cooking SNAFUs. let's hear them.

I put a smallish brisket flat into the pressure cooker & didn't weigh it.....decided by eyeball it was X lbs. Cooked it way-way-way too long, PC boiled nearly dry, resulting desiccated hunk of meat looked like an industrial accident. Took three days of scrubbing to get the PC pot clean again.

I've told this story before...but my ex MIL spent a bunch of time making a delicious fish chowder (halibut, clams, salmon, mussels, etc) only to pour egg nog into the pot instead of cream. Dumb old bird was three quarters into pouring that carton when she realized it wasn't cream.

My sister did not know the difference between baking powder and baking soda. She made chocolate chip cookies with the wrong one. Instant hockey pucks- unbelievable how hard those things were and how bad they tasted

Fell asleep once during a planned 48 hr smoke of a brisket. Woke up and realized my temp creeper up about 10 degrees hotter than it should have been and it cooked an extra hour. The bark was a little too black for my liking.

One New Years Eve 20+ years ago, I accidentally used cilantro instead of parsley in a Rueben dip.

I just went with it; nobody noticed as it was all gone at the end of the night.

Another time, I dipped my finger in some caramel sauce I had made to taste it because I was sure I had burned it. The sauce was fine but not my finger.

My finger looked like ET's for a few weeks.

I made some deviled eggs and put the salt, 1/2 tablespoon, meant for the egg boiling into the stuffing mixture. Epic brain fart, ruined.

In college we used to have big cookouts, everyone would bring stuff to grill. We all got too drunk and forgot we had stiff on the grill. (we had already had 1 or 2 rounds of food) Nobody realized it until we went to grill again a couole weeks later, it was pretty gross

Blew a hole in my driveway with a chimney starter.

Overlooked a lean rack of ribs in the oven. Managed to get about an ounce or two of meat.

Once in my mid twenties and living in an apartment, I was cooking for myself on a Thursday night. Tuna helper was on the menu and just when I was almost done preparing it, I heard a knock at the door.

It was a couple of friends that wanted to go out to dinner. Not really thrilled to be eating tuna helper, I decided to go out to dinner with them. I put the pan of delicious tuna helper into the stove for it to keep while I was out and planned to toss it when I got back from dinner.

I totally forgot about it and left my apartment for the weekend the next morning. The smell that greeted me upon my return was what you would expect of 4 day old, unrefrigerated tuna helper.