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

Primrose

I've just remembered the three successive occasions I tried in one day to make a fresh pineapple jelly because the first two wouldn't set. I kept thinking it was the packets of jelly which were faulty/out of date and kept opening another packet and starting all over again. It was years before I discovered that the enzymes in fresh pineapple destroys all the setting qualities of gelatine. (Bad workmen always blame their tools :rotfl:

rosie383

I was making HM condensed milk to use for fifteens and banoffi, so I decided I wanted to make double quantity to save time. I used milk instead of powdered milk, put the electric whisk in the bowl as I always do, and ended up with a kitchen covered in a big sticky mess of sugar, milk and butter, as it was much too liquidy. Because of the butter, it was really greasy, and really sticky due to the sugar. Pain to clear up!
And another double disaster...... decided to make a double quantity of oaty shortbread, and used demerara sugar instead of a finer sugar. Ended up with really greasy crumbs that you couldn't use for anything.
Why is it that I tend to muck it up when I make extra? And it hasn't been the proportions I got wrong. It was just daft stuff.

sockdrawer

Having spent a lot of my post flu recovery chortling at this list having, for random reasons, :whistle: (looked for other people who had drained their stock directly down the sink), I have to contribute....
DD1 was wee, tried to BF her, but because of a variety of reasons, it wasn't successful for her, so she was part bottle fed.
Stumbled downstairs at 3am to make up a bottle, measured it out into pre-steralised bottle, check,
added water, check,
top on, all ready to go
got hungry baby, check,
mum still awake.......... check
tip bottle, check
Nothing!
..... it looks a bit.... "solid"....
We'd been using the empty babymilk containers for storing other food items in, and I'd blithely made her up a bottle of .... reconstituted dried potato...!!!
(My ex MIL's rather sniffy comment to the funny story was that we shouldn't be using dried potato, but hey, I was 21 and ignorant at the time and it was my first attempt at a storecupboard....)
Oh and I have to add.... the time of the disintegrating babygros
Couldn't for the life of me figure out why DD1's baby gro-s were in holes at the neck. Was it something in the milk? Was it something in the apple puree- perhaps the touch of lemon...?Was it that this is what baby-puke does? Was it the washing powder/washing machine??? What was it??
It was the cat....
finishing up what she'd dribbled onto her baby-gro while she'd been eating.
(OK that's off topic but still rather funny as it still makes me giggle to think about my own confusion)
Ah, and there's the purple nappy syndrome. Stopped buying Ribena.... decided it was too expensive, then just about died a thousand deaths when DS2's nappy looked as if he'd been bleeding internally.... finally figured out it was the supermarket brand blackcurrent juice he was drinking.
The same thing happened with beetroot...

All this is years ago. I've learned a lot since then

Vaila

when i was about 7 i thought i could cut my washing up (making flapjacks) by warming golden syrup (in the can) in the microwave

sparks flew ! lucky i managed to turn it off after a few seconds

Fruball

sockdrawer wrote: »

Having spent a lot of my post flu recovery chortling at this list having, for random reasons, :whistle: (looked for other people who had drained their stock directly down the sink), I have to contribute....
DD1 was wee, tried to BF her, but because of a variety of reasons, it wasn't successful for her, so she was part bottle fed.
Stumbled downstairs at 3am to make up a bottle, measured it out into pre-steralised bottle, check,
added water, check,
top on, all ready to go
got hungry baby, check,
mum still awake.......... check
tip bottle, check
Nothing!
..... it looks a bit.... "solid"....
We'd been using the empty babymilk containers for storing other food items in, and I'd blithely made her up a bottle of .... dried potato puree....!!!
(My ex MIL's rather sniffy comment to the funny story was that we shouldn't be using dried potato, but hey, I was 21 and ignorant at the time and it was my first attempt at a storecupboard....)
Oh and I have to add.... the time of the disintegrating babygros
Couldn't for the life of me figure out why DD1's baby gro-s were in holes at the neck. Was it something in the milk? Was it that this is what baby-puke does? Was it the washing powder/washing machine??? What was it??
It was the cat....
finishing up what she'd dribbled onto her baby-gro while she'd been eating.
(OK that's off topic but still rather funny as it still makes me giggle to think about my own confusion)
Ah, and there's the purple nappy syndrome. Stopped buying Ribena.... decided it was too expensive, then just about died a thousand deaths when DS2's nappy looked as if he'd been bleeding internally.... finally figured out it was the supermarket brand blackcurrent juice he was drinking.
All this is years ago. I've learned a lot since then

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Brilliant!!! Had a smilar thing with DS after he went thru a phase of drinking copious quantities of crnberry and raspberry juice!!! Luckily Mum had warned me, as it was her that gave it to him!!!

Sue14

A couple of days ago we were having some HM veg soup, so I decided to make some bread to go with it. I put all the ingredients into the bread-maker, switched it on and started doing some washing up. Then a few minutes later, I looked into the viewing window to check it was mixing ok but nothing seemed to have changed, although I'd heard it 'mixing' the ingredients. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't mixing, then I realised that I'd forgotten to put the kneading paddle into the machine before adding the ingredients! What a duh brain, lol!

I tipped everything into a bowl, put the paddle in, then tipped everything back into the breadmaker, thinking it wouldn't turn out too well but it wouldn't matter as we were only having it with soup, however it turned out really nice, so not quite the disaster I was expecting. I think I'll store the paddle in the bread-maker in future though, so I don't forget it again!

freyasmum

Primrose wrote: »

Years ago I decanted some sloe gin into an empty Ribena bottle which still had the Ribena label on as it was the only empty bottle I could find at the time. Unfortunately some relatives helped their 7 year old son to a generous drink of Ribena in my absence from the house and couldn't understand why he kept zonking out on the carpet and being totally incoherent.

It's really bad, but I can't stop laughing at that :rotfl:

Lexxi

The dog thought I was upset as I've cried from laughing so hard at this thread!
I was told it was dishes and plates with metal rims that should not go in the microwave not al metal/foil and thought the sparks and noises were part of cooking, I used to open the door till it stopped then switch it back on again!
Substituting condensed soup with a cup a soup and fresh veg with frozen, for the slow cooker, it couldn't have been worse if I had cooked the veg in a pan of water then just thrown it over the chicken, water included!
OH thinking 90 meant minutes on the washing machine, thankfully he didn't put anything of mine in but it was his suit and he did have an interview the next day!

lil_lisa

I'd bought some prepacked ribs from the supermarket on 2 for 1 (with sauce already included) and cooked the first pack in the oven (following the directions on the packet). I really wasn't impressed when they came out since they were a little tough so when it came to cooking the second pack I thought i'd do them in the slow cooker...

.. Hours later I take a peek only to find what can best be described as 'rib soup'! All the meat had literally fallen off the bones and was floating in the sauce with various other juices. I ended up scooping out all the bones and serving the 'soup' in bowls with bread.

rigsby1967

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!

OMG, i was PMSL with this post, I havent laughed so much, that really made my day:beer::rotfl:.

rigs