Your most memorable FAILURE at cooking (v.2)

Luckily, I've never had anything chaotic happen to me.

I think my worst experience, though, was the first time I made flan. I followed the instructions on the recipe as well as I could, and I don't think I did anything horrible wrong, although I probably did. When it was done, the carmelized sugar on top of the flan did something rather strange. When I took the flans out, none of them had the sugar on top. When I looked at the bottom of the pan (which was more like one used for muffins), I found either liquidly puddles of carmelized sugar or hard chunks glued to the bottom of the pan. The flan itself turned our overly-eggy, and the texture was pretty strange.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by McCloud

Just tonight was something that I doubt I'll ever forget. It was my turn to cook dinner for my roomates (read: for the 7th time in a row), so I went with Rice a Roni with cheese sauce and sliced hot dogs. Just like mac n cheese, only with rice. So I boiled the rice up, then added the cheese sauce. After stirring the mix, I noticed some little dark bits in the sauce, which I took for herbs, as Rice a Roni tends to have those. So, I finish cooking, announce the meal's readiness, and dish some up for myself and return to my room. As I am sitting, browsing these very forums, I hear an exclamation from the kitchen and my name being called. I enter and ask what's wrong. One word. "Bugs!" Yes, ladies and gentlemen, those dark flecks were not in fact seasoning, but little tiny insects. Upon further inspection of the cupboard, it is revealed that there were quite a few boxes of food that had been infested by the little critters, which we believe to be tiny, possibly infant cockroaches. At this point I sat down and started feeling sick. You see, I was very hungry. So hungry, in fact, that I had already finished my plate of food. All of it. I had even licked my plate clean.
Words cannot possibly convey to you how unnerved I am right now.

Oh. :shh: That was shuddertastic. I'm sure that I'll freak out at the slightest hint of a speck now!


None of my horrible experiences were absolutely terrible, but I'll share a few anyways!

Not too long ago, I decided to make Spanish rice from scratch. After leaving it in the skillet for five minutes to simmer, I smelled something burning. Well, I checked the rice, and the entire bottom was completely burnt. Oops.


And then there was the biscuit incident! I threw a leftover biscuit (Popeyes!) into the microwave on high power for 2 minutes. Now, the biscuit came out fine, if not a little cold, the last billion times I did that. This time, however, I'm sure it started smoldering. The entire biscuit took on an unearthly and pasty shade of gray, and black wisps of smoke starting coming out. I threw the biscuit into a tub of water, and the water turned amber brown. The smell, I should add, was atrocious.

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