Behind the Knife - Chef Toolboxes Tell All

Let’s just say it’s not thanksgiving till someone yells “there’s smoke in the kitchen!”. I just call it flavoring….
Don’t worry I keep the fireextinguisher
handy.

I’d like to nominate my husband who made fried rice without cooking the rice (why cook it when you’re going to fry it, he thought…) and tried to make cold sesame noodles by soaking them in water in the fridge after they’d been cooked, THEN dressing them…I remember a mass of pasta and not much else about that…

My worst cook experience was when I tried to deep fry onion rings. I guess the oil temperature was not hot enough. All the breading fell off in the oil and the bare onion rings were soggy.

Since my food processor died I have become a ship lost at sea. I chopped and diced everything with it. This prize would surely solve some of my problems.

I can’t, I’m too good a cook.

My granddaughters and I watched The Worst Cooks in America last night. They suggested that I’d be a good candidate for the show based on one (simple) misjudgement I made a few years ago, when I attempted to make them cinnamon noodles for dessert. It was truly awful – went directly into the trash.

OK-when I was a young married woman 38 years ago, someone suggested that i flavor the roast beef I was going to make for a dinner with onion soup mix, and wrap the meat in foil. The person neglected to tell me to put the meat in a pan! Messy, messy, messy! Thank you for reminding me!

Okay, this is really embarassing. I was making one of those Betty Crocker box mixed dinners and I forgot to add the water! Geez.

Hopefully it was because I never cook from boxes, but got a free coupon and thought I would try it out.

My son has NEVER let me live that one down!

Would absolutely be thrilled to win this awesome kitchen tool!

I’m really a pretty good cook. But once, not long ago I was making cookies and my mixer conked out. I thought why not put it in the food processor instead? Well, I can tell you why not…after less than a minute the dough turned into something resembling putrid glue. I had to dump it all out and start over…this time using good ol’ elbow grease to mix the dough.

My experience as a ‘worst cook’ began at an early age when I made graham cracker pudding that consisted of graham crackers dissolved in water with an ice cube garnish. My mom was a sport and ate it, but I think that was my first foray into the field …

Does locking the oven door and setting it to Clean when I put the turkey in the oven qualify as a bad cook move? I think so! Hope i win.

Well on my birthday. I was cooking hamburgers for my party. I started a grease fire and caught my stove on fire. Everyone in the house had to run out and the fire department was called but they did not have to come. We managed to put it out with bags of flour. My friends will not let go of this, they think I am the worst cook ever.

Well, there are a few, but the one that still resonates as if it were just yesterday is the now legendary..

Chicken long rice dinner. Such a simple and frugal meal to make local style. Everyone in my family made it, how hard could it be? After what seemed like hours simmering I checked it, it looked fine but looks can be deceptive.

It started wafting the dreaded burnt smell, and I knew I had messed up a huge stock pot that was to be dinner.

It was late, the kids were hungry and I was getting the “you cooked it too hot” look from my husband. ugh..and the post had to be scrubbed for days lol. Luckily that dash of misery didn’t deter me and I went on to make many pots of yummy chicken long rice since. Cooking it on lower heat of course lol

I love calamari so I decided to make some fired calamari… it did not work and tasted so bland.

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The worst moment in my kitchen -putting olive oil in a pan that was way too hot and causing a kitchen fire!

My worst moment in my kitchen was when I didn’t realize that there was a plastic lid in the oven. I went to put a pizza in and 10 mins later the whole house was filled with smoke. The pizza was ruined ,we had to open all the windows and leave the house for the night! I was scraping plastic out of the oven for 3 days!!

I love to cook, however i can’t slice an onion to save my life, nor can i NOT burn the garlic bread. Just ask anyone in the house! Really…. now…. i would love a great set of good knives in the kitchen. Here’s one for ya. My son is in culinary (High School) OMG! mommmm don’t you know you have to have good tools to cook with! To bad santa didn’t stop by the house with a bag of kitchen goodies!

I put a 25-lb Easter turkey in an oven meant for a much smaller bird. No problem, we will just remove the oven door. Problem solved by propping the door back on the oven with a chair.

Let’s just say that dinner was a little late that day but everybody enjoyed watching the oven!

Whenever I make something for the first time, I tend to mess it up until I get the feel for it

I made a complicated cheesy potato dish and prepared it ahead of time. A half hour before my guests were scheduled to arrive, I pulled it out of the fridge to pop in the oven and all the potatoes were gray/black. YUCK! We ended up having 2 vegetables.

