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

SDG31000

Oh I forgot about my attempt to make Caramelised Onion Chutney last year. I must had boiled it for too long and ended up with onion flavoured toffee. I managed to get it into jars and then had to throw the whole lot out as it welded itself to the inside of the jars and refused to come out.

bigfatpig

lanavdt wrote: »

I've just read this thread start to finish and I can't remember ever laughing so much! My first cooking disaster happened when I was about 10. My mum likes to sprinkle her neeps with sugar for some reason. She'd just put lots of neeps and carrots into a pot of veg soup and I thought i'd be helpful and add some sugar. Nobody tasted it until we ate it later that night. Absolutely disgusting lol.
And I once decided to cook my oh a roast chicken dinner. I knew the oven didn't work too well so I started cooking the bird at 10 in the morning. At 6 I decided it would be close enough and started carving. It was raw. Quick nuke in the micro and all was fine

What is a neep?

Skint_Catt

bigfatpig wrote: »

What is a neep?

A Turnip (in Scotland) or a Swede everywhere else

bigfatpig

Skint_Catt wrote: »

A Turnip (in Scotland) or a Swede everywhere else

Thank you. It's amazing what you learn on this site :rotfl:

ab7167

SDG31000 wrote: »

Oh I forgot about my attempt to make Caramelised Onion Chutney last year. I must had boiled it for too long and ended up with onion flavoured toffee. I managed to get it into jars and then had to throw the whole lot out as it welded itself to the inside of the jars and refused to come out.

I did exactly this with rhubarb and ginger jam. 4 jars of it awaiting disposal after a final effort to remove the contents failed miserably...

meritaten

This isnt really MY disaster - its my daughters. DD decided to make a sausage plait, but didnt know how to make pastry so phoned me.........right,,,, gave her the directions to make 8 oz of shortcrust pastry and she phoned me a few hours later - she had made it - it looked lovely but it dissolved into crumbs when she cut it, they ended up just eating the sausage bit! what had happened was that when I told her to add the water a tablespoon at a time she had only added one tablespoon of water to the dough. How the heck she managed to roll the thing out????????? well, it was a bit dry she said, so she just piled it on the sausagemeat and patted it down!!!!!!! brushed it with egg and baked it! what a ditz!

meritaten

and while I am in the mood to tell on others - My mum bought some melamine plates and for reasons known only to herself stored them on the plate warming rack on her eye level gas grill. You guessed it - she was grilling burgers (at least twenty minutes as hers were more like hockey pucks) and melted the plates! what was worse was that she had a nice pan of cawl underneath for Dads supper! she was mad as heck about that! Dad had egg and chips that night I think!

Fruball

As a few of us are going through a tough time at the moment, I thought it would be nice to bump up this thread to cheer everyone up and hopefully add to the thread with more OS disasters too

I, at the age of around 19 once went to the tremendous effort of making cassoulet from scratch the authentic way which is very time consuming. It smelled gorgeous and I put it into my Mums cast iron casserole dish and into the oven... Eventually the thing was cooked so I took it out, dished up a big bowlful and tucked in... It was TOTALLY inedible due to somehow having loads of dog hairs in, presumably as the pot hadn't been used in a looooong time and was in a very low level cupboard... I was fuming and have never had cassoulet since!

That was around 20 years ago!!!

SpikyHedgehog

DS1 (15 years old) made hotpot this week - so far the only main meal he's cooked though he does do cakes and biscuits.

Because hotpot is the only main meal he cooks and he's meant to cook dinner once a week, he likes to ring the changes with different herbs and spices.

And this week, he shook some salt into the pan... and the lid came off the salt shaker :eek:

After we added another tin of beans and another tin of tomatoes and a potato, it was too salty to eat... I did manage to recover it the next day by adding to packages of frozen rice from my stores, so it was like a salty jambalaya.

He now knows to shake herbs, spices and SALT away from the pan.

Sulevia

The opther week, I bought some Korean marinaded tofu which I assumed was the same as Japanese marinaded tofu. I added a whole jar to a stir fry, as you would. Well this stuff turned into a snotty-looking sludge and tasted vile, really salty, and I mean REALLY salty, and some other flavour in it like rotten fish.
It's the first meal I have ever cooked that no-one could eat

When I was about 8, my mother made scones, and she is a great cook. Only she accidentally put salt instead of sugar. Even the birds refused to eat them.