Worst Cooking Disasters

[ethandron]

I left the giblets inside the turkey, in their plastic bag, and cooked it, the first Christmas my grumpy father in law honoured us with his presence. Unfortunately it had no ill effects on him...
Eccles seems to have had a mega fail today by using the wrong mince, daft bat.
Anyone done something really spectacularly wrong with dire consequences?

[-SharonA-]

Ethandron, I've done that leaving the giblets in and trying to retrieve a melted plastic mess before serving.
Once invited some friends round for dinner, I made a beef bourginon and decided to transfer it to a prettier casserole dish.
Friends arrive, casserole in oven warming up when it exploded, rocking the oven with loud bangs. Yep you guessed it, the dish was not ovenproof.
Beef everywhere with pieces of the casserole dish.

[Arksided]

Too many disasters to mention, however I've also done the giblets thing but the crappiest has to be a resotto type thing from a Belgian friend who gave me the method and all ingredients were correct, it just tasted awful I'd put far too many red and green peppers into it.

[sherrardk]

It 'tried' to make chocolate bowls - molten chocolate and bits of balloon everywhere (but I didn't stop, I kept on trying).

[EcclesCake]

Sherrard, I remember your choc disaster, still smiling at the memory!

[DTCwordfan]

somehow, in Belgium, I managed to get my oven to go over the top and in an old house, the fuse box was a bit circumspect. I could control my amplifier from the oven and the rings as a result, which made the (Easter) lunch very interesting and getting things finished off as they should have been. Not only that, we discovered that we had two electrical systems working with half a link between them.

[DTCwordfan]

my marinading of pina colada in advance - take the pineapple and coconut and liquefy the melange in advance and then let it steep in a rum mix......before making up a full colada from that (lush that it is and great for alchies as to flavour and booze.

Accidentally, I left the Magimix lid on a half hook, but still engaged, and that exploded all over the cottage kitchen ceiling (and not mine) to the point that it was dripping off the beams.

[Jackdaw33]

Anyone ever set an egg to boil, only to forget about it. I have, the clue is a loud bang and the ceiling covered with egg.

[carolegif]

When first married, I wanted to make my OH his favourite rice pudding, so I called my Mum for the recipe. "Oh, it's easy! Just use 2 to 1", so I put half a pound of rice and a pint of milk in the dish with some sugar. We threw the dish out!

[ethandron]

Oh dear, some more disasters there.
I too remember the chocolate bowl disaster Sher, I used to love hearing all your culinary experiments with the kids.

[Caran]

When first married I cooked some carrots and put them in a colander. I decided to put it in oven to keep them warm. When I went to get them out later there was a lovely mess in the oven. The colander was plastic and had melted over the carrots and the oven floor, what a mess!

[zebo]

Not my disaster but a friend was making a savoury rice mould for a supper party, she thought it didn't look as pink as the recipe photo so she added Tabasco until the colour was right. Naturally it was inedible, far too hot. Only when she looked again at the recipe did she see the instruction to add a couple of drops of red food colouring if a pink colour is desired.

[Caran]

Another daft thing I did concerned runner beans. I'd never seen them before I got married, mum was not very adventurous. New husband grew them and presented them to me to cook. I shelled them and just cooked the little beans inside. I thought there's not much here to feed us. He wasn't pleased when I told him the remains were in the bin!

[zebo]

Caran reminds me of OH lovingly cultivating broad beans all Summer and the brought a bowl of his harvest in. I told him I didn't like broad beans and he said But I don't either.