Hey,

The Exploding pot was good. I remember once my dad got food from a restaurant and it was in an aluminum case. We ate some of the food the same day and the next morning I felt like having some of those leftovers and I put in the aluminum case in the microwave.(My dad supposedly thought that it was ok and there is no arguing with dear old dad )

After putting the food in the microwave for a few seconds all was ok but when the end of the case came in contact with the walls of the microwave we could hear sounds and see sparks out of our microwave.

Everyone panicked and switched off the Microwave but there is still a black mark indicating that incident

Mine would have to be setting of the fire suppression system whilst baking a cake lol... i left it in the oven for to long so it started to burn... the smoke came out the top vent and into the fire alarm... which in turn left me with a nice white blanket of powder on the kitchen floor and cupboards... The cake still tasted nice though lol

This post has been edited by CrazyRob: Jun 17 2007, 02:25 PM

Now that's a funny topic! I had so many cooking disasters that I can't count them on one hand The worse, I guess, was the one when I spilled boiling water somehow all over the place and it went down underneath the table...My mum went crazy

There were many more, but I don't have time right now to count them all...hehe! I am not a good cook so I need a very skillful lady

oh i have another one. it was during my older brother's birthday. if i remember correctly it was around 3 years ago. after my friend's birthday blowout to a movie, i went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for the pasta i was supposed to be cooking later that day. i'm usually responsible for cooking dishes during birthdays or celebrations at home. so when i came back home, i started cooking the white sauce for the pasta. the sauce requires cheese to be mixed constantly while the sauce comes up to a simmer. i was watching tv back then so i just had to go back on the living room to watch. when i came back, the cheese started to settle at the bottom of the pot. trying to save what's left of the cheese, i had to scrape it and mix the entire thing again. what's wrong with this was that the cheese started to burn and since i've mixed it up already, the entire sauce had this burnt taste. i believe everyone who ate the pasta didn't gave any reactions when they tasted it. it was one of my worst cooking experiences. i love to cook that's why failing in such makes me sad. and to think that was during my brother's birthday.

I am at best, a mediocre cook. My better half is the cook in this family. We were going to a club meeting pot luck dinner one night and he had made some fantastic coconut creme pies, complete with homemade merangue (I don't spell much better than I cook) on top. The merangue just needed to be browned up a bit. He asked me to watch them for 5 minutes. JUST 5 minutes while he took a shower and got ready to go. Yup, you guessed it, I let it burn. I have still not lived that one down.

Then there was the time I wanted to shake a little garlic into a pot of something I was fixing and the lid came off and the whole container (3-4 oz) went in the pot. Boy was that every yummy!

My friend would have loved that dish no matter what it was. She'll eat almost anything if there's enough garlic on it. We even went to this restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Stinking Rose that serves everything with tons of garlic. They also have a vampire menu for people that don't like garlic, but there's all the garlic aroma in the air that it's bound to flavor everything that's served.
Anyways, I have to confess to another mishap in the kitchen. I accidently started a grease fire, but luckily it was contained in a pot with a lid, so it wasn't as bad. I was trying to heat up some oil to fry some rice in, but I guess the flame was too high, and it caught fire before I knew it. Luckily, I had the lid handy and covered it up quickly. NEVER USE WATER TO PUT OUT A GREASE FIRE. By the way, the smell of burning cooking oil is terrible.