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I just had a kitchen disaster. What was your worst one?

I decided to make muffins.

I can't drink milk any longer, so I made the muffins with Rice Dream instead. I used cake flour (don't know how old it was...maybe more than two years?) because that is supposed to make the muffins more light and fluffy.

I was forced to use my really, really old baking powder, because I keep forgetting to buy new.

I used paper muffin cups so I would not have a mess to clean up. I put two cups of chocolate chips into the batter to make chocolate chip muffins. I used a Pillsbury recipe, and I followed directions exactly , and they should have come out fine....but they just suck.

The muffin batter glued itself to the muffin cups. The paper on the bottom has turned to cement, and the only way to get it off is to cut it off with a steak knife. I don't have any idea how that happened.

The muffins themselves are dense like gnocchi with chocolate chips, and the outside of the tops of the muffins is actually hard and crunchy and the outside chocolate chips turned to...chocolate powder.

AND I made two dozen so I could freeze them....LOL!!!馃槣
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TheSirfurryanimalWales 路 61-69, M
Misreading seconds for minutes and nearly setting the microwave on fire
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4meAndyou 路 F
@TheSirfurryanimalWales 馃槅 I did that the other night with popcorn...LOL!!!
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LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON 路 F
@TheSirfurryanimalWales OMG! 馃槀馃槼 So happy it's all OK now.
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Serenitree 路 F
Last night I made Triple Chocolate Brownie Surprise. Over cooked them to the point where, if I'd wanted to actually try eating them, I'd have needed a hammer and chisel to hack a chunk loose.



I'm going to try to find the story I wrote a few years ago, about a batch of cookies I baked.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@Serenitree I did want to mention that I once saved three enormous loaves of banana nut bread I had made for a church function. I burned the outsides, as a friend of mine suggested my oven temperature was off, and it wasn't.

HOWEVER (and this turned out quite well) I cut off the hard burnt crusts, chopped the bread, and placed it into two enormous baking dishes, sprinkled it with chocolate chips all over, and then made a recipe for chocolate custard, using almond extract instead of vanilla, poured the cocoa milk and egg and sugar and extract mix over all, and I ended up with the most fabulous chocolate banana nut bread pudding!!!

Always do this with overcooked desserts. The milk and egg softens and saves everything you thought ruined.
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Serenitree 路 F
@4meAndyou I could try it, I suppose, but it's all frosted.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@Serenitree Oh, well, that's done for it then. 鈽猴笍
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LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON 路 F
So, my most common disaster is:
I am boiling water in a pot,
and I forget,
and it's still ON
and the pot is hot AF
and it's mildly warped by now (at the bottom). Still functional though ;)

馃槓馃槼馃槅馃ぃ馃槀
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LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON 路 F
@4meAndyou So, Walmart? :D
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4meAndyou 路 F
@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON I can't really remember. I think I was on ebay and ordered it. It was around 7.99 and it's not fancy, but so far I haven't been able to break it! LOL!!!
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LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON 路 F
@4meAndyou Ok. Yeah. I buy stuff from E bay or Amazon.

Apparently I have Amazon prime, and I don't exactly recall ordering it.
I know I inquired about it on the site, but I think I actually, inadvertently may have ordered it. 馃槼馃槓馃お
Wow. I need to verify with them.

But this small thing, I will purchase locally.
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pennynoodles 路 56-60, F
On a brighter note, you could build yourself a little wall out in the garden.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@pennynoodles What a great idea! 馃槅
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LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON 路 F
That's funny and sad. 馃槃

I think you got unlucky with all the old food.
If you don't have a viable/fresh rising agent when you bake, you'll have this kind of a situation.

I think it's probably a good thing dear: It could have caused you food poisoning.

Oh sure, I have had a few disasters.
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LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON 路 F
@4meAndyou Rice milk for us costs the same as coconut milk. I know coconut water is super expensive...
I mean it's in the fridge along with Soy milk, cow milk, etc.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON The rice milk is shelf stable till opened.
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LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON 路 F
@4meAndyou Yes. Now I remember that from our health food store.
I used to buy soy, until I read how bad it is.
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AzureGecko
I tried to crack an egg once....
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4meAndyou 路 F
@AzureGecko Yes, I once saw the movie Sabrina, where Audrey Hepburn demonstrates how to cleanly crack an egg with one hand....but that never works when I try it. 馃槈
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SW-User
One morning back in August 2013, I was making pancakes with a plastic spatula, and the plastic actually melted into the batter and ended up in the pancakes. Had to throw them away, obviously.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@SW-User OMgosh..how awful! However, I'm sure the pancakes would have been good if not for the defective equipment.
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SW-User
@4meAndyou Yep, they would have been perfect if they were actually edible. Luckily I found out before eating them or else I would have been poisoned 馃樀.
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CrazyMusicLover 路 31-35
I wanted to make b茅chamel sauce today. Butter, flour, milk, dried herbs. Well, I had herb flavored milk instead. 馃槕 It stayed in liquid form and I have no idea why.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@CrazyMusicLover That's crazy! With me I know it's time to buy new baking powder, but butter flour and milk have ALWAYS worked! 馃
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CrazyMusicLover 路 31-35
@4meAndyou I must have used too little flour, otherwise, I really don't understand what happened.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@CrazyMusicLover That's the only explanation. 2 Tablespoons flour for every cup of milk.
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NiightOwl
awwww....sorry to hear that happened ... they sound like they would be so yummy if they came out normal.... maybe it was the combination of the old powder & Rice Dream you think?
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4meAndyou 路 F
@NiightOwl Old baking powder with no more rise in it, old cake flour, and rice dream in combination, and the baking time said 20 to 25 minutes at 400 degrees. I will never bake a muffin for 25 minutes at 400 degrees again, that's for sure! 馃槣
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GoneByeNow 路 41-45, M
I fucking burnt my toast this morning so I know exactly how you feel

Lol
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SweetMae 路 70-79, F
Yes, but are they edible?? 馃槀
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4meAndyou 路 F
@SweetMae I did try to eat one. That's how I know the muffin cups need to be cut off with a steak knife, and that's how I know they are as dense as gnocchi. BUT...if you can get past the concept that these were supposed to be beautiful cake-like creations....the chocolate chips are still good. 馃槉
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SweetMae 路 70-79, F
@4meAndyou They could give you indigestion if they are so dense.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@SweetMae We shall see...馃槈
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xixgun 路 M
Well, the idea [b]sounded[/b] good.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@xixgun Tasted like..blllhh!馃槅
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xixgun 路 M
Je comprend.
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St0ut 路 51-55, M
I was watching food network and. I saw them roasting int the stove Habernaro chilies.

I was like I got this.
I chop the pepper like I always doo and put them on the stove .

The seeds burst and I had actually made tear gas in our apartment. We where coughing and tearing up.

Note they toast the peppers whole not chopped or sliced
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Eddiesolds 路 61-69, M
Lol This is so funny!
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Gossamerwings 路 70-79, F
It sounds like your raising agents needed a teaspoon of viagra 馃槈
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