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Old 19-12-2007, 16:29
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Have you had any kitchen nightmares that would have had Gordon Ramsay turning the air blue?
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Old 19-12-2007, 16:31
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I accidentally turned the grill on instead of the oven and it caught on fire Was okay though, dad managed to put it out.

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Old 19-12-2007, 16:32
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I accidently added lots of salt into my apple pie instead of lots of sugar when I was 6! It was the worst piece of food I have ever eaten in my life!!
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Old 19-12-2007, 16:36
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Oh yeah, and my mum once decided that it would be a really good idea to mix red salmon with tomato ketchup and breadcrumbs and fry them into patties like hamburgers.

RE-VOL-TING.
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Old 19-12-2007, 16:37
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I was suppose to make risotto using rose wine...but in the bad light of the kitchen, I poured someone's Red Bull in instead

It was HORRIBLE
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Old 19-12-2007, 16:40
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I was suppose to make risotto using rose wine...but in the bad light of the kitchen, I poured someone's Red Bull in instead

It was HORRIBLE
It must have been pitch black! How do you confuse a can of red bull with a bottle of wine?

I had the in-laws round for xmas once... I was just sorting some christmas pudding (it was shop-bought not home-made ) - I forgot about it and the water boiled out - the plastic container melted and it absolutely stank the kitchen out before I realised. Needless to say the pudding was not salvageable.
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Old 19-12-2007, 16:43
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I know someone who got clove and bulb mixed up when using garlic.
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Old 19-12-2007, 16:49
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I know someone who got clove and bulb mixed up when using garlic.
Not quite on topic but that reminded me of something (for some reason):

My sister used to live in a really small village... when she first moved there she went to the only food shop there was - quite a small little farm-shop looking for ginger.

Now... I wouldn't have expected them to actually stock it but their response to her query of whether they had it was:

"Oh no... we don't have none of that here. I think they might have some at the chemist though."
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Old 19-12-2007, 16:51
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Oh... and I once used fromage frais instead of creme fraiche when making a sauce. It split.
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Old 19-12-2007, 17:08
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I remember when I was working in the staff canteen of me local Safeway store... One day had to make a apple crumble, and they use to store their sugar in storage containers, as they did with their salt! Someone had put salt into a sugar container, so I ended up using salt instead of sugar! Didn't realise this until the first two customers (who ended up to be the store manager and the area manager) came and ordered two apple crumbles!
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Old 19-12-2007, 17:14
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Not quite on topic but that reminded me of something (for some reason):

My sister used to live in a really small village... when she first moved there she went to the only food shop there was - quite a small little farm-shop looking for ginger.

Now... I wouldn't have expected them to actually stock it but their response to her query of whether they had it was:

"Oh no... we don't have none of that here. I think they might have some at the chemist though."

They probably do have ginger crystals at the chemist. They carry quite alot of ingredients that are used for cooking.
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Old 19-12-2007, 17:33
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I once used Scotch bonnet chillis to make a couscous for other people and didn't wash my hands. The inevitable happened and it got into my eyes and face and stung like I can't explain. I put water on it which is the worst thing you can do. Through my tears, I tried to look them up in a book. It said putting bread on your face was the best solution. I grabbed the bread and stuck it to my face. It worked quite quickly! The bell rang. I went to the door...

My friend's disaster - why did she think a prune and baked bean curry was a good idea? Why?
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Old 19-12-2007, 17:34
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I once used Scotch bonnet chillis to make a couscous for other people and didn't wash my hands. The inevitable happened and it got into my eyes and face and stung like I can't explain. I put water on it which is the worst thing you can do. Through my tears, I tried to look them up in a book. It said putting bread on your face was the best solution. I grabbed the bread and stuck it to my face. It worked quite quickly! The bell rang. I went to the door...

My friend's disaster - why did she think a prune and baked bean curry was a good idea? Why?
My cousin did much the same thing you did - only she scratched her nose instead of getting it on her face. She stuck her nose in a glass of milk!
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Old 19-12-2007, 17:39
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My cousin did much the same thing you did - only she scratched her nose instead of getting it on her face. She stuck her nose in a glass of milk!
Ouch! It's hard to describe how much more they sting than ordinary chillis!
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Old 19-12-2007, 17:40
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They probably do have ginger crystals at the chemist. They carry quite alot of ingredients that are used for cooking.
She was looking for ginger root not ginger crystals (albeit it's not technically a root!)

I thought they might have had ginseng in mind actually.
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Old 20-12-2007, 09:22
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I decided to make a chicken pie and couldn't be bothered to make the pastry so I used the ready made stuff when it came out of the oven we couldn't cut through the pastry at all. We had to prise the pastry off which came off in one piece it resembled a patio slab
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Old 20-12-2007, 09:33
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It must have been pitch black! How do you confuse a can of red bull with a bottle of wine?

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Some fool poured Red Bull into a wine glass and left it on the worktop next to the cooker. Five minutes earler, I'd poured some white wine into a similar wineglass. I was too busy chattering away instead of concentrating on the cooking and just tipped in whatever was in the wine glass at the side of the cooker.

Aside from being really funny...it was a terrific waste of money - all those cooking ingredients wasted!!
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Old 20-12-2007, 10:41
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I got woken one morning at about 6 to screams from the kitchen. I ran down stairs to find my mother holding a running whisk against her head.
I turned it off at the mains and spent the next hour pulling bits of butter and sugar out of her hair.

It still baffles me as to why she was making a cake at 6 in the morning.

Oh, and I laughed. lots. She wasn't happy about that...
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Old 20-12-2007, 11:50
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I got woken one morning at about 6 to screams from the kitchen. I ran down stairs to find my mother holding a running whisk against her head.
I turned it off at the mains and spent the next hour pulling bits of butter and sugar out of her hair.

It still baffles me as to why she was making a cake at 6 in the morning.

Oh, and I laughed. lots. She wasn't happy about that...
why was she holding it against her head?!
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Old 07-01-2008, 09:30
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When I cooked my first turkey many moons ago I forgot to take the plastic bag containing the giblets out .........
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Old 07-01-2008, 09:34
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When I cooked my first turkey many moons ago I forgot to take the plastic bag containing the giblets out .........
Classic Only Fools And Horses!
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Old 07-01-2008, 09:52
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I made what was supposed to be a light fluffy sponge cake...


it turned out like a giant empire biscuit. Tasted ok though!

I gave up baking after that.
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Old 07-01-2008, 13:00
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Dinner party. Prepared raw chicken on same surface as other stuff.
Everyone got the sh*ts.
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Old 07-01-2008, 13:31
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Not a major disaster really- made cheese on toast the other day, or rather cheese on bread, as i forgot to toast it first
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Old 07-01-2008, 16:21
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I first made garlic bread as a student. I thought 4 cloves of garlic meant 4 bulbs of garlic and not only that I thought 4 was a bit mean so increased it to 6!!! lol
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