, so I grabbed a plastic black spoon that was hanging on a wall-rack with other spoons that looked just like the one I used. I stuck that spoon into the pot and stirred a couple of minutes. When I lifted out the spoon the entire bottom half was gone. I mean there was literally only a handle left...lololol!! The bottom half melted in the pot because It turned out those plastic spoons were there strictly for decoration!!! I can still feel the shock I felt hahaha!! Needless to say, we all went out to dinner that night, but we never laughed so hard in our life...lololololol!!

Theresa

Thanks for the laugh and bringing back a great memory!

[tervsforme]

Too funny. I made banana bread once and instead of flour I used powdered sugar. The containers were the same and the labels fell off. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't rise. Well, I have to say, it was fantastic served over ice cream! LOL

[pat in east texas]

I "fed" my sourdough starter, and inadvertantly closed the lid on the jar tight. When the starter rose enough, it popped the lid off the jar, and bread starter exploded all over!

[standingabove]

we had homemade burritos in our office and the coworker who made them wrapped them in tin foil. well a coworker put the burrito in the microwave tin foil and all and it burst the door open and caught on fire.

[madhen]

I was making taco sauce while also heating up a bowl of soup one night. I still don't know why I did it, but I put the 1 1/2 cups or so of cider vinegar required for the taco sauce in my soup without even thinking about it. Didn't notice it until the sauce was already canned and I took my first bite of soup. Yow!! Just about broke a land speed record getting to the sink to spit it out!!

The only other thing that is probably more of a MAJOR mishap was filling the kitchen sink to do dishes then wandering off and forgetting that the water was on. Until the water started dripping from the beams in the ceiling BELOW the kitchen floor. That was fun.

[Texasgirl]

Making oatmeal cookies and wondering why when I took them out of the oven they did not look right.
I forgot to add the oatmeal!

Getting plates out of the cabinet one second they are in my hands the next in pieces all over the counter and the floor.
Not sure what happened there.

[phoeny_moonstar]

Ha ha! All those stories made me laugh sooo hard here's my best one.

My BF and I were housesitting for her ex boyfriends family. We decided one night that we were going to make spanish rice. So, we got everything from the store and go back to the house. I am making the dinner right? Well, I go to look at the stove and it was an gas stove.So, I take off one of the burner covers to cook the hamburger meat in and start that to going. I then take off another cover and put the pot of rice on that burner and turn on A burner. About 10 minuts later I go to check on the rice and I see all the smoke billowing out. I look under the rice pot and the darn thing hadn't even turned red yet! I looked in the hamburger pan and nothing was happening their either. I lift up one of the burner covers that was still sitting on an unoccupied burner and sure enough I had turned on that burner and something that was sitting under the burner had caught on fire. I started yelling for my best friend and she comes running in going "What, what happened?!" I yelled "The stove's on fire!" So, she goes to grab for the water sprayer from the sink and I yell "Water won't put that out! Get something dry!" So, she starts pointing at this cabinet and gets out baking soda. (All the while our hands were up in the air like those sims characters when their house is on fire.) So, she gets down the baking soda and starts pouring it ON TOP of the burner covers. I yelled at her "What are you doing?! THat isn't going to help!!" I then take the nearest spatula and lift up the burner covers and she douses out the flame.

I had to buy her exboyfriends family new burner covers ...

[lmbaker520]

LOL...all of these stories are so great and they make me feel so much better about the mishaps that I have had. I think that the most unexpected and worst thing that I have done is mistaken chili powder for cayenne pepper when making chili. I was making chili at my Mom's house and I wasn't familar with her spice jars. My chili recipe calls for a lot of chili powder (which is milder than cayenne), but I unknowingly put the same amount of cayenne in it instead of the chili powder. Needless to say that the first bite caught us on fire!! We coudln't salvage that one.

[C@rol]

ROFLMBO!!! :crofl:
It's still funny til this day.

