S/O Kitchen Flops | Imamother

amother

Chartreuse

Thu, May 10 2018, 8:48 am

I didn't want to minimize the op's distress on the cracked cheesecake thread, but as I was reading it, my own flops came to mind.

My biggest cheesecake flop: I forgot to take the paper wrapping off the farmer cheese before blending it all. I didn't realize until I took my first bite and got a mouthful of paper shreds embarrassed

What were your biggest kitchen flops?

thunderstorm

Thu, May 10 2018, 9:04 am

I cooked a huge meal for about 20 guests for a Friday night . I made multiple main dishes and side dishes, kugels etc. it was all in the oven to keep it warm until the Seuda. I go to serve , and discovered I never turned the oven on!!!!!

amother

Sapphire

Thu, May 10 2018, 11:31 am

One Pesach I had A LOT of left over charoset which I figured I'd repurpose into a "coffee cake" (apples, nuts, cinnamon - seemed like a good start). I think I added eggs and potato starch (perhaps some vanilla or baking powder?) and baked it. It was NOT GOOD.

thunderstorm

Thu, May 10 2018, 12:26 pm

jjudithc wrote:

Putting 2 Tablespoons of salt into the challah dough instead of 2 teaspoons. We really didn't need the dipping portion of the ritual that night. *sigh*

This reminds me of my mother's flop. My kids went to her for a Shabbos and she was so excited she decided she'll bake them a cake. They all took a bite and spit it out. She accidentally put in a cup of salt instead of a cup of sugar.

Chayalle

Thu, May 10 2018, 12:44 pm

My worst flops have involved accidentally substituting baking soda for baking powder. I'm careful now only to buy baking soda that comes in a rectangular box, not a round one that resembles the baking powder.

mommyla

Thu, May 10 2018, 1:14 pm

thunderstorm wrote:

I'm always curious about how this happens. Does she keep salt in a container like sugar? I scoop out sugar and pour salt, so measuring them out are different experiences.

I have a friend who lost the top part of her rubber spatula while mixing cake batter and couldn't find it, she figured it must have gotten thrown out. While serving a piece of cake to her soon-to-be-husband, she found it baked in!

heidi

Thu, May 10 2018, 1:57 pm

All my Shabbat lunch food was balanced on the plata. We were having a new family in the community. Everything slipped. The kugel in the glass platter shattered. The chicken tipped and was mostly salvageable. Thank goodness I had loads of salads. . .

mandksima

Thu, May 10 2018, 3:08 pm

These are so hard to read, I'm horrified that each of you had to go through that!

At the same time, I am sure it was such a chessed that they DID happen and it saved you from a worse punishment. You each must have done a great mitzvah to turn your suffering into something minor like a cooking accident vs a health issue, CVS.

Anyway, I remember making mint ice cream and forgetting that the brand I usually bought of mint flavoring, I also bought a lemon flavoring of the same looking bottle so I never bothered checking the front of the bottle. The ice cream wasn't even edible as it had lemon flavoring, green color and chocolate chips, maybe a little vanilla too.

I remember dropping a fresh apple cranberry crisp onto the floor shortly after we got married. I think I scooped up the parts that didn't touch the floor and dh and I ate it.

I've put cinnamon on chicken thinking it was paprika but honestly, it is pretty good on chicken just not in the amount I used.

I'm married almost 20 years so I must have lots of stories but I guess I never focused on them too much. Like when breaking a glass, you say mazal tov and move on, knowing it was a kapara.

amother

Forestgreen

Thu, May 10 2018, 3:48 pm

I once baked a chocolate cake specifically for the house to smell good since people were coming over
Well, I didn’t realize that I doubled the baking soda and the cake spilled all over my oven causing my house to smoke and smell terrible

I also once used cayenne pepper instead of cinnamon in a sweet lukshen Kugel... surprisingly it was fine - I still don’t get how

amother

Maroon

Thu, May 10 2018, 4:30 pm

I’ve burned food
Dropped food
Accidentally didn’t plug in crockpot, so Shabbat morning all the food was raw.
You name it, it’s happened
The best was when I thought I burned something and my SIL told me it was good, just like his mom’s, and I thought it was burned.

thunderstorm

Thu, May 10 2018, 4:47 pm

mommyla wrote:

My mother uses kosher salt in everything , it has bigger granules than table salt. She buys the large box of it and stores it in plastic containers , the same as her sugar container etc. So it's not a surprise she mixed it up.

amother

Burlywood

Thu, May 10 2018, 5:04 pm

My friend once took out a pan of potato kugel from the freezer, put it in the oven to warm up. Half hour later something smelled funny, she uncovered it and realized that she 'baked' a pan of homemade sherbet!

amother

Forestgreen

Thu, May 10 2018, 5:08 pm

I once took out a pan of baked ziti to heat up
When I took it out to serve it was hot raw chicken!
Mixed up the covered baking pans 🤔
Then had to figure out if my oven and raw chicken became trief

amother

Lawngreen

Thu, May 10 2018, 5:15 pm

Earlier this week, I preheated my milchig oven, put together my cheesecakes and milchog casseroles, and loaded up the oven and set a timer. When the timer went off later, I opeened the milchig oven and found it empty. I had put everything in my fleishig oven, and there they sat, thankfully cold.

Also, when I was a teenager, I ince left apot of carrots on he stive for so long they glowed.

mha3484

Thu, May 10 2018, 5:18 pm

When we were newly married I made chili for dinner and instead of using one chipotle pepper I used the whole can. I thought I would die it was so spicy. Husband ate it all and he does not love spicy food himself.

kenz

Thu, May 10 2018, 9:14 pm

jjudithc wrote:

Putting 2 Tablespoons of salt into the challah dough instead of 2 teaspoons. We really didn't need the dipping portion of the ritual that night. *sigh*

How much flour do you use? My recipe takes 7 tsp of salt and is delicious, not salty at all.

And speaking of flour, my biggest kitchen flop would definitely be the time I completely left out the flour from cake batter and couldn't figure out why it just wouldn't bake. It ended up being a pretty good hot fudge sauce.