Cooking Mishapps!!!!!!!

About 2 years ago my mom gave me a case of her nutrisystem food, (yoyo dieter herself) Anyways before I left to go home, we had a HUGE fight, but thats besides the point.   After I got home I decided to eat one of the ramen noodle type soups from the case which required boiling water to be poured into the cup to cook it.  So i turned on the (electric)burner to boil my water, but it was the wrong burner. The one I turned on had a plastic burner cover on it, and the thing bursted instantly into flames!!!!!!! Scared the crap out of me.   After that i was convinced the nutrisystem food was cursed becasue of the fight.  I ended up giving most of it away, that food was gross!!!!!!   

What are your crazy cooking mishapps?

I don't have any (yet) *knocks on wood*, but when I was in 3rd grade my mom forgot she had a turkey in the oven on a hectic Thanksgiving morning and we left and went to my grandparents house an hour away, stayed all day, and came home in the evening to the fire department in the driveway! Somehow there was no damage done... haha.

 

once I went to a friend's house and we decided to make some pasta because we were starving.  I filled the pot with water and put it on the stove.  Since her stove was different than the one at home it confused me and i turned on the wrong burner. Well, the burner that I did turned on had some paper towels on it and they caught on fire!
It scared the sh*t out of me and I grabbed the paper towels and put them into the pot of water.  I seriously thought her house was going to burn down.  Now when we hang out, her mom doesn't let me into the kitchen, heh.
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hey ewim, that sounds like me!  My name is Adriane ;)    Kudos!!!

Didn't happen to me cuz I'm a good cook ;)  but a guy I knew in the dorms put a pizza in one of the ovens downstairs once then went to study for an exam during finals week.  He fell asleep while he was studying and of course completely forgot about his pizza...about an hour and a half later (sometime around 12:30 or 1 a.m.) we're all forced out of the dorms by the fire alarms going off.  It took the firemen 30 minutes to check everything in the building and figure out that it was from the pizza in the oven downstairs.  By then the pizza was this weird little black disk-like thing with curled up edges...I might have been a little more ticked if I'd been trying to sleep rather than re-reading my Shakespeare again before the exam :)  As it was, it was pretty funny.

Oh yeah, the kitchen area smelled like charcoal for days.

LOL I should have titled this one "kitchen Mishapps" but owell. 

heres another funny story anyways.....   when i was a kid my cousin and I decided to clean up the kitchen for my mom. well instead of dishwasher soap, i accidently put in DAWN dish soap.  OMG talk about the biggest mess of bubbles all over the kitchen you have EVER SEEN!  We freaked out thinking we broke the machine.  Needless to say we had to work twice as hard to clean up all the mess we created trying to clean in the first place!  Its hard to remember but i think we got it all cleaned up before the parentals came home.  To this day i dont think I ever told my mom about it. LOL

many, many moons ago I was round a friends and we decided some popcorn would be nice, however there was no microwave popcorn in the house.  So she decided that regular popcorn would be the same right?  wrong......there was this little black pile in the microwave and all the lining of the microwave had melted and was hanging down like melted cheese!!

My Mom was making french fries once and fell asleep on the couch with the hot oil in a pan on the stove, I went into the kitchen to find flames leaping out of the pot and engulfing the oven hood.  Woke her up and we managed to get a lid on the pot and then it out the front door into the pouring rain.

When I was about 8, I used to bake cookies (all my friends were so impressed that I was allowed to use the kitchen) and I misread the recipe and put half a cup of salt instead of half a tsp, I was mortified that I'd screwed up.

I could tell you the story of a Thanksgiving, long, long ago, but it's too long and I don't feel like typing that much.  Here's the short version. Use your imagination.

Cast of characters - 6 adults and 8 children under the age of 12
Act one - power outage in the midst of cooking the turkey.
Act two - freezing rain, so the charcoal grill is fired up in the garage with the doors open.
Act three - While the grownups are distracted, The kids play hide and seek under the table and pull off the cloth and everything with it, then try to "fix" it.
Act four - a gallon of Famiglia Cribari chianti, a lot of noise, a blackened turkey and stuffing, and the power restored just as we sat down to eat.

We laughed so hard we couldn't tasted the awful food.  Every now and then the noise would die down and it would be very quiet.  Then someone would say something like "the cranberry sauce is very good" and we'd start up again.

Once when i was about 8 or 9 i decided to make rice crispie bars.  I had never made them before and i didn't read the box directions.  So i put all of the ingredients in the pot at once-butter, marshmellows, and the RICE CRISPIES.  Not so smart.  We had to throw them out.  I have gotten shit for being a bad cook ever since and i'm 23 now.

Lets see, when I was about 8 I started a grease fire making french fries. To put it out, I took it to the sink and poured water on it! Back then, I didn't know the whole "salt rule." I ended up torching my moms curtains!

When I was 12, I made cookies. When it was time to take them out, the oven wouldn't open. I didn't know my mom had a locking oven, so I had to call her at work to figure out how to open it. Worse, I wasn't supposed to be cooking. (see grease fire story above!) By the time I got the cookies out, they were like charcoal.

