Your most memorable FAILURE at cooking (v.2)

My favorite memory was when I tried to make chicken adobo for the first time. The chicken ended up being too salty because I had put too much soy sauce, and it was too late to neutralize the flavor somehow. I'm just glad I didn't use too much chicken.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Flyzelle

The next scenario was when i was about 13ish i was over my bestfriends house and she's 5yrs older than me and was absolutely boy crazy at the time... SO i was over her house and we decided that we wanted to make some cookies...not the kind that you spoon out of the roll or break and stick on the cookie sheet...that's cheating.. i mean really hard core home made cookies...but my friend wasn't the brightest light bulb in the pack, and at the time i was only a couple of watts brighter...

So we realized that we didn't have all of the proper ingredients...so we started substituting...oils, and flours...and flavorings... well we made it and stuck it in the oven to cook...well she goes back into her room to talk to some guy, and i'm sitting talking too, well some time goes by, and i try to get her off the phone to get the cookies, but she won't budge...this is likea good 20 mins later...well i sat there, and then about 10 mins later i see smoke drifting down the hallway...and then the alarm goes off....NOW she gets off the phone, but by then her mtoher had come upstairs and pulled out the "cookies" which were nothing more than a large balck glob of goo that resembled nothing close to a cookie...

I've only attempted real cookies twice. My first try wasn't as successful as the second one because I forgot to add salt. A friend of mine gave me a modified chocolate chip cookie recipe. Rather than use normal flour, she recommended using yellow cake mix, and it actually tasted much better.

There's nowhere I can't reach.