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

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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.

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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.

 

 

 

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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...

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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...

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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!

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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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Hey,

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.

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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

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After reading your stories, I really need to share mine, which my husband and I have entitled "The Incredible Exploding Pot."
One of the ways to melt chocolate is to cook it on a double boiler, meaning that you pour some water in the bottom pot so that the top on gets the heat off the boiling water and won't burn or, at least, not as quickly. I didn't have a double boiler, so I just found another pot that fit snuggly on top. I got tired after whipping up a couple batches of brownies, so I just left the pots on the stove to clean up later. The thing about metal is that it expands when hot and contracts when it cools, so the pots, needless to say, got stuck together because the bottom pot contracted more quickly than the top. I tried to pry them apart by hand, poured warm water over the seam, tried heating the bottom one back up, all with the same result - still stuck. I finally remembered that little science lesson and decided to throw some cold water into the top pot while the bottom pot was boiling. And it worked! About five seconds later, the top pot rockets through the air with a bang, showering the kitchen with lukewarm, chocolatey water and clatters to the floor, with only a slight bubble on the bottom as a reminder of my mishap.

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