Our cooking or baking mistakes we can laugh at now.

[Old Crank]

I posted a picture of my plastic packed bread. I had hurriedly put it in the oven to bake but left the clingwrap cover for when it was rising on the loaf. Ooops. One of us suggested that we all might have some stories to tell or mistakes we have made that we can laugh at now.
At my last MIL house I mistook the salt container for a sugar container and added extra salt to some dinner rolls. Oops. Didn't rise as well as expected. They became my traditional (never baked again) salt lick rolls. The next time I visited the salt container had NaCl in black marker on the lid.

[PJMcK]

1. First time I made pasta al pesto

The recipe called for six cloves of garlic. I thought a clove was the whole head of garlic!

After chopping up two whole heads of garlic, I realized something was wrong. This was pre-internet so I called my mom who set me straight.

The pesto came out fine.

[Old Crank]

4. Good catch.

[mgardener]

2. I hold the title

For chainsaw fudge.
Didn't think I needed a candy thermometer.
Had to throw the pan and the fudge out.

[Old Crank]

3. I had a fudge disaster also

It did come out of the pan but was closer to rock candy....

[woodsprite]

6. My dad had that happen, but he broke it up

With a hammer and called it hard candy fudge. 🤣

[woodsprite]

5. The first cake I baked for my hubby I misread

The recipe and used 2 tablespoons rather than 2 teaspoons of baking powder. When my mom came home the cake was already in the oven but I told her it was a weird recipe because of the amount of baking powder.

Last year I had an “oops” when making vegetable soup. I needed a bit more stock and knew I had about a cup of beef stock in the fridge. Well, when I was adding it to the pot I realized I had grabbed the Oregon Trail chai tea concentrate rather than the beef broth box. I adapted by adding more garlic, some harissa, some steamed cauliflower, then used my stick blender. It still had an oddly sweet taste, but spice-wise it somewhat worked.

[Old Crank]

8. Always fun.

[Nululu]

7. Cooking cardboard on frozen pizza.

Didn't realize until I tried to cut it.

[Old Crank]

9. Best cardboard I've ever eaten....

At least you removed the plastic cover, unlike my bread.

[Nululu]

17. We've all had our moments

We still ate the pizza

[Old Crank]

18. Why not?

You could always crisp up the bottom in a frying pan.
I find that is a good way to warmup left over slices, better than a microwave.

[Freddie]

10. Was making frozen shrimp scampi

In one of those Pyrex dishes that (I found out) isn’t really Pyrex. Shattered in the hot oven. Broken glass, shrimp and garlic goo all over the oven. House stunk of garlic for weeks.

[Old Crank]

12. Owie

That would be a mess. I hope no fingers were injured in the clean up.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. I once made dinner for my boyfriend. I made a cherry glaze for my baked ham and when he tried to

carve it, we discovered a layer of plastic.

[Old Crank]

14. Damn!

Why won't the glaze stay on the ham.... ooops.

The good news is there were no germs on the ham from handling.....

[surrealAmerican]

13. I made a banana bread type of thing ...

... that used some fresh pineapple as part of the fruit component. The enzymes in the pineapple ensured that this did not turn into anything resembling a "bread". It was a sort of pudding texture, but not in a good way.

[Old Crank]

15. Fun stuff.

[Marthe48]

16. I was a teen, new to baking bread

I found a recipe for onion quick bread that I thought my Mom would like. I used whatever measuring cup that was in the cupboard, and since I wasn't into math at the time, used double the amount of water the recipe called for. The instructions said to bake until a knife came out clean. After baking it for the whole afternoon, and getting a gummy center surrounded by a crust about an inch thick and hard as a rock, I took it out of the oven. About the only good thing you could say about this result was that it smelled like onion. My Mother, God love her, said it was wonderful, the best bread she ever ate. I saw her eating a piece, but the rest of the loaf mercifully disappeared while I was at school.

[Old Crank]

19. Moms are great