What's your worst kitchen disaster?

[Fisher's Mom]

Originally Posted by sattie

This one is silly, but forgetting to put the lid on the blender prior to pushing the 'PUREE' button!

OMG, I did exactly the same thing, sattie. Except I was making a green tomatillo sauce for cheese enchiladas and the tomatillos were straight off the stove - I had quite a few splatter burns as well as a very big mess to clean up.

[JoAnn L.]

Originally Posted by Jeekinz

I learned that one way to avoid kitchen disasters is to not answer the telephone.

Same for me, I burned a pot of bean soup while talking on the phone.

[sattie]

Originally Posted by Fisher's Mom

OMG, I did exactly the same thing, sattie. Except I was making a green tomatillo sauce for cheese enchiladas and the tomatillos were straight off the stove - I had quite a few splatter burns as well as a very big mess to clean up.

I'm dying here!!!! I was making a chimichurri sauce, and I hit the button and things started flying everywhere! Then in a panic, I hit a button at even a higher speed! Needless to say, I was cleaning green junk off cabinets, floors, walls, actually I'm still finding remnants of it this day....

[Fisher's Mom]

Originally Posted by sattie

I'm dying here!!!! I was making a chimichurri sauce, and I hit the button and things started flying everywhere! Then in a panic, I hit a button at even a higher speed! Needless to say, I was cleaning green junk off cabinets, floors, walls, actually I'm still finding remnants of it this day....

That's freaky amazing, sattie! I did exactly the same thing - hit the faster speed button trying to turn it off! (I didn't want to say it because I thought I'd look even more foolish but if you did it too - it's a blender design flaw!!!!) I did it just before I renovated the kitchen and even though I cleaned up all of the green gunk I could find, when I tore out the cabinets I found a lot more!!!

[sparrowgrass]

The time I brought a praying mantis egg case into the house and stuck in in a jar on the kitchen window sill while I tried to figure out what it was.

I had millions of teeny-tiny praying mantises everywhere. I think I still shake a little flattened one out of a cookbook once in a while.

[sattie]

Originally Posted by Fisher's Mom

That's freaky amazing, sattie! I did exactly the same thing - hit the faster speed button trying to turn it off! (I didn't want to say it because I thought I'd look even more foolish but if you did it too - it's a blender design flaw!!!!) I did it just before I renovated the kitchen and even though I cleaned up all of the green gunk I could find, when I tore out the cabinets I found a lot more!!!

Yea, I'm amazed where you find the stuff even months later. And I'm like, "How in the heck did it get there???"

[Chef Mark]

Thanks Andy M-no more microwave eggs for you

[crono760]

I was baking my first cake from scratch, using a recipe from the Joy of Cooking. It was a brick when it came out of the oven. But that's not where the fun ends :-)

I said, "hey, I have 6 pounds of cake, I should still ice it". so I tried to make buttercream. Except....no one told me you have to mix it for like 15 minutes. So I get a chunky, but liquidy, sad and unfortunate butter...slime instead.

But the fun keeps going :-P

I said, "oh no! The butter must have melted". Naturally, by this time, the buttercream is on the cake anyway, so I put it in the fridge. In the fridge where we're marinating lamb. Marinating lamb in an aromatic garlic/onion/Worcestershire sauce marinade.

So we had a vanilla pound cake with butterslime icing and garlic/onion accents.

The worst thing is: my aunt and grandmother actually took it all home and ate it! :=|

Mike

[AllenOK]

Originally Posted by sparrowgrass

The time I brought a praying mantis egg case into the house and stuck in in a jar on the kitchen window sill while I tried to figure out what it was.

I had millions of teeny-tiny praying mantises everywhere. I think I still shake a little flattened one out of a cookbook once in a while.

Hey! Something for Earth Day! Forget buying aresol cans of insecticide! Just bring home one of these things! Ought to be a big seller in places where the roaches out-populate people!

[jpmcgrew]

Originally Posted by AllenOK

Hey! Something for Earth Day! Forget buying aresol cans of insecticide! Just bring home one of these things! Ought to be a big seller in places where the roaches out-populate people!

Sounds great but I think our two cats would have a field day with one of those