A common cooking disaster would be when someone accidentally uses salt instead of sugar or something like that. I once did that

Curried Rice, yuk. I followed the recipe exactly and if I had added only half the curry, it still would have been too hot for us. I guess the yellow color didn't really appeal to me anyway. What a disaster. Threw it in the garbage and don't really remember what we ate instead, but it had to be better than the rice dish.

Man, I was laughing my *bottom* off reading all these posts. I once tried making a sort of weird gravy I read up in a magazine, I was very happy because I was gonna make it for my boyfriend(Yes again he was the victim) He was supposed to come but then later cancels it as he had to work overtime so I decided to cook and get it for him BUT I do not know what I did wrong but the whole mass was tasting very bitter and I tried fixing it but it refused to taste good so I finally canceled our lunch date and I stayed at home sulking about.

I had once left water to boil in a metal kettle, this water was for tea for a couple of my friends who had come and as I left the water and went out to entertain them one of the girls was talking to her mom who stays in another town so we ended up talking to her for half an hour and I forgot the kettle.

When I return back to the kitchen after an hour I see the kettle a bright red with no water in it left the kettle for a few minutes and then threw it in a big tub of water from a really weird angle. Me and my friends laughed about it for a long time because one of the girls had fainted when she saw the kettle.

Just one word of advice from personal experience. My step-father did this, not I, but it took weeks to clean up: Never leave a pot of honey on the stove with the burner on. Bad bad things can happen very quickly...

Similar to Velma's story, I once set a pot of water on the stove for making noodles or pasta, I forget... the phone rang, I got involved in a conversation, forgot the pot of water, went out for about an hour, and came back to a red-bottomed pot. Thinking quickly, I ran some water in the sink, snatched the pot from the stove and placed it in the water, it was all good, until i realized that the soldered metal bottom thickener was still on the stove and there was solder all over the Lino floor...

It was a few days until the stink left the house... luckily, there was no fire from the red hot solder hitting the floor...

I'm beginning to see a theme here: Start something cooking on the stove. Get distracted. Walk away. Come back to a bad bad scene. Let this serve as a warning, never leave your cooking until it's done!

Not basically a cooking disaster but uses cooking items. Some days back, we had a school project and our group decided to make a erupting volcano (Yeah the old one). We took Vinegar and baking Soda. In the school when we had to show the project to the class, we put vinegar and baking soda. It didn't erupt at all. We added some more baking soda but still the same result. We tried many methods but it didn't work. Finally I put my eye in the hole of the volcano and it suddenly erupt! That was too funny! All the food colouring and vinegar was on my face and everyone was laughing! Too disasterous. It could have damaged my eye but it closed the moment it burst, leaving all the waste ingredients out of my eye.

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Nice one Ishbir. I remember a time when I was asked to boil the milk and again I get distracted because of a neighbor in distress, by the time I helped her out and returned the milk had burnt to a cinder and It was stuck to the milk pot. If my mom had seen it she would have fainted but then I sat for two hours trying to get the god damn thing off and I tried a lot of stuff..vinegar,baking soda, lemons, salt and dish soap.

I finally got that thing off and my mom was told that I finished off the milk. A whole litre.

This happened a bit recently. Its not really much though.

I was cooking rice and I accidently put alot of rice in with a not much water past the rice. I wasn't really paying attention. So I put in the rice cooker. After it was done and beeping I got up from my spot and opened it and found dry rice and then I saw how much rice I put in. Our family of 5 couldn't even finish it. To fix it I just put more water in and recooked it. I was pretty much been yelled only by my older sister. xP