Share your biggest kitchen FAILS

pancakerunner
pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
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I'll start... attempted to make banana bread yesterday and overmixed the batter. Got a Banana BRICK instead.

This is a judgement-free zone. What do ya got?

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  • harper16
    harper16 Posts: 2,564 Member
    edited May 2020
    I didn't know that wax paper can't go in the oven. Filled the kitchen with black smoke, and set off all the smoke detectors in the house.

    Adding, it was my sad attempt at making kale chips.
  • brittanystebbins95
    brittanystebbins95 Posts: 567 Member
    I spent a good 4 hours deep cleaning my house before I started meal prepping.
    Went to meal prep. And dumped an entire 10 lb bag of rice over onto my freshly mopped kitchen floor.
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    brittanystebbins95 wrote: »
    I spent a good 4 hours deep cleaning my house before I started meal prepping.
    Went to meal prep. And dumped an entire 10 lb bag of rice over onto my freshly mopped kitchen floor.

    similar thing happened to me recently too. deep cleaned my kitchen AFTER meal prepping, went to get a kombucha from fridge and dropped it. Exploded all over freshly cleaned kitchen.
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    The first rst time I used my Instant Pot to cook frozen chicken breasts I dumped the chicken into the pot, not realizing that part of the packaging had stuck frozen to the breasts. It wasn't until the meal was fully cooked...chicken, pasta, and sauce, all together...that I discovered a what looked like a panty liner in the pot. It was the part of the packaging placed u der the meat to absorb some of the liquid.

    This happened just over a week ago, so it's fresh in my memory. I am sure I have had numerous other disasters over the years.
  • MelodiousMermaid
    MelodiousMermaid Posts: 380 Member
    When I was on a big health kick a few years back, made a green smoothie with mustard greens and pear. I had no clue how poignant mustard greens are...
  • PaperDoll_
    PaperDoll_ Posts: 32,857 Member
    This is going to be really weird, but..

    Back in Zoology class in school we had an “invertebrate food” day. So naturally I decided to make mealworm cookies to show my love to all my fellow classmates. The recipe said to freeze them to death. Seriously. So I put them in the freezer still in the container with all the straw because I didn’t want to touch those things.

    After they’d been in the freezer, I start removing them, with tweezers onto a baking pan. I get halfway finished and the first ones on the pan start to crawl around. I freaked out. Luckily mealworm cookies isn’t a part of my normal cooking. 🤷‍♀️
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    I once set the oven preheat to 375 when it should have been 400.

    Those were dark times.
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    Sad, sad story

    ...it was my 23rd b-day, I was home alone - so decided to bake myself a cake!...a layer cake!
    bought 2 cake mixes, chocolate and banana and lots of icing (I'm all about the icing!)

    I was on a vegan kick - so I ignored the eggs in the recipe.

    cakes cooked ok - but I don't know if if didn't let them cool enough, or it was the lack of eggs...went to frost them and they just crumbled apart and made an unsightly disaster of roughed up cake and icing

    I was so upset, and alone - with a crumbled up cake - happy *kitten* 23rd to me
    🎻, I know!
  • alexmose
    alexmose Posts: 792 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    Sad, sad story

    ...it was my 23rd b-day, I was home alone - so decided to bake myself a cake!...a layer cake!
    bought 2 cake mixes, chocolate and banana and lots of icing (I'm all about the icing!)

    I was on a vegan kick - so I ignored the eggs in the recipe.

    cakes cooked ok - but I don't know if if didn't let them cool enough, or it was the lack of eggs...went to frost them and they just crumbled apart and made an unsightly disaster of roughed up cake and icing

    I was so upset, and alone - with a crumbled up cake - happy *kitten* 23rd to me
    🎻, I know!

    My sister did the same thing! And it’s def bc it was not cool enough. So essentially she frosted the crumbles anyway and then my mother made another ‘proper cake’. Tbh I liked the crumble cake better
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    I made beet soup, and wanted to purée it - put it into the blender and...the top knobby part of the lid wasn't on right I guess?

    ...thankfully beets on the ceiling are hard to miss while cleaning it up?
  • alexmose
    alexmose Posts: 792 Member
    I made ratatouille in my crockpot so set for 10 hours and then work made me stay really late 😭😭😭 all my vegetables ruined
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    I melted a cutting board on a hot burner before, holy heck did that smell terrible.

  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »
    I melted a cutting board on a hot burner before, holy heck did that smell terrible.

    I have burned a number of burner covers.. yikes. toxic!
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    I once tried to make lemonade and I turned on the hot water faucet instead of the cold.

    I had to wait for the water to cool.

    It was horrible.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Three appliances.

    One outlet.

    I needed counseling.
  • TwitchyMacGee
    TwitchyMacGee Posts: 3,120 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    I once tried to make lemonade and I turned on the hot water faucet instead of the cold.

    I had to wait for the water to cool.

    It was horrible.
    I hate when that happens
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    today I dropped a kombucha in my kitchen and it exploded everywhere
  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    When I was in high school I decided to try making microwave fudge. No problem, except that I used my mom's Tupperware to cook it in. After disposing of the fudge and melted Tupperware, I put the lid back in the cupboard like nothing happened!

    Another time I tried to see what was cooking in the pressure cooker without relieving the pressure first. That was explosive!
  • CacoEther
    CacoEther Posts: 2,465 Member
    Once I ate mac n cheese without pickles and *kitten* so embarrassing
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    hrichts wrote: »
    Once I ate mac n cheese without pickles and *kitten* so embarrassing

    I hope you find strength and comfort in these most difficult of times.
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    TIL to NOT cook fresh mint in the air fryer... it burns and smells like another particular green plant...
  • amorfati601070
    amorfati601070 Posts: 2,890 Member
    My parents left me alone when I was a kid, think I was like 6 or something. Mum said "there is some soup in the fridge and you can just microwave it for dinner". Not knowing the metal and the microwave do not like each other I just shove the whole metal soup pot in there and nuke it. My Dad had a mini meltdown.
  • NVintage
    NVintage Posts: 1,463 Member
    ^ That reminds me of the movie Matilda. You should have made pancakes instead, haha!

    My Last kitchen fail was heating up some coffee on the stove, forgetting about it, until my entire pan was black char on the bottom and ruined....I've recently bought a microwave!
  • woollenmonarch
    woollenmonarch Posts: 152 Member
    I was deep frying potato chips in the buff and an oil droplet 💧 landed on my little monarch
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    Nutella brownies..


    I didn’t have enough eggs so I substituted with baking powder but I guess the eggs is what keeps it from falling apart?

    I ate it same way.

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