My husband loves to cook.
So one day he made this beautiful pan of Ziti from scratch.
13 x 9 pan ready to go in the oven.
He picked it up off the counter. Turns to put it in the oven.

SPLATT!!!

YEP!!! You got it. He dropped the pan flat on the floor and
it splattered on every wall, every appliance and anything in
the kitchen.

I was in the den, heard the whole thing, he looked at me
when I walked in the kitchen, our son looked at me. Guess
they thought I was going to start screaming.

I just got a bucket and started cleaning up, didn't say word.
After we all cleaned everything dh made another one.

[JENNIFER780]

I spent over an hour meticulously following my grandma's recipe for her famous Reese's peanut butter bars. I took forever for me to sift the powdered sugar since I only had a small sieve and not a sifter with a handle/crank (which I invested in after the incident). I followed all the steps and after I finished melting the chocolate on top something just didn't seem right....I forgot to add the peanut butter, which is the main ingredient. It was late at night and I was so mad with myself I just walked away and went to bed. I still haven't attempted to make these bars again. Maybe this year, lol.

[Moor]

Let's see, I could actually write on book on this.

1. DD/18 was washing dishes when she was 12. I kept my sharp knives in a locking plastic shoe box. She was supposed to put the knives in the box and then lock it and leave it on the counter. She wanted to help. So she tried to reach the shelf where I kept them, out of younger dd's reach. She she is tip toeing to put them up and the box slips, hits the floor and the lid comes off. Needless to say, one landed in her big toe and I had to take her to the ER to get stitches in her toe, and to get the knife out.

2. DD/12 was waiting to get a piece of pizza that DD/18 was cutting. But instead of waiting for older sis to put it on her plate, younger dd put her plate out and the cheese slipped of the pizza and landed on her hand and I had to take her to the ER for 3rd degree burns on her hand.

3. I had my "starter" for my friendship bread in a baggie. It was on the table so that I would remember to mush it. Dang dog got on the table and ate it. So I got another starter and put it in the cabinet this time, but it blew up in the bag, all over my plates, bowls, and platters. How it got from the bottom shelf onto the dishes on the other shelves, I will never know.

4. NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! defrost frozen fish in the microwave. It takes forever to get the smell out, plus, when dad says one minute, please put in 1:00, not 10:00. OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't walk into the kitchen for almost a week!

5. When having morning sickness, never puke into the sink when the garbage disposal is going, it comes back up at you for some strange reason. *not my choice to puke in sink, couldn't make it anywhere else, as dh was taking out trash, no bag, bathroom was at the other end of the house, and I couldn't walk for being so sick.

6. Don't ever let kids make you breakfast in bed when dh is too hung over to supervise! Pancake batter was even on the ceiling, as they didn't know how to use the electric mixer, so when they plugged it in, they didn't know that they should turn it off before they take it out of the batter.

7. Never let the cat sit between your feet when cooking bacon and using a bacon press. He stretched and used my foot as a scratching post, which caused me to drop the press back into the pan, which splattered grease all over me and the stupid cat, who lost a huge patch of fur where the grease hit him.

8. Never let dh try and make cupcakes. They don't know that there are such things as liners, and then wonder why the cupcakes won't come out like yours.

9. NEVER NEVER NEVER, try and take the lid off of a pressure cooker with out letting the steam out. DH just about lost his life, when he tried this, thinking, that since he was a man, he could do this. Much to my yelling at him to let the steam out. By the way, if this does happen, the lid becomes a missle and will break the hood over your stove, if you are lucky, if not, then it goes flying out the window and hits the dog who is trying to do his business but now, will not do it near a window.

10. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER, NEVER, EVER, let your dh help you with spring cleaning. What may take you a couple of days, will turn into a month. Because he has to question every thing you have in the kitchen, try and improve on how you do things, and then when you can't find anything, neither can he, because he didn't put things back where they belonged. He will try and help you clean, but you don't clean like his mother and her way is best, even though you have been doing it for 14 years and he has never complained about it before!