Comments on: Horrible Kitchen Tales = Dinner On Me!

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:50:18 +0000

Oh darn. Contest closed. Shucks.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:48:32 +0000

This just happened so it’s still fresh in my mind. I was getting ready to make candy cane cookies (peppermint dough, half red, half not red). When I came home from the store I unknowingly knocked over my bottle of red food coloring. A couple of hours later when I returned to start the cookies, I thought someone had been murdered in my kitchen. My white floors and white cabinets were covered in red. A little bottle of red dye goes a long way. I tried to sop some of the mess up with an old towel (I was out of paper towels, after returning from the store!!) and dripped dye all over the kitchen. Fortunately, with some elbow grease, it all came off. However, I’m still finding pink spots in the kitchen.

By: Joanne Anderson

Joanne Anderson — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:15:05 +0000

Here I was a bride of three months living in a one bedroom walk up. Well, I decided to make Thanksgiving Dinner and invite the whole family (12 of us). Crazy I know! I bought a metal picnic table (didn’t have a dining room set) and set it up in the living room and borrowed enough folding chairs. Did all my shopping on Sunday. Worked a half day on Wednesday and when I came home I decided to start getting the Turkey and stuffing ready. Cleaned and patted dry the turkey and put him back in the fridge. Now came time for the stuffing. Since I had never done something like this before I went to my Betty Crocker cook book. I added all the ingredients that were listed and used 3 bags of Pepperidge Farms stuffing mix (22 pound turkey). Put that in the fridge and went on to put together the rest of the meal, sweet potato pie, veggies, mashed potatoes, salad. Next morning I got up real early and stuffed the turkey and put him in the oven as per the directions. Company came and the house smelled great. Took out the turkey after 6 hours and it was beautiful My hubby had never carved a turkey so my father-in-law took over. Scooped out the stuffing and he cut up the turkey. The turkey was absolutely delicious. However, we needed the fire department and a fire extinguisher for the stuffing!!! You see, I seasoned the stuffing which was already seasoned. It was completely inedible!!! That was 47 years ago and to this day we still laugh about it. I have never done this again but the memory is Priceless!!!

Joanne Anderson

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By: Margolis

Margolis — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:56:16 +0000

I thought I didn’t have any kitchen drama (I submitted a story from my friend Andrea) but just remembered one.
For some reason, I didn’t have a square glass baking dish, so I bought one and it even had a nice vinyl lid. I scanned the directions. Then I made lasagna. My recipe called for it to bake covered for part of the baking time. I put the vinyl lid on the pan and put it into the oven. About 15 minutes later, I smelled a horrible toxic smell – the lid was dripping onto the oven floor and onto the lasagna! I was furious at myself and furious that I was losing the lasagna too, so I just scraped that junk off the bottom of the oven, picked it off the top of the lasagna, covered it back up with foil and pretended nothing happened. Unfortunately, when my husband came home, he sniffed and got the whole story out of me – and he is phobic about heated plastic (oh, and other things!) so he refused to eat the lasagna and it was as good as wasted.
As to what I was thinking: of those new silicone baking sheets, etc., and I guess I thought my new lid was one of those! I read care directions more carefully now on new purchases. If you can’t be the good example. . .

By: boogiemum

boogiemum — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:52:30 +0000

My story is up and waiting….

http://boogiemum.com/19/i-am-all-about-helping-you-win-stuff/

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:27:27 +0000

I like to think of myself as a great cook, but this was a major disaster! In the late 80′s I was a young Mother with 2 children that had food allergies. In an effort to become more healthy, I started cooking a few vegetarian meals. Everything went well except for the TOFU. I found a recipe that I thought sounded good and proceeded to make a healthy feast. It smelled good, it looked a little weired, but hey its healthy right? We gave thanks for our meal and started eating. Needless to say it was horrible! My kids tried so hard to eat it because I kinda make them eat a little of everything even if they dont like it. After all its good for them right? I couldnt even eat it so we all decided to give it to the dog and we had grilled cheese. The dog wouldnt even eat it! I have learned the art of tofu now, but my adult children will never let me live that one down.

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By: nadine miller

nadine miller — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:55:55 +0000

When I first got married, we lived in a small basement apt. with a fussy landlord. Anyway, being home on Fridays I loved to cook something special..I know I’ll make my famous Apple Pie in a brown Paper bag in which you staple the bag shut..This is so good. Lo and behold I make the pie, staple the brown paper bag and off to the oven it goes..Only about 15 mins later the oven is on fire, what do I do is to call my MOM , who tells me to call Fire Dept. so I did, in comes about 6 firemen with axes ready to chop away, I tell them what is in the oven..Well Madman why would you want to bake a pie in a brown Paper bag, and the scoop the pie the throw it in the sink, Opening windows (thought they were going to chop, chop, the windows open). After all the smoke got out of the Apt, much to my landlords dismay, I told the fireman, that this pie was so excellent, don’t know it until you try it.Since I never made the pie again, the safest place to bake one would be the fire house..Guess I put the rack down too low on that day..

By: nadine miller

nadine miller — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:49:54 +0000

I have a wonderful friend in Tenn. who is a wonderful cook and sends me scrumptus recipes which never fail..Well one day she send one for Monkey Bread (its like a Cinnamon Roll) working with yeast etc, got it all together and wow it smelled so dam good put it in pan and popped in oven.OK, the times goes off and off to take bread out of oven. Oh My but the bread puffed up so much it was overhanging over the pan and prob. would of kept going if I hadn’t cooled it down..Hey it tasted great, but I had to take a picture and send to my friend, we still get the biggest LOL over that..To this day I still don’t know what I did wrong, followed the directions..Reminds me of Lucy baking the bread and it exploding out of the oven!!!!

By: JRae

JRae — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:06:47 +0000

OMG Suzanne I laughed pretty hard at your telling of your story! Glad you’re ok now.

Karen what I want to know is how did you food poison them? As an instructive lesson to me (I think I ate something bad recently and want to know where I went wrong!)