Kitchen disasters

[Grandma Helen]

What’s your biggest screw up in the kitchen?

[Syble]

Not cooking the turkey long enough on my first Thanksgiving Dinner attempt. 

[officerripley]

Walking into the kitchen.

[OneEyedDiva]

ROFL Officer! :D

[Karin M Fichtner]

Nothing major...but I do remember that my 2nd Christmas as a young bride I burned a side dish on Christmas Eve. I was in tears, but my dear husband ate it anyway, and went back for seconds.

[MTwoman]

I tried baking a cake from scratch when I was about 12...if it hadn't been so heavy it would have floated in the runny frosting. I stuck with Betty Crocker after that.

[Lilrain]

I think I was 19 and I baked a  turkey and my husband discovered I'd left the giblets in the neck.

[officerripley]

My sister-in-law did that the first year she was married (I think she was 19 too), poor thing, her family never did let her hear the end of that.

[OneEyedDiva]

Making custard in a crock pot. The screw up was with the recipe itself. It came out watery, well water pooled in some spots upon serving. Luckily I only made it for myself.  Also when I was younger, I used to always wind up burning the green beans. I think because I tried to cook them too fast, would start doing something and forget I had them cooking.

[PartTimeBrewer]

Mashed potatoes last Thanksgiving. Josi talked me into trying them by a crockpot recipe she found. Bad idea. They  ended up a lumpy mix of burned and raw.

[officerripley]

I think that's the same recipe I tried once; do your mashed potatoes in the crockpot, they said; it'll be great, they said; they said wrong; it was a disaster for me too.