The stupidest thing I have ever done cooking ...

[DemoTex]

I was frying chicken tonight. One piece appeared to have too little flour coating it. I grabbed a measuring cup with "white" in it. I dumped raw white rice on frying chicken. Jeebus!

Well, I salvaged it. Got some good gravy, too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Ever made muffins using baking soda instead of baking powder?

THAT'S stupid. And the muffins were spectacularly inedible.

[DarkTirade]

2. No, but my little sister made that mistake with pancakes once...

once again, spectacularly inedible. :)

[havocmom]

12. just did that error with some scones

That'll teach me to cook BEFORE coffee.

[Aristus]

3. I had a happy accident while cooking once.

I was making frosted brownies (don't ask why) and instead of reading the directions, I poured the ingredients for the frosting into the brownie batter. So no frosting on the brownies. What I got instead were brownies that had like a nice little chocolate granache inside when you took a bite. They were YUM! :9

Hi, Mac! :hi:

[triguy46]

4. Water and hot oil. 'Nuff said.

[wavesofeuphoria]

5. I used chili powder instead of cinnamon in a pumpkin pie once ...

... my dad's bald head immediately beaded up with sweat after his first bite. :eyes:

[mainegreen]

9. !!!!

:rofl:

[lost-in-nj]

6. I made 2 lbs of ziti once

and taking it off the stove.... I dropped the pot... water and pasta everywhere
plus I had people over for dinner......
ran out and bought more....

lost

[stuntcat]

7. I messed up today too

I was making a big pot of beany soup and I wanted to add some pepper to it to maybe help clear my stuffed-up head but I went a little overboard with the pepper and I had to throw half the soup away.. when throwing away food makes me sicker than just about anything, I hate doing it so much, there was no salvaging how I screwed up the soup though.

I'm glad you could save dinner.

[LibertyLover]

8. I was cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner for a guy I liked

and his mother. I had very carefully taken the neck and giblets out, put them into a pot of water and simmered them to make broth to make the gravy. When it came time to make the gravy, I picked up the pot and carefully poured the contents into a strainer to remove the neck and giblets. The problem was that I had forgotten to put the strainer over a 2nd pot to catch the broth and it all went down the sink drain. I used chicken bouillon cubes instead.

[DemoTex]

10. I always think of Sylvia Plath when turkey necks are mentioned.

Just a literary thing.

[1gobluedem]

11. I have a friend who once fried meat in baby shampoo

She wondered why the oil kept foaming.

My biggest gaffe; confusing 'clove' of garlic with 'bulb' of garlic and putting a whole bulb into pesto sauce....zowie.