Disaster in the Kitchen

Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.

I didn’t know the first thing about cooking when I got married. I knew how to use a rice cooker and a microwave, but I was scared of the stove, especially of frying. Don’t even get me started on the oven. It was on a whole other level of terror – an appliance I deemed only kitchen geniuses were equal to.

Nonetheless, I was an adult with another mouth to feed and wasn’t rich enough to pull off a hired cook or nightly take-out. Needless to say, I had to learn, especially when my first child came along.

I’m glad to say that I took to baking like a duck to water. My sweet tooth might have been the driving force behind that. Baking is different from cooking though. And while I’m still not the best cook, I can follow a recipe, which means I can make decent, edible meals.😂

What trips me up is when I have to make substitutions or amend proportions. What Google recommends isn’t always reliable, I’m afraid. Also, I tend to get confused, especially when my children are underfoot. Then again, there’s also the bad recipe, despite the five star ratings.

In any case, I’ve had some major kitchen blunders. I’ve burned some things. I’ve seasoned too much. I’ve also undercooked chicken a couple of times.

The most memorable catastrophe, however, is a series of flops that had me chucking everything in the trash bin and just ordering from Grab.

I’d wanted to be virtuous and use up stuff at home so they wouldn’t go to waste and I wouldn’t have to spend on a food delivery. To my mad rage, I just ended up doing both.

It started with a falling-apart French toast. I learned the hard way to not use whole wheat bread. Then I botched the crust for my apple and blackberry pie, and the frozen blackberry was awful anyway. As a finale, I also ended up burning the leftover curry while heating it up. My head was clearly somewhere else that day.

The lesson there is I have to be on top of my schnitzel or I’m dangerous in the kitchen. Failure loves company, so I can’t wait to read about your kitchen disaster.😁

Btw, if you subscribe to this blog and got an email of a post with gibberish yesterday, I’m afraid that was my youngest getting hold of my phone and exploring the Jetpack app. I apologize for the bother, but it did remind me that I hadn’t posted in quite some time and to do something about that. My excuse is that I’m moving houses and cannot function properly in a state of upheaval.