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?

[Islay]

I served raw crab to my MIL!!
Unfortunately she did not eat it!!1

[ummmm]

Not really had any. I burn myself a lot though.

[sunny-dave]

Lemon Meringue Pie - omitted lemons from filling ... very runny when sliced :(

[ethandron]

Crab tartar then Isla?
You're just tooo perfect Ummmmmmm ;)
Lemon meringue without lemon...what, just gloop pie was it?

[EcclesCake]

If I could muster the energy I would shrug off such a criticism.

As it is I'm heading off to stir my, not quite brilliant, ragu :-((((((((((((((

[ethandron]

Does it taste very lamby Eccles? I suppose it does really, it's quite a strong taste. Could you turn it into some sort of North African spicy lamb dish with the addition of apricots and stuff?

[ummmm]

HaHa....I have made some crap meals :-)

[-Talbot-]

Last year I was in a caravan at the side of the Rhine my mate in another caravan at the side of mine. He had a fridge and I had a slow cooker. Just before we set of for work he brought round a chicken nicely covered in tin foil, so I banged it in the cooker and buzzered off to work. On the way home he asks

''That chicken ... did you remember to take out the giblets?''

''No, I thought as it was in tin foil you had prepared it so I just put it in the cooker''

''Holly crap ...I guess that means you didn't take it out of its plastic bag then''

:0/

[ethandron]

What's been your crappiest?
When we had our touring caravan, I once made a one pan thing with a tin of corned beef, tin of tomatoes, tin of potatoes and a stock cube. It was truly vile, everything disintegrated and its know as 'that dog food stew you once made'.

[ethandron]

Yeah but did you eat it Talbot? :)

[-Talbot-]

Nope.

[ummmm]

I made a dish from a recipe. It was liver and tomatoes in a sherry sauce. It was gross.

[EcclesCake]

I'm feeling a tad queasy reading some of these posts.

I did have my MIL up one night because the tuna I served didn't agree with her. I might have chuckled, laughed or guffawed!

[Mamyalynne]

I've done the giblets thing too , also had the salt pot lid come off once when seasoning - we went to the chippy that night.

[Eve]

Not strictly cooking but making a very pink strawberry milkshake...minus the top on the blender...for a customer...in front of a queue of customers...it was messy!

[ummmm]

I remember one thing I did. I was prepping Xmas dinner with my uncle. He said the cauliflower was ready to go on (for cauli cheese) It was in a saucepan with the lid on so I assumed, wrongly, that he'd added water, so I just turned it on. Doesn't take long to burn :-)

[ducksie]

When I first moved from the family home my flatmate asked me to make the rice for the curry she prepared earlier, she was working and told me when to put the rice on, I did it, was lovely and fluffy, she came home starving and I was so looking forward to this dinner as I never had curry before, it was all new to me, she shrieked and hollered when she took lid from my rice pot to see I'd only gone and made sweet rice, it was the only rice I knew I could make, never heard of rice with meat sauce, in our family we only had it with fruit ;) she rinsed all the stodginess from it, I don't really know how she fixed it, so long ago now, but it was a grand dinner in the end.

I was invited by a couple to join them for a Sunday roast, the hubby nipped down the pub, the wife, cooking away and chatting, a bit like Sunday Brunch kind of atmosphere, music, chat and good few laughs and nibbles, she asked do I like Yorkshire pudding and how many would I like, my reply was "oh no, I'll be well stuffed after the dinner I won't have room for pudding" decades later, they still bring that one up ;)

[tamborine]

forgetting to light oven for sponge cake made to welcome friends....

[Islay]

Crappiest? Anything my MIL cooks and serves up - its got so bad I no longer eat at her house unless I have cooked it!!

[ethandron]

Oh Tambo..
At least I know I'm not alone, or maybe, just maybe, not the worst, in terms of disasters.