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  • Richard75 May 9, 2012 @ 10:48 am | delete
    Funny Martha Stewart bloopers video, thanks for the upload.
    http://kitchenaidprofessional600site.com
  • COUNTRYLUTHIER Jan 7, 2012 @ 11:50 pm | delete
    I cooked a cake as a kid that was under done and for which I suffer for in family gatherings to this day. My mother loves to tell the story of the perfect looking cake that was not done on the inside.
  • Mahogany Dec 14, 2011 @ 9:44 am | delete
    Sounds like we MAY HAVE attended the same culinary institute :P. Great lens!
  • CNelson01 Dec 13, 2011 @ 3:44 pm | delete
    This is a fun lens. I'm glad nobody knows that years ago when I first tried to make a cake for my wife's birthday, I "broiled" it. I'll never tell.

    Things have changed, I do all the cooking now - life has its curves.
  • JoshK47 Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:13 am | delete
    Anyone who has spent enough time in the kitchen has a disaster story or two - great stuff! Blessed by a SquidAngel who is glad you survived long enough to post this. :)
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:51 am | delete
    Josh, thanks for the Squid blessing! Yeah, I'm lucky to be alive, after the exploding eggs. Don't get me started on the kitchen fires. Yes, that's fireS. Fortunately, I remembered to grab a lid and poof...it took care of it.
  • vallain Dec 1, 2011 @ 4:34 pm | delete
    We set the oven on fire with a turkey one Thanksgiving. Using a cooking bag (foolproof, right?) we negligently let one corner of the cooking bag overhang the edge of the roasting pan. When it filled with turkey drippings, it sagged down and touched the hot element which set the oil on fire.
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:53 am | delete
    Ohmygosh! I won't ever fix a Thanksgiving turkey from now on without remembering your story. I'm so glad you didn't burn your house down (you didn't, did you?), and your story serves as a good warning. Maybe you ought to do a lens about kitchen safety. I will be the first to tweet it. :)
  • traveller27 Dec 1, 2011 @ 3:36 pm | delete
    Great job - love the images. Blessed by a travelling angel.
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:53 am | delete
    Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. :)
  • FlaminCatDesigns Dec 1, 2011 @ 10:17 am | delete
    You got me giggling! I can think of all my disasters and my mothers too! We can actually make some decent food, but you have some bloopers in there too. BTW my mother had 2 ovens go out on 2 different holiday dinners!!
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:54 am | delete
    hahaha! Yeah, well I guess we all have our disastrous kitchen stories. I have more - that's the pathetic part. Many, many more. :) Wow - lucky Mom, with 2 ovens. I wonder what kind of trouble I could get into with TWO?
  • lestroischenes Dec 1, 2011 @ 5:59 am | delete
    I love this lens and the beautiful illustrations! Blessed
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:54 am | delete
    Thanks so much! I appreciate that!
  • SalmonRecipes Nov 23, 2011 @ 3:16 am | delete
    This is great.. most of these are missed by our selves. but this is cool one. Love this..
    thank for share..
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:55 am | delete
    Thank you!
  • sousababy Sep 17, 2011 @ 10:52 am | delete
    Ha, this is great. Thanks for making me feel less alone in my cooking efforts.
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:56 am | delete
    LOL! Yeah, it's always nice to know there are others out there who turn their kitchens into a nightmare. :)
  • CherrrieB May 16, 2011 @ 6:30 pm | delete
    Brought back some happy disasters...lol
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:56 am | delete
    haha! Glad I could be of service. :)
  • MeggieMcFallon May 16, 2011 @ 1:38 pm | delete
    Oh, I can so identify. I learned to cook when I barely reached the counter. My first full meal was age 12, pot roast (potatoes were crunchy) biscuits (burnt), chocolate cake (not cooked through and the batter came out of the middle).

    My mom said it was the best meal ever;) Well written, loved the photos.
  • seedplanter Dec 5, 2011 @ 9:57 am | delete
    You know Meggie, I think MY first meal (at age 11) was pot roast! Didn't try biscuits, but I remember making a lot of brownies so I could lick the bowl. :) Thanks for stopping by, and I'm sorry for not replying sooner. These comments tend to fall between the cracks and get lost.
  • RealKidsPhotographer Feb 14, 2011 @ 7:01 am | delete
    The other day I was making cookies with my grand daughter when we got distracted and by the time I got back the cookies were burning in the oven! Unusual event for me, so my grand daughter told me to just make a cup of coffee with my keurig mini platinum coffee brewer and relax!

