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

C1aire

These have had my sides splitting. Don't have any OS disasters to report I'm afraid, though I am famous for running a bath without putting the plug in (worryingly I didn't notice this until I was sitting in an inch of water - bit of a blocked drain I think...) and poking my head out of the car window to see if I was in my parking bay. Shame I forgot to open the window first.

I think OS is the safest way to go -the simpler the better for me!

snoopy_and_woodstock

Hello

Well what a fantastic thread i've just read it from start to finish and it is such a relief that i'm not the only one to have these moments in the kitchen. My poor mum has me on the phone asking all kinds of stuipd questions but the one that still makes her chuckle is when i rang up to ask her if i needed to peel gooseberries before i cooked them, as she pointed out i could have been there for some time.

The most serious, and most recent, stupid thing i did was me and my oh were cooking a curry and i had just finished cooking popodoms in the wok in a litre of boiling oil and as my oh went in the living room to get something i decided (still to this day don't know why) that i needed the wok right now for something else and put a glass jug in the sink and merrily poured the boiling oil :eek: into it picked it up and the glass jug exploded over my right hand . After a quick trip to casualty i found that i had first and second degree burns (had to convince the casulaty staff i did it to myself as they were convinced my poor oh had done it) to my whole hand. I had my hand bandaged for a month and was not allowed anywhere near the kitchen or near anything dangerous. Thing is i have never, ever done anything like that before and my poor 8yr DD hasn't eaten anything fried since (can't say i blame her really).

About two months ago i brought a slow cooker (i did spend ALOT of time reading this website when i had only one working hand) and after some really nice meals out of it i thought i'd try making rice pudding init i left it in toooooo long and it was one solid lump, i tried again and the same result so the next time i decided to add some apple (the smell of sick still clings to the air) and it made the milk curdle so have given up trying to make that.

And last but by no means least a few years ago my mum advised me to make a stock out of my Christmas Turkey great i thought, spent ages boiling the carcass in a saucepan (stank a bit too) when i thought it was done i took it over to the sink and sieved the juice through straight down the sink, i couldn't imagine what i thought i was going to make with some old bones and a manky old onion!!!!

Good luck to anyone out there learing to cook.

Snoopy xx

catznine

When engaged to OH I was invited to dinner at future MIL's. While she set the table in the dining room she asked me to look after the gravy. I was never that good at gravy:o , expecially thick gravy and did my usual trick of straining out all the lumps into a tea strainer. I will always remember the shocked look on MIL's face when she came back into the kitchen and asked me why I was straining the onions out of the onion gravy!:rotfl:

More recently, while the kitchen was being refitted, I had the slowcooker set up in the dining room.. One day I popped some baked apples into the slowcooker and went to work. After a bad day at work OH decided on a takeaway that night. 2 days later I remembered the baked apples!:eek: Actually they were still edible, melt in your mouth even!

This thread is lovely, making me laugh (much needed)

Catz x

HappyIdiotTalk

snoopy_and_woodstock wrote:

And last but by no means least a few years ago my mum advised me to make a stock out of my Christmas Turkey great i thought, spent ages boiling the carcass in a saucepan (stank a bit too) when i thought it was done i took it over to the sink and sieved the juice through straight down the sink, i couldn't imagine what i thought i was going to make with some old bones and a manky old onion!!!!

Classic! Made me smile that one.

I wish I was a comedy writer for television, this thread is a gold mine!

PS. Hope your hand is OK now, that sounded very nasty!

snoopy_and_woodstock

Hi HappyIdoitTalk,

Thanx yes i'm a very lucky girl my OH is a very quick thinking man and put my hand straight under running water, so all back to normal. Well almost it goes red when it rains!!!

Snoopy.

bubblebathgirl

have lot's matbe too many to share my latest has been my own version ( not yet ready to share) of the store cupboard challange that ended up in slow cooked chicken portions with bbq sauce ( made without ketchup and soy sauce )corn and waffles the chicken was like rubber never mind a rubber chicken no body ate it it was on my meal plan for 2 weeks .And my home made roman blinds thats another tale !

1_step_closer

Oh these are brilliant! I am laughing like a loon! Nothing too major for me, except I have put washing up liquid in the dish washer to give it a good clean. Trouble is, I am very heavy handed and after an hour came into the kitchen to see 3 frantic dogs sliding all over the kitchen floor in the foam...........

Peem

snoopy_and_woodstock wrote:

And last but by no means least a few years ago my mum advised me to make a stock out of my Christmas Turkey great i thought, spent ages boiling the carcass in a saucepan (stank a bit too) when i thought it was done i took it over to the sink and sieved the juice through straight down the sink, i couldn't imagine what i thought i was going to make with some old bones and a manky old onion!!!!

Snoopy xx

Ooh I did this sort of thing. Mum gave me her juicer cos she never used it. I had some cox's apples just about to go so I tried juicing them. had a quick taste and it was beyooootiful. So I went to sieve all the bits out, and poured the whole lot down the sink and was left with the bits in the sieve.

haven't had the heart to use the thing again - it took ages to clean too.

dragonsoup

This is the best thread I've read for ages.!

Many years ago I made a rich chocolate fudge cake with just egg yokes. It needed a very hot oven. I had 6 egg whites left so I thought I'd make meringues in the top oven at the same time. Yup for some reason the fudge cake went in the cool oven and the meringues in the hot one. The results weren't pretty.... I didn't realise it was possible to vapourise meringues!

HappyIdiotTalk

Peem wrote:

Ooh I did this sort of thing. Mum gave me her juicer cos she never used it. I had some cox's apples just about to go so I tried juicing them. had a quick taste and it was beyooootiful. So I went to sieve all the bits out, and poured the whole lot down the sink and was left with the bits in the sieve.

haven't had the heart to use the thing again - it took ages to clean too.

How much do you want for it? I've been thinking about getting one of those of a couple of years, but never wanted to buy a new one because of the cost!