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

kunekune

I put some eggs on to boil ...

And went out to work. Our nanny (those were the days, but honest it wasn't as posh as it sounds) arrived to find a black pan, the electric hob still on, and bits of egg all over the ceiling.

Penelope_Penguin

We still shudder at the time we were camping, and to save fuel tried to cook the pasta straight into the sauce It all congealed and we went to the pub for chips :T

Now that this has fallen from the front of Old Style, I'll add it to the existing thread

Penny. x

zippychick

yous kept this thread well hidden :rotfl:

Im a new consciously OS er and so far the following

Banana muffins which were glump and stuck to the paper, yuck, Eat the outsides and binned the rest

Pancakes on pancake day - rotten, tasted like flour. Binned

Fairy cakes tasted like egg - still eaten by greatful friends after id made them for them

leek and potato soup in SC, tasted like, mush. In freezer for emergencies!

Good to see other OSers have fails too! Makes me feel normal and not such a failure.

The best failures are ones you can hide from people!

celyn90

Ahem...

List of things I have exploded in the last two weeks:

Apples, eggs, potatoes, tin of condensed milk, carton of yoghurt, flask of yoghurt, a pressure cooker, a pyrex bowl, two litres of HM ginger beer

I am sure the neighbours think I have a firing range in my kitchen.

List of things I have melted in the past two weeks:

Two brand new saucepans (Tefal thermospot doesn't have a "nuke" setting) and a sugar thermometer.

Plastic cookie cutters are not a substitute for crumpet rings
You cannot cook a sponge cake in a plastic rice bowl in the oven.

Silicon baking sheets whilst resistant to Siberian ice flows and the inside of a volcano should be removed prior to slicing a cake. Or indeed icing a cake and serving it to your inlaws.

WD40 is not a substitute for spray oil - how it got into the food cupboard in the first place I will never work out :eek:

sillyvixen

when i was living at home my mum borrowed my food processor to slice carrots for a church dinner for 80 people.. she got carried away and kept chucking carrots in slice but did not empty the carrots out and kept going - the result was a strange screeching and crunching sound, as the slicing plate buckled and started to grate the plastic cover of the machine ... mum panicked and instead of turning of the machine called me down to sort the problem!! the processor was ruined and we spent ages running individual slices of carrots under the tap to remove the plastic shards and sliceing the rest of the carrots by hand - so much for labour saving!!

not money saving either - a new slicing plate and a lid for a kenwood food processor cost her a small fortune!

vixtress

got the hm pizza out of the oven to add more toppings, put it back in the oven, cant find the plastic chopping board oops, whats that dripping through the bars of the oven and dont get me started on the smell

FairyElephant_2

champys wrote: »

Anyone else ever come home to that anticipated wonderful slow-cooked meal after a day away, and found the plug point was still switched off at the wall?

YES - ME - twice :mad: !

"Quote-Patchwork Quilt:My DH thought the chicken stock I had just made was dishwater and threw it down the sink."

Mine has thrown away my veg stock twice - and also the potato water I was saving to put in the BM (following advice on here) despite me telling him 2 minutes before what I was saving it for :mad: .


I made my 'famous' bread pudding (great gran's recipe - never fails!) last w/e, but for the first time ever it didn't come out right....still very soggy despite an extra 20 mins cooking. Luckily the step-kids still liked it and ate it out of bowls with a spoon, rather than in slices as usual.

2 days later I went to put something in the microwave and found a dish of butter which had been melted and then re-set.....guess what was wrong with the bread pudding????

In true MS style I used the (separated) melted & solidifed butter in my next couple of loaves in the BM - waste-not-want-not!

Steel_2

culpepper wrote: »

I forgot to put the paddle in the breadmaker and when the time up beeper went off there was a horrible mess and no bread.

I've done that...I've also forgotten to add the water.

Made yorkshire puddings once and forgot to heat the oil up first before putting the batter in. 30 minutes later there were 12 slimy uncooked lumps in the bottom of the fairy cake tin.

Burnt 6lb of rhubarb jam and smashed the jam thermometer in there as well by letting it touch the bottom of the pan, which meant I couldn't even salvage the stuff to go with sponge and custard.

rachbc

I've just chucked 4l of carrot and corander 'soup' made with whopsied soup mix - it was rank. Absolutley no idea why but thankfully I only paid 10p for the mix!

smithyjules

Queenie wrote: »

~
~ Bathing 1st child for the 1st time at home in the baby bath, carefully washed his front, very carefully turned him over to wash his back, made certain my forearm was supporting his neck ... MIL raced in, grabbed him quick ... his face was in the water!

A friend once told me that when she had her baby the first bath she gave her at home she did as follows...

in the living room as it was warmer, with baby oil. Hence slippery fish/baby kept slipping under the water as she couldn't grab hold of her!in a blind panic she tipped the whole bath, baby, water and all out onto the carpet so she could grab the baby!!!No harm to baby but mum's nerves were shattered and the carpet a nice oil slick!!Neadless to say baby oil wasn't something i put in her next baby's gift box poor dear!