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

scottishminnie

Actually I've just remembered a "money saving" disaster which probably beats mine. Thankfully I wasn't responsible for this one (although I guess I did contribute)

I won a food processor/mixer in a competition and didn't have any use for it as I had one. I offered it to a close friend who was looking to do much more home cooking and she gratefully accepted.

About a week later she appeared with her first ever cake to share it and thank me. I made some tea, cut the cake and we sat down to enjoy it. When I picked my slice up I noticed little blue bits in it and asked what she had added to the cake. At this point she was chewing frantically. It turned out she hadn't realised the mixer blades had plastic covers on them so they had been chopped up into the cake. She was so upset that we coulldn't eat her cake but we have a good laugh about it now.

tinker4ever

When I first discovered this site I laughed so much that my bottom set of teeth fell out!.We've all been there and made mistakes and lived to tell the tale.My clalmity was as follows-I decided to give a dinner party for 6 friends- the whole schmeer - best china best glasses etc.etc. I always work on the premise cold hot cold- it;s easier. Well I decided to make a sachertorte for pudding. 6 eggs:eek:I belong to the war time generation when if you used more than 1 egg it was totally wicked!So I made the sachertorte full of chocolate(never got on with melted choc. It.so I scooped it all up and put it back into the tins get it over everwhere) went to pick the completed cake up in a loose based tin to put it into the oven when the bottom dropped out of the tin:eek:Aaaarrhh! I'm not going to waste all this si I scooped it all up and put it bakk into the tin and said nought to anyone. Yes, they all lived after the dinner party

tinker4ever

hope you understood the letter I am not very good at typing

rosalie-lavender

My latest disaster was almost setting the kitchen alight cooking beetroot over Christmas.

I put some beetroot on to boil and went into the adjoining room to look at something on the computer. My husband brought me a cup of tea and shut the door behind him when he went back into the kitchen.

A considerable time later my son went into the kitchen and said to me "I can smell smoke." The beetroot was a charred mess with embers with sparks flickering. The kitchen stank and the pan was black. :eek:

My husband was sitting right next to the kitchen just a few feet away from the cooker and swears he didn't smell it or hear it. The hatch was open and the smoke must have been going through to where he was sitting. I think if the kitchen had caught alight he would still have been sitting there.

He is now banned from shutting the door if I am cooking. It is of course his fault.:D If he hadn't shut the door I would have heard the noise and smelt the smoke. Thank goodness my son decided he wanted something from the kitchen.

MaggieBaking

I used up the last of my eggs making chocolate fondants to take round to a friends for dinner tonight. I used cheap chocolate They taste HORRIBLE!!

I have 4 egg whites, double cream, single cream and lots of sugars, but a meringue recipe I like takes 1 hour... I have until 7pm...

I can always go and buy something but can I rustle something up??

MaggieBaking

Hubby's just come home, declared they're edible and I should stop flapping.

Oh bums. I'm going to go and buy some raspberries and expensive ice-cream to tart them up. That'll teach me trying to be OS!

zippychick

YOu need to read this thread, and totally not worry about it! :rotfl: Great lesson learnt and you'll never make that mistake again (or use that recipe)

I am self taught OS and the amount of times things go wrong is uncanny! Only recently i accidentally used 6 eggs to make chocolate mousse (instead of 2), and ended up with a gloopy separated mess ( I scooped the "mousse" off the top lol) , and for the sponge cake, I cooked my favourite fish slice into the bottom of the oven (and burnt the handle of my mini frying pan under the grill). That was all the same day, and in fact it was only a couple of months ago.:o

There was the time I tried to make wheaten bread, so drunk I couldn't even see the oven buttons never mind work them...:p that was after drinking too much rum on christmas day - and i embarassedly binned the "results" the next morning. Mum's never let me forget that one. :eek::D

Need I go on?!?!:D:o

Moral - to be a domestic goddess, you need to ruin a few fondants. I'm still waiting my domestic goddess badge!

ill merge this with the OS disasters thread later !

MaggieBaking

Thanks ZippyChick! This recipe really is yummy, just best saved when you're feeling flush for some dark, minimum 70% chocolate!! http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/8168/chocolate-fondant

Talking of disasters - I did once make a sponge cake with no eggs..... (well, it wasn't a sponge cake really!!)

And when my parents were coming round I hurriedly tidied up the kitchen and threw some plastic mixing bowls to hide in the oven... Which was fine until later that evening when I started to warm up the oven for dinner!) :eek:

:rotfl:

zippychick

Oh NO!!!!!! Did you miss out the eggs intentionally?

we do have an eggless cake recipes thread too

FrugalWorker

This thread really is the funniest. Like everyone else I've left out water, melted plastic jugs, left giblets in the chicken, etc...

Making soup, put stick blender in and it broke. Putting it all in to a big container and bringing it to BF's house and putting it in his blender. Blended it fine, had a quick taste and it was yummy. Took the jug off the top of the blender, but the base of it remained on the blender and all the soup was on the counter, me, everywhere. And BF's father due in 30 minutes. So much for a starter.

Some years ago my mother was making lunch for my Dad, a nice bit of fish. She'd a bit of ham that was just turning and figured it was okay for the cat but not for Dad. She got distracted and cut the fish up and gave it to the cat. Only realised the mistake when she went to cook it for my Dad and realised it was already chopped up in the cats dish. To add insult to injury, the cat wouldn't eat my Dad's fish! She loved the ham though!