Kitchen / Food / Drink Disasters

[Hondo]

Mine isn't a patch on most of these but ..

I wanted to defrost a nice steak from the freezer in the microwave. Put it on high instead of defrost and cooked the thing to a grey, steaming piece of rubber in a mere 1 minute!

[tipper]

Back in year 12 at school we had a common room with a microwave, vending machine etc. one cold winters day one of the other students decided qa hot chocolate would be perfect. he bought a cadburys bar from th evending machine, grabbed a cup and chucked it in the microwave. easy! only problem was the cup was styrofoam.......

[Gingernuts]

A few years back I was in a share house situation with a couple of other blokes. Got home from work one day the great smell of something tasty cooking - the student among us had decided to try his hand at a sausage casserole. Being a big fan of a good sausage casserole and having not had one since moving out of home, I was pretty pumped.

Anyway, the dinner was dished up and the three of us sat down and started tucking in. The first mouthfull suggested something horribly wrong, but in an effort not to hurt the cooks feelings the other two of us attempted to push through. After a couple more fork fulls however, we couldn't handle it and suggested that perhaps something was not right, it was just too damn salty.

I asked the cook for the recipe he had followed. I looked through it and it all seemed to be in order. Then it struck me. I went over to the cupboard and pulled out the tin of beef stock. It was nearly empty where previously it was nearly full.

Turns out the poor bloke had read 'one cup of beef stock' and taken it quite literally.

[OnSong]

What group of bachelors has beef stock in the cupboard? Lol

[FattyLumpkin]

I learnt the hard way early on that there is a difference between a lettuce and a cabbage, despite them both being green & round!

[Tooting Bec]

I had the joys of hosting a grand final show at my place i think it was the 03 gf.
things got a little out of hand a few too many drinks were had and to save the place we decided to move to the pub instead.

Got up the next day, very bleary eyed and surveyed the mess and thought as i clean up i'll heat a four and twenty up to have for lunch. put the oven onto 180 and started cleaning up all the bottles and cans and about half an hour later i heard a loud bang from the kitchen. went in to have a look and couldn't see anything too untoward so didn't think too much of it and saw that the oven was warmed up and ready to whack the pie in. open the oven door and noticed that to hide the beer from the the other blokes someone had put a stash of carlton draught tinnies in the oven to hide. a couple of them had exploded but threw 16 of them out!

[sherminator]

A young bloke at work decided he wanted to have a can of soup for lunch one day. As there is always a line up for the microwave at break time, he decided to avoid the wait by sticking the can into the pie warmer so it was nice and hot in time for lunch. A couple of hours later he retrieved his can which was bulging with all the built up steam and pressure. Despite being warned by a few of the older blokes, the young fella cracked the can anyway resulting in an explosion of soup that coated the ceiling and walls of the lunch room. Unfortunately his face copped the brunt of it resulting in some pretty nasty soup burns and an afternoon spent at the hospital.

[fisho mcspaz]

My chili crab pasta calls for one red chili, chopped fine. The supermarket didn't have any though. There were plenty of green ones but I'd tried them before and they've got no kick. Fortunately there were these things called Thai birdseye chilies, so I bought three of them because they were fairly small.

Now I have just tried the sauce and realised that perhaps one of these tiny rocket-launchers would have sufficed. This isn't a problem for me because I like hot food, but I don't know whether to warn Mr McSpaz or not. However, I spent ages chopping up all the ingredients and I'd hate to have to make something else now, so I think I'll just keep quiet.

[Lunchcutter]

Well not really a Food Disaster but a Disaster that involved food still the same

AFL Grand Final Day 2007 and as is the tradition my Mother decided to have a Grand Final Party. On the menu was webber Lamb, Beef and Chicken and all the Veggies that go with. My late DH and myself rocked up to Ma's around 11 am to assist with the preparations etc, walk in to find the house totally decked out with streamers and posters and the lovely aroma of webber meat eminating from the back yard. As we greet Mum I notice one of her trouser legs is pushed up and she's got a torn up sheet wrapped around the bottom half of her leg. She alsodidnt look the best and was a little shaky. At this time she was laying on the couch with her leg up, having a cup of coffee. DH asked her what had happened. She replied that she was having trouble getting the coal in the webbers to be hot enough to cook the meat so she decided to get some kero (in a spray bottle, mind you) and sprayed it directly onto the coals. Well you guessed it. There was a mini like eplosion and the fire jumped back and had caught her trousers and leg on fire! Did she call the ambulance? Did she call me or my brothers or sister?? No.. All Mum was worried about was all the work she had done in preparation for the party and the fact that she did not want to spoil the day, by cancelling it. I started to freak out, specially when she was adamant that she was not going to hospital until after the Game and that she would entertain her Guests. Aftter some heated discussion my DH negotiated with her that he would stay and entertain the guests (he knew them all well anyway) and she would allow me to take her to the hospital immediately. (she was telling me in the car on the way to the RAH that we would be back just after half time). Well when we got to Emergency, the staff started emergency burns treatment then raced her into the Burns Unit and that's where my dear Mother stayed for the next two weeks enduring three skin grafts on her foot and lower leg. Now just so you don't think my Ma is a complete nutter.. In 1998 she suffered a stroke and as a residual effect suffers from front lobal brain damage, so sometimes she is a little wacky... ... mind you this was the sece told hond time she had ended up at the RAH Burns Unit... the time before was trhough incorrectly using a wall paper steamer - The staff have told her next time she ends of there they are going to make her stay in C Block (I think that's where mental illness patients go)