    She was right!
  • huvalbd Feb 4, 2011 @ 6:20 pm | delete
    Great wit and style. If you haven't published a book yet, I hope you will.
  • affiliatestwo Feb 4, 2011 @ 3:48 pm | delete
    I LOVE this site, it is gorgeous. Never knew Martha Stewart had bloopers happening on her show. Thank you so much for allowing us to view this site and everything on it. Excellent!
  • AdrianaCopaceanu Dec 15, 2010 @ 6:57 am | delete
    Hilarious! thanks for starting my day with a good laugh.
  • BizGuides Dec 7, 2010 @ 6:45 am | delete
    My wife makes Cakes. I live with the "original" Cake Boss!
    Did I tell you I'm the delivery boy?
    My sweet, wouldn't hurt a spider wife turns into the "CAKE DEMON"
    I'd rather be flogged than deliver cakes!........S T R E S S,
    you don't know stress until you delivery someone's one and only wedding cake!
    Then there's some fool on your bumper, inches away,
    trying to "jump over" our vehicle with a $800.00 cake on-board.
    I could go on, but I need my meds now.
    I just crushed another computer mouse!
  • Sonia Oct 25, 2010 @ 8:37 am | delete
    "I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate." - Julia Child

    That's incredible, I started cooking when I was 16...

    Sonia @ bbq grill
  • waterlesscookwareguy Sep 2, 2010 @ 10:29 am | delete
    Great to know I'm not alone. We bought a 2500 set of cookware and without knowing how to use it scorched the entire set in the matter of a month. Luckily we found another waterless cookware set. We actually watched the dvd on how to use the set. Some lessons are hard and expensive.
  • envy666 May 24, 2010 @ 12:11 am | delete
    I bookmarked this on Reddit and Delicious for you. Nice page!

    vintage copper sink
  • digitalnotes Apr 1, 2010 @ 8:33 am | delete
    lol how much fun to read a lens where i'm made to feel normal. Kitchen disasters are something that don't happen to meoccasionally . i just happen to be a complete kitchen disaster. (try putting the electric kettle on the gas stove. Duh!
    looking for kitchen sinks
  • jgelien Jan 15, 2010 @ 12:22 am | delete
    Hilarious and great to know that it happens to all of us. I don't have as many food mishaps as I do kitchen accidents. If I get through preparing a meal and only cut OR burn myself instead of doing both, I consider it a success. Thanks for the laughs. 5*
  • Suzy A Nov 8, 2009 @ 5:23 pm | delete
    I so enjoyed this site! I reciently "fused" a tea kettle to a burner....Iv also exploded a glass dish of lasagna, and some how managed to crack a cast iron skillet down the middle, not to mention when I baked a cake and ended up with a "hard boiled" yoke right in the center..but I always laugh at mnyself, and reading these makes me feel...more normal
  • puzzlemaker Sep 12, 2009 @ 11:03 pm | delete
    My worst was burning 8 slices of toast all in a row. I still hear about that incident. I enjoyed reading about yours. Very funny and a good laugh for the soul.
  • susannaduffy Jun 24, 2009 @ 9:13 pm | delete
    I am definitely NOT going to tell you about my first foray into fermented black beans. I quickly learned that day 1/2 teaspoon is not 2 tablespoons. Blessed by an angel today (/my-angel-blessings)
  • poddys May 16, 2009 @ 9:55 pm | delete
    Very funny lens, 5***** My cooking disasters mostly comprise my adding too much pepper or chile in my meals, making them burning hot. But I have a high tolerance, so I can handle it usually.
  • CatharinaE May 5, 2009 @ 12:06 pm | delete
    At a barbeque my husband used so much spice on the meat that it made a crust, it burnt and tasted horrible. His excuse was that he couldn't see what he was doing, it was too dark! 5* for your lens!
  • KarateKatGraphics May 3, 2009 @ 4:34 pm | delete
    Wonderful topic, done perfectly! I poisoned myself with a turkey once, overseas for T-giving. Thank goodness the other diners didn't get sick, but I just know it was something about the way I prepared it. Most of my disasters are of the dropping-on-the-floor (or in the oven) variety :) 5*****
  • WhitU4ever May 2, 2009 @ 8:23 pm | delete
    My biggest flop was my first meal for my first marriage. We had just returned from the honeymoon and were out of money and there were very few items in the kitchen to work with. I thought I would be resourceful, so I picked up an old Jewish cookbook, and found potato soup. My husband decided to pass. I cried. Haven't made it since.

