what's been your biggest recipe oops?

cooking is all about experimentation. sometimes things work, sometimes they don't.

what are some recipies that you thought would turn out great and turned out the opposite? (they don't have to be recipies, they can be even a bad combination of flavours or whatever)

mine:

• oatmeal made with chocolate milk (it actually WASN'T that good)
• apple, and rasberries put in the microwave with melted peanut butter ontop (rasberries and peanut butter = nono)

lol, share your cooking oopss'.

I'd heard you can put apples into smoothies, so I tried to make what I thought should be a tasty cran-apple smoothie.  Er, no -_- .  It turned into something similar to applesauce, which I hate the texture of, so I couldn't tolerate it.

Adding salsa to mac and cheese. It was horrible, and this is one experiment I may never live down!

I made chicken soup once and added condensed milk instead of evaporated by mistake. Talk about revolting! lol

I don't have anything at the moment (although I'm sure I've done some doozies), just had to tell rockydog -- I was dying while reading yours, having cooked with both I can just imagine the looks on the first taste.  HAHAHHAHAHAHAHa

Laughing with you not at you

this wasn't really me experimenting, but rather just being hung over and not paying attention.  a few years ago on new year's day i was making pancakes for all my friends.  instead of just putting a cup or whatever of vegetable oil into the mix, i dumped the whole container in...it took me about 5 minutes to realize what i did wrong.  it was pretty gross.

Trust me coach_k its not an experience I'd like to repeat!!!

Poor hubby tried to pretend it was nice whilst I just spat it straight out and told him not to bother

Leaving the bag of giblets in the turkey (a classic mistake everybody is required to make once in their lives!)

Not defrosting the turkey long enough, thinking it must be done, cutting into it to discover it is still raw and bloody. Then cutting it up anyway, and nuking the slices while everyone was waiting in the dining room. Actually, that was the moistest turkey we ever had. But it's amazing nobody got ill.

Recently I tried to make an apple crisp but with pears instead - they had gotten overly ripe. I ended up with a gooey mess - the pears liquified completely.

Yesterday I made a couscous recipe that was on the back of the box... cinnamon, tumeric, bay leaves, chili peppers, mustard seeds.... and it was weird, I expected it to be quite flavorful, but it tasted like cardboard. I'm still scratching my head over that one.

I once figured more is better, and added something like 10 dried chilis to a stir-fry, crushing them up first. It was inedible - way too spicey!!!

Something is wrong with my crockpot, and it can no longer cook dried beans. I leave it on for 12 hours, and the beans still turn out crunchy.

Once I tried to make oatmeal overnight in the crockpot. It overcooked and was very hard to scrape out.

Ugh, I'm a pretty bad cook, aren't I? :-)

I once once made sugar cookies for a boyfriend and forgot to add the sugar!  Talk about tasting like cardboard!  (He wasn't my boyfriend for very long after that!)  lol

ummm... this is not exactly "cooking".... but EVERY FREAKING TIME I make a digorno's pizza I forget to take the cardboard out, so the pizza is stuck to the cardboard and the cardboard is stuck to the pizza pan and all I can manage to peel off is parts of the crust. 

 

microwaved oatmeal using yogurt instead of the usual fluids [milk/water]. didn't taste sweet at ALL... just awful

I added cocoa powder and splenda to cottage cheese thinking it would be a great healthy way to curb my chocolate cravings. Ugh! It makes me dry-heave just thinking of it! Gross!

I've had a few of these.  I think the most embarassing was making lemonade at a friend's house and using salt instead of sugar (who puts salt in an identical canister?).

When I bake, I premeasure everything.  I was doing a banana pineapple cake and discovered, while it was baking and I was cleaning up, the cup of sugar that should have gone into the batter.  It wasn't too bad because the fruit in the cake was sweet.  I made a syrup of the sugar and pineapple juice and poured it over the cake in the pan while it was warm.  It turned out pretty good.

Sometimes you can fix it and sometimes not!

So I don't experiment much...so I can't think of any stories of my own, however...

When I was little, my mom decided to make what is known as scooter slop.  Its basically a homemade tuna helper, made with mac and cheese, tuna, peas, and corn (the original scooter slop, made by scooter, also included ketchup since he put ketchup on EVERYTHING, but we made it without.)

Anyway, it started fine, but my mom kept "substituting" ingredients (such as mayo instead of butter) and apparently it got to the point that my dad straight up told her to NEVER make that again, and the dog wouldn't even eat it (this was one of those dogs who would eat anything).

I'd actually have to ask her what the substitutions were, but from what I remember her telling me it even sounds gross.

    I did the sugar cookies with no sugar on them and actually put the sugar on top at the end and had to serve them to parents of my kindergardeners. everyone ate them cause the "kids" made them,  i tried subing flax seed for an egg, when i was baking something. i saw it somewhere,  jesus it was terrible, i ate it anyway and i had bad cramps, thank god i did not serve it to anyone.  its good to read everyones mistakes

I once tried to make peanut butter cookies that i improvised with the ingredients. they weren't for me, a little too high calorie, but i figured it would be nice...anyways, long story short, too much oil produced these black rings around the cookies. i sneakily cut off the burnt part, and the funny thing was that they liked it...gross.

I also improvised cookies with crushed Kix and Cheerios before, put together with applesauce and other weird ingredients. They turned out too soft, and with a verrry weird texture. Still tasted good though! Haha. 

in a word: if it LOOKS like baking soda, it probably is, despite the mislabelled canister. salt doesn't STICK TOGETHER like that...

:)

jenmcc -  That turkey story is HYSTERICAL!

I never really f'ed up too bad.  I am pretty meticulous with my recipes (all made up in my head, lol) and cooking times.

i was making chili colorado for my dad when he visited me from texas.  its pretty easy to make, beef cubed, 5 kinds of chilis, a bay leaf, cumin, salt pepper, orange peel, el pato tomato sauce, etc etc served over rice.  Im not a huge beef fan and i couldnt afford the calories for the way my dad makes rice.  (He washed the rice 3xs, cooks the dry kernals in lots of olive oil, garlic and onions then adds water, tomato and cilantro and cooks).  so i decided to make the chili with boiled shredded chicken and to make his rice recipe with brown rice and cooking spray.  Biiiig mistake.  the rice burned in like 5 seconds and when i made the second batch, it ended up the consistancy of rice pudding.  I still, to this day, dont know how that happenned.  Plus, since the chicken has a much more delicate taste than the beef, and i didnt adjust the seasonings for that change, you couldnt taste anything but the sauce.  Oh well.. the sauce was still delicious!! we ended up eating it with out the rice. lol.

 Rena:)

brandy_m_gray eeewwww eeeewww that makes me gag cause tuna noodle cassarole isnt nasty enough wiyhout adding mayo and ketchup (wretchgagbarf!!) I made a recipe which sounded really good in theory. It had sweet potatos chick peas peanut butter curry sauce and greenbeans (maybe some other crap cant remember) those are some of my fav foods. Stew in crockpot for a few hours. For some reason it was the worst thing almost ever I also tried to make lofat fried fish. crusted tilapia w/ oatmeal sprayed it with cooking spray and baked eeew dry and just nasty even my husband wouldnt touch it gross

I knew you could combined canned spiced pumpkin with vanilla yogurt to make a sort of pudding.  Didn't have any canned pumpkin so I used butternut sqash.  Except I didn't roast it, which would've carmelized the sugars and made it sweeter.  I nuked it, then spun it in the food processor.

Ewww, stringy undercooked vegetable pulp!  i added the yogurt anyway, hoping for a miracle.

No miracle.  Threw the whole thing out.