Now that's funny !!!

Oh noooooo!!!!

Sorry to laugh at your mishap, but that is funny.

Haha no worries about laughing at my mishap. I laughed at myself when it happened. Now it's time to share some mishaps of your own.

This is a long ago Thanksgiving mishap - squash was cooking on the stove and my brother reached into a nearby cabinet to get a glass and it fell into the squash and broke. :(

Years ago I was making lemon bars while talking on the phone... put the pan into the oven and then realized I forgot to put the lemon in! I pulled it back out and added the lemon and tried to mix it into the top layer. Fortunately it worked pretty well! My friend didn't let me forget my "No lemon, lemon bars" for years.

I had this meal all planned out. I was pampering myself for cleaning my home top to bottom. I shared a house with friends, who later sold it to a young couple, and they lived on the top two floors. It was a fun goal to get to this meal. It all tasted wonderful as I went along. I decided to make Sol's Angel Hair Flan, and they looked fantastic! As I was about to plate it up, apparently, they decided to work on their pluming and the pipes burst all over my flan. Luckily, I'd already plated up the meat and veggies.

I didn't see this, but have a mental image from the story told by friends.

As newlyweds, they decided to host a party. What could be cheaper and easier than spaghetti? Add some 'sauce' from a bottle and a lot of red wine...what could go wrong?

The wine began to flow. The box of pasta went into the boiling water. Within minutes -- not having been stirred -- the pasta was all stuck to the bottom of the pot. There was no backup pasta. Hungry guests were at the table.

The host held the pot upside down over a platter while his bride used the kitchen shears to 'harvest' the edible portion. More wine was poured.

Mine was similar to share-oh. I made a spice cake for my husband's birthday, we were having friends over for dinner and cake. The batter seemed so thick. I got it into the oven before realizing that I had forgotten to add the water to the batter. I got it out of the oven and back into the bowl. Getting the water incorporated into the batter was a chore but it finally looked normal enough to bake. Then, I could barely get it out of the pan after it was done, I think I used a bundt pan. It was a well-cursed cake. Between cooking a meal and cleaning house, I didn't have time for that silly cake!

After Thanksgiving dinner this year I was at the sink washing a serving bowl to get it out of the way, and talking to a friend. I rinsed the bowl and set it in the drainer but it wasn't anchored well. It slipped out, hit the counter, broke into several pieces and gracefully slid into the garbage can (drawer) that happened to be open. We both looked at each other in amazement and I burst out laughing; she was worried that I'd be sad about my bowl but it wasn't anything special, so she joined in as I laughed. This wasn't a cooking mishap, but it was too amazing not to share.

I often make recipes that call for just egg yolks (such as hollandaise sauce) One time I was making a different recipe that just used the egg whites, so I took the eggs to the sink, as usual, cracked them, as usual, and poured carefully from one shell to another, as usual, and watched the part I actually wanted to keep, slither down the drain.

I haven't done this *yet* but when I make chicken stock I'm always in mortal fear of straining the solids in the sink and watching the broth go down the drain!

I double-think what I'm doing to make sure it doesn't happen.

A few years ago my sister made a big mistake. She is a very successful realtor in the Orlando area and she gives all of her clients a gift at Christmas. She made banana bread for several years and someone told her she could use a school kitchen to mix and bake her bread. She went there during the school day and during lunch (which I can't even imagine) and made the bread, bundled it up and delivered it. Later she realized that she had not added any sugar to the the batter.

Jasdip I did that last week!! Boiled the turkey giblets and since my Mom always used a little of the giblet water in her amazing turkey gravy I decided I'd do the same. Placed my strainer across the sink and poured the giblets and juice into the strainer. Too bad I forgot to put a bowl or pan under the strainer! LOL!

I have two near misses:

I made pumpkin pies for my father, and for my family, for Thanksgiving. I don't like pumpkin pie, so I don't bother to taste the filling or the finished product. I was mixing a big batch of pfeffernusse cookies yesterday, and went to the shelf where I keep my spices in glass jars. I don't use labels, because I know what's in the jars, and a quick whiff alleviates any doubt of the contents. I reached for what I thought was the jar of ground ginger, but something wasn't right--the color was a little off. I immediately realized that I'd picked up the cumin, and the ginger jar was missing. I had a moment or two of panic, thinking I'd used the cumin in my pies last week, and no one had told me.

I found the ginger on a different shelf, the one closer to the baking counter, with the other baking spices. I guess it hadn't made it back to the cooking spice shelf when I cleaned up, but what a relief--it meant that my pies were not a Tex-Mex version. Whew!

