Ever had a total train wreck........

[swquilts]

....with a recipe? Man, tonight I totally massacred the Marbled Chocolate Banana Bread.

First off, I forgot to put the butter out to soften, this causes "delay of game".

Second, when I melted the choco chips they broke. I'm thinking I salvaged them by adding in the 1 cup batter ASAP. Smoothes out nicely, not a total loss.

Third, I set the oven for 350 as stated. In a comatose state by now, I turn the convection on.

The saga continues......I then bake for the FULL amount of time. To self, "Self? Why is that bread so dark? A toothpick is not coming out clean. Is the bulb in the oven fading?"

Take the victim out of the oven, veryyyyyy dark crust! Let cool 10 minutes, remove from pan, cool completely. It's about 11pm now and I have a hankering for a slice. Get out the bread knife and SAW off the end. Boy that crust is tough!

Still tastes good though, but I'm going to have to remove the whole crust! Plus a couple of tiny chunks of chocolate chips, but hey, it gives it texture!!



(Now where is that Cake Mix Doctor cookbook??)

[TLee4]

Ugh! Those are the days you just don't feel like cooking! I'm glad it still tastes good. And your next attempt will be perfect.

[NewMrsG]

I have those days ALL THE TIME

[CompassRose]

Yes. My first, and last, full-on roast-turkey-n-trimmings Thanksgiving dinner. My ex had invited six of his friends over to eat it. By the time they were due to arrive, I had stormed out of the house and was raving down the street swearing and crying.

[sneezles]

Mostly I try to forget about those days when it's just one diaster after another! The last one was when I was trying to get ready to leave town for a week with DH and the younger 2 DSs were at home to mind things. I was in the middle of packing, cleaning and list making when I forgot I hadn't made anything for them to heat and eat for dinners. So I decided to make individual meatloaves, sounds easy enough. Used a CL recipe that I've used before. Found the 8 little loaf pans, mixed it all up, shoved in the oven, timer rings, open the oven door while grabbing the mitts, slide out the rack, pick up the baking sheet the pans had cooked on in one hand, turned off the oven with the left hand and...dumped the entire tray all over the clean kitchen floor! Cleaned it up and left them extra cash to go eat at the cafe for dinners!

[Kayaksoup]

Funny, I had a bad time with that same banana bread. I forgot to cream the butter and sugar together and ended up adding it to the already mixed up banana, yogurt etc. It came out tasting good though And once I made Molten Choc cakes. 2 stuck in the dishes and I flipped out and on to the flour. Molten chocolate EVERYWHERE!

[ellamay]

Yes, just the other day in fact. I made the corn, bacon and green onion tart from CL and it was awful. Too salty and the crust was soggy. Still can't figure out what I did wrong, but DH hated it so much I don't think I'm going to attempt it again.

[Pico]

How disappointing! I make mistakes practically every time I walk in the kitchen... at least I'm learning to improvise!

[cher48603]

I think we all go brain dead from time to time.

It's been quite a few years ago and my SIL was cooking Thanksgiving dinner. About an hour before dinner was supposed to be served I couldn't smell the turkey but, figured she must be using the oven in the basement. Then she checked the oven in the kitchen and commented the turkey still wasn't browning. Her cleaning woman had pulled the coil to clean the oven and didn't insert it properly. We had KFC that year.

Cheryl

[colleency]

Originally posted by cher48603
Her cleaning woman had pulled the coil to clean the oven and didn't insert it properly.

ROTFL!!!

Have I ever had train wrecks!!! My favorite 2 were:
When I was 16 or 17, I added 3 tablepoons instead of teaspoons of baking powder to a cake. It blurbled like some sort of a witch's cauldron. Being tenacious (sp?), I cooked it for about 3 hours before I gave up.

When I made my first Thanksgiving dinner, I set the oven to the temperature that was supposed to be the internal temperature of the turkey when it finished. Many hours later (guests dying of hunger by this time), when I had corrected the problem and recooked the turkey, I discovered that I had cooke the potatