re: What's the worst thing you ever cooked?

All my big failures have involved baking.....a notable failure was a cooked caramel icing that seized up in the pot so bad, I had to soak it for an hour in hot water just to pry out the wooden spoon I'd used to stir it. Also put some mustard greens on the stove, went outside, and returned to find the house full of something equivalent to a chemical weapon wafting from those greens. Actually had to throw away the pot.