Worst cooking experience

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[Clay Valley Farmer]

I tried to BBQ a very fat duck on a very cheap BBQ while enjoying very cold beers.

This is not my pic, my duck was far worse and BBQ mostly destroyed due to a melted propane line.

 

[sourland]

Clayvalleyfarmer is the winner. I can only imagine what your grill looked like.

 

[DuckLady]

I won't top Clay Valley Farmer, but when I was a newlywed at the age of 21, I wanted to impress my husband with my grandmothers wonderful fried chicken. I called Grama from work and while taking care of customers, I wrote down notes.

When she said " after rinsing in cold water, sprinkle with salt and refrigerate overnight" I wrote soak in salted water overnight.
When she said "Add 1 tsp salt to the flour", I wrote "add one cup salt to the flour"

The chicken was beautiful. Crisp and golden on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside.
I could see my new husband's eyes shining with pride in his wife.....Then he took a big bite.
His face froze and he swallowed the chunk whole and reached for the water.

He told me what a wonderful meal I made.

Then I took a bite. I was so embarrassed. It took me a long time to get over it and he was very kind to me about it and never mentioned it again after that night.

 

[Imp]

I've made the perfect dessert to go along with terrielacy's dinner.

Tapioca cooks up just beautiful if you use salt in place of the sugar.

Imp

 

[DuckLady]

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[suzettex5]

Once, as a pregnant newlywed, I tried to make my first whole roasted chicken. My hubby mentioned it being kinda 'squishy near the bone'. I told him it was supposed to be like that (I was NOT gonna admit I had never made a chicken before!) He kinda ended up with food poisoning and spent 2 days in the bathroom, cursing my chicken! How was I supposed to know the chicken would make him sick? I didnt actually eat any since being preg made me too queasy to eat meat at that time.


Its been 17 years, and he still hasnt forgotten, he even reminds the kids about it every now and then. Its kind of a joke nowadays.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Please don't try Angel Food cakes at high altitude!!! I grew up in Winter Park, CO at almost 9,000 feet - they literally explode in your oven!

 

[jojo54]

The first cake I ever made as a young girl, I decided to go all out with icing and sprinkles, etc. The cake was fine until I made the icing using lard (in those days we had a lard can that we poured the lard from bacon, etc and reused) and spread it on the cake right from the oven. The grease oozed into the cake so it all tasty very greasy with a slight bacon taste!

Another time (I was already married), my SIL and BIL were visiting for the weekend and I was cooking up some chili. I was busy visiting while making it and did not put a single spice in it - not even salt and pepper. Nobody said anything at supper, and when I quit talking long enough to taste it noticed the chili was pretty bland to say the least.

 

[2DogsFarm]

I'd been making a whole chicken in my crockpot with a lot of success.
Just put stuffing mix on the bottom, skinned chicken on top & Voila! Yummy dinner : 9

Sooooo.....
I invite some friends from aerobics class (this was Back in the Day) to dinner & decide to sub skinless chicken breasts for the whole bird. Healthier, right?

We all get home, hungry from working out...
and find chicken dried to an inedible state sitting on top of stuffing equally rockhard.
To this day they still tease me about my recipe for Chicken Jerky.