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?

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[jtidwell.livejournal.com]

We got a spiffy new bread machine a few years ago, at the height of the craze. We wanted to bake a nice loaf of plain old white bread, so we got out the canister with the *bread* flour (not the regular flour), followed the recipe, and set it a-baking.

When it came out, it looked fine, but it tasted... wrong. Like baking soda. And too much salt, and it was a little on the sweet side. What on earth had we done wrong with the recipe?

Turns out we'd used the canister of Bisquick, not bread flour.