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I love eating my grandmother’s cheesy potatoes. But I cant make them either.

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I am such a bad cook that even my daughter agrees that the only thing that I can make is reservations!

After I was first married, I made this beautiful pasta dish. Well, it looked beautiful in the cookbook. The important lesson I learned is never (and I do mean never) put milk and broccoli in a blender. You don’t end up with pasta with green specks of flavor. Rather. You end up with pasta with lumps of neon green foam.

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My worst moment was when I switched out the baking soda for baking powder while making some baked goods. Didn’t work well.

I fell in love with my grandmothers homemade buns and wanted to try and bake them myself… I lived in a high elevation and forgot to take this into account.. the buns well.. looked good.. smelled good, but we could dent a few stops signs with them..

When I cook and do not pay attention to the time and it gets burned.

I used a TBSP of salt instead of a tsp. Ugh it was horrible.

I misread the recipe for chocolate sheet cake and for the cocoa instead of Tablespoons I put in teaspoons. Needless to say it was more of a blond cake.

First time I baked a ham, I didn’t know to take the paper off.

When I was a young teenager, I didn’t realize there was a difference between granulated sugar and confectioners sugar. I made this great chocolate icing but the texture was like sand. The cake was great if you could get by eating chocolate gravel.

One of the things I suffer through greatly at first, then laugh raucously at later is the notion that I tend to waaaaaaay overdo it when it comes to spicing things up. I tend to add more red peppers than strictly necessary to pizza, tend to douse my pasta dishes in copious quantities of olive oil and pretty much ruin a meat dish with entire potted plants’ worth of parsley.

It seemed like a good idea at the time :D

I also went ahead and tweeted this giveaway here :D

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Oh, where to start? How many meals have I ruined? I have had to make many trips out for fast food after spending hours trying to fix the perfect meal. I always seem to miss some crucial to the taste.

Actually, I don’t have any real worse-cook stories. My mother is from Germany and started me cooking on the stove and using the oven at the age of four. I’ve been cooking and baking all my life and love it. It comes naturally for me.

My husband insists on cutting vegetables for me when I prepare meals because I’m accident prone.

My episode would involve my complete overuse of the microwave.

My worst chef moment was making fudge that had the consistency of taffy:(

My Worst Chef Moment happens nearly daily when the fire alarm goes off. I think the fact that we change alarm batteries three times a year is a sign that I should be buying more take-out.

I’ve had a few mini-catastrophes over the years,but my husband still says I’m a great cook. Must be the mercury from the fish affecting him.

My worst cooking moments are when I completely forget how to make a certian recipe.

My daughters decided to melt chocolate in the microwave. After the smoke cleared and the firemen (called by my neighbor) left, we had a discussion about cooking when Mom is not home.

i burnt spagetti once.

My breadmaker is supposed to make jam. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but every time I try it, it comes out more like syrup than jam. My husband is happy because he likes it on pancakes, but it’s very discouraging to waste all that sugar!

I am not the world’s worst cook, but I will sometimes forget to double or halve some ingredients when I’m increasing or reducing a recipe or I may read some steps or ingredients from the next recipe by mistake. I’m a pretty decent cook, but I sometimes lose focus on what I’m doing.

Mine was ruining a $60 crown roast. When I went to check the temperature a piece of saran wrap fell the oven melting and making the entire oven and roast smell like plastic. YUCK!! Thanks for the chance.
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I made a sausage and rice casserole recently and I forgot to put the sausage in!

Many, many years ago – pre internet – I decided to bake a ham, which I’d never done. I bought a picnic ham. I asked my mom how to make it, and I got the ginger ale receipe from her. I baked that thing for hours and hours, wondering when the heck it was going to get soft. I didn’t know I was supposed to soak it first. It went in a rock and came out a rock.

Just the other day, I was making some fruit bars to take to a party. I don’t know why, but every time that I try to bake bars they turn out gooey. I am a bar failure!

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we were having a group over for dinner, and something went wrong with the oven, everything was raw.

I love my kitchen gadgets and this looks like a great one to have

I made cornbread one evening, tossed the mix in a pan and headed to the dinner where I was going to cook the mix. Forgot to remove the plastic lid before cooking…

forgot to add eggs to my cake, uhhh

One time my dog seized a whole uncooked chicken and I had to wrestle it out of his mouth. I washed it off and cooked it, but no one else would eat it. It tasted OK to me.

