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30 Times Folks Online Messed Up A Meal In The Most Entertaining Way Possible For Unexplainable Reasons
One of the biggest, yet in some ways most beautiful, things about humans is that we err. Yep, mistakes make us unique and beautiful and while we ought to avoid them, we shouldn’t feel bad if they happen.
And some of the most entertaining mistakes we can make are those very temporary mental lapses in reasoning the way we ought to—brain farts. They happen, they’re unavoidable, so why not have some fun with them?
A Redditor by the nickname of u/BeauteousMaximus recently paid a visit to the r/Cooking subreddit with an open question urging people to share their biggest “brain farts” in cooking, and sharing how they themselves tried to make a cup of pour-over coffee into an upside-down mug.
And folks were eager to share their unexplainable cooking mishaps, making the post gain some modest attention with nearly 4,600 upvotes and over 2,700 comments.
We’ve siphoned the best responses to the call to share and created a lovely curated list below, so check it out, vote on the cooking disasters you laughed at the most, and why not share your own stories in the comment section below!
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#1
made an absolutely gorgeous vegetable stock from scratch using scraps i'd been collecting & freezing for weeks & lots of beautiful fresh herbs. poured it into a colander and - yep, straight down the f******g drain. all of it. my brain forgot it was the liquid i was saving, not the colander bulls**t.
i immediately just sat down, bump, on the kitchen floor, & contemplated my life choices for a while.
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#2
Lololol so one time, I was boiling eggs in the morning, and one of them cracked while in the pan, so I scooped that one out. Then I added another egg in and I was like “I’ll just leave that one in a little bit longer” AS IF I WAS GONNA BE ABLE TO TELL THEM APART
#3
Was really upset when I couldn't find my leftover bacon to have for breakfast. Found it the next day in the knife drawer.
kathryn stretton 2 years ago
I once roasted a lettuce and found the chicken in the salad drawer in the fridge. Goodness knows what my brain was doing.
#4
Was making a stock in a pressure cooker at 2 am, accidentally dumped a couple cinnamon sticks into it for unfathomable reasons.
It was godawful. Smelled like Santa had passed at a chicken restaurant.
#5
Bruh I made eggs Benedict on Christmas and spent so much effort getting the hollandaise sauce right I totally forgot to poach eggs and served an English muffin with sauce
#6
My gf wanted a hot chocolate and asked me if I could get her one, while I get my coffee.
I took the bag with chinese five spices mix and mixed it with milk. I do know that this bag contains five spices and not cocoa, because it's my only plastic bag in that shelf and it it's written on it, but my brain was like 'brown powder - close enough'.
She didn't like it.
#7
Sooooo many times when I’m making a dish served over rice I forget to start the rice until I’m almost finished cooking. Then have to keep the food warm while I wait for rice to cook. Face palm every time.
Nubis Knight 2 years ago
Since I've got a rice cooker it's easier to remember cooking the rice.
#8
Went to drain some shrimp that I thawed at work. Had the strainer setup over the sink, garbage next to me to toss the bag in. Cut the bag open and dumped the shrimp right in the garbage
#9
I once left a glass pan with lasagna on my electric stove, covering the back 2 burners. I then decided to make tea, put the kettle on the front burner, but turned on the wrong one. Walked away, but a few minutes later the lasagna pan exploded, covering my kitchen in tiny glass shrapnel.
#10
Used coconut flour instead of bread flour for a loaf of bread--that didn't go so well.
I also deep fried a pot holder once. I don't even know what was going on in my brain on that one.
Kelzbelz79 2 years ago
Never heard of coconut flour before but my mission now is to aquire some ,mistake for you- new thing to try for me.
#11
I very frequently pull things out of the oven and forget that they're stupid hot because they are no longer in the hot place.
#12
Greased the pan for rice krispy treats with bug spray rather than cooking spray. Fortunately, I realized before serving them to anyone (but not after filling the pan, so I had to run to the supermarket for more ingredients).
#13
I used a colander to strain my linguine, but the holes were bigger than the pasta so it all went through and fell into my sink.
Jo Johannsen 2 years ago
That's why I have two colanders, regular and mesh - and both stainless steel.
#14
My father grabbed the ground up Graham Crackers instead of the bread crumbs for clams casino. You DO NOT want to eat Graham Cracker Clams Casino.
#15
When I was a teen I accidentally put used vegetable oil in a packet chocolate cake mix. Cake tasted like baked potatoes and lamb with a hint of chocolate.
#16
I was making pancakes and put the two tablespoons of sugar into the container that holds my flour rather than the pancake bowl
Laura Watts 2 years ago
I was making my daughter sone medicine in juice as she doesn't like the taste and poured the juice into a full medicine bottle husband laughs at me then does the same thing 3 weeks later - we need more sleep lol
#17
Spent a bunch of time making filet mignon with an herb and Cabernet gravy out of the leftover fat in the pan and on the final bit of thickening the gravy, I added powdered sugar instead of flour.
