Your most worstest kitchen disaster?

[Polly Fouracre]

I made an apple cake (recipe,proper one if anyone wants it!) as a young bride and put in salt instead of castor sugar. Also made leek and potato soup and the top fell off the pepper pot!!! I've never been able to forget it!!

[Comfreyfan]

My family delight in reminding me of my famous curry! It turned out quite hot, so I added a yoghurt to tame it a little, I figured against the heat of the curry no one would notice the strawberry flavour.......but they did!! Really disgusting

[Catrina]

Made a quiche for the newish mother in law and forgot to put the eggs into the milk so we kept waiting for the milk to set and it didn't. Eventually we gave up. I cooked something else.

[lynda66]

i've just remembered another one, birthday BBQ 2 years ago, ran out of pork chops, took some out of the freezer and gave to the BBQ chef. no probs till about a week later, i kept smelling THE most disgusting smell .... scoured everywhere pulled out the cupboards, cleaned everywhere, couldn't get rid of the smell, eventually opened the microwave to cook something, and found a plate full of rancid pork ......... it was the most disgusting thing ever.

[Two_Sheds]

Blending a soup and forgetting to put the lid on the blender first has to be up there

[Two_Sheds]

Mum's kitchen disaster was leaving us 4 kids to amuse ourselves while she went out to work.
One game which entertained us for an entire afternoon was to make up a packet cake mix, something messy with cream frosting. We'd then play a girls against boys cream cake war: extra points for Mum not noticing the frosting on the ceiling (it looked just like Artex anyway)

[Maf]

Blending a soup and forgetting to put the lid on the blender first has to be up there

Ah soup

As a thrifty student I bough a second hand pressure cooker and tried my hand at Lentil Soup. The cooker started to hiss wildly (I didn't know that was the idea) so I knocked the pressure weight off with a broom handle.

Molten pressurized lentil gunge hit the roof, splattered walls, in hair, burned scalp and face quite tasty tho

[JanieB]

Aaaah! Duck Soup! I was trying to make soup from the remains of a duck and had all the ingredients simmering gently on the stove. OH comes in and suggests as it is such a beautiful day we should do our next section of the Thames Path.

Path duly walked and sat in pub with pint in front of me . Suddenly remembered soup . Pint goes down without touching sides and I leave OH to make his leisurely way home whilst I make quick return (we had two cars with us, one at each end of the route).

It took two hours after I turned the cooker off for the smoke to clear enough to see in the house. The whole house was full and you literally couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

When OH got back we got a couple of cans and sat in the garden with all the doors and windows open.

Oh yes, although the smoke damage was only in the kitchen, it stripped the (new) paint off the dining room walls .

[quark1]

After 'fessing up to a couple of my more forgettable kitchen moments I'm getting some real pleasure out of knowing I'm not alone - I'm sure that these disasters are all part of the learning experience - I'm sure we all qualify for our Michelin Stars by now!

[Nicos]

I know someone who'd spent 2 days preparing a fantastic and complicated meal for a large group of guests and got so drunk ( A la Floyd) whilst doing the final preparations ..... she had to go to bed and missed the meal!!!!!

( food was stunning though!)

ps - it wasn't me by the way!!!!

[Two_Sheds]

Aaaah! Duck Soup! I was trying to make soup from the remains of a duck and had all the ingredients simmering gently on the stove...It took two hours ...for the smoke to clear enough to see in the house..you literally couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
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I took my sister to see Titanic at the flicks. We were half an hour into the film when I remembered I'd put some kidney beans on to boil
No car - I ran 2 miles all the way back home to find them blackened, but no damage to the flat.

[Two_Sheds]

Many years ago my Auntie made Sunday dinner for the whole clan: corn-fed chicken (it was a novelty back then).

When she took it out of the wrapper it was all yellow, so she threw it away

[di]

I know someone who'd spent 2 days preparing a fantastic and complicated meal for a large group of guests and got so drunk ( A la Floyd) whilst doing the final preparations ..... she had to go to bed and missed the meal!!!!!

( food was stunning though!)

ps - it wasn't me by the way!!!!

And you're most absolutely definitely sure you remember the food was stunning??!

[HeyWayne]

Can honestly say I don't remember any particular howlers. Mums cooking has always been "interesting" but you just get used to that.

[marigold007]

Boiling eggs & forgetting about them - remembered after a rather loud bang & found them all over the kitchen ceiling

I did that quite recently...