Your most memorable FAILURE at cooking (v.2)

I've once concocted vilest substance known to man.

I cook vegetables my way; with vegetable spices, bak choy, some carrots, some onions, a bit of garlic, celery and a bit of water for gravy. I usually eat this with rice, and it tastes pretty good especially with fried chicken.

On many occasions I use sweet soy sauce to add flavour to the vegetable cooking. Usually it helps with the flavour, and the resulting cuisine turns out to be pretty nice.

On one occasion however, I was down with a cold. There wasn't anyone around to cook, so I myself had to cook. I couldn't really concentrate with what I was cooking though.

It happened that I had placed two bottles of sweet soy sauce and salty soy sauce on the table next to the stove. Without my knowing, because they both looked similar save for the hardly-noticeable differently coloured bottle caps, I grabbed the bottle of salty soy sauce and poured it all over my cooking. The resulting vegetable turned out to be extremely painful/bitter.

I wasn't in a mood to complain though, so I dug the vegetable out of the frying pan and poured it onto a plate. I forced myself to swallow the vegetables with rice. I couldn't continue after the second bite. Thinking oh-so-geniusly that I might be able to repair my cooking if if I added sweet soy sauce to counter the saltiness and achieve equilibrium (heh, I couldn't think straight at the time), I cooked the damn veggies again.

I forced myself to swallow 5 bites of the resulting item. Then I threw the whole thing out and ate instant noodles.

I tell you, if any culinary apprentice or master was there with me, he would have rather stabbed his tongue with a scalding hot knife than eat another bite of my cooking.

Jam it back in, in the dark.