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OK, what's your worst, your funniest, your most obvious, your cleverest recovered, etc... kitchen blunder?
I have three to offer. You all know the brisket story already.
1) Carrot cake without the flour. OOPS. I remembered shortly after putting it in the oven, and fixed it. Took a while to live it down though.
2) I can't take credit for this: Bouillabaisse without shelling the shrimp. That was Amit, a guy known in our living group for... creative... cooking explorations. (Favorite quote: "Does it need more oregano?")
3) Fig bars from a mix, when I was something like seven. I added two cups of water to the light brown stuff and three tablespoons of water to the dark brown stuff. OOPS. I tried a couple of creative (for a seven-year-old) solutions to the gloppy crust mix. I set it on the warm spot on the counter above the dishwasher. Nope, it didn't get any drier. I put it in the oven. The bottom of the (plastic!) bowl started to mold itself to the rack and I got it out of there. Then I mixed the light brown stuff and the dark brown stuff together and made drop cookies.
OK, what are yours?
I have three to offer. You all know the brisket story already.
1) Carrot cake without the flour. OOPS. I remembered shortly after putting it in the oven, and fixed it. Took a while to live it down though.
2) I can't take credit for this: Bouillabaisse without shelling the shrimp. That was Amit, a guy known in our living group for... creative... cooking explorations. (Favorite quote: "Does it need more oregano?")
3) Fig bars from a mix, when I was something like seven. I added two cups of water to the light brown stuff and three tablespoons of water to the dark brown stuff. OOPS. I tried a couple of creative (for a seven-year-old) solutions to the gloppy crust mix. I set it on the warm spot on the counter above the dishwasher. Nope, it didn't get any drier. I put it in the oven. The bottom of the (plastic!) bowl started to mold itself to the rack and I got it out of there. Then I mixed the light brown stuff and the dark brown stuff together and made drop cookies.
OK, what are yours?
did you have a kitchen blunder today?
--failure to read the directions for melting the white-chocolate coating stuff in the microwave resulted in it *burnt* to a dark brown with lots of smoke. (roughly age 13)
--spent much time preparing a contains-lots-of-costly-ingredients german chocolate cake thing for mom's card club. i was super-careful in following the directions, because this was for company. when i pulled it out of the oven, about 1/2" around the edge was done and the center was still batter-y. didn't occur to me until later that the oven wasn't hot -- the (*%^$(%& oven had shut itself off (as it sometimes did - something with the timer feature was wonky). several tearful phone calls later, i dumped it all down the drain, and mom picked up something on the way home from work. (age 11-12)
--tried to make a cake from scratch, beating it by hand with a spoon. it had the texture of cornbread. (again, age 12-ish)
--making mom's vegetable soup, i added 1/2 the box, not 1/2 cup, barley. when i described it to mom over the phone, she called it "slice and eat" soup. (age 22)
i know there's more. LOTS more.