Kitchen Disaster!

It's probably not a "disaster" - but I volunteered to cook for a whole week.. Me and Betty Crocker did just that. By the end of the week, I'd gained 18 pounds!. Kept them for 20 years!

I once splattered chocolate cake batter all over the kitchen floor, counters, walls, and ceiling. Who knew you weren't supposed to lift the electric beaters while mixing up a cake?

Humm, my wrost kitchen disaster is I added corn. I cooked pasta and teryaki seasoning. My son said, Mom why did you have to add corn. Opps

A steak in a cast iron pan started to smoke&set off the alarm. I ran the hood fan & opened a window, but it looked so bad that one neighbour called the fire dept I had to explain to all these men "There's no fire, I just can't cook". So embarrassing.

I once thought it would be a brillant idea to use salsa as a pasta sauce. They're both tomato based right? Turns out, warmed salsa is disgusting. I spit out the first bite and had to do an emergency pizza order even though I was dirt poor

I don't know if this qualifies but here's another: I work in restaurants, and at one of them we had grilled, whole lobster on the menu, but there was only one left. A client ordered it, and it was incredibly busy that night. (to be continued...)

When I went into the kitchen to pick up the plated lobster, I was moving way too fast and the lobster went flying off the plate and out the kitchen door into the dining room. The chef wanted to kill me there and then.

One time I tried microwaving something for breakfast before school. I ended up eating nothing that morning. No, I didn't follow the instructions.

I decided to bake banana bread. All the ingredients were there and the bananas were at the perfect ripeness. I grabbed the canisters I needed—-sugar, flour, etc. The mixture was too wet, so I added flour. Still too wet, so more flour. Continued...

Still too wet. I gave up and stuck it in the oven. It would not firm up. I cooked it for longer. Nada. Turning up the heat didn’t work either. I gave up and threw the concoction, which was about the consistency of pudding, in the trash. Continued...

When I told my husband about it that night, he said “That canister doesn’t hold flour, it holds powdered sugar.”

From Mummsy Many years ago, my mom had ma this amazing 3 layer chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. I had decided I wanted to make this cake, so I got the recipe from her. The recipe called for both cake flour and a leavening agent (CONT)

... who knew those two were not really meant to be used together? The cake exploded all over the inside of the oven. But the pieces I picked off of the side of the oven were quite tasty, I never attempted to make that cake again ...

In 1974 while making a batch of microwave pecan brittle (I love brittle and all nuts) I discovered that sugar and salt look different and Karo syrup does not mix well with salt. My only regret (sob,sob) was losing those several pounds of very good pecans.

Less than a year after I got married I baked an apple pie for my husband. It looked like it came from a magazine but it tasted like something else. I accidentally put pickling salt instead of sugar in the pie.

Sandee Barber (on Facebook) Mashing the potatoes for Thanksgiving in a Teflon lined pot Looked like I'd peppered them Needless to say we didn't have mashed potatoes that year

Made a 4th of July cake from scratch, icing, 3 layers of cake. I started beating my icing hoping for that creamy texture with peaks..no.15 minutes pass, no peaks, 20 minutes not even a hint. 30 minutes .40 minutes, finally.."peaks" appear. Never again!

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