Share Your Cooking Stories

[Saz]

Well I tired to make some Ginger biscuits today and had a few problems.

Firstly I let the dough sit in fridge for the time the recipe said, after I tired to roll it out , I realised that it was still a bit sticky and so had fun trying to lift them onto the trays.

After I got them out of the oven I discovered that the biscuits had stuck to the paper.

After all this I thought they would be disgusting but they actaually turned out reall yummy.

Anyway please share your stories of cooking disasters or near disasters!

[Sweetfudge]

lol i've had many both near and total disasters! bread has been a tough one for me...made lots of rocks, and lots of rocks with goo in the middle! then there was the time i tried to make a pizza crust and used corn meal instead of corn starch...yeah, that was gross! um, just the other day when i was making my Thanksgiving desserts, I was making lemon curd, and accidently added all the ingredients too soon. So instead of a curd, I got a syrup! I thought it would solidify in the fridge, but all it did was coat the shelf and cause the cheesecake to crack down the middle. Needless to say, not too many people tried my cheesecake...but I did, and it still tasted really good! The one thing I've learned cooking gluten-free is that you HAVE to be exact with your recipes. I used to be the kind of cook to do "a little of this" and "a bit of that"...no more though! Now I measure everything out! Can't wait to hear others stories so I don't have to feel like the only noob here!

[Nancym]

I make lemon curd all the time and I dump all the ingredients into the bowl at the same time, so not quite sure what you mean. Hmmm... although now that I think of it, if you added the butter before it got hot it'd be hard to whisk. (I don't put butter in mine). But basically as long as you get it up to 160 degrees it'll be fine. One time I had a curd that didn't set but I think it was because one of the eggs was bad.

I had two disasters this year, neither were key to the feast so it was ok. I tried to make corn bread but it tasted nasty. My recipe called for 2 Tbl of baking SODA, I thought it read baking powder. It had a horrible metallic flavor. Blech!

Disaster #2 was I decided to make gravy at the last minute using the drippings from the Pork Roast. I have only made gravy a couple of times in my life, once was a wonderful gravy using champagne. Well, I didn't have a recipe and just went from memory. Unfortunately I think I used too much champagne and it tasted nasty.

[Guest nini]

my most frustrating disaster was the night I was desparately craving pizza and used Pamela's bread mix to make a pizza crust... not only did the crust burn completely through before the toppings were even melted, it stuck so badly to the pan that I had to throw the pan away. I was so hungry that I ate it anyway... (just ate around the burned parts...) I don't know what I did wrong because I checked the temp and I even cooked it less time than rec. on the bag.

[lonewolf]

I tried a biscuit mix from a well-known manufacturer and was expecting delicious biscuits. The smell when they were baking was nauseating, but I decided to try one anyway. Half a little nibble was all I could get in - and it came out into the sink. We decided to give them to the dog. He ate one and threw it up about 10 seconds later. (I think that there was something very wrong with that specific package, because I still see that product in the store, but can't imagine ever trying it again.)