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

Apricot

When I first met OH I was determined to show him what a good cook I was, let myself in one day whilst he was out and decided to cook him a meal. I'd bought some chicken breasts but thought they would be a bit plain so decided to season them - with nutmeg and garlic!

It was quite possibly the most horrible thing I have ever eaten - OH never let on though and polished the lot off. He only admitted about 3 months later that he thought it was foul!

meritaten

Apricot wrote: »

When I first met OH I was determined to show him what a good cook I was, let myself in one day whilst he was out and decided to cook him a meal. I'd bought some chicken breasts but thought they would be a bit plain so decided to season them - with nutmeg and garlic!

It was quite possibly the most horrible thing I have ever eaten - OH never let on though and polished the lot off. He only admitted about 3 months later that he thought it was foul!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

reminds me of one sunday lunch I cooked My OH a few months after we married............I was pregnant and had morning noon and night sickness, so I didnt have any.
Anyways I served OH and noticed a strange look on his face when he tasted his and he reached for the salt............I was sure I had put salt in the veg. So sure, that I went in the kitchen to check and - you-all guessed it - I had used sugar instead! The blasted canisters looked the same (taught me a good lesson though - never assume that the positions I kept the canisters in wouldnt get moved by OH) He never said a word though:rotfl:, bless him!

nykied

He was probably too scared to - you were pregnant, after all and I saw what those hormones did to my sister

owlet

Hi guys,

Please can anyone help?

Yesterday I was reading a thread about various culinary disasters. it was hilarious, I was sitting here with tears rolling down my face. I got about half way through it and went to bed but forgot to subscribe to it and now I can't find it anywhere. I am sure it was here on OS but I have spent the last 45 mins looking for it.

Has anyone got a link please?

Pink.

Hi owlet,

I think it must have been the Old Style disasters thread. I've added your thread to it so that you'll be able to find it more easily next time.

Pink

owlet

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi owlet,

I think it must have been the Old Style disasters thread. I've added your thread to it so that you'll be able to find it more easily next time.

Pink

Thanks Pink, you are a star! Now bookmarked and I can carry on reading and add my own lol.

Alison_Funnell

Well done. I was curious about the thread it sounded like a good read.

LolaLemon

nykied wrote: »

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.

woolies is still going strong out in austriala/nz, and theirs is more like our tescos. everything! including your weekly groceries.


my disaster was recent....
in nov when we had the snow/food shortages etc has at the same time as my salt decided to run out.. i buy 2 types of salt, sea salt and table salt, have had the table salt for 4/5 years and the sea salt for 3, so its not as if i go through a lot... anyways.... ran out and when i was able to go in town through the snow, i go to get salt only packets of salt left no tubs with the sprinkle lids, so buy them anyways, come home and try with all my heart to get the salt to go into my existing containers, but nothing works (dropped a quarter pack of sea salt, all over my unwashed, outside salt/grit covered floor, nearly cried at that, was good on the stairs tho :rotfl:)... realised i had finished a kilner jar of pasta during the week so fill that with the table salt, and found another for the sea salt, put them on my self and forget about them till last week (yeah thats how often i use salt)

made son porridge for breakfast and decide im in the mood for weetabix, only 3 left so put 2 in a bowl, and use nearly the last of the milk (i like a lot of milk with weetabix) feeling crap due to insomnia so decide to treat myself, and add some sugar, poured the milk on top and think... hmm ill have some more sugar, i really need it. take it in to living room, sit beside sion at table, and he asks what im having, show him and say 'weetabix, do u want to try some?' , no he says, im eating my porridge (his fav food in the world!)
i use my spoon to pour milk over the mountin of sugar (soo glad he said no, cause he doesnt have sugar on his) to help it melt in, and i think... its not melting right but think no more..., shovel a big spoonful into my mouth............... and panic.........
dont know what to do, run to the toilet and spit it out, start heaving n retching, most foul tasting thing ever! I didnt even swallow it and i felt sick
and then the OS in me started thinking what a waste! :rotfl:


Need to lable my jars from now on :rotfl:

nahidaakhtar

this thread is so funny!!!!

having alot of senior moments recently

adding salt twice to everything i cook and then insisting it tastes fine!!

putting my camera in the fridge!!! then asking well accusing really everyone of having put it somewhere ( i wouldnt mind i was only 19/20 at the time!

the funniest thing that has happened to me so far well i was prob 22/23 so a while ago i woke up in the middle of the night to something plastere to my face that when i tried in my fright to pull off just clung back onto my face i was shouting get off get off at this point i thought it was a taratula (dont ask me why!) i made my way to the mirror i had in my bedroom still shouting (screaming really) AND it was my only my own hand!!! it had gone numb from where i ha slept on it(which is what woke me) and then when i tried to move it i couldnt cos it was numb and i couldnt feel a thing! lucking no one woke up i lived at with my parents at the time thank god!!! most embarassing!

scottishminnie

I'm a pretty good cook but I've had my fair share of disasters along the way.

Soon after I was married I made chicken soup with rice and was convinced that Granny had told me the wrong amount of rice as it seemed so little. I added what I thought it should be and you've guessed it the soup was so thick it wouldn't come out the pot. Hubby came home to find the pot on the back doorstep with what he described as chicken cement inside. The whole thing had to go in the bin (pot included).

Not long after that episode I put eggs on to hard boil for hubby's next day sandwiches. Went off upstairs to iron and forgot about the eggs until there was a huge explosion from the kitchen. When I gingerly opened the door the pot had a huge hole in the base (I was getting low on saucepans by this time:D) and the eggs were absolutely everywhere. We had an artexed ceiling and there were little yellow pieces of hard boiled egg dangling from the artex. The smell was horrific too. Took us hours to clean it up but the best laugh was about two days later when I was cooking and turned on the fan above the hob only to get showered with bits of boiled egg - they had gone up into the fan and we hadn't noticed. I swear the next homeowners probably found bits of egg too.

I haven't had a disaster for a while but did have a total senior moment just before Christmas. I was taking some hand washing to the the utility room and got distracted. It was some hours later when my husband opened the dishwasher door and saw one very pretty lacy thong hanging from arm things which whirl round. He isn't going to let me forget that one in a hurry:rotfl: