What was your biggest kitchen disaster that will make even the worst cook feel better?

[0verthinkExpert]

Someone I knew had a coworker who didn’t know a thing about cooking and pretty much never stepped a foot into a kitchen. However when she got married she wanted to learn how to make some dinners for her and her husband. She asked what would be the easiest meal to make and everyone at the office agreed that box macaroni would be a good place to start. The next day they all asked how it went. She said it went ok, but the mac and cheese was very watery. Watery? ? ? Come to find out she didn’t realize she needed to drain the pasta afterwards 😂

So what was your (or family/friend’s) biggest kitchen disaster, cooking fail, or baking flop?

[Dinklex3]

I love breakfast food so much because I never eat it.
I remember I was super happy making either French toast or pancakes. I buttered them up and put cinnamon and whipped cream on them. A looot of cinnamon and even put it in the mix.

I took a bite and turns out I used CUMIN instead of cinnamon 🥴 Nasty AF. I was so pissed.

Also, I tried making seafood Mac n cheese. I was practicing how to cook. I thought it’d taste like lobster Mac n cheese or some shit. I put in shrimp, scallops, and canned crab meat. I used to cook and bring dinner for my friends with benefits a lot at the time. I told him I made Mac n cheese, but forgot to tell him it was SEAFOOD Mac n cheese. He also loves steak, while I’m not a fan. My best friends parents used to eat these frozen steaks from Walmart and fed me some. Thought it was good. Told him about it, and he talked shit and wouldn’t believe me when I told him it prob tasted the same. So I bought some and made some and put it in his dinner with the Mac n cheese. The steak was chewy hard and salty AF 😅. The Mac n cheese wasn’t terrible in my opinion , but was terrible for him since he wasn’t expecting it to taste like fish. He called me yelling at me saying how terrible the food was and to never try that shit again 😂. Then he started talking shit about the steak and said he knew it was from Walmart lmaooo. Poor guy was my taste tester lol.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I once grabbed a cookie sheet out of the oven with my bare hands. I forgot to put oven mitts on. I burned all of my fingers. Thankfully we had some aloe and I remembered to put it on, but the burn stuck around for a while.

[0verthinkExpert]

I’ve done that so many times, but thankfully I’ve caught myself right before I touch the pan…however it’s probably only a matter of time 😫

[abc3643]

I made this Italian beef thing that my wife taught me to make.
However, one day while she was at work and I was home (and unemployed), I made it but made a boo-boo. Instead of adding flour, I added powdered sugar. (She kept them next to each other in unlabeled bins!)

So, as I was tasting it while it was cooking on the stove, I thought "This isn't right..."

When she got home, I told her something's not right and for her to taste it.
She knew something was wrong to.
Ultimately, we got around to how I made it and I pointed to the "flour" and she said "That's not the flour! That's powdered sugar!" So, I open it up to look more closely and, yeah, it was powdered sugar.

The raccoons ate well that night.

[Bricealan]

Well, I dont' know if this will take first prize, or make 'even the worst cook feel better' but I did it TWO TIMES !!!

I put 6 eggs on to boil in a NEW - BRAND NEW, aluminum sauce pan, added water, and DID turn on a timer and went in the living room to watch TV... WEll, I went to sleep, the timer went off, I didn't hear it and the next I heard was an explosion and crash boom, in the kitchen and found new pan lid in the floor, broken handle, with egg exploded all over the stove, the exhaust fan, all of the spices etc above the stove. What a god-awful mess.

Not only that, I did it a second time a week later🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️😢😢😢😢

[0verthinkExpert]

Twice…that’s impressive! But probably not in a good way 😂

[Bricealan]

Wow, and yes, I was really disgusted, plus the clean up.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

A faulty pressure cooker blew up, sending the lid flying up to the ceiling and sending everything inside the pressure cooker all over the kitchen.

I was sixteen then.

[DryGermanGuy]

Never had a real kitchen disaster. In the beginning sometimes I slightly burned the meat or fish in the pans, because I hadn’t figured out the timings yet.

[Anonymous]

I went out with turkey in the oven and forgot about it.