What's the worst food mistake you've made?

Jonny69

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Don't know why I just thought of this. Some time back when I was away on a boozy camping weekend we got some Tesco value lager to have for breakfast, figuring its pathetic 2% ABV would be perfect for nursing the hangover the next morning and easing us into the next day's drinking. Anyway, it ended up on the Cornflakes for breakfast and it was absolutely disgusting :p

It made me wonder: what's everyone's worst ever food mistake?

In cooking, for me it was when I had only just moved out and I was still learning the basics of cooking. I was making a savoury chicken rice dish thing that needed green pepper, except I didn't have any green pepper, only a jar of jalapenos. I figured they can't be that hot and loaded them in in about the same quantity as there would be green pepper. How wrong was I? This was like eating dynamite laced with nuclear bomb. Never made that mistake again :p
 
Worst i've witnessed is my girlfriend making chicken with a dijon mustard sauce. We were out of dijon, we only had extra strong english mustard, she didn't know what that tasted like as i'm the only one that eats it (banging in a ham sarnie!), she didn't consult me and just added the same amount of it as she would have dijon.

She didn't warn me of this before i took a big mouthful.

I was not pleased.
 
The first time I made a curry, didn't do the chicken for anywhere near as long as I should have. Bit into it and thought it tasted a bit wierd, tried another chunk and found that it was completely uncooked in the middle.

I also made a shepards pie once where I ran out of gravy granules, I thought it would be ok but it ended up just being plain mince meat mixed in with mash, not very nice :(
 
When I was younger I tried to make some chocolate cakes or something and the mixture had lumps in so instead of stirring it I thought it would be a good idea to use a sieve. However, I poured the mixture down the sink and all I was left with were these lumps :p
 
Not really a cooking mistake, but postable I think anyway.

Sonisphere 2009, me and a couple of friends were sitting around a tent preparing to take the cup full of jaeger+vodka+carling as a shot. We then got distracted for a second or two and turned back to our drinks to see a jaffa cake floating in each one.
After arguing for a couple of minutes to as what plonker dropped them in the bread of the jaffa cake was now completely soggy with this already questionable alcohol mix.

Absolutely the worse thing I have ever eaten/drank. The bread bit sticks to the back of your throat and the taste only disappeared after we each downed a can of carling.
 
Had just made some chicken stock and turned up the heat on the hob to reduce it a little.
At that point I closed the kitchen door, went to the other room watch the grand prix and promptly forgot about it.
2 hours or so later, I went back to the kitchen to find it filled with acrid yellow smoke and my £70 stockpot filled with half an inch of carbon on the bottom.
My kitchen is about 9 or 10 feet long and I couldn't actually see the other end from where I was standing. :o

The thing was as I was watching the grand prix I smelt something and just put it down to someone having a bbq locally (was summertime and my windows were open.)
Obviously keeping the door shut shielded me enough from the full force of the smell not to properly notice.
 
I've had very few disasters bar burning or spilling things, but I do remember my mum making my brother and I a stir fry many years ago and accidentally putting Worcester sauce in instead of soy sauce. Sounds like it could have worked but it was inedible.
 
Jonny69 said:
Don't know why I just thought of this. Some time back when I was away on a boozy camping weekend we got some Tesco value lager to have for breakfast, figuring its pathetic 2% ABV would be perfect for nursing the hangover the next morning and easing us into the next day's drinking. Anyway, it ended up on the Cornflakes for breakfast and it was absolutely disgusting :p
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Interesting as I have also poured beer over cornflakes once but it was Tennents Super. :D

Never again.
 
Happened to me pretty soon after I started cooking. Asked mom for step-by-step recipies so I could follow exactly. Was making lamb mince and before adding it in, you had to dice 8 onions and fry them a bit. Had to then add in mince and cook for 30 or so minutes. Mom said do that, so I did that. She didn't say keep stirring it :p Came back to it after 30 min and just saw a huge amount of black/burnt onions stuck to the bottom of the pot >_<
 
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