Your most memorable FAILURE at cooking (v.2)

Everyone who has attempted the culinary arts knows that it can sometimes lead to horrific failure. In this thread, post the failure story that your brain will simply not let you forget.

Mine would be when I tried to make beef pinwheels a few months back. Basically, a beef pinwheel is steak strips spiraled with lettuce and cheese inside. I recently had them at a restaurant, and they looked easy enough to make. So I then hopped in my car and went to Big Y (the local supermarket) to get the ingredients.

I got the ingriendients, but when I went to checkout, I realized that I forgot my wallet. So I drove back home, got it, then went back to the market and bought them. When I got back home, I realized that I didn't have enough cooking oil. After a fair amount of cursing, I drove back to the market a THIRD time, and bought the oil.

I then proceeded to prepare the pinwheels. Making them was indeed fairly easy and I had completed that in less than 5 minutes. The recipe said you could either bake them or cook them in a pan with oil. I had the baked version, so I deicded to try the pan version. Terrible mistake.

You see, I apparently had grossly overestimated the amount of oil I would need in the pan, and I didn't use a pan with steep enough sides. Needless to say, the pinwheels started cooking and splashing oil all around the stove area. Some of it got by the burner and the whole pan ignited into a grease fire. I tried to grap the pan and put it into the sink, but I spilt a good portion of the brnig oil on the floor, with some landing on my sock. The pan crashed into the sink as I let out a rather loud explicitive, ruining the pinwheels (as the sink was not washed).

Moral of the story: Fanciness without experience leads to pain and ruination.

What's your most memorable cooking failure?

Jam it back in, in the dark.