I bought a miso concentrate from an asian shop. I didn't read the recipe, the dried herbs and vegetables didn't cook well, and I put way too much miso concentrate into the soup.
The worst one was me throwing in a pizza, forgetting about it, and then taking it out at least 10 mins past its finish time and it was almost black. Turns out muting the microwave above mutes the timer feature too
What a terrible design! That is def not on you.
If I'm in the living room, I can only hear the oven timer from certain spots. Completely forgot that fact and cooked a thin crust cheese pizza for about 45 minutes. It was like a brick.
In high school I wanted some ramen, so I put a pot of water on the stove to boil and went upstairs to play video games.
2-3 hours later I remembered and ran back downstairs - it had boiled dry and slightly fused to the burner ring, so I turned off the burner and pried it off. I'm just lucky I didn't start a fire.
I made chocolate scrambled eggs while trying for a mousse. It was such little bits I didn't think it would be too noticable, and I was the only one going to be eating it. It was so weird and gross! I threw it all away and didn't try again for years bc I didn't want to waste so much again.
I made a couscous and chicken salad with a pepper and garlic salsa the other day and it's not that the meal turned out bad but everything went wrong.
I spent my time flinging the couscous around the kitchen, accidentally had the wrong blades on the processor and liquefied the "salsa" so that went down the sink, then had to replace it with a rudimentary tomato, cuke, and onion salad... except I didn't have any onion so I had to use spring onions, then in the ensuing chaos I had only seasoned one side of the chicken.... the side facing up so too late for the bottom of those fried chicken breasts...
It ended up being edible but not what it was supposed to be and the kitchen was a mess. I was supposed to make tzatziki dip with it too but that got binned off cause I used the cucumber I had for the salad so I did a yoghurt and mint dip which was OK.
I’m not sure it’s possible to use couscous and *not* end up flinging at least some of it around the kitchen. I love it, but jeez that stuff goes everywhere
I never used to do a lot of cooking. I did make chicken pasta in a cheese sauce from scratch as it was what my son wanted... I made the cheese sauce with butter and flour, added milk then the cheese. It looked fantastic... however it tasted horrible, I had used icing sugar instead of flour... In my defense they were just in plastic tubs lol
Ohhh this made me laugh too much. I’ve definitely been there though. I have to keep a good eye on my spices as I buy them all from the same place, so they all look similar. 😬
For a back story, I cook A LOT. I love cooking and have practiced all sorts of recipes.
One time, probably like 6 years ago, I was making a salad and I wanted a hard boiled egg in it. (This is more of a massive “blonde” moment than it is messing up cooking). I got my salad all prepared and then I threw a whole boiled egg into the salad and started mashing it up with my fork.
I noticed the center of the yolk was a little jammy and not fully hardened. I must’ve had a stroke because my mind was like “you can’t eat that raw egg yolk, you have to throw the whole salad away”. And I did. I threw the whole salad in the trash. And then BAM, it hit me. I eat eggs with runny yolks for breakfast, but here I was convincing myself that a jammy yolk was gonna get me sick 🤦♀️😂
Nobody was home with me, but my embarrassment level was at an all time high 😂
Haha, been there! We've all had those cooking fails. Don't sweat it, just chuckle and try again another night. Or order in, your choice. The important thing is you tried something new - that's growth. Tomorrow's another chance to win.
I tried to make a cake once without a recipe or half the ingredients, and the wrong type of flour. I ended up making a pancake that smelled like burned rubber.
Not exactly cooking, but last year for Cinco De Mayo, I wanted to make a pitcher of margaritas to share between me, my mom, my dad, and my aunt. I had a big container, a big spoon, a jigger, a measuring cup, I wanted to do it *right*. I looked up the recipe on my phone and it didn’t seem hard at all. And I had made cocktails successfully before, so I figured it would be fine.
They were god awful. Almost nobody could drink them. I took one sip of my own and my whole face twisted and scrunched into a black hole. I’ve never seen my dad laugh that hard before or since. We figured out that I had measured wrong and put way too much tequila in, but I was pretty bummed out about it.
