Kitchen Blunders

[cjsmith]

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?

Comments

[catrinaz.livejournal.com]

I did this (the open-the-oven-feed-the-flames thing) almost exactly 7 years ago while hugely pregnant with my second child. It was a "Big New Yorker" pizza in the box, and the box touched the side of the oven and was smouldering. Until I opened the oven door. I too screeched like a cavewoman, grabbed the box and dropped it outside my front door. On the carpeted landing in my apartment building. It burned/melted the carpet both inside (where a small piece dropped) and outside the door.

I cried.