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Tabbyking

Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
when my son was in 3rd grade, i was room mother.
we had an old oven where the door wouldn't shut tight on one side. if i wanted something to come out right, i had to stand pressed against the side that wouldn't close, but who has half an hour and can take the heat?! :) i made 3 dozen chocolate cupcakes and they all rose on only one side. ds's was the class where all but 2 or 3 kids HATED frosting, so i couldn't just fill in the low side with frosting. i had to run to the store and pay something like 15 bucks for 3 dozen cupcakes. they were in those clear plastic holders... and i tripped coming out of the store and all the cupcakes flew out of the containers, which i didn't know hadn't been 'snapped' closed. i had to go in and get more cupcakes, which they gave me for no additional charge--the last the store had. as i was leaving the store, i tripped again and all the cupcakes flipped upside down in the containers. i had to run home and scrape all the frosting off of them. when i walked into the classroom, the teacher took one look and said, "look, class! mrs. c made cupcakes for us again and remembered you all don't care for frosting." and one kid said, "well, at least this time they aren't lower on one side, but it almost looks like she dropped 'em."
we got a new oven soon after.

i remember in home ec, 8th grade, a gal put in 1/2 cup of salt and 1 tspn of sugar in her ranger cookies. even her dog wouldn't eat them!

Tabbyking

Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i think i related this story on here somewhere once, but i will never forget cooking for a group of physicians (yep, the same ones who ate weevils with their ham!) and i was told the steaks were in the pantry on top of the freezer. i glanced in and saw the large bag on the freezer before i went off to my college classes and assumed that was them. that afternoon, i started the potatoes baking and made a huge tossed salad and homemade biscuits. i made an apple pie. all was going swimmingly. i lit the bbq on the deck. all the physicians were having cocktails and i went to get the steaks so i could grill them--and discovered the package on the freezer top was full of metal STAKES for the railroad ties that would be part of the retaining wall we were having put in! (we lived in the santa cruz mountains in mudslide area). thank God, the docs had just purchased the first microwave of anyone i knew, and i could defrost some pork chops that i discovered in the freezer!

speaking of which, the daddy doc explained to all of us how to use the microwave a week or so earlier. we pretty much tuned him out, as we had learned to do while hearing about involved surgeries during dinner :) so i was sure he had said "4 or 5" for how long to cook grilled cheese. i also thought it would brown the bread, so i didn't toast it first. well, it wasn't near brown after 4 minutes, so i added the 5th minute. i got plastic you could make a tonka truck out of. the bread would not pry apart. i threw the sandwich out the backdoor for their black lab and heard a yelp when it hit him in the forehead. he couldn't eat it either. i picked it back up and threw it down the hill, where i heard it snap branches off an oak or two as it sailed off... and i believe someone is probably still using it for an anchor in the santa cruz area! later, i read the microwave book and realized what i had heard as '4 or 5' was '45', as in seconds!

Lostintheglades

Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hehe Resortgirl...mine is titled "Cooking for Dummies"...did they come out with another one for Baking?

LOL Tabby....your stories are priceless.

Landi

Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 06:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i received "Cooking for Dummies" as a gift from my husband one year for christmas... was he telling me something?????

Tabbyking

Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 06:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well, if you were the one cooking and you were doing it 'for' dummies, that would make the husband the dummy, right?

Danzdol

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 09:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am glad I am not the only idiot that has done silly things.

When I was in high school I used to bake a lot. (STILL DO)One day I started to make a cake and realized that we had no corn oil. So I was glad to see the brand new olive oil bottle in the pantry. I pour it into the mix and did the cake as usual. I figured, oil is oil what could happen.

Needless to say, one bite into the cake and it was disgusting!It was sweet and tangy. yuck!

Move forward a little over a decade. I was baking a bundt cake about 1 month ago(which I have done plenty of times) and for some reason when I flipped it over it all crumbled into gooey pieces. I still don't know what I did wrong. I threw it away and started again. # 2 flipped a lot better but 2 big pieces came apart and I had to make an improptu decorating design to cover it over and glue the pieces together.