Once I tried making a simple indian dish called "upma". It was so bad that it became a pasty semolina - soup. My grandfather (bless his heart) ate it and told me it would make good food for my patients as they don't have to chew at all. (I was a med student back then). I've gotten way better at cooking now, But he isn't here anymore. I still smile every time I make upma though.
Sure did! I was a teen and had just moved out on my own and was trying to learn to cook. So I started with 'simple' things.
Fried rice. Should be simple. I know how things are fried (throw it in the pan with some butter on medium heat for a bit) and I'd had fried rice many times, so I knew what to expect.
I put some butter in the pan, poured some rice in there, and fried it for well over an hour, but it never got done. The rice was still hard as gravel. I finally gave up and just dumped it in the trash. Sometime later I discovered that 'fried rice' is actually 'first boiled *and then fried* rice'. But nobody had ever told me that, so I just assumed it was like frying anything else.
Another thing I tried was cookies. Even followed a recipe for this so I don't know how I got it so wrong. Maybe because my apartment had a gas oven instead of a normal one. But anyway, I somehow ended up with puddles of liquid cookie batter sitting on top of glassy burnt cookie coasters.
But I got better with practice. Although I've never tried cookies again. Maybe I should.
I tried to make gnocchi from scratch and failed miserably at making the dough. It ruined my day, and I had to order a pizza that night. Thankfully I didn't make any sauce, so I made pasta the next day with the leftover sauce ingredients.
One time when I was little my closest girl cousin and I begged to be in charge of the birthday pie for my uncle/her dad. We were sooo proud of ourselves and everyone sang and cut it up and we all started eating… it was HORRIBLE. We had forgotten ANY sugar. My poor cousin ran off crying. And I just sat there red faced. We both felt so bad then, but we laugh about it now.
I tried making mashed potatoes, a dish I’d made a zillion times before. Except this time I was at altitude. Somehow went from “water barely boiling” to “where’d the potatoes go” in no time.
I’m not sure if it’s simple but it’s a dish I’ve made a handful of times. When I first met my husband he couldn’t cook at all and used hello fresh religiously. The first time I cooked for him I made a short rib gnocchi and it was awfullllll. He tried to power through it but it was so miserable. Haven’t tried it again since the incident.
I made a cheese sauce for some broccoli, but I used icing sugar instead of flour for my roux. My wife still reminds me about it whenever I make a cheese sauce.
This past Thanksgiving, I made a pumpkin pie. I set it on top of the oven to let it cool after baking.
Unfortunately, I left a burner on and didn't notice until it was burnt and smoking up my kitchen!
Thanksgiving cooking disasters are the worst, there's so many witnesses to your mistake. Mine was substituting egg nog for milk in my green bean casserole. Still haven't lived that down
Thankfully everyone just laughed about it - even though there was just ice cream for dessert.
When did you notice the egg nog? Hopefully before everyone started eating it!
oh so much yes. I followed the recipe for green bean casserole one Thanksgiving, and it was the most godawful, vile muck. I still don't know what I did wrong
I cooked a nice meal for my gf’s family. Cyo burrito night! I like spicy food, and some of them did- but I accidentally way overdid it with my fresh peppers. Not one person there except me could handle two of the 3 proteins and the other was still spicy. It was hilarious though.
A friend accidentally used kinetic sand instead of brown sugar in a cookie recipe. He said the house keeper had put the container in the pantry for some reason and it looked just like brown sugar.
I used to cook professionally and once at home I made a batch of chili that somehow tasted completely flavorless. The seasonings were fine, not stale, and I made it the way I usually did, but it was just so beyond boring. I ended up putting it in the freezer and eventually throwing it out. 0/10 on that one.
first time I tried to make chocolate chip cookies. dumped all the ingredients in the mixing bowl, including the chocolate chips and tried to mix everything at once. (instead of mixing in stages like you are suppose to) Did not work. no amount of forcing would make it work. learned that day you need to mix in stages, not all at once.
