O/S disasters.... let us share...

elona

DD (21) decided to microwave a bread roll while we were out.

We came back to find the kitchen smelling of smoke and microwave's interior covered in brown (it was white!)

She gave 1 roll 2 minutes in the microwave on 850! Roll caught fire and she raced into the garden with the smoking bread roll - to the bemusement of our next door neighbours who could see her from their kitchen!

I pointed out - firmly and loudly that if she had just left the (literally) flaming thing on a plate for a few minutes it would have defrosted naturally.

competitionscafe

hazzie123 wrote: »

Luckly the light switch was turn off or I probably wouldn`t be here today.

How to ... change a lightbulb:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2029114,00.html

eileenfromplaistow

I cannot make flapjacks - either rock hard or eat the bits with a spoon. May try the Jamie Oliver Red nose ones though.
BUT, my finest hour, that has given my husband years of amusement in the telling, is my tray of flapjacks "their adhesive properties were such that they stuck to the Teflon more than the Teflon stuck to the tin". ie. they stripped the Teflon off with them. He thinks we should tell DuPont so they can use my recipe to stick the ceramic tiles on the Space Shuttle!
As an aside , my daughters and husband have a "10 second rule" when food is dropped on the floor - pick it up in less than 10 seconds and it is still edible!

Pollybear

Our rule is just to get to it before the dog

Katmc2k

when i was a student and not long cooking for myself i tried to make a sauce with sweetcorn in it. emptied the tin into the sauce but didn't realise you got weird watery stuff in a tin (we'd always had frozen at home) and it all went into the sauce. i probably wouldn't have cared but unfortunately my guest was there at the time and was not too impressed so i had to chuck the whole thing...gutted!

ps maybe a stupid question but what is O/S? my story may not be relevant but it always made me laugh anyway....

Penny-Pincher!!

OS=Oldstyle

Frugal_Fox

I've just sat here and chuckled madly through this thread. DH thinks I'm an absolute loon...

Today I forgot to put the paddle in the BM - remember before it started mixing luckily!
Last time I made chicken stock from the roast - I forgot about it, until the pan burnt dry.
For our first Christmas in our new home - we'd bought a frozen turkey - I had no idea over size and so merrily got it out the freezer on Christmas Eve. It finished defrosting Boxing Day! I rang my mum in a mad panic on Christmas Day saying - have you room for two more?

Ooo and I'm banned from our local tip - by my DH. Last time I was there I threw the car keys in and kept hold of the rubbish.....

Katmc2k

stefejb wrote: »

there she was with her head over the liquidiser and red stuff all over everywhere - we thought she had liquidised her face somehow

shouldn't be funny but it sooo is.... :rotfl:

i do remember one time i ate frozen fishfingers didn't realise they were supposed to be cooked...!

and my little brother (who received the reverse mohican from me once too many) put lard on his toast thinking it was "white butter" and kinda liked it! he also ate raw bacon thinking it was parmaham...

ha ha thought of some really embarressing ones, i once wore my sisters pants (didn't have any clean ones) and they just fell straight down (too big) when i was at school. very shameful but it gets worse. to make them stay up i (very resourcefully for a small child i think) gathered up the extra material at the front and secured it with a hair bobble. so it stuck straight out the front under my skirt. cannot begin to imagine what that looked like and my mother nearly had a fit when i got home.... so did my sister! :rotfl:

1sttimer_2

Oh my - good job I'm on my own in the office - I keep squealing out loud at the great antics written here. I've done loads of the above, straining stock down plug etc and especially dry boiling eggs almost weekly (do I ever learn!) but here are a couple of others.

Before we were married my BF was still at college and so I took a cookery course to while away my spare evenings. I used to try the recipes out on him on a sunday evening. One of them needed to be fried in 10Z of lard (no healthy living ideas then) and yep you've guessed it, i read it at 10oz !! I realised it did look a bit fatty so stopped at about 5 oz. He still eat it though!

Another thing I did was way after I was married was cleaning out chip pan. I don't like fatty foods (not surprising after above) and cannot do chips at all usually ending up having loads of burnt bits in oil/fat so I decided to strain the hot fat into a bowl - using a plastic sieve :rolleyes:

My DD1 and her friend wanted to 'cook' chocolate crispies when they were about 12. I thought not a lot could go wrong there, so I left them to it. Only turned out that they melted the chocolate in my tupperware mixing bowl in the microwave on high - resulting in a gooey chocolate/plastic mess that they actually tried to add the cornflakes into:eek:

Hubby is no better either, DD1 and I were visiting a sick relative in USA last summer and he decided to have a bought meal straight out of the freezer for his lunch. It should have been defrosted first, but thought he could do that in the microwave. Set the timer for 2 hours on high (thought he'd done 2 mins) and went to work upstairs. Resulting smell brought the street out! He then rang me to ask what he could do about it!! He did try to clean it out but when we got back home 2 weeks later - it still stunk to high heaven :eek:

anniestar

Well dont know if its a disaster yet...........Cant get the s*dding cake out of the tin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks very interesting!!!

Edited. Anyone need a house brick????? CAN NOT get it from hte tin, have dented(a lot) the base of said tin oh yeah and did I mention the snapped pallet knife! GRRRR!