Cancunkid

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 02:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You guys are cracking me up! I think everyone has had some disaster in the kitchen no matter who they are. We just try to forget them!

My big screw up was at 17 inviting my bf over for dinner. I made fried chicken. Cooked it until it looked done....needless to say it wasn't anywhere near done!

Then another bf was coming over for dinner and I was grilling huge porterhouse steaks that cost me $10 each back in the 80's! Well he called right after I put them on and we started talking after a while the doorbell rings and my 8 year old neighbor is saying something must be on fire because there is smoke all over the backyard! Thank God no one called the fire dept!

Let's see there was the peanut brittle that was so hard after a week of soaking I trashed the pan. Have that problem with fudge a couple of times so now mine is fudge topping instead.

Funny thing is thinking back on all my accidents in and around food it is a wonder why I am not skinny and why anyone would ever think I was a good cook. Maybe everyone gets me to cook because it is always good for a laugh??

Tabbyking

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 02:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mware, the recipe for making 'faux pas' is the same as the one for 'deux pas', but you double it.

Landi

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 04:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFL TABBY! ohhh and btw... i'm not telling my hubby he's the dummy i'm cooking "for"... nope... no sir... i'm not getting in twubble... NO WAY!

Tabbyking

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 12:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ruh roh.....just made one...
my printer isn't working--it only works every other day. honestly. and it worked yesterday.
so i quick-scribbled a cranberry, pecan, orange scone recipe and had it all done and in the oven and dishes washed....and took a peek and they smelled good but were only about 1/2 high....
i went over my recipe. yep, i had done it all.....then i went and looked on my monitor to where i still had the recipe up and, gosh, i had forgotten to write '2 teaspoons of baking powder'.
so i had to throw the whole batch out, and re-do the entire thing. it's just coming out of the oven now, and seems perfect; too bad i can't eat them. well, maybe one bite! i put orange peel and a little juice in some butter, too, for our company to use on their scones.

Cathie

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 03:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, Tabby, does that mean the family has to use regular butter while the company gets the orange butter??? Snif, snif, so sad for Tabby's hubby and kids... :)

Kar

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 05:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've always tried to make my daughter "special" birthday cakes. Her first came out lop-sided and when I tried to make more frosting, I dropped the bowl sending pink goo everywhere. Another time I was baking the cake at my grandmother's and preheated the oven, not realizing that she had stored her bread and crackers,etc. in the oven. After scrapping the melted plasctic off the walls, the cake never did taste right. But the best was for her 16th, at the time she was a "vegan", a vegetarian with no diary or eggs. I went to a local vegetarian restaurant and got a recipe, bought special sugar, flour and ingredients. It was a three layer cake and it came out beautiful. It stood nine inches high. Everyone was so impressed. My grandmother said she wanted a big piece and I watched eagerly as everyone took a bite. My grandmother literaly spit it out and said it was the worst thing she had ever tasted. Ever since then I was know as
"The it's not my fault" cake baker!

Pannie

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 10:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I once made a cherry pie - and didn't know about cherry pits....such as removing them before putting the fruit in the pie. LOL!

Tabbyking

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 08:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
well, cathie, i guess family can use that butter, too!

pannie, sounds like your pie was the pits :)

Catfat

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 09:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Why would anyone want to cook fox paws?
hehehehe

Kristylovesbb

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 10:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mine happened the day before Thanksgiving this year. I picked up my 12 year old grandson, who loves to cook, to help me with 6 sweet potato pies. We made up the whole batch and poured the mixture into the pie crusts and placed them in the oven. It is lunch time so I threw some mussels along with wine, butter, and garlic into a pan to saute for our lunch. Grandson says we are out of iced tea and could I make some more. I go to reach for the sugar canister and, wala, it hit me, we forgot to put sugar in the pies!
Grandson tries to comfort me by saying Nannie they will be ok we used sweet potatoes.

Pannie

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL! Tabby - pitiful pie for sure! My friends got a great laugh, though!