Oh and last month, I made a quiche (think that's how it's spelled). Anyway, the recipe called for condensed milk. I didn't realize the can I had was sweetened. Uhg... it was awful. It was like eggs full of sugar. No one in my house could stomach it. :)

well...   this is really the cooking disaster...   more like the aftermath...

when I was younger, like 12-13 ish... my  mom used the crockpot for dinner, well it was my night to do the dishes, so I just put the crockpot in the sink...  and I couldnt figure out why the hair on my arms was standing up...  I put my hand into the water and you guess it...I electrocuted myself... luckily I had running shoes on, and that basically grounded me...  to this day, I get crap for it... 

as far as other kitchen mishaps...   nothing really too bad, I sometimes leave the oven on...  nothing bad has come of it thank god...  or I'll cook something that isnt really that good, usually trying new things, and we'll end up eating cereal instead....

Remember when people made popcorn on the stove in a pot?? 

My brother wanted popcorn and went to make it.  He left it (dork) and went to the bathroom.  My sis and I were in another room when we noticed all the smoke in the house.  The walls, ceiling, windows, curtains...all were smoked.  Of course, being self sustaining kids...we tried cleaning it all up before our mom got home.    You should've seen us work!!!  We got everything but the curtains...we even got every nook and crany of the ceiling. 

Nevermind it scaring us...it scared us more that our mom would be upset!  Lol  We didn't want to be grounded and not be able to go outside. 

When I was 10 or 11, I decided I would make apple fritters to surprise the family on Sunday morning.  I confused Baking POWDER and Baking SODA -- these were the best looking, most gawdawful tasting apple fritters in the world!  The faces on the family (the parentals tried to play it off), said it all -- and then I tasted one...  To this day, I have never tried to make apple fritters again.

My SIL decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner one year (I missed this) -- she was only 18 or so and had never done it before -- she totally missed the giblet pack inside the bird!  Apparently, she just added the stuffing around it, but the back was not "protected" and the paper burned -- that's when it was discovered.

We used to "keep" leftover pizza in the oven overnight (pizza is a rare thing with so many preservatives that being left out all night and eaten has never gotten anyone in my family sick -- I am not advocating it however).  I was away for the weekend, my husband decided to cook -- smelled the cardboard box -- pulled it from the oven, smoking, not burning.  Gave it to my son to take to the dumpster... Apparently, it was REALLY hot, because it started a fire in the dumpster that melted the plastic dumpster lid and the fire department was called in.  I do not know if any one still in the apartment complex actually knows who started the fire -- I'm not telling

speaking of dumpster fires, my 2nd day at my new job my boss went to dump the cigarette butt can out in the dumpster behind the salon.   About 15 minutes later the entire dumpster was smoking, and fire department came out.  It was SO funny we still tease our boss about it! LOL

I was the victim of two kitchen mishaps.

My daughter made an easy dinner and when I took a spoon of mashed potatoes, I felt like I had a mouthful of bitter sand (although it had looked just fine).  I was at the sink gargling it out like crazy and couldnt get rid of the taste.  Turns out she misunderstood and put in 1/4 cup instead of 1/4 tsp of salt in it.  I cant explain how horrible it was, practically 1/2 salt and 1/2 potatoe flakes.  I kept asking how could you think that could be right but as a new cook, she had no idea. 

The other was thanksgiving morning up early to make two giant trays of green bean casserole which is great for non cooks easy!  I mixed the goupy mushroom soup with fried onions in a huge pot.  Then I started dropping bags of frozen green beans into the bowl, stirring and adding more, stirring.  The frozen bag itself HAD the recipe.  Towards the end, I notice something drop from a bag into the pot that was not a green bean.  I fish it out and its folded up coupon in cellophane.  I start stirring through the giant pot and find a 2nd one.  Then I had to become the human microscope, taking spoonfuls of goopy mushroom soupy green beans, dropping it out on a plate, spreading thin examining it and dropping it into a new pot. Spoon by spoon over and over.  All I could think was someone choking to death on one of them.  I called my friend since I was the only one making it and he said he was sure it was fine.  I ddint know how many bags had coupons.  Despite his okay, I couldnt risk bringing it and thankfully had also signed up to bring an additional small ham.  I called Birds Eye and what do you know, not their first call on this.  Still have a birdeyes tote bag . 

I also have memory issues so I had put a dozen eggs to hard boil.  Turns out eggs shells do burn.  Did the same thing with shrimp but smelt it before it got bad (although shrimp boils quickly so it was king do rubbery).  Now I refuse to leave the kitchen with a pot - too risky.

I was once very lucky... i was ill and as such my brain was off for the day... i found some soup to microwave and it said to cover it, so naturally i got a saucepan lid... a metal one with a rubber handle. I was so lucky that all that happened was the handle melted!

I think I shared this story on another forum:

All I can say is, if you cook spaghetti squash in the microwave, make sure you poke enough holes in it!  The 2nd time I ever cooked one of these I opened my microwave to an EXPLODED squash.  There were squash "entrails" all over the inside of my microwave.  It was on the inside of the door, hanging from the top and there were squash seed piled in the corners.  Fortunately, I was able to salvage most of it but, oh what a mess!

i tried to make a s'more once in the microwave - the marshmallow expanded till it got stuck on the microwave door, and when i took a bite of graham cracker, it was literally burned on the inside. such a sad story ...

I just made spaghetti squash Monday  night... I baked mine though...It smelled so good...   didnt taste so good though..    like I said, I like to try new things... and this wasnt so good....  no thanks!