Roast dinner whoops! Cooking is fun!

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Cooked a beautiful roast gammon this evening.....lovey roast potatoes, fresh veg....pulled out my lovely gammon joint out the oven and thought how well it had roasted, how crispy the outside edges were.

I managed to carve a fair amount without quite realising what I had done - then a bit of clear plastic film fell of the side - I just pulled it off thinking I had missed it.

Then I took a mouthful.....yep, I had cooked the joint with the thin layer of plastic film wrapped around the side. That was what was nice and crispy round the edge.

Oh well, once I had pulled it off it was still delicious!

Anyone else been as daft as me? Any funny cooking stories to tell?

You’re not alone - I did exactly the same with a gammon joint in the slow cooker a few weeks back Why the absolute fuck it needed a second (HIDDEN) layer of plastic I do not know. Difference is we didn’t get anywhere near eating ours as being in the slow cooker it only got an hour or so in and the place reeked to high heaven. Vile smell for the rest of the day; all doors and windows wide open. Understandably DH has not let me forget it.

I will add that it really was a well hidden layer and obviously only around the middle; I’d have spotted it if it was totally covered

In my younger days, my boyfriend and I came home from an afternoon drinking session and decided to have pie and chips for tea. I got a frozen pie out, put it in the oven and went back into the lounge to wait for it to cook. Half an hour later, I went back for the pie - it was black on top and still frozen on the bottom. Yup, I'd selected grill instead of oven!

I'm forever forgetting to take the pad at the bottom of the chicken off before roasting

It's designed to be cooked, so as to keep the ham in its shape - it's the equivalent of the netting on a beef joint. No idea why those have not also been replaced by the plastic, but it's completely safe and normal to leave it on to cook.

Haha @sirfredfredgeorge fair enough!
I don’t think I was supposed to carve it and eat it though

Thank goodness I didn’t put it in the slow cooker - was your slow cooker ok @CoveredInBeeeees??

I do remember my friend cooking pizza with the polystyrene base stick to the bottom - and it was a gas cooker! Queue smoke alarm and stamping on a flaming pizza......

@strawbmilk meat nappies I call those 😂

I’ve thrown a pizza in the oven one on the actual grid bit and not on a pan. You can imagine what happened