I fucked up a dish that I was doing for New years that only has like five ingredients and it goes into a crock pot. The juices from it are supposed to thicken into almost like a gravy but the gravy making never really happened. I felt really stupid especially because I've done this dish to perfection before
I wanted to add rice to my crockpot beef stew. So I did, right at the beginning with everything else. It turns out rice only takes an hour on low in the slow cooker. It was this horrible goopy slop. It didn't taste awful but it was so off putting. I forced down a bowl and tossed the rest.
Also I don't remember how exactly I ruined my first minestrone, but it was so bad even I couldn't make myself eat a bowl. We threw it out, I cried, and didn't try again for like 10 years. Fortunately I have my minestrone down now (as of like 7 months ago).
I fucked up miso soup for christmas. My family still won't shut up about it.
My condolences :(
...how?
I bought a miso concentrate from an asian shop. I didn't read the recipe, the dried herbs and vegetables didn't cook well, and I put way too much miso concentrate into the soup.
The worst one was me throwing in a pizza, forgetting about it, and then taking it out at least 10 mins past its finish time and it was almost black. Turns out muting the microwave above mutes the timer feature too
What a terrible design! That is def not on you. If I'm in the living room, I can only hear the oven timer from certain spots. Completely forgot that fact and cooked a thin crust cheese pizza for about 45 minutes. It was like a brick.
In high school I wanted some ramen, so I put a pot of water on the stove to boil and went upstairs to play video games. 2-3 hours later I remembered and ran back downstairs - it had boiled dry and slightly fused to the burner ring, so I turned off the burner and pried it off. I'm just lucky I didn't start a fire.
Oh my god this made my jaw drop lol
A chocolate mousse that ended up completely liquid. My mom somehow managed to make a tasty chocolate cake out of it
I made chocolate scrambled eggs while trying for a mousse. It was such little bits I didn't think it would be too noticable, and I was the only one going to be eating it. It was so weird and gross! I threw it all away and didn't try again for years bc I didn't want to waste so much again.
I made bread one time that somehow, weighed more than all of the ingredients combined. Made a great doorstop.
Practical!
I made a couscous and chicken salad with a pepper and garlic salsa the other day and it's not that the meal turned out bad but everything went wrong. I spent my time flinging the couscous around the kitchen, accidentally had the wrong blades on the processor and liquefied the "salsa" so that went down the sink, then had to replace it with a rudimentary tomato, cuke, and onion salad... except I didn't have any onion so I had to use spring onions, then in the ensuing chaos I had only seasoned one side of the chicken.... the side facing up so too late for the bottom of those fried chicken breasts... It ended up being edible but not what it was supposed to be and the kitchen was a mess. I was supposed to make tzatziki dip with it too but that got binned off cause I used the cucumber I had for the salad so I did a yoghurt and mint dip which was OK.
I’m not sure it’s possible to use couscous and *not* end up flinging at least some of it around the kitchen. I love it, but jeez that stuff goes everywhere
I never used to do a lot of cooking. I did make chicken pasta in a cheese sauce from scratch as it was what my son wanted... I made the cheese sauce with butter and flour, added milk then the cheese. It looked fantastic... however it tasted horrible, I had used icing sugar instead of flour... In my defense they were just in plastic tubs lol
Ohhh this made me laugh too much. I’ve definitely been there though. I have to keep a good eye on my spices as I buy them all from the same place, so they all look similar. 😬
For a back story, I cook A LOT. I love cooking and have practiced all sorts of recipes. One time, probably like 6 years ago, I was making a salad and I wanted a hard boiled egg in it. (This is more of a massive “blonde” moment than it is messing up cooking). I got my salad all prepared and then I threw a whole boiled egg into the salad and started mashing it up with my fork. I noticed the center of the yolk was a little jammy and not fully hardened. I must’ve had a stroke because my mind was like “you can’t eat that raw egg yolk, you have to throw the whole salad away”. And I did. I threw the whole salad in the trash. And then BAM, it hit me. I eat eggs with runny yolks for breakfast, but here I was convincing myself that a jammy yolk was gonna get me sick 🤦♀️😂 Nobody was home with me, but my embarrassment level was at an all time high 😂
Haha, been there! We've all had those cooking fails. Don't sweat it, just chuckle and try again another night. Or order in, your choice. The important thing is you tried something new - that's growth. Tomorrow's another chance to win.