#18
I once slow cooked a large ham for 9 hours, came to get it out and it was still wrapped up in its plastic.
#19
I was making French toast for too many people and forgot to dip a batch in the egg stuff…. Enjoy your pan fried toast.
#20
I accidentally started to pour vanilla extract in salad dressing instead of vinegar.
I guess it's not the stupidest mistake since it was clear imitation vanilla extract in a bottle that looked extremely similar to the vinegar, and I realized pretty quickly and only put a tiny bit in, but after tasting it out of curiosity, I have to say that the flavor was certainly... memorable. It turns out that vanilla can taste amazingly horrible in savory stuff.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
My sister mistook anise extract for almond extract; really gross cookies
#21
squirted skin lotion into the soup
put coffee in the dishwasher detergent dish
BasedWang12 2 years ago
get this person the f**k outta the kitchen... or .. or wherever they were
#22
I once used my blender plunger to push something into the food processor.
Those replacement plastic plungers are surprisingly expensive
#23
I accidentally put a plastic jar of peanut butter in the microwave for 20 minutes instead of 20 seconds. Came back to a molten puddle
#24
I once made a yogurt parfait and sprinkled garlic powder on top instead of cinnamon. Such a dumb mistake when I was in a rush lol
#25
I've done the gravy thing, total duh moment.
Soy Sauce and Worcesterhire bottles sometimes have a pour spout when you uncap them and sometimes they don't. I've made messes a few times by not checking before pouring. most recently I put half a bottle of soy sauce into my soup.
Sometimes I lose count of how much flour I've already measured and have to re-measure it, which is odd because I bake often, sometimes I just totally blank.
Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
Soy sauce and worcester sauce can sucessfully substitute for each other in gravy although the flavor will be slightly different.
#26
Was making homemade cheese sauce for mac/cheese and accidentally used powdered sugar instead of flour
Stephanie A Mutti 2 years ago
Ahh my MIL did same with potatoes au gratin but it was really good. 10/10 would make again
#27
I used to have a bowl of oatmeal and nuts with a jasmin tea for breakfast. I chopped the nuts and poured them in the tea cup that was full of boiling water.
#28
Started blending my hummus with soaked but uncooked chickpeas. 3/10, would not repeat.
#29
I was deep in thought when I realized I added 60g of salt into the pan.
Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
I once added salt instead of sugar in croissants. For some reason the dough didn't rise.
#30
A few different times while making sauces, my brain has entirely turned off and I've grabbed the baking soda instead of the cornstarch to thicken them.
What do you think ?
Scarlett 2 years ago
I managed to burn a salad during Thanksgiving. I was mixing up a salad since I’d been banned from the oven after the Great Yam Fire of 2018 and managed to knock a candle from the windowsill into it. Burned salad doesn’t taste good, especially when parts of it are coated in wax.
Joan Afflick 2 years ago
The Great Yam fire of 2018...oh you gave me a good laugh there. Thanks ☺️
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CalamityOne 2 years ago
Once made carrot cake: grated the carrots, mixed the ingredients, poured into the pan, and placed in the oven to bake. 20 minutes later, realized that the pile of grated carrots was still sitting on the counter. It was pretty good carrot-less carrot cake, but still...
Zophra 2 years ago
I feel your pain. Don't you just have this undescribable feeling when you look over and see something like that? Like - "I have just wasted part of my life on that mistake!" - type of feeling.
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Cat Palmer 2 years ago
Not cooking, but more than once I have walked into my bedroom with my phone and a glass of water, put the phone on a coaster and thrown the glass of water onto the bed. Now I mutter to myself as I enter the room "glass on coaster, phone on bed, glass on coaster, phone on bed..."
Scarlett 2 years ago
I managed to burn a salad during Thanksgiving. I was mixing up a salad since I’d been banned from the oven after the Great Yam Fire of 2018 and managed to knock a candle from the windowsill into it. Burned salad doesn’t taste good, especially when parts of it are coated in wax.
Joan Afflick 2 years ago
The Great Yam fire of 2018...oh you gave me a good laugh there. Thanks ☺️
Load More Replies... CalamityOne 2 years ago
Once made carrot cake: grated the carrots, mixed the ingredients, poured into the pan, and placed in the oven to bake. 20 minutes later, realized that the pile of grated carrots was still sitting on the counter. It was pretty good carrot-less carrot cake, but still...
Zophra 2 years ago
I feel your pain. Don't you just have this undescribable feeling when you look over and see something like that? Like - "I have just wasted part of my life on that mistake!" - type of feeling.
Load More Replies... Cat Palmer 2 years ago
Not cooking, but more than once I have walked into my bedroom with my phone and a glass of water, put the phone on a coaster and thrown the glass of water onto the bed. Now I mutter to myself as I enter the room "glass on coaster, phone on bed, glass on coaster, phone on bed..."
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