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

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. My mom made an oil-in-the-frying-pan fire once too. She smothered it with a pot lid and wound up dropping the whole thing into a snowbank. (Lucky. Winter.) I think we got McDonald's that day.

Oil-in-the-frying-pan makes for a REALLY IMPRESSIVE fire, doesn't it? :-/

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

She smothered it with a pot lid

I would have given anything for a lid that day! I actually thought of it at the time, but it was a sauté pan and it didn't have one, and I wasn't about to start trying other lids to see what might fit closely enough to smother the flames!

Oil-in-the-frying-pan makes for a REALLY IMPRESSIVE fire, doesn't it? :-/

And how!!! I was really afraid those cabinets (or the pot holders hanging on the side of the upper oven on their magnet hooks) were going to catch and my new house would burn down! After the huge losses I'd had in the past couple of years, I was so relieved that all I lost was a few inches of flooring that I didn't even care that much about it.



OT: I can't get over how cute you look with this haircut!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think my mom's pot lid didn't fit all too closely either, but at least it got the flames from all-the-way-up-to-the-range-hood down to just-up-to-the-lid size. My mom was also lucky that the stove controls were in front, by her hip.

I'm so glad your house wasn't damaged! Ours wasn't either, but the smoke was fierce for a while.

OT: Awwwww, thanks!! :-)