Cooking mishaps.

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It was around 1980 I was about 13. I had won a slow cooker in a cooking competition keen to try it out I spotted a recipe in the book for a sausage casserole. The ingredients included 2 cloves of garlic.
I followed all of the instructions and left it to cook.
The smell was horrendous!!!!

We hardly ever used fresh garlic. I had used two bulbs🤣

The house stank for days and I never did made it again

Oh wow, did you actually taste that monstrosity OP??

I've made 40 clove chicken, that's basically 2 bulbs and delicious. Love garlic.

I set fire to the microwave making fudge as a teen, i forgot to scale down the cooking time when I halved the recipe!

No!!@

Straining stock - and watching the stock go down the sink as I collected bones.

Shoving the chopping board in the oven to hide it, then switching the oven on to heat up... that's stunk!

Various burnt or undercooked dishes.

Can't see an issue with 2 bulbs of garlic tho.
DS2 and I made flatbreads at the weekend. And scoffed them with homemade garlic butter. About 4 cloves or mildly warmed garlic in a pool of butter. Need DH to go away again, so we can repeat without him moaning he can't partake!

17 years old trying to impress boyfriend decided to follow a recipe for cornish pasties the recipe didnt say you had to cook the carrots and potatoes before putting in the pastry they were raw little square bullets buy pasties ever since

I make cornish pasties and the filling ingredients are supposed to go into the pastry raw.

The two big bulbs completely overpowered the casserole....and I like garlic!

My aunt once made a terrine and halved the quantities of all the ingredients... except the gelatine. When they went to cut into it the knife bounced off!

SpringofContentment."Straining stock - and watching the stock go down the sink as I collected bones." That made me laugh..I've done that.

I made a Delia recipe, Black Bean Soup, 25 years ago, for a dinner party, except I used black eye beans by mistake, lovely flavour but looked like gruel.
No matter, said I; simply added some black food colouring...and watched in horror as all our guests smiled grotesque black teeth and lips.

My dh cooked me a pasta dish once when we were first dating. He seasoned it with a generous amount of mixed spice, as he thought that just meant a mix of spices like paprika etc and I had said I liked spicy food.

The stock pouring is a mistake many people have made!

I once made a coffee and walnut cake for some visiting relatives. I’d made it lots of times and it never failed, except this time I mistook plain flour for self-raising. I had a couple of very sorry looking flat patties staring back at me in their tins. I iced them and stuck them on the plate; slightly denser than I’d have liked but the flavour was there. At least everyone had the grace to laugh it off and scoff it.