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

LittleLauz

This wasn't funny at the time but now I can smile about it....

In an attempt to save money by not putting the heating on, I decided to make a hot water bottle to put under my blanket, so off I went to boil the kettle, put fingerless gloves on as my hands were cold, kettle boiled, tried to fill bottle straight away and needless to say ended up with scalding water all over my hand as the kettle slipped from my gloved hand!!!

Had to sit with my hand in cold water all night and had to explain to people at work the next day why my hand was bright red and covered in blisters :-(
I have two blisters scars still, and still get nervous when pouring the kettle!!


Just remembered one from when I was younger, and still living at home.
In an attempt to save time and not wanting to put food on cold plates, I placed the plates directly onto the electric hob and switched it on full to heat them up, two mins later and there was an almighty bang as the plates cracked and exploded all over the kitchen!! We were still finding bits of un-discovered plate in places months later.....

nykied

mrs-stressed wrote: »

My stepmother arrived home to her mothers one day complaing how her feet hurt after shopping all day. Her mother asked where was the baby? Oh god Ive left him outside Woolworths! She tore back to town and found him fast asleep where she had forgotten him!! That wouldnt happen these days would it!!!!!

No, Woolworths has shut down...

mrs-stressed

nykied wrote: »

No, Woolworths has shut down...

This was in the seventies!!! It was when Woolies was a major player in the grand high street shopping thing!! AND you could get anything there as well - not including abandoned babies though parked outside in one of those huge old fashioned prams!!

kitschkitty

Just remembered, the time I bought scone mix from a weigh & save shop, decided I wanted to make cheese scones as they're OH's fave, so added some grated cheddar in - looked fine, but tasted rather yucky as it was a sweet scone mix!

My dad wanted duck for Christmas one year, so my mum decided it would be quicker and easier to microwave it. She put it in for the right amount of time, but unfortunately it came out cremated as she had put it in on full power not half power!

The one and only time my mum decided to go to the effort of making Chelsea buns, but the yeast must have been to old and they turned out like bricks - you couldn't even get your teeth into them!

There was the time my little sister somehow managed to get her hair caught in the electric whisk while making meringues...

My mum regularly boils carrots, swede and eggs dry - yuck.

OH & I have accidentally melted lord knows how many washing up bowls and other stuff by accidentally turning on the grill without making sure there's nothing on top, and once by leaving somethings on top of the hob but too near the back where heat vents from the oven. I'm truly amazing we've not burnt down the kitchen or hurt ourselves!

My OH can't cook at all, but even I didn't think he could get a simple instruction wrong... One day I had boiled a pan of pasta and heated the bolognaise I'd already made in the microwave. I asked OH to put the sauce on the pasta so we could have tea - which he did without draining the water off the pasta first! Luckily I hadn't cooked it with salt and there wasn't a huge amount of water in the pan, so it was rather sloppy but still edible!

Slinky

Only last week I made a curried chicken and apricot pie. I'd forgotten the receipe required creme fraiche so the chicken cooks in a sort of curry sauce. I've used single/double cream in the past with no problem, but didn't have either of them. Toyed with the idea of using semi-skimmed milk, but settled in the end on yogurt........... more specifically one of those yogurt drinks for reducing cholesterol. Which looked OK when I first put it in, but then seemed to separate out and go lumpy...........

Didn't turn out too bad considering but I won't be doing that again. Should have gone with a raspberry yogurt I'd forgotten I'd got.

Lesson to be learned here, if a recipe calls for yogurt a cholesterol drink isn't a suitable substitution!

mrs-stressed

I can remember a disaster that happened when I was 15. My brother and I were wandering around town on a saturday afternoon. Not a big town but big enough to wander. I can remember getting this sensation of loss! My knickers were falling down round my ankles! He shoved me into the nearest shop which was not unlike Grace Brothers and manage to get me a huge (they made them big in those days!!) safety pin to hitch them back up. These were not just ordinary knickers but big old fashioned passion killers. It was bad enough having to wear them but for the world to see was a different thing!! I have never forgotten my brother laughing hysterically and then proceeded to tell everyone at home when we got back.

I still to this day 'test' and 'check' the elasticity on my knicks - terrified it will happen again all these years later!!

mrs s

nykied

mrs-stressed wrote: »

This was in the seventies!!! It was when Woolies was a major player in the grand high street shopping thing!! AND you could get anything there as well - not including abandoned babies though parked outside in one of those huge old fashioned prams!!

I guessed it was - I perhaps should have put a after my post

Last time I went to Paphos in Cyprus, there was still a Woolies there and that was how I imagine the old Woolie to be - you could literally buy anything there too.

Austin_Allegro

I tried to patch the seat of a pair of trousers using the method in the wartime 'Make Do And Mend' book. The trousers ended up looking like something Laurel and Hardy might have worn in the Depression...

DitaBombita

I bought a mini greenhouse for my balcony a few years ago to start of veg ect when its cold. After a night of massive winds I went outside to see the plastic cover missing. I looked down onto the canal below my flat and saw the ducks sitting on it. I tried to get it back but it was on the other side with no towpath. Tried to forget about it then one evening a few weeks later sitting out having a glass of wine it floated up again. Still couldnt get it!

For my wedding I decided to make peanut fudge (nigella recipe) for favours. All worked lovely, wrapped them and put them in little boxes I made, day before wedding having a look at them and they had all clogged together in a disgusting mess you wouldnt give your worst enemy (looked like cat poo). Mad dash to shops to buy jellybeans! Did get to use this in my speech though an raised a few laughs.

Slinky

Actually I've just remembered that last night's tea was a bit of a disaster. Greek meatballs in tomato sauce which my husband made for the first time. Should have had the grated zest of half a small orange.............. not the grated zest of all of a large orange.

All we could taste was orange! Which was a shame because he'd been working on it on and off for hours!