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

stas4949

Oh my where do I start lol

I have done the "lid coming off the ketchup" thing all over the dining room wall, it was cream and I had to re-paint!!!!

Tried to make homemade wine but forgot to do one of the stages before bottling it up and corking it.... Picture this - I wake in the middle of the night thinking we are being burgled as there are strange noises downstairs (I shut ds's bedroom doors on way to investigate) having got downstairs armed with a lamp (oh my god what was I thinking!!!!!!!). The red wine bottles were laid on top of my cabinet so corks where popping out and red wine was shooting towards the opposite wall and onto the laminate floor...... The best is yet to come..... DS1 got woken up with me shutting his door, wanders downstairs just as another cork pops out and sees me standing in a pool of red...... he starts screaming hysterically thinking I've been shot..... I tried not to laugh at the time but we laugh about it now.... poor child

ooh and the first time I used my wet suit..... I didn't realise that water came in lol my mate thought it was highly amusing as I ranted " this thing doesn't work I'm gettin wet" (with a few added swear words!!!!!)

this thread has kept me amused for a few days thanks everyone

morwenna

When you make banoffi pie using the old fashioned "back in the day" recipe which calls for simmering a tin of condensed milk (unopened, in a pan of water) for hours - DO NOT take the dog out for a walk...no matter how piteously they are looking at you. What happens is the tin explodes and the resulting ceiling redecoration makes removing artex look easy and takes a LOT of explaining to your parents :rotfl:

count_rostov

Mardatha's post about OH not liking the OS food made me thing about all my own OS disasters.
I think the most disgusting thing I've ever made was a haggis pasta bake. We had haggis one evening. The next evening the cupboards were bare and there wasn't even one portion of leftover haggis. I thought 'no problem, I'm a thrifty housewife and will just whip something up out of nothing'. I made a pasta bake with the leftover haggis and turnip, a white sauce and carrots and onions which had been boiled with the pasta. I tried to make it a bit tastier by grating some cheese on top. It was so stodgy and tasteless, it was worse than school food. Even the hens were cautious of it when we gave it to them for breakfast!
So, what was your worst OS disaster?

Penelope_Penguin

We've all had them I'll add your disaster to the existing thread so that you can see what others have done

Penny. x

Plum_Pie

2005: Tried to make a flat-ish round fruit loaf. Actually made a flour and currant cannonball.

Didn't have the nouse to turn it into bread-and-butter pudding.

After 1 day, each slice was like a chew-toy, with a tooth-chipping crust, lightly dusted with cinnamon.

M.E.

Absentmindedly strained the chicken stock into the cutlery drawer!
Yuk

Plum_Pie

count_rostov wrote: »

I think the most disgusting thing I've ever made was a haggis pasta bake.

Scottish Thrift: Ur takin it too far!:rotfl: :T

Olliebeak

I've had various disasters concerning leek and potato soup - only one batch could ever be described as 'decent enough to eat'!
But the worst came from a recipe that called for 4 cloves of garlic :eek: - I thought it sounded a bit much at the time . OH tried to be supportive and did manage to down an entire bowlful - but I could tell it wasn't too good and my suspicions were confirmed when he didn't automatically go back for second helpings .

wendy_ann1983

before getting into MSE i went to make my BF a carrot cake from a box mix, thought i was doing really well till i went to take it out the oven and looked at the counter, where there were 3 eggs staring at me, that was inedible

i remember making a really nice choc mousse in school and tried to recreate it a few yrs ago, melted the choc and marshmallows in what i thought were the right quantities, spooned it into 4 glasses and put in the fridge to set, served them up for dinner and realised i must have got the amounts mixed up as it was just too think and sticky, so sticky in fact that even after 1 day in soak it wouldnt come off the glasses and we ended up throwing them

my aunt did the hair clipper trick to her hubby, burst out laughing, heard a thud, turned round, the shock of her laughing had given the pet cockatiel a heart attack and it died

lastest mishap though, i brought a new big slow cooker so i cn batch cook stuff, did a roast chicken the other sunday and thougth id have a go at making soup, cant be that hard, so in goes carcass, water, a few root veg, leave in slow cooker, forget to turn it off over night, wake up to a really thick brown goopy mess tried to salvage by adding some more water and stirring a bit but had to admit defeat when the bones disintigrated

my mum used to make my dads packed lunches but had run out of the usual fillings, she knew that he liked treacle on bread when he was at home so made him treacle sarnies, wrapped them up in foil and put them in the fridge, dad none the wiser (thinking its ham or cheese) takes them to work the next day, opens the foil and is greated with a big sticky mess

oh and one more, i wasnt a bad cook when i was at school but must have been having a ditzy day, was supposed to be melting choc in microwave, used an old xmas pud container, logic being that pud was microwaved so must be ok, didnt think about the temp that choc gets to so ended up melting the choc and the bowl, had some choc left so asked the kitchen tech if there was a bowl i could use to melt on the hob, she gave me a plastic tub (you can see where this is going cant you) i didnt even think, put it into pan of water, turned on heat and yep, you guessed it melted that bowl too.

abaxas

SWMBO decided to make a low cal Thai green curry.

Recipe wanted creme fraiche but we didnt have any, so cottage cheese was substituted.

It looked like someone had added curdled milk to it, but tasted lovely!