I have ruined dinner
It's all over the place, shattered glass mixed with anchiote paste and butter.All over the stove and in the food.This looks like fun to clean. Saute gulf prawns one minute and turn, cook one more minute. Remove from pan. Add one ounce vodka, flambe. Add chopped garlic stir in anchiote paste mixed with softened butter.Return prawns to pan for thirty seconds.Also on the stove. Calamari marinated in olive oil, sea salt, garlic, and pepper flakes. Cook in a cast iron pan on high heat for two minutes. Tried to go to fast. I set a small glass mixing bowl on the hot stove.Bummer!!!!!!!!. Meals that you have ruined .
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Was making a birthday cake for a party. Left arm wrapped around bowl, holding it steady. Stirring with right hand. Suddenly left hand loses grip, and the whole bloody mess goes flying across the room. Bowl shatters as it hits the wall, ceramic shards and cake batter on everything in sight. *sigh*.
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TrishUntrapped
Jan 7, 2012 10:24 AM
Got invited to a pig roast by my husband's boss at the time and was asked to bring my special cold spaghetti salad, so I made one using fresh veggies from the garden. I also bought a special glass bowl for the salad that we planned to give to the boss and his wife as a gift along with the salad.
When we arrived, I stepped out of the car and instantly fell flat on my face. The bowl crashed to the ground and broke into a million pieces with spaghetti, veggies, and olive oil vinaigrette, flying everywhere. It was a huge oily, mess, plus I turned my ankle and skinned my knee. Just delightful.
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at the restaurant a server set a pepper grinder on the pass and the top unscrewed and 500 peppercorns spilled out into all the prep. what a nightmare! it was early and much of it was easily switched out for fresh while someone picked all the peppercorns out of the rest. glad that wasn't my job.
also in the restaurant cleaning up after the big blackout on the east coast a few years back. no one ever expected to be without power for days so we left stuff out for hours, then forgot about it in the eventual dark, and cleaned up the rotten crap the next day. whole place smelled pretty bad.
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Veggo
Jan 7, 2012 10:16 AM
Not dinner, but a big batch of deviled eggs never happened. Eggs were in the pot and I wandered out of the kitchen and signed on to Chowhound. About 40 minutes later it sounded like the shootout at the OK corral was being re-enacted in my kitchen. I threw out the pot, cleaned up the shrapnel, and aired out the house.
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mamachef
Jan 7, 2012 09:42 AM
At home, before I got really conversant with seafood, I proved that it Is Possible to prepare prawns with Pernod that were mushy, yet tough and stringy, at the same time. And, despite a more-than-judicious-application of the Pernod, flavorless too. At work, i've experienced the wonderful phenomenon of a "blowback" on the line; pouring liquer directly from the bottle into the hot saute pan and having the alcohol in the bottle catch, at which point the bottom blew out of the bottle, shattering all over a whole lot of different dinners that night. I kept my job, but it was prolly due more to potential than skill. And it got better. :)
The thing that makes things like this okay, as long as nobody gets hurt, or ingests anything dangerous? Is that you will never, ever do anything like that again. Also, a helpful tip about glass items if Pyrex: if they've spent any time in the micro or oven, and are hot? Don't let it fool you; that stuff will positively explode upon direct contact with a cold surface, as in the countertop. -
Meal ruined with a trip to the ER: young, stupid, in love. Couldn't find the corkscrew for the wine for anniversary dinner...decided to use a steak knife. Stabbed deeply in the webbing betweeen thumb and index finger. Wrapped hand in tea towel and off to the hospital we went. Still have the scar, 30+ years later.
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