What's your latest 'disaster'? - Page 2

Food Network Fan · 04-28-2008, 12:59 PM

I dropped a pie we were supposed to have for Thanksgiving one year. I had to stay up till 2 AM and fix another then up at 5 to get started on everything else.

bluejeanz · 04-29-2008, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Food Network Fan

I dropped a pie we were supposed to have for Thanksgiving one year. I had to stay up till 2 AM and fix another then up at 5 to get started on everything else.

OMG, your pie disaster reminded me of another story. (You don't get to be 66 and not have a lotta stories, LOL. Name a subject and I'll bet I have a story about it.)

Anyway, our family is originally from PA. We moved to Cleveland when I was 2 and we used to visit back home about once a year. On one of our visits back there around the Thanksgiving holiday, they let me stay at my cousin's house. I was 10 and she was 11. My aunt and uncle owned a bar/restaurant and they lived in the apartment above it. My aunt had made about 10 homemade pumpkin pies for the restaurant and had them all cooling upstairs on the kitchen table and counters. Her kitchen was set up that her table was in the middle of the room. My cousin and I were goofing around chasing each other through the house and one of us knocked one of the pies over and it fell upside down on the floor. We thought if we put it in the garbage she'd find it so the only other idea we could come up with was we thought if we ate the whole pie and washed the dish that my aunt would be none the wiser. Oh, yah. I guess we didn't think she'd actually count them. When the bar closed she came upstairs and started yelling at us to beat the band.

(Did we have a problem eating a whole pie? Nope. It was good!)

bluejeanz · 05-16-2008, 04:21 PM

I had another disaster at lunch today. I was making Creamy Green Chile Rice from one of Bobby Flay's cookbooks. Rice, heavy cream, roasted poblanos, green onions and cilantro; what's not to like??

It's been a good long while since I roasted peppers over a flame and I guess I went a little too far. When they were done I put them in a glass bowl and covered it with plastic for about 10 minutes. When I went to *ahem* run them under cold water to wash the charred skin away, I found that they were so charred that there wasn't any meat left to the peppers. I ended up substituting two cans of chopped green chilies but, all in all, the dish was very disappointing. A big yawn. I don't think the poblanos would have made that much of a difference other than the slight kick.

Lucy · 05-19-2008, 10:30 PM

Last week, I was making a sauce out of heavy cream. My phone rang, and I got distracted and forgot about my sauce. It ended up boiling over and all over my stove top. I have a glass top stove, so it caked and burned all over the eye. It was pretty disgusting and a pain to clean.

My other two disasters that I can think of really aren't food disasters, but my own stupidity. About a month ago, I was taking baked potatoes out of the oven and accidentally hit the top of my arm up against the top part of the oven. My skin sizzled as it touched the top of the oven and it hurt like a son of a biscuit eater. I'm afraid that one will leave a scar.

My other disaster also involves me burning myself. As I said above, I have a glass top stove. I have this habit of running the palm of my hand over the stove top before I turn it on, just in case I've accidentally spilled salt or something on the stove. If I make a pot of tea, I usually do so before starting my meal, and on one particular night, I wasn't paying attention and ran my hand right across the eye forgetting that it had been boiling tea bags just a few minutes before. Luckily, the stove wasn't incredibly hot, but it still hurt enough to make me jump up and down and scream a few choice words.

Chefnot · 05-20-2008, 02:52 AM

Ouch!

BerryBaby · 05-20-2008, 10:57 AM

I can feel your pain!

PaulaFan777 · 05-20-2008, 03:30 PM

I tried to cook rice in a pressure cooker, and it blew up and the kitchen counter, the window, the cabinets, and the floor was covered in rice, funny thing though "I hate rice".