Your most memorable FAILURE at cooking (v.2)

i was baking some bread in the small oven.
i couldn't be bothered watching over it, so I went upstairs and went on the net.
after a while, the power cut off, and there was no electricity in the house.
wondering what the hell was going on, i went to go check the circut breakers, only to find that the whole of downstairs was in smoke.

the oven was on fire, and it had melted through the power cord and caused the short.

it was then that i realised that it had been 5 hours since i put the bread in the oven.
i had totally forgotten about it.

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here's another story, this time about my friend.

i brought fried rice to school about once a week, and it became a sort of tradition with my friends. they brought spoons with them to school to get some off me. lol.
one of my friends, Matt, asked me how you make fried rice.
I told him you get some rice, put it in a frying pan or wok, put in some diced meat and veggies, a couple of eggs, mix it together and voila! Fried rice!

He came back to me the next day, and told me that he made it exactly the way i told him to, but the rice was.....crunchy.

It took me a while to actually realise what he was on about - then it hit me.
I asked him:
"did you boil the rice?"
"no......"

i lolled.

How ya doing, buddy?