But this thread made me remember something pertaining to the same pie-baking event. I had made my uncle a couple of pecan pies, which I baked first, then I'd put my father's sugar-free pumpkin pies in to bake. I had kept out enough of the (from scratch) pumpkin filling for a regular pie for the kids, so I started mixing in the ingredients for the regular recipe. In the meantime I'd called my uncle to tell him his pecan pies were ready, and he started talking about something else, so I was a bit distracted for a few minutes. I had the pumpkin pie ready to slide into the oven, when I noticed that the color was a little off--too pale. I had forgotten to mix in the spices, which were measured out on a mise en place plate, all ready to go. I didn't bother to remove the filling from the pie shell--I just stirred the spices in with a spoon. The pie was kind of swirly looking, but no one complained. ;)

I made sugar snap peas for a luncheon last week and forgot to put them out with the rest of the food. I found the full bowl when I tried to put something else away in the refrigerator and it wouldn't fit.

For some reason, my oven has one shelf with a divot out of it, supposedly so you could put something taller on a lower shelf and it could poke up...(I have not figured out what type of baked item that might be) but I can vouch that at least for me it's a really bad idea, as I had a very large almond cherry pound cake (deep ring pan) tip over as I didn't quite hit the shelf, I set it in the divot/hole....and poured all over the oven door and floor....

I was making German Potato Salad for my family and two couples who were visiting. One couple was telling the other how much they loved my GPS. Wee, let me tell you I will never be able to forget this mistake! I read Salt 3 TBLs, when it was supposed to be 3tsps! Totally inedible!!! about 20 people had no GPS!

I used to keep salt and sugar in large Tupperware containers that I inherited from my mom. I use a lot of salt making home made salt rub. Well, I made a nice apple pie and grabbed the wrong container and put salt instead of sugar in my pie. I didn't notice it until it was served, and OMG, did I get some funny looks. Needless to say, I now keep salt in the original container.

As a young cook I was making a recipe that called for four cloves of garlic. I didn't know the difference between a clove of garlic and a head of garlic. That was a really garlicky sauce!!

Marcy, Noooooo!!! Yikes, now I am worried for myself. ;-)

I'm telling you Jasdip, it was a bad, bad feeling....... Especially since I only realized it as the last drops went down the drain!! LOL!!

One time I made a blueberry pie. It looked gorgeous as I lifted it out of the oven. Unfortunately, I caught the lip of the pie pan on the edge of the oven and the whole thing slid out of the pan and back into the oven. What a mess.

I can think of several, though none of my own.

My mother was making a scratch cake of some sort, and Dad was in the kitchen talking to her while she mixed it up. She put it in the (wall) oven and let it rip. Shortly thereafter she noticed the flames in the oven. Apparently instead of a stick of butter, she had added the whole pound. It boiled over and caught fire. She blamed Dad.

My sister was at my house, preparing for Thanksgiving. She was mixing up the batter for the pumpkin pies, using my hand mixer. Somehow she confused the 'eject' button with the 'turbo' button, and hit 'turbo' while the beaters were still partially in the bowl. We had pumpkin pie filling on the cabinets, the ceiling, the walls. We laughed so hard we cried, and I found pumpkin pie filling for months.

DH's cousin lived with us for a while, and enjoyed cooking. One night, he concocted pork chops of some sort. They were good, but the sauce had a hint of what seemed like citrus. No, nothing odd. Just the pan drippings, thickened. Well, when I was cleaning up later, I asked him why the cannister of powdered sugar was out. Powdered sugar? Ooops, that's what he used to thicken the sauce. It worked!

Another mishap I had (not cooking, but food-related) was mistakenly putting thin lemon cookies on a cheese platter. I got the strangest looks from guests. I had opened both crackers and cookies on an earlier day and stored the remainders in plastic bags without labels...oops.

I was making blackberry cobbler at mom's house. She also (like Roseberry) stored salt and sugar in big canisters and I added salt in place of sugar. Inedible!!!

This happened years ago. I was between ovens and needed to bake cookies for a cookie swap. Mixed up the dough using one of my no fail recipes and took it to DD's to bake. Rolled it into little balls and baked. Came back to to a greasy, gloppy puddle on the cookies sheet. Put the dough in the freezer to chill up better and tried again. Same result. DD and I were stumped. Finally we tasted the dough.

The recipe used cake flour. I kept it in a Tupperware container. Had a similar container of powdered sugar next to it. Cake flour and powdered sugar look the same but they don't bake the same.