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

northwest1965

Knitty78 wrote: »

I stumbled across this thread and spent most of yesterday laughing. Or trying not to as I'm working.

So of course, the karma boomerang came to my house and I made the flattest, stodgiest, stuck to the pan toad in the hole last night.

Luckily I was able to pull out the sausages so we had those with mash and veg instead.

the batter is still soaking this morning as I can't get it to budge.

Dont worry my Yorkshire puddings are 'always' like that:D. Dont know why i cant make them, I consider myself to be a good cook aswell. I make lots of cakes and even bake my own bread by hand

Fozz

tandraig wrote: »

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!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I have done this too!!! Thought I had finally cleared the machine and put a load of washing in only to find it covered in fibres from the chenille, took ages to get out.!

2cats1kid

I'm going to contribute two from my (very OS) mum. I remember vividly her first (and only) attempt at parkin, which resembled black concrete and went in the bin, complete with the metal tray to which it was firmly attached. And also the batch of tomato ketchup she made, bottled, and stored in the kitchen unit for future use. Except one day there was an almighty BANG and when we opened the cupboard it looked like the Texas chainsaw massacre.

Confuzzled

Pink-winged wrote: »

Snowy,

I think the confusion might be in the name. What we in Northern Ireland call soda bread, others might call soda farls. There are are some pictures of soda bread (or soda farls) here.

Sorry yours didn't work as planned! Better luck with the potato bread!

Pink

those look like tatty scones to me mmmmmmm and so easy to burn, best to use a cast iron skillet for those

Rummer

My worst OS mistake was to economise on loo roll. No one would speak to me and it was a miserable fortnight and a decision that even I could not defend! Suffice to say we now use the luxury stuff and save in less personal ways!

TudorRose

Thought I would tell you about my parents and the meat tray.

We needed a new tray to cook the Christmas turkey in and the choice was between a cheap, fairly flimsy one from Woolworths and a state of the art stainless steel one from the local ironmonger at 3 or 4 times the price.
After much discussion my parents decided on the expensive one as it would never have to be replaced & would be a good investment. So off we drove to town centre & bought expensive tray. It was dark when we got home and Mum got out of car to open garage door for Dad to drive in the car, put the said tin on the drive but misjudged where she put it & Dad ran over the corner of it and crumpled it!
So Dad got back into car & drove back for the cheap tin which incidentally lasted for years.
Being a good housewife though Mum didn't throw away the tin with the squashed corner & a couple of years later when we got a kitten she used it as its litter tray. Very OS.

Claire_Bear

northwest1965 wrote: »

Dont worry my Yorkshire puddings are 'always' like that:D. Dont know why i cant make them, I consider myself to be a good cook aswell. I make lots of cakes and even bake my own bread by hand

Same here, fortunately OH prefers them to be stodgy and cake-like, so now I can pretend I've done it on purpose instead of not getting the hang of it :rotfl: Have to say it makes a VERY filling toad in the hole that way!

zippychick

Confuzzled wrote: »

those look like tatty scones to me mmmmmmm and so easy to burn, best to use a cast iron skillet for those

yes ! We have separate potato bread you see, so if we called Soda bread "potato bread" it wouldn't work at all! So we have potato scones/bread and soda bread (which you know as tatty scones)

Anyone know how to make soda bread by the way? Not tried it myself yet.

Primrose

Love this old thread which has resurfaced so if I've contributed before, forgive me for repeating some of mine over the years:

1. When newly married and unfamilar with how a pressure cooker worked, I flicked up the pressure valve immediately after cooking lentil soup for 18 minutes. The entire contents instantly emptied themselves in a hizzing stream, covering the kitchen walls and ceiling and we had to redecorate.
2. Cooking a Christmas capon with the gizzards still inside.
3. Emptying a frozen packet of Gooseberry purree into a saucepan of Minestrone soup thinking it was Chicken stock.
4. Borrowing OH's new car to collect a couple of buckets of horse manure I'd spotted in a nearby lane and foolishly putting the buckets on the back seat. Drove round a bend on the way home too quickly and ended up with two buckets of steamig poo all over the new upholstery. (Have never been forgiven for that one !!)
5. Making pepperonata with several large whole Hungarian Wax chillis from the freezer, mistakenly thinking they were small peppers.
6. Putting chestnuts to cook in the microwave and forgetting to split the skins first. (Produces something akin to a nuclear explosion).
7. Throwing a jug of water into the eye level in-built grill when some of the fat from grilling sausages caught fire. NEVER EVER PUT WATER ON A FAT FIRE.
8. Not leaving enough fermenting space in about 8 gallon jars of elderberry wine after racking off the pulp and leaving them on a light coloured kitchen worktop overnight. Came down the following morning to find they'd all blown out all the fermentation traps, overflowed onto the counter, down the cupboards and onto the floor staining everything bright purple.
9. As a new bride, putting 3 whole BULBS of garlic into a meat loaf when the recipe called for 3 CLOVES of garlic. (It was the first time I'd ever used the stuff and didn't know the difference).

I'd like to think I'm now older and wiser, but only until the next time...........

Oh, and I must tell you about a friend of mine many years ago who put her baby's soaking nappies in a plastic bucket onto her electric cooker ring to boil them because she didn't have a washing machine.! :rotfl:

falady

celyn90 wrote: »

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:

Fantastic!! You had me laughing out loud! :rotfl:The cat is wondering what's wrong with me.....