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

ampersand

Raspberries are wonderfully forgiving and prolific. 6 generations of my 3/£1 Church fête canes are now bountiful on both sides of Channel. Yes, it's a bad year - blighty toms, mouldy courgettes[flowers wrecked by sparrows too], beans just dying although well up canes[I thought that disgusting grub thing had chewed up the roots, but it seems general] Potato failure[they didn't even break the surface!] but some rogues from yesteryear now coming up in odd places.
I dig up and freecycle raspberry runner[and strawberries] every year. You can also pot them up as a little thing to give if you want.
I've found another rogue leftover -a single purple sprouting broccoli from Church fête 4 years ago, suddenly appearing, now transplanted next to sorrel.

SpikyHedgehog

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Sorry to hear about your accident hope that those burns heal quickly. On a serious note I was always burning my hands on the oven shelves (You'd think that I'd learn wouldn't you?) Anyway, bought these brilliant shelf guards from Aldi and the scars are starting to disappear at last! http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_15802.htm They're just a simple slit tube made out of silicone, like the baking 'tins', which fit on the front of the shelves, keeping your hands off the hot bit. I think that they are available from Amazon too. Hope that it helps prevent some more accidents

My mum got me a set of these after I burnt my arm 3 years ago getting brownies out of the oven for DS2 to take into school on the last day of the Autumn term - the night we had a massive snowfall & they closed the school on the last day so we had to eat the brownies anyway!

The shelf thingies do work well, but the bars of mum's oven shelves go side to side, whereas mine go back & forth so the grippy things don't stay on so well, and tend to drop off if you knock them when putting things in or out of the oven.

So I have still burnt myself since I got them... But not as badly.

mysk_girl

I've learnt the hard way today about involving small children in my old style efforts... Our weeks snacks/treats biscuits are now banana, custard and eggshell flavoured, my darling 5yo girl slung an egg straight down the chute of the food processor... I tried one and they are definitely on the crunchy side! I have no more eggs, so I guess we are stuck with them. And no way could I bring myself to sling 40 perfectly good biscuits!

cornishchick

mysk_girl wrote: »

I've learnt the hard way today about involving small children in my old style efforts... Our weeks snacks/treats biscuits are now banana, custard and eggshell flavoured, my darling 5yo girl slung an egg straight down the chute of the food processor... I tried one and they are definitely on the crunchy side! I have no more eggs, so I guess we are stuck with them. And no way could I bring myself to sling 40 perfectly good biscuits!

:rotfl::rotfl: extra calcium :T always good.

Hillbilly1

Making a frugal cassoulet. Picked herbs in the garden... it smells a bit soapy... OH has moved the pots around and theres a lavender in the middle of thyme and rosemary!

Urgh!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Thought I would have to confess to a major couple of Kitchen Disasters recently.

A couple of weeks ago I missed the pan with the egg when cooking the breakfast. Not much mess, and the current Ms BoPsie soon cleared it up.

But tonight. I have gone and forgotten to put the kettle on. And while not remembering, I had the peas on the hob instead. Guess what. The kettle remained cold and the peas. The pan is black.

Any other kitchen disasters, you can confess all here!

welshbookworm

Endless !!
Forgot boiled eggs until they exploded - they HURT when they hit you!
Forgot a curry I was cooking until it looked like tar with lumps
Managed to 'cook' a pizza so it was burnt black on the edges and frozen solid in the middle.
That's just this year!

siegemode

Whilst washing up I knocked the largest sharpest knife off the draining board. I only saw it out of the corner of my eye and not realising it was the knife I gabbed it :eek:. It almost sliced the end of my finger off and the pain was instant. For some reason I shook my hand because of the pain. As I turned to show my OH who came running when he heard my expletives I spattered the kitchen with red stuff:rotfl: He grabbed my hand and we looked at the cut and it was bad, but lucky we had a good first aid kit. Took awhile to heal, but the up side was I got out of washing up for a week or two:D Took ages to clean the kitchen though.

Many a time I've managed to make a mess with the hand mixer and sprayed cake mix, eggs or cream around the kitchen by not watching what I'm doing and trying to multi task.

OH has set fire to toast a few times:eek:
Christmas day my Yorkshires which I've been known for turned out like heavy pancakes:( I've no idea what happened and they've turned out great since.

purple45

Wow Blackbeard of Perranporth, rarely has a MSE forum name made me jealous, what a great name! I want a grand title too, and a beard.

Kitchen disasters...generally they involve pain and me rather than food disasters. Burnt my arm on the oven, that hurt. Did exactly the same again the following night. Slice fingers regularly when washing out tins for recycling even after warning myself to be careful. Now I ALWAYS use a brush rather than the sponge and that seems to be a safe enough distance. Generally I manage to chop up the salad without getting any blood or fingernails in it, but only thanks to being very vigilant and having a good supply of plasters. The only time the pain nearly involved someone else was when I was marching enthusiastically from one side of the kitchen to the other holding the knife out in front of me (for some reason) and my other half walked in through the doorway and nearly impaled himself on it...of course it was his fault ;-)

dibuzz

I once burnt jelly but my biggest disaster was when I tried to make custard.
As I always burn the pan I decided to do it in the microwave, all was going well until I got it out the final time and was left with a solid, jug shaped yellow lump.
I tried putting some of it in the blender and adding milk which didn't work and only succeeded in breaking the blender.
I could actually drop it on the floor and bounce it round the kitchen, needless to say we now buy the ready made variety but my kids never let me forget my rubber custard