Cooking / Baking Disasters

[KP the nut]

I'm sure a few of us have had these, I've had more than my fair share :bag:.

The latest was last weekend. I wanted to bake a cake which I could cut into 3 layers. Instead of my usual tins, I used the tin I use to bake my Christmas cake in. I have used it for other cakes as will.

So 6 eggs, 300g butter, sugar and flour later. I put the mix into the tin and into the oven. 30 mins later, I checked on the cake - oh no. H heard the cry of horror. The tin had leaked a third of the mix over a baking tray on the shelf under the tin.

The mix on the tray was a blobby baked mess.

I took it out and put it to cool. Actually, it didn't taste bad, so I served it as a dessert with jam and ice cream :roflmao:.

And the mix in the tin, well I was able to fill it and decorate it with cream and mandarin slices.

So go on, what have you done?

 

[discarded]

So nice to have something non PTSD related to read. Thank you, I needed this today. At least with cooking it is most times easy to turn an apparent disaster into something spectacular. I have had plenty in my time but I will relate a story that is sort of about cooking.

It was my son's 6th birthday and we went to the local putt putt golf with his school friends. As the parents were arriving to collect their kids it was time to light the candles on his birthday cake. I brought out the cake that I had made and iced for his big day and before I knew it, it had flipped over and landed upside down on the ground. There was complete silence, then my son said, that was the best party joke ever mum and we all started to laugh. With the help of some mums we picked the cake up, it peeled perfectly off the icing that stuck to the ground. We took it home and re-iced it before finally lighting the candles and singing happy birthday. My son still laughs about his recycled cake 19 years later.

 

[KP the nut]

With the help of some mums we picked the cake up, it peeled perfectly off the icing that stuck to the ground. We took it home and re-iced it before finally lighting the candles and singing happy birthday.

I love it. I once made milk tert (tart), a South African dessert. It looked great and I left it to cool. I had totally forgot my foraging cat. When I had returned, I found Benny cat had licked out some to the filling. I didn't have time to restart making a base, so I scooped out the rest of the filling and made a new filling to refill the base.

My girls also still laugh at that.

 

[amethist]

I once made a stunning smelling Tia lemon chicken dish, and I mean it did smell stunning.

Unfortunately we could not eat it, it was way way too hot in its taste. What a waste of chicken and all the other ingredients.

The smell lingered in the kitchen reminding us about it for the next few days.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I love this topic. I remember making two pumpkin pies from scratch. I followed the directions perfectly. I put them in the oven and they had not solidified. I had to cook those pies for two hours to get them to come out right. They tasted good, But oh the sinking feeling in my stomach for all of the hard work and they were not turning out right.

I have another story. We lived on a little farm. We had our first experience with using our own poultry for meat. We chopped off their heads and were not prepared for the great flapping of the wings.

Then we had to put boiling pots of water in our camper to dip the birds in to make plucking the feathers easier. After we dipped them in the pots, no easy feat since they were bigger than the pots. I was sticking them in with their feet sticking out.

Then we had to take them out and hang them up on our clothesline so we could begin plucking the feathers. But lo and behold the wind started blowing. The feathers were all wet and they were sticking to our hands and blowing around. It was a total fiasco. We managed to pluck the chickens and took them into the kitchen where the butchering commenced. The chickens were covered with lice crawling all over th
Needless to say, we retired from that aspect of living off of the land. It was hilarious. When we managed to clean the meat and package it up to put in the freezer we never ate them. We would never do that\again. It was a total disaster. We were going by a book telling us how to do it step by step/ But it is hilarious now.

The book did not tell us what could go wrong. We had to learn the hard way. LOL:roflmao:

 

[piratelady]

When I was younger and still learning to bake, I decided to make some Peanut Butter Bread (it is a quick bread that does not use yeast). Anyway, I start making it and realize there is no baking powder. I go into the other room and ask my mom, "Does Baking powder taste like anything?" She answers no. So I figure, it won't affect the taste if I just omit it. I mix everything else together, plop it in the oven..and when it was done I had peanut butter bread that was about 1" thick. My mom thought it was hilarious and then informed me why baking powder is necessary :)

 

[Whitneys story]

Boy did this jump out at me. My mother in law had a small orchard. She was a superb baker, butter maker; you name it. Her freezer was always full of useful items. We were having a family get together so I decided to make a pie.

Whipped up the crust "Pate Brisee" is my favorite recipe. Poured the thawed cherries into the shell, covered with a beautiful lattice crust. It was like the kind you would picture in a bakery.

After dinner we served with homemade ice cream! OMG! The cherries had not been pitted. I still laugh at this one.:spitdummy:

 

[Whitneys story]

@Gizmo, Thanks for the hysterical chicken story. A lot of people have not a clue what it takes to get the chicken to the market. The younger generations likely think they hatch wrapped in plastic!

Was a great laugh and Thanks! Hugs Whitney

 

[Whitneys story]

@KP, It looks delicious, but if you spin the photo around and put a face on it you could create a new avatar!

PS When do you ship our Christmas Cake, I forgot! I bet they are marvelous. But what is a Christmas cake, I am curious. Thanks for the laughs, Hugs Whitney

 

[Bilby]

When I was little, my Mum and brother had gone out and Dad and I were at home by ourselves. I wanted to make chocolate chip biscuits. There weren't any labels on the flour containers and after investigating the four containers that were there, we decided on which one to use (we needed self-raising flour for the recipe).

We carry on with our recipe, place the biscuits on the tray and pop them in the oven. I begin to wonder, however, what on earth is going on when the biscuits start to run all over the tray and join together like one giant big chocolate chip biscuit. I couldn't work out what was wrong - they never turned out like this when Mum did them. It had gone awfully hard too. We waited until it cooled and then 'cracked' a bit of biscuit off - my god it was sweet and as hard as a rock! Mum comes home, asks us which container we got the 'flour' from - turns out we'd used ICING SUGAR instead. :facepalm:

 

[Loveneverfails]

I was making tostada's for dinner one night and decided to bake the tortillas instead of frying them. Long story short, I set the oven on fire. My ex had to use the fire extinguisher on 6 little flaming discs and had to carry the pan outside. I was teased for days.

 

[Froggie]

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Euhhhhh, (((KP))) it looks like a penis with 4 testicles :eek: