Cheer me up with your tales of culinary disasters!

[whyameyehere]

Making a meat and potato pie for tea, really looking forward to it. The pastry was made and I just finishing seasoning the mince onions and potatoes when I managed to tip half a tub of salt into the mix, it was totally unsalvagable and we ended up having chicken and chips out of the freezer.

What disasters have you had in the kitchen?

I had red cabbage amongst other veg out with my Sunday roast once, really enjoyed it so decided to make it at home..
Chopped, boiled.. came out bright blue!!!

A chef friend informed me u must add vinegar to retain colour..
Who knew!!

My husband does all the cooking as I’m terrible but I wanted to make him something so I decided on tagliatelle with blackened salmon. When the pasta was cooked I chucked it in the collindar to get rid of the pan water as you do....however the steam burnt my hand so I dropped the collindar and pasta in the basin which was still filled with manky dish water. It didn’t even cross my mind to make new pasta so I rinsed it under the cold tap, not thinking a thing and served it up. My husband was too nice to say anything but I could tell by his face something was wrong and it was only when he said the pasta was stone cold that I realised what I’d done! The salmon got eaten but the tagliatelle went straight in the food waste

@whyameyehere yeah... I think I used the wrong flour. Either way, toad in the hole became a weird sausage cake and I still get embarrassed thinking about it.