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

charlies_mum

When I first got married, I made some soup and left a plastic spoon in the pan while it was simmering - I spent ages looking for it

Sunnyday

Lol i`ve just managed to throw the stock from a ham hock down the sink, i`ve done this once before and i`m glad to see that i`m no the only one

The best ones are down to my Dad when i was living at home, he was making rice pudding in the pressure cooker and forgot about it, it exploded and went all over the kitchen :rotfl: this may be the reason that my pressure cooker makes me very uneasy and i have to leave the room when its on

Even better was the time when he stood the plastic bowl from in the sink on top of the eye level grill, washed his hands in the sink and then made toast. The eye level grill looked a sight with a large melted blue plastic washing up bowl dripping through the vents o top and all down the sides. The smell was vile and the amount of smoke amazing :rotfl:

SD

paigexstewart

Yesterday I sliced two large potatoes into thin slices. Sauted thinly chopped onions in garlic, butter and chilli flakes. Layered potato and onion in a cake tin. I then whisked 6 eggs using the figure of 8 technique to create fluffy mixture. Poured this into the cake tin. Baked in oven for 25mins and iot smelt and looked delicious!

Sprinkled over grated cheese from fridge and noticed the cheese was green!!! Tried to scrape it off, but the more I scraped the more it melted!

RUINNNEEED!!!

OH was laughing and I was not impressed!

bexxie90

paigexstewart wrote: »

Yesterday I sliced two large potatoes into thin slices. Sauted thinly chopped onions in garlic, butter and chilli flakes. Layered potato and onion in a cake tin. I then whisked 6 eggs using the figure of 8 technique to create fluffy mixture. Poured this into the cake tin. Baked in oven for 25mins and iot smelt and looked delicious!

Sprinkled over grated cheese from fridge and noticed the cheese was green!!! Tried to scrape it off, but the more I scraped the more it melted!

RUINNNEEED!!!

OH was laughing and I was not impressed!

You may have ruined it but that dish sounds lovely is it like a souffle then? Could you write the receipe down
thanks bex/xx

FBThree

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou!!!!!

I've been having a cr*p time since last Sept and am only just starting to come out of it. Reading this thread has given me soooo many laughs for the first time in months (yup some empathy too), that you've all really cheered me up. Sorry about the disasters but Thankyou So much for sharing them !

cyclingyorkie

seconded - I haven't laughed so much in months!

chrisj1

Hello everyone, having spent lots of hours for days and days on Martins site and taking in all of the fantastic tips and completing all of the tasks to be debt free which i will be forever gratefull. i am pleased i have found this thread (site) still so new to all of this but want to get involved to keep me on tract. I find this thread so uplifting to browse once i have delt with my daily struggle with debt to hear positive help with my love of holistic food cooking and household hints
thank you
chris j1

tandraig

my worst recent disaster was washing a black chenille throw in my brand new washing machine - wondered why it was taking so long so checked - I couldnt see as the porthole was strangely blank. called Mr tandraig in for male opinion he promptly opened the door to check - and deluged the utility room in mix of warm water and strange clumpy stuff! the throw had completely disintegrated and it took about two hours to mop up the mess. mr tandraig kindly scooped the mess out of machine and said ' lets run it to flush out the pipes' result? same thing - another two hours to mop up mess!! we virtually had to dismantle the washing machine to clean every nook and cranny but i am convinced now i could build a washing machine myself! the next time it went on it complained a bit but THREE empty cycles later it finally cleared!!!!!!!!!!

Mr tandraig once whipped cream in brand new stick blender without taking plasstic blade protectors off and i didnt notice until daughter asked why the cream was crunchy on the trifle! lol

helyg

Last Christmas I decided to make chocolate fudge to sell on the cake stalls at the school and nursery school fetes. I did a trial run of the recipe, it was delicious. However, when I actually made the batch for the fetes it didn't set properly. Not wanting to waste the (expensive) ingredients I decided to roll the sloppy fudge into balls like truffles and put them in the fridge to harden. They looked great, and sold very quickly. Unfortunately though they had hardened too much in the fridge and were now like bullets! Apparently a few small children almost choked or broke teeth on them...

carolinosourus

Eels100 wrote: »

My most recent (ie this afternoon!) OS disaster involved the delicious, meaty, smoked ham shank I bought from the butchers for a pittance last week. I didn't have time to make my soup last week so I froze it ... I took it out to defrost this afternoon, and meantime I popped out to the greengrocer. I returned 15 minutes later to discover an extremely sheepish dog trying to hide what remained of the bone under her bed ...

This sounds like my mum's choc labrador... We were at my grandparents for christmas and the dog came too. Brother, bf and I were playing monopoly in the dining room after lunch, where the dog is not allowed because of all the cakes etc around. Mum comes in, dog barges in after her and grabs this hunk of chocolate log cake (wrapped in clingfilm) and swallows it in one go! He was so quick about it that I was the only one that saw it and no-one else believed me until a few days later when apparently he pooped out quite a lot of clingfilm! He's the greediest dog, he's managed somehow to knock a box of cherry liqueur chocs off the top shelf and mum came back to find little bits of pink foil scattered about and a slightly inebriated dog... I know this is very off-topic