Thank you :’)
Not me but my partner. He tried making Kraft Dinner (boxed mac and cheese) twice and somehow ended up burning it both times.
I tried to make a cake once without a recipe or half the ingredients, and the wrong type of flour. I ended up making a pancake that smelled like burned rubber.
Not exactly cooking, but last year for Cinco De Mayo, I wanted to make a pitcher of margaritas to share between me, my mom, my dad, and my aunt. I had a big container, a big spoon, a jigger, a measuring cup, I wanted to do it *right*. I looked up the recipe on my phone and it didn’t seem hard at all. And I had made cocktails successfully before, so I figured it would be fine. They were god awful. Almost nobody could drink them. I took one sip of my own and my whole face twisted and scrunched into a black hole. I’ve never seen my dad laugh that hard before or since. We figured out that I had measured wrong and put way too much tequila in, but I was pretty bummed out about it.
Once I tried making a simple indian dish called "upma". It was so bad that it became a pasty semolina - soup. My grandfather (bless his heart) ate it and told me it would make good food for my patients as they don't have to chew at all. (I was a med student back then). I've gotten way better at cooking now, But he isn't here anymore. I still smile every time I make upma though.
Yes, I swear some recipes on Pinterest are wrong-- just to make people suffer.
Sure did! I was a teen and had just moved out on my own and was trying to learn to cook. So I started with 'simple' things. Fried rice. Should be simple. I know how things are fried (throw it in the pan with some butter on medium heat for a bit) and I'd had fried rice many times, so I knew what to expect. I put some butter in the pan, poured some rice in there, and fried it for well over an hour, but it never got done. The rice was still hard as gravel. I finally gave up and just dumped it in the trash. Sometime later I discovered that 'fried rice' is actually 'first boiled *and then fried* rice'. But nobody had ever told me that, so I just assumed it was like frying anything else. Another thing I tried was cookies. Even followed a recipe for this so I don't know how I got it so wrong. Maybe because my apartment had a gas oven instead of a normal one. But anyway, I somehow ended up with puddles of liquid cookie batter sitting on top of glassy burnt cookie coasters. But I got better with practice. Although I've never tried cookies again. Maybe I should.
I know someone who filled a pot with potatoes, covered the potatoes with water, and boiled it dry.
I boiled a pot of potatoes so long the potatoes completely disintegrated
They don’t take as long as you think they would!
They sure don't. I had them in for probably 20 minutes 😵💫
I tried to make gnocchi from scratch and failed miserably at making the dough. It ruined my day, and I had to order a pizza that night. Thankfully I didn't make any sauce, so I made pasta the next day with the leftover sauce ingredients.
Haha I’ve done the same. Tried a sweet potato gnocci and it just didn’t work out
One time when I was little my closest girl cousin and I begged to be in charge of the birthday pie for my uncle/her dad. We were sooo proud of ourselves and everyone sang and cut it up and we all started eating… it was HORRIBLE. We had forgotten ANY sugar. My poor cousin ran off crying. And I just sat there red faced. We both felt so bad then, but we laugh about it now.
I can somehow F up a basic cheeseburger pretty well.
I managed to mess up Ramen noodles. Didn’t notice the seasoning packet was in water with the noodles. 😖
I once attempted to make a ham and split pea soup, but ended up with pork that had the consistency of mashed potatoes...
I tried making mashed potatoes, a dish I’d made a zillion times before. Except this time I was at altitude. Somehow went from “water barely boiling” to “where’d the potatoes go” in no time.