    By the way, Aesop may have had a problem with plagiarism. Proverbs 17:1 sounds quite similar: "Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting with strife." Yet, Aesop's twist goes better with this lens. Happy cooking. 5*'s and favorited... Great job!
  • flighty02 Apr 28, 2009 @ 3:23 am | delete
    Welcome to The Cooks Cafe group! :)
  • Spook Apr 27, 2009 @ 10:37 am | delete
    Great I once had a disaster of horrific proportions on the barberque ( not my fault ) but the wife didn't talk to me for a very long time afterwards. Of course now a family legend.
  • flighty02 Apr 25, 2009 @ 5:07 am | delete
    Fantastic lens, I chuckled all the way through it! :) It would be a welcome submission to my Cooks Cafe group if you would like to submit it.
  • mywebgal Apr 23, 2009 @ 1:13 pm | delete
    Ha ha! Thanks for sharing, I needed a laugh! 5 stars and favorited!
  • schofieldml Apr 16, 2009 @ 3:10 am | delete
    Funny lens! I think we all have had cooking disasters but most of us try to keep them a secret. The exploding egg story reminds me of the time I tried to hard boil an egg in the microwave. I put the egg on a plate instead of placing it in a bowl of water. The egg didn't even last 30 seconds before exploding. What a mess. I was still finding yolk and egg shell pieces a month later.
  • spirituality Apr 9, 2009 @ 2:31 pm | delete
    Great lens - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
  • kellywissink Feb 13, 2009 @ 4:25 pm | delete
    Very Funny!

