Cooking Disasters

[HardcoreLegend]

Last week I was making some soup, something I've done many times before and never had any problems with. It's just putting some veggies in some stock and cooking it down, nothing fancy at all. Anyway, I thought I had turned the heat off and let the kitchen to do something else. Turns out I had left the heat on meaning all the time I was away, the stock had evaporated! All the veg was burnt to the bottom of the pan.

How are you at cooking? Many disasters?

[The Legend]

The only cooking disaster I can really think of was I was microwaving one of these:



Well, one problem I forgot to add the water that is necessary. The plastic/styrofoam bowl melted down into this heaping black lump and my whole house filled with this fowl smelling smoke. Seriously the nastiest think I've ever smelt.

[EmperorWu]

I was boiling beans a couple of days ago and forgot about them. Burnt to ashes beans smell horrible FYI.

[Everlong]

Usually for me something like this happens if I leave rice in the pot on the stove for too long, all the water evaporates and I burn the rice. Tends to happen when I'm trying to multitask and I just get distracted.

I fucking hate trying to clean pans that have burnt rice charred to the bottom

[Daz]

My favourite cooking disaster ever was my sister's attempt to make chocolate chip cookies. Somehow she got the recipe wrong and wound up making what I can only describe as chocolate chip Yorkshire puddings. I ate four.

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome so I'm pretty prone to dozing off if I'm not having a very energetic day. I've come very close to disaster a couple of days, boiling pasta or falling asleep with something in the oven. Thankfully I've managed to wake up in time to prevent the house from burning down.

[PorkChop]

There's a hot woman at my work who is a big fan of soup. She's organised a soup club for the office, where two people per week bring in homemade soup. She asked me to be a part of it, and I don't particularly like soup, but I'd totally never get to see her naked if I turned down this opportunity. So, I became a part of the soup club.

I made leek and potato soup this week while watching some football. This was a big mistake. Instead of putting one clove of garlic in the soup, I put the whole thing in. All of the garlic. While blending it the garlic became airbourne, and it stank the kitchen out. It still tasted alright, it was just very, very strong.

I took it into work and barely anyone has touched it. It's about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit. I have now officially blown my chance with soup club lady. I might just hand in my resignation tbh.

[Hanley!]

I once turned on the wrong stove by mistake and accidentally set a tea towel on fire.

Other than that, I haven't had much cooking excitement. I've left rice on for too long due to multi-tasking and that kind of thing, but no spectacular disasters. Though as a teenager, I did once cook a curry early in the day and left it to sit, went out for about 3 hours playing football before finally realising that I hadn't turned the heat off. To say it was burnt would be an understatement. I think I just threw the saucepan in the bin and bought something from the Chinese instead, though my parents weren't too impressed with my solution.

[AkydefGoldberg]

There's a hot woman at my work who is a big fan of soup. She's organised a soup club for the office, where two people per week bring in homemade soup. She asked me to be a part of it, and I don't particularly like soup, but I'd totally never get to see her naked if I turned down this opportunity. So, I became a part of the soup club.

I made leek and potato soup this week while watching some football. This was a big mistake. Instead of putting one clove of garlic in the soup, I put the whole thing in. All of the garlic. While blending it the garlic became airbourne, and it stank the kitchen out. It still tasted alright, it was just very, very strong.

I took it into work and barely anyone has touched it. It's about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit. I have now officially blown my chance with soup club lady. I might just hand in my resignation tbh.

Your new lady will be delighted to hear this story I bet lol

[Viazon]

Whenever I try to boil an egg. I can never take all of the shell off cleanly and bits of the white always comes off, still stuck to the shell. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

[Kein]

Whenever I try to boil an egg. I can never take all of the shell off cleanly and bits of the white always comes off, still stuck to the shell. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

Try taking the shell off of under the sink with running water. Nothing heavy just a lil water.

[Viazon]

Whenever I try to boil an egg. I can never take all of the shell off cleanly and bits of the white always comes off, still stuck to the shell. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

Try taking the shell off of under the sink with running water. Nothing heavy just a lil water.

Thanks. I'll try that next time.

[Daz]

There's a hot woman at my work who is a big fan of soup. She's organised a soup club for the office, where two people per week bring in homemade soup. She asked me to be a part of it, and I don't particularly like soup, but I'd totally never get to see her naked if I turned down this opportunity. So, I became a part of the soup club.

I made leek and potato soup this week while watching some football. This was a big mistake. Instead of putting one clove of garlic in the soup, I put the whole thing in. All of the garlic. While blending it the garlic became airbourne, and it stank the kitchen out. It still tasted alright, it was just very, very strong.

I took it into work and barely anyone has touched it. It's about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit. I have now officially blown my chance with soup club lady. I might just hand in my resignation tbh.

On the bright side, safe from vampires.

[Hanley!]

I have now officially blown my chance with soup club lady. I might just hand in my resignation tbh.

Take her to the zoo.

[HardcoreLegend]

Whenever I try to boil an egg. I can never take all of the shell off cleanly and bits of the white always comes off, still stuck to the shell. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

I remember seeing a video on Facebook of some weird Russian bloke taking the shell off an egg. He made a little hole in the top and a big hold in the bottom. He then blew through the small top hole and the egg came out the bottom. I hate boiled eggs so will never try this out, so if you feel strange enough to try it, let me know if it works.

[Twister]

Usually for me something like this happens if I leave rice in the pot on the stove for too long, all the water evaporates and I burn the rice. Tends to happen when I'm trying to multitask and I just get distracted.

I fucking hate trying to clean pans that have burnt rice charred to the bottom

I always do this, almost did it with pasta the other day too, luckily I've realized before it got to badly burnt.

Apart from that I haven't had many mishaps that I can remember. I'll always remember doing cookery many years ago at school, can't remember what we were making that day but the recipe called for some melted chocolate. I'd not had much experience with melting chocolate and my teacher was useless and left us to it. I made the mistake of bunging the chocolate straight into the pan, sticking the pan over the hob and trying to melt it that way. The result was me trying to scrub massive chunks of burnt on chocolate off the inside of the pan, unsuccessfully. The teachers face was priceless.

I now know how to melt chocolate properly.

[PorkChop]

Whenever I try to boil an egg. I can never take all of the shell off cleanly and bits of the white always comes off, still stuck to the shell. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

Try taking the shell off of under the sink with running water. Nothing heavy just a lil water.

Thanks. I'll try that next time.

Nah m8, baking soda gets that shell off quite easily.