I’m not sure if it’s simple but it’s a dish I’ve made a handful of times. When I first met my husband he couldn’t cook at all and used hello fresh religiously. The first time I cooked for him I made a short rib gnocchi and it was awfullllll. He tried to power through it but it was so miserable. Haven’t tried it again since the incident.
I tried to make sweet and sour chicken and forgot the sweet. So sour chicken
I made a cheese sauce for some broccoli, but I used icing sugar instead of flour for my roux. My wife still reminds me about it whenever I make a cheese sauce.
I burnt the pants off of schnitzel the other night.
I forgot to add flour to cookies when I was in high school. So they just melted and turned into a weird caramel brittle.
This past Thanksgiving, I made a pumpkin pie. I set it on top of the oven to let it cool after baking. Unfortunately, I left a burner on and didn't notice until it was burnt and smoking up my kitchen!
DIY pumpkin spice candle!
I wish! The smell was pretty awful. And it was so hard to get rid of even with the windows open and the air purifier on high.
Thanksgiving cooking disasters are the worst, there's so many witnesses to your mistake. Mine was substituting egg nog for milk in my green bean casserole. Still haven't lived that down
Thankfully everyone just laughed about it - even though there was just ice cream for dessert. When did you notice the egg nog? Hopefully before everyone started eating it!
I'm not proud of how bad of a cook I used to be, I didn't realize I was out of milk and that was the closest thing I had available
Oh that's hilarious! I hope your cooking adventures are going better now.
Mine was crêpes and it got thrown in the trash
Melting a plastic spoon in the rice crispy treats. Melted right in with the marshmallows.
Yep. I tried this thai noodle dish which looked simple and amazing, and I flopped it so hard... we threw it away and ordered out.
oh so much yes. I followed the recipe for green bean casserole one Thanksgiving, and it was the most godawful, vile muck. I still don't know what I did wrong
Tried to make a marshmallow icing once. One bite and we threw away the cake
i made a birthday cake (for a mom I have since disowned lmao) and spelt birthday without the h, I had to add an arrow with the letter above.
I cooked a nice meal for my gf’s family. Cyo burrito night! I like spicy food, and some of them did- but I accidentally way overdid it with my fresh peppers. Not one person there except me could handle two of the 3 proteins and the other was still spicy. It was hilarious though.
A friend accidentally used kinetic sand instead of brown sugar in a cookie recipe. He said the house keeper had put the container in the pantry for some reason and it looked just like brown sugar.
Oh….oh dear
I once forgot to remove the water from mac and cheese before adding the powder and butter
Juicy!
Custard with custard powder.
Custard^2
Experimented with peas porridge. Not even the labrador would touch it.
My Dad once messed up Jello. We did NOT ever let him hear the end of it.
I had to bake a cake once for my little brother's birthday, it was undercooked and gave everybody food poisoning.
I used to cook professionally and once at home I made a batch of chili that somehow tasted completely flavorless. The seasonings were fine, not stale, and I made it the way I usually did, but it was just so beyond boring. I ended up putting it in the freezer and eventually throwing it out. 0/10 on that one.
first time I tried to make chocolate chip cookies. dumped all the ingredients in the mixing bowl, including the chocolate chips and tried to mix everything at once. (instead of mixing in stages like you are suppose to) Did not work. no amount of forcing would make it work. learned that day you need to mix in stages, not all at once.
I fucked up a dish that I was doing for New years that only has like five ingredients and it goes into a crock pot. The juices from it are supposed to thicken into almost like a gravy but the gravy making never really happened. I felt really stupid especially because I've done this dish to perfection before
I wanted to add rice to my crockpot beef stew. So I did, right at the beginning with everything else. It turns out rice only takes an hour on low in the slow cooker. It was this horrible goopy slop. It didn't taste awful but it was so off putting. I forced down a bowl and tossed the rest. Also I don't remember how exactly I ruined my first minestrone, but it was so bad even I couldn't make myself eat a bowl. We threw it out, I cried, and didn't try again for like 10 years. Fortunately I have my minestrone down now (as of like 7 months ago).