Whats's your worst kitchen disaster ever?
Mine was recent. The first Thanksgiving at our house....I turned on the wrong burner and caused a pyrex dish of already cooked cabbage to EXPLODE! Glass and smoke everywhere! It was actually pretty hilarious, and luckily the rest of the food was covered and safe from flying pyrex pieces.
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5 Comments:
We've had a few over the years.
One memorable event was a Thanksgiving in the mid-1980s sometime, I forget exactly when. The turkey had been in the oven for about an hour when the heating element blew out spectacularly. We couldn't get a replacement that day, of course, so we ended up running our turkey across the street to our friends' house -- then we had to run across the street again every little while to check its progress, do the basting, etc. What a crazy day.
A few years later my mom was hosting a gathering at our house. She was making coffee in a large urn percolator. She'd just filled the percolator with water, placed the perc basket with coffee grounds into the perc body, and lifted the whole thing to move it from the sink to the stove area when the handles gave way. Water and coffee grounds splashed EVERYwhere, and she shouted to me to run upstairs for some towels. I sprinted up the stairs two at a time but missed the last stair and sprained my ankle hideously, spent the next several weeks limping around in pain.
Coffee never did get made!
DonNunn at 12:27AM on 01/25/07
I have only really learned the fine art of cooking in the last, say, four years. On the road to where I am now, there were VERY MANY horrible stories, but I still find the first one to be the best. I had just finished a total gutting and remodeling of my 7'x6' kitchen -- not so much at the time for usability but for show and investment purposes. After my handiman finished the painting, I thought, OK, I have a nice kitchen now, let's take it for a spin.
Given my very limited talent, I decided I was going to make on of those pre-packaged potato gratin/casserole things. The best I remember is that part of it involved boiling something on the stove, and the other part pre-heating the oven to put the boiled stuff in there after it was boiled. So I put a pot of water up to boil, pre-heated the oven, and walked away for a while (5 minutes, maybe).
Then there was this smell, and I knew the smell wasn't right but I couldn't imagine what I would have done to cause this -- the range was brand new, never ever used. I went into the kitchen to investigate. The pot on the stove was just about boiling like it should have been. The main part of the oven was pre-heating as planned, but there seemed to be a little too much smoke for an oven with nothing in it.
So I checked the broiler just because I didn't know what else to do. And that really was it. The handyman had left a roll of blue painter's tape in the broiler (to this day he can't tell me why that was even an option) and the whole thing was ablaze. It was all subdued and whatnot, but the first time out of using my range, it wound up scarred with black char from the blazing roll of tape.
*oy vey*
FKC at 12:53AM on 01/25/07
getting drunk. accidentally doubling the vodka in the penne a la vodka. serving the remains to recovering alcoholics.
Dish at 10:17AM on 01/25/07
I have to pick just one? Though this may get routed to spam, I'll simply provide links to two stories of my kitchen stupidity:
Leaving a pot of boiling soup on the stove while going to pick my wife up at the airport: http://www.foldedspace.org/archives/003685.html
A bad baking experience: http://www.foldedspace.org/weblog/2004/03/my_husband_the_chef_by_kris.html
What happens when you don't plan in advance: http://www.foldedspace.org/archives/002312.html
Ah, yes. I can prepare food well when I put my mind to it, but sometimes I'm just stupid.
jdroth at 10:23AM on 01/25/07
I forgot..I had one other major disaster. While cleaning out the fridge, a grabbed the lid of a one gallon container of cooking oil that had been saved from the deep fryer. As I pulled it out, the lid popped off, and the entire gallon of oil spilled on the kitchen floor. It oozed everywhere including under the fridge and down the step! What a mess! Luckily my husband was home and we managed to get it cleaned up before too much damage was done.
ThatGirl153 at 4:45PM on 01/25/07