I once made mashed potatoes that had the consistency of glue!

I think i made a pretty common mistake – leaving all the giblets inside the turkey when they were in plastic bags! I hope we didn’t get poisoned by the plastic melting in the turkey

my mashed potatoe’s always has lumps, the kids willn’t not eat them if I make them. they wait for dad to make!!! I follow you guys on twitter

My starring role is most days of the week when my family won’t eat my diet recipes

I’m pretty good now, but when I was a little girl trying cookies for the first time I substituted baking powder for soda and had inedible chocolate drops.

I tried to cook rice and burnt it and the plastic spoon I was stirring t with also.

I am not a very good cook and have messed up to maney times to count

My worst cooking experience was when I used the pressure cooker for the first time.
The weight blew off spewing collard greens to the ceiling,floor,cabinets and all over me. Leaving very little for dinner.
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I mixed up the chili powder with the ground red pepper. The chili was especially intense.

My worst moment was when I was making hamburgers for my family. I was using my griddle for the hamburgers, had a burner on for fries, and a burner on for corn. After the fries were done, I moved the pot to the back of the oven, and got the butter out for the corn. I put the lid on the burner that the fries were on, (I thought I had turned the burner off completely!) When the hamburgers where done, I put them on the butter lid, and took a restroom break. When I came back, the butter lid was completely melted onto the burner, and all of the hamburgers were ruined. They had plastic stuck to the bottom of them. I was so embarrassed.

Most people believe that I am the next thing to a Food Network protegee!
However, I can remember many years ago when I fixed my very first Thanksgiving turkey. I left the giblets inside. I was single at the time and I remember my boyfriend laughed and laughed. I’ll never forget it….a very embarrassing moment for me!

The first time I cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving. I forgot to remove the “innards” along with their bags… ended up OK, but very embarrassing!!

Years ago, away from home for the first time, 17 years old trying to cook cornish hens that were frozen, that was terrible! Thank you for the great giveaway!

I’d love to win and I tweeted http://twitter.com/Tina12312/status/7457259889

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I’ve always burned rice and avoid the stove. The toaster oven and microwave were my saviors. Please accept my entry. Thank you.

My 1st meal for my husband as newlyweds was hamburger and french fries which I accidentally dropped on my way to the dining table. I swept it up on a dust shovel and showed him his sad 1st meal. It has not improved much since! Thanks! senekers@comcast.net

While I have been cooking for about 20 years now it was very disastrous in the beginning. I couldn’t even make Jell-O right! Oh, the stories I could share…..maybe for a book.

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I tried to cook for my boyfriend (no husband) his favorite chocolate pie (without all the proper ingredients by combining two recipes. Let’s just say he still refers to my “chocolate soup pie”. I’m better at “savory” dishes.

One time I thought I saw something in my homemade cookie batter as I was mixing it together. While using the electric mixer I leaned in to get a closer look and my hair got caught! It pulled in my head so quick. I tried to turn off the blender but couldn’t figure it out from my vantage point. I pulled the plug and then untangled my hair from the beaters. I threw out the dough and vowed never to cook alone again!

I was peeling potatoes for Christmas dinner. I forgot not to put potato peels down the disposal. Have you ever tried to find a plumber on Christmas?

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I used tablespoons instead of teaspoons for the baking powder and salt when making oatmeal cookies. Boy, were those some salty sour cookies!

I’d say it was roasting a chicken with a part of the packaging still stuck to the chicken. Yes, stuck indeed. Cluck…cluck.

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Chicken…fried chicken! I cannot keep breading on my fried chicken. I’ve done the eggs, milk, flour thing and I’ve even done the flour and then eggs then flour again thing. Nope, I’m terrible at breaded chicken and what makes matters worse? I’m now living in the south with the queens of chicken cooking!

We ate burnt food our whole first year of marriage. I do much better now ten years later, lol.

I’ve set the microwave on fire before.

