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

frivolous_fay

When I was in lodgings and new to microwaves, I set something to cook for 41 minutes instead of 4 1/2 minutes...

Slinky_Malinky

Made a big batch of soup in my pressure cooker today,must have cooked it too long and it tastes rank so will have to be binned. Such a wasted effort prepping all the veg and cooking it only to throw it away.

Kiwisaver_2

God knows I have plenty, not sure if this has been done before, but thought it might be good to share some of our less proud OS moments.

Today I wanted scones for afternoon tea to use up a splosh of cream that I had left in the fridge. Feeling pretty chuffed with myself that I could just grab the stuff to hand and knock up said batch of scones, as I have done many a time before. Only this time, like no other time, OH sat on the kitchen stool and watched me, you know criticising, aren't they a bit thin, blah, blah? I said nah, don't be silly, they will rise to twice that size. :rotfl:

He must have put a curse on me, because those scones came out of the oven, the exact same size as when they went in the oven and were as solid as rocks.

Still nothing ventured nothing gained, the 'scones' were served with jam and cream and an apology. The cream was used up and nobody complained!!

Penelope_Penguin

Kiwisaver wrote: »

God knows I have plenty, not sure if this has been done before, but thought it might be good to share some of our less proud OS moments.

I'll add this to the exisitng OS disasters thread

Penny. x

MakeitandMendit

I had the same experience -- thick black treacle - but it tasted ok - I stuck a label on front of the single jar it produced (shoudl have been 3) and called it Plum Scum - I think it will go quite well served with a strong hard cheese!
It was my first attempt at jam making - my mistake was leaving the pan on the switched off ceramic hob.
Since then each effort has been better than the last and I think I now have this jam business sussed! Very therapeutic it is too - and makes you very popular!

CCP

Having read my way through this thread I think I can provide an additional bit of advice: don't read this thread in the office as you get some very strange looks. Thanks, everyone - this is perfect Monday reading!

For the record, my personal 'best' disaster was when treating myself to a luxury fish pie - MCS-approved cod and smoked haddock, king prawns, locally-made farmhouse cheese - the works. I cooked the pie in the oven and, when done, slid the oven shelf out - only to watch my beautiful, bubbling pie tip gently off the back of the shelf and land, upside down, on the heating element in the bottom of the oven. :mad:

For weeks afterwards my kitchen was haunted by the Ghost of Fish Pie Past, no matter how often I cleaned the oven!

Bronnie

Ha! OS disasters.....the perfect place to tell you about the half a pint of jelly stock from my beautiful free range organic chicken that I had just diluted down a little and have proceeded to throw all over the kitchen floor just now! It's seeped under the freezer and is squidging out from under the seals on the kickboards of the kitchen units......and I can't even find the cat to come and lick some up, so at least I could have felt someone had got some pleasure from it!:mad:

TrixieB

I was reading these the other day and chuckling to myself whilst glad I didn't have anything to add....

Spoke too soon!!

Just gone to use my breadmaker for the first time in about 2 months and I'd been soaking the pan in some hot water as the paddle was stuck a bit, and umm.... I've obviously forgotten about it and there's a forest in there now!!
Not sure I fancy making bread in it anymore even if it all comes off ok - what a waste!

trinity_bleu

moo2moo wrote: »

We had builders in on a very hot day, topless short wearing builders. Unlike most ordinary white van driving builders this trio had a lovely navy blue example which was extremely hot inside. 2ish in the afternoon when it can't physically have got much hotter they retrieved from the van a ginormous can of expanding foam (the M.S.E. part of the story - economy through bulk buying). They then proceeded to climb up a set of steps and squeeze the trigger. Like a thing possessed the can exploded spraying the room and its contents with expanding foam. Being a practical kind of guy the one holding the can ran to the nearest door and tossed the can into the garden still spewing its contents everywhere coating everything in its path with blobs of expanding foam carpets, walls, furniture and builders. It also set very rapidly. One of them, obviously the one with the hairiest chest, had managed to get it into his belly button prior to bending over and getting stuck to himself.

Logic says you attempt to get off as much foam as possible from the affected person before it sets. Which is why the OH arrived home to find me standing on the drive in full view of passing traffic hosing down a naked buider (only at the point he removed his shorts did I discover that was all he was wearing). Builder is at this point very vigorously rubbing his hands around what appeared from the end of the driveway to be his nether regions. OH stormed up the driveway to be confronted by a very sheepish strawberry scented naked builder and me, and the other 2 builders, in fits of giggles.

I never did manage to get the expanding foam off the tumble drier or the windows. But I did discover that the only way to remove expanding foam from a hairy builder is to place under icy cold garden tap, hose down whilst scrubbing with exfoliator, dry and then apply hair clippers. Fortunately I wasn't the one who had to explain to his wife why he'd arrive home smelling of strawberries with a cleanly shaven belly.

omg ... just read this and have tears rolling down my face. Not a good look at work, but as I leave in 3 weeks, I don't care ! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

trinity_bleu

FairyElephant wrote: »

3/ Do not IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES spray the cat with 'catnip spray' in the mistaken thought that it is flea-spray. The cat will a/ run away and get on top of kitchen cupboards where she knows you cannot catch her, b/ attempt to lick all her own fur off (somewhat ecstaically!) c/ eat an enormous amount of catfood and then d/ sleep very very solidly for a very very long time, whilst dribbling lakeloads of slimy cat dribble.
Whilst this is very funny in retrospect, at the time it is very worrying and results in very embarrasing telephone calls to the vet!!!!!

stop stop stop - I'm going to get sacked ! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: