Your most memorable FAILURE at cooking (v.2)

Originally Posted by Moon

So I then hopped in my car and went to Big Y (the local supermarket) to get the ingredients.

Must be local... I loved the Big Y when I was back in college.

ANYWAYS, this weekend I had a horrible failure in the kitchen. I made some floured, pan-fried, steak strips and an artichoke/white wine/parmesan sauce with some pasta. THAT came out fantastic.

What I failed with was using the leftover stuff in the pan afterwards. I thought I'd put on my "I SAW IT ON TV, I CAN DO THIS!" hat and tried to deglaze the pan using some wine. Which I did, that was fine. I tried to now turn this into a gravy. So I poured a little flour into it and mixed it well. Well, apparently I used a little TOO much flour in the pan because not only did it smell like rancid ass, it started to burn and create this awful smelling beefy-cakey substance.

So for the future, I'm gonna have to actually LEARN how to make pan sauces.

Jam it back in, in the dark.