    Welcome to the Squidoo 50 Club!
  • uuimages Feb 12, 2009 @ 3:46 am | delete
    I have to laugh with you when it comes to your egg story because I did the exact same thing. The only problem with what I did was I didn't turn the stove down and ruined my mom's pan. It was bright red on the bottom when I went in to see what all the noise was about. So, now the joke in our family is how Carol burned water. Hmm, don't like that joke very much. My mom wasn't too pleased about her pan either. lol
  • ElizabethJeanAllen Jan 26, 2009 @ 7:28 pm | delete
    Welcome to The Totally Awesome Lenses Group.
    Lizzy
  • Susan52 Jan 17, 2009 @ 5:36 am | delete
    Love the lens! Love the stories (somehow I can relate, but I don't remember why). Love the awesome egg timers! Great job!
  • tandemonimom Jan 15, 2009 @ 4:33 pm | delete
    PS: In honor of cooking disasters of mothers everywhere, lensrolled to Mother's Day: Funniest Holiday Video Ever!
  • tandemonimom Jan 15, 2009 @ 4:27 pm | delete
    I had a birthday cake disaster too: my first child's first birthday, and I somehow added TABLESPOONS instead of TEASPOONS of baking powder. Wow, did it taste nasty! Fortunately I realized it before frosting, and started calling grocery store bakeries frantically ... none of whom wanted to sell me an unfrosted cake so I could make my masterpiece (a Noah's ark cake), even though I promised to pay full, frosted price. I did finally find one, and was still icing the cake as the first guests arrived, but the cake did get decorated as planned!
  • AnneEasterling Jan 12, 2009 @ 3:08 pm | delete
    For me, cooking disasters are like the pain of childbirth... Somehow I don't remember them!
  • Squidster Jan 11, 2009 @ 4:32 am | delete
    Oh yes, I just ruined a new non-stick casserole by boiling some eggs dry until they were black like charcoal. All the while I was on my computer, totally engrossed with Squidoo, as usual... Kitchen almost caught on fire and the stench of burned eggs lingered in the house for days! Great fun to read it happens to other folks too!
  • marsha32 Jan 9, 2009 @ 5:18 pm | delete
    This is a really cool and fun lens...I love it!
  • kiwisoutback Jan 9, 2009 @ 3:28 pm | delete
    If you hadn't had these disasters, you wouldn't have been able to create this excellent lens! My father made a really gross dish that was so bad it had to dumped on the side of the road before we got home (I guess it was a pot luck dinner of some kind -- not my idea!). I think it was called fish porkaroni....
  • dannystaple Jan 4, 2009 @ 9:57 am | delete
    So I once had some friends visiting. I cannot say my cooking skills are great. But for fun we tried out a new recipe - it looked tasty. I had not even eaten it before - I think they were some kind of Ethiopian starter. Anyhow, one of my guests, a fellow computer guy, decided to lend a hand. They were looking a bit sloppy - more flour I guess. We kept on adding it. You then are meant to quickly fry it - to get a crispy shell and moist spicey inside. These were like hard gum or something. Flavour washed out by flour. I should have stuck with something I knew. Only my friend ate it - with lots of chilli sauce (his way of coping with food he didn't like). There was a minor cake disaster on the same day too.
  • Jimmie Jan 2, 2009 @ 12:11 am | delete
    So much fun! Even Martha has disasters! I've had exploding eggs quite a few times. I bought a TIMER. No more problems. :-)
  • groovyoldlady Jan 1, 2009 @ 7:32 am | delete
    Ah. The trifle tip. That, in itself has become rather legendary around here. Everyone at our large church KNOWS I'm a rpofessional cake decorator. If I stayed with the tried and true, I'd be just fine. But NO, if company's coming I always have the itch to try something new - some wonderful sounding dessert cake. And. it. NEVER. works. I have to turn it into trifle EVERY TIME! Now I won't even attempt a new recipe unless I have whipping cream and frozen berries on hand to bail out my disasters!
  • ArtByLinda Dec 31, 2008 @ 12:54 am | delete
    Ah the memories...my first pumpkin pie...no sugar added to the pumpkin, it was quite different...my son still reminds me of that one! :)
  • lakeerieartists Dec 30, 2008 @ 10:36 am | delete
    We have all had our kitchen and other disasters. I know I have my share. Terrific lens. :D
  • GrowWear Dec 29, 2008 @ 2:21 pm | delete
    So funny! :D
  • Mickie_G Dec 29, 2008 @ 1:28 pm | delete
    I made the classic 7 Layered Salad for lunch for me and a friend. Unfortunately, I let the mayo based topping touch some of the lettuce layer and every piece of iceberg turned to mush! Since then, I never let the topping touch the sides of the bowl. Live and learn.
  • debnet Dec 29, 2008 @ 11:54 am | delete
    One Christmas I proudly placed the turkey on the table, ready for carving and someone mentioned a funny smell. Well, as my ex carved into the bird, it became apparent that I'd left the plastic bag full of giblets in the cavity of the turkey. The meat had a strange flavour I seem to recall LOL!!
  • chefkeem Dec 28, 2008 @ 9:27 pm | delete
    I had a friend as well, really, but that has nothing to do with the fact that it was moi who set a pot of water with potatoes on the stove for boiling. Then I drove to a friend's house for an introduction to a self-help seminar. After about 3 hours, I left my friend's house and it was then that it "hit me". Those 20 minutes of driving home were the longest 20 minutes in my life ever! I envisioned the fire department putting out my huge apartment fire with all my neighbors standing in the street and watching their belongings go up in smoke.

    When I got home, the pot was hot, dry, and smoking. The potatoes were somewhat overcooked, sitting in a quarter-inch crust of a black, indestructible "something" (fossilized, I guess). Just to see what happens - I soaked the pot with a super-strong baking soda/Ajax/BonAmi solution for 6 months. Nothing happened. I have a new pot now. It's a much better one than that crummy old thing that can't even cook potatoes right.
  • Mayflowerblood Dec 28, 2008 @ 7:33 pm | delete
    lol, great lens!
  • mulberry Dec 28, 2008 @ 6:11 pm | delete
    I had a friend, really, it was a friend, not me...who was cooking some pasta on the stove. She forgot about it minutes later and decided to drive across town to go to the mall. A couple of hours later as she was leaving the mall she remembered the pasta. She drove home to find the fire department outside of her home. There hadn't been a fire yet but there was plenty of smoke. Her cat had been rescued, from it's hiding place under the blankets of her bed.
  • chefkeem Dec 28, 2008 @ 5:52 pm | delete
    That reminds me of the day when I cooked seafood samples for a large in-store audience at Whole Foods Market. I flipped 2 full pans simultaneously (with greasy hands) and they both slipped out of my grip and smack-dab into the shocked crowd, splashing mahi-mahi all over their shoes. (I am now self-employed.)

    Blessings for this sad (o.k. - funny) lens! 5*s :)

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