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My worst cooking experience was when I was making muddy buddies (chocolate covered chex mix) while very sleep deprived. I had all my topping ingredients cooking and couldn’t figure out why it was looking so thick and lumpy. I looked around and did the check list again and it was all there. Unfortunately, I just had the butter sitting next to the pot, not in it. :)

I am sure I have some disasters in my past. Fortunately, I have erased them from my memory. The worst experience I have ever witness was done by my wife. She decided to make an orange spice rice pilaf. The fatal flaw was using the oranges from our orange tree that only produces bitter awful oranges. It is literally the only food that she has made that I didn’t finish. It tasted like vomit.

This one isn’t my error, but was a great story I learned while in the brewing industry. It seems there was a medium-sized brewery that had been around for a while that out-of-the-blue began having head-retention issues with their beers. Nothing in the recipes or ingredients had changed, but all the sudden no creamy foam topping their beers. After a few days of investigation it seems one of the brewers was found tying a whole ham to a rope and then submerging it to cook in the boiling malty wort (think boiling molasses). Each day he’d finish his shift brewing and head home with a delicious custom-glazed ham and had no idea the pork was ruining the brew. Hope there were no vegetarians drinking those batches…

My worst chef moment was trying to make refried beans and I didn’t boil them nearly long enough before frying them so there were hard uncooked bean pieces all over. I had to throw the whole thing out. Gross.

I remember when I was younger I tried to make a hard boiled egg in the microwave and it exploded, what a nasty stinky mess that was.

I was making brownies to take a plate to our new neighbors when a calendar fell off the wall near where I was mixing the batter. I looked for the tack that had been holding it up but couldn’t find it anywhere. Giving up, I returned to my baking. We took a plate to our neighbors, then had some for dessert that night. My husband took a bite, his eyes grew wide, and he pulled the thumb tack out of his mouth! YIKES! Thank goodness he wasn’t hurt! As bad as I felt that this had happened, I was SO glad that I hadn’t sent that bite off to our new neighbors!! My husband was much more forgiving. :)

Anytime I try to make things I have to flip like omelettes or pancakes end up on the counter or the floor!

My best friend is really into making homemade pizza’s.. she was wearing her glasses when she was trying to get a pizza out of the oven and it steamed up her glasses… the pizza went flying into the air and onto the floor…I’m not telling whether we ate it or not..
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I can’t bake to save my life. Even Betty Crocker would have a fit trying to teach me to bake… I always manage to burn things…

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My first attempt at making a dark roux the neighbors called the fire dept….

My worse cooking moment, I wasnt cooking, my dear was. We’ve been dating for about a week and he wanted to make me rice a roni. He had strep throat and was trying to be macho about it. Fainted while cooking, nearly face planted the sauce pan . . I barely caught him in time. He hasn’t cooked since then

I decided to cook home-made donuts in a wok, and proceeded to catch the kitchen on fire in the meantime. Not, be wise that oil will heat hotter in a wok. oopss.

For some reason with me it is bread/rolls. I can’t make the garlic bread or reheat storebought rolls without burning them- they will be white one minute and burnt the second I turn my back.

When I was first married I tried to make my husband lasagna. I opened up our new Pyrex baking dishes and prepared it.

While in the oven the glass dish exploded and dinner was ruined. Poor guy probably thought he wasn’t ever going to get a good home cooked meal again unless he visited his mom.

My husband still laughs about it to this day.

My husband is my own worst cook. He decided to make dinner and made chicken with rice. He added capers to the dish but added the whole jar of capers along with the juice. So it was a runny capery mess. UGH

The first turkey I ever cooked I didnt know you were supposed to thaw it first! Nor did I reazlize that it had stuff stuck up inside(giblets,neck,etc) it that you were supposed to take out prior to cooking! At least the others brought veggie dishes and my dressing was halfway edible.

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I cook by smoke alarm. ‘nuf said.

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I baked a pie once where I’d forgotten to take out the wax paper that comes with the frozen pie shell. macd82 at gmail dot com

My ex-wife’s parents and her favorite aunt and uncle were coming to visit us in Georgia from their home in Pennsylvania. I wanted to impress them so I decided I would do all the cooking for the big meal when they arrived. I knew they all liked chili, so I decided to make a big pot. I didn’t want it to be bland or boring, so instead of using any powder mixes, I decided to use all ‘fresh’ ingredients.

I had never used fresh garlic before, and had no idea how to use it or how much to use. I looked at the bulb and thought, “that’s not much, better get two.” And of course I had no idea what to do with the little cloves, so I just sliced them ALL as small as I could and dumped the whole lot into the chili.

I also decided to season with fresh peppers, but didn’t know exactly what kind would be best, so I bought a couple of bell peppers, several jalapeno peppers, a few red chili peppers, and a few orange habanero peppers (of which I had never heard).

I definitely made an impression….

No matter how hard I try, I cannot make a good lasagna.

These look awesome.

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looks like nice stuff.

Today my husband put biscuits in the oven and just plain forgot about them. We have some good rocks in our house now. THankyou

Did you ever hear of anyone who burnt soup? Well, I managed to do just that. I went to take a nap and forget to close the fire under the pot.
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Normally I’m a competent cook but this year my holiday baking just was not up to par. The worst thing I did was set some butter in the microwave to soften for the pecan pies and then totally forgot it. Not only did the pies not turn out well but the next day when I opened the microwave there was a buttery surprise waiting.

I never learned how to cook and cutting up veggies is the worst. My ex told people I was the only person who he knew that knew 101 ways to cook hamburger. Guess that’s one reason he’s now the ex. I can’t time a meal so nothing ever gets done at the same time.

I’ve never had one of these..I could put it to use!

My first big family dinner at my house was on Thanksgiving a few years ago….I was so nervous that I put the turkey in the oven with the bags inside (neck&giblets). I overcooked the beans and broke 3 pieces of crystal….things are better now :) I could really use that Microplane gadget too.
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my biggest mistakes come from not checking to see if i have all the ingredients before i start cooking. improvisation and i don’t work well together.

you don’t want me to cook on a grill, everything will come out burnt!

I’m not really a bad cook, but I just don’t have much experience. My worse problems come from not planning ahead. For example, not reading ahead in a recipe and knowing that one of the steps in making sugar cookie dough was refrigerating the dough for a few hours. That sure made it hard to make cookies when you don’t have that much time to begin with.

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which one I have several. I made Meatballs once in the slow cooker well. I over cooked them they tasted like cardboard.

One Thanksgiving I overmixed the mashed potatoes. What a gloppy mess!

My first and last attempt at making fried chicken nearly killed my college roommates and I. “So it was a bit pink towards the bone, It’ll be fine” Famous last words. My stars were we sick!

I used salt instead of sugar in a key ingrediant…horrible tasting!!

My worst cooking experience is trying to cook something as simple as gravy. The last time I tried, I had gravy as thin as water and and half of it sticking to the bottom of the pan

Well, the first (and second and third) times I tried to make fried chicken, I caught my whole stove on fire lol! After my third failed attempt, I just figured it’s just the powers that be telling me I shouldn’t learn because it’s not good for me anyway!

My worst mistakke was when I forgot to add the sugar when I was making a pot of hot cocoa

I accidentally used old grease used to fry fish instead of vegetable oil for my cupcakes..my parents decided to reuse the vegetable oil bottle for another purpose and not tell me…

bad thing is.. I ate 3 of the nasty cupcakes wanting to believe that they weren’t that bad before I found out.

Does setting off the Fire Alarm on a regular basis qualify me?

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i tried to make broccoli, on a piece of foil, in my new wave oven. Charred broccoli smells TERRIBLE. Never again…

i put a steak in the oven for 45 minutes, thinking that was how you cook it. YUCK

Hmmm maybe when I cooked my first turkey and did not take out the giblets and neck. I never knew that they were in there… lol

The worst thing I did was catching the stove on fire when I was making chicken. I spilled some raw juice on the edge of the stove and used some alcohol on a paper towel but got too close. Let’s just say it was an explosive meal! LOL

I learned that you CANNOT sub garlic salt for garlic powder. YUCK!

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Hmmm where to start, I guess the worst was when I had to go to the hospital to get stiches after slicing my hand open while trying to cut an onion

i cannot make anything involving dough. i have no luck whatsoever.

I learned not to substitute minced dehydrated onions for chopped onions! (at least not in equal quantity!)

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One year I made my first Thanksgiving turkey for my family. I didn’t leave it in the oven long enough and the outside was done but not the inside. That was pretty embarrassing.

I’m a pretty good baker, but so-so cook. Recently I attempted to make a pork shoulder for dinner. Since it looked like a roast, I decided to cook it like a roast. Just a little salt and pepper. Cooked in the oven for a few hours.

The resulting plated dish of gray pork had a remarkable effect on my family: suddenly they weren’t that hungry, and one by one, excused themselves from the dinner table. One of the few times I’ve actually thrown out a cooked meal.

My mom was in the hospital and I had family from out of state staying with me. I guess I wasn’t thinking clearly. I made turkey tetrazzini in the crockpot so it would feed everyone and be ready when we got back from a long day in the ICU. In my rush. I dumped the pasta in the crockpot with the food. It cooked for 8 hours with the tetrazzini. It was a thick nasty glue like mess. Thank God for takeout.

My worst cooking experience was an attempt to make my own cannoli shells. By the end my kitchen was covered in oil splatters, I had burned myself a million times and I didn’t have one cannoli shell to show for it!

My episode would include my first attempt at baking chicken I did not cover it while baking and it was hard and crunchy.The dog seemed to enjoy it though.

i once broiled taco shells and caught the oven on fire :(

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Well I could sure use this Microplane Hand-held Adjustable Slicer with Food Holder , I’ve been looking for a mandolin type slicer for awhile so this would be just Grand, thanks.

Once I forgot to turn the oven on when making a casserole. When I went to check on it after 45 minutes, everything was still just sitting there raw and my friends were showing up for dinner within minutes. I tried to cook it at a higher temp for a shorter time and just burnt the bottom and the top was not set up properly.

I was kicked out of home ec class in high school because I caught a towel on fire (one of many disasters in that class!)

I decided that pricking potatoes before baking them was responsible for less crispy skins, so one day I didn’t prick them and they exploded all over the oven. Needless to say, my mother was not happy with the mess.
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I have a tendency to set off smoke alarms no matter what I cook. My mom loves needling me about it!

The first time I cooked for company, I served beautifully golden brown fried chicken and when my guests cut into it, it bled. I was so embarrassed

Once we tried to make stroganoff in the microwave and the sauce turned green! It was horrid!

What do you want to hear ? About the time I sprayed PAM on popcorn so the salt would stick? Do NOt Try This In your own home . Yuck! Or how about making a loaf of Rye bread with a cannot Fail recipe. It smelled wonderful ,looked Picture Perfect but needed a buz saw to cut. I still don’t know what I did wrong.

Thanks for the giveaway… Technically, not a bad cook (when compared to my wife !!!) but I do have a tendency to make pronouncements in the kitchen such as “Let’s give it ten more minutes to brown” when 30 seconds would have sufficed, resulting in slightly over-done food…

My first Thanksgiving turkey was a disaster. I did not allow enough time for it to thaw. My attempt to stuff it also turned out bad. We had to go out to eat.

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I ALMOST BURNED THE HOUSE DOWN!

pUT SOME BLACK BEANS IN THE CROCK POT, AND FORGOT ABOUT THEM!!

hAD A dREam the house was on fire woke up to a Smokey house!!

I am a really good cook. I guess the worst thing I have done while cooking is forget to take the food off the stove and then I had to clear smoke out of the house.

Never put honey and carrots in the microwave in a plastic (albeit microwavable) container for 5 minutes…..your food will turn to melted plastic….

A few years ago I tried making an Italian chicken dish with garlic (don’t even remember the name now).. The recipe said to microwave a clove a garlic for a few seconds to soften it.. Well, I decided to place the whole bulb in the microwave (I was making more than one serving). I didn’t know how long to put it in for, so I put it on for a few minutes, got sidetracked, and ended up blowing up my garlic.. Needless to say, it sat outside in a bowl until it stopped smoking..

I once marinated steak overnight in pineapple juice. It came out rubbery and gross.

The last three loaves of bread I baked in my bread machine collapsed. I measured out all the ingredients same as always. How can you screw up bread in a bread machine?!

I was trying to Deep Fry Cheese Sticks when I literally caught my house on fire..I burned the front of the cabinets and almost burned my house down..I did get it out with a fire extinguisher thank goodness..Since then I do not deep fry anything at all andf I no longer cook with oil..

I don’t have a horror story but I haven’t attempted anything I didn’t think I could do

My worst cook experience is not gratting veggies properly

I once tried my hand at baked alaskas- did not work out. The meringue wasn’t made right (apparently!) and melted in the broiler!!

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My worst cooking moment was when I bought a kosher Thanksgiving turkey not realizing that meant it would still have pinfeathers on it. I could NOT get them out and it was a real disaster!

My own starring role as World’s Worst Cook was when I accidentally burned a roll of paper towels.

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My pop pie crusts actually stuck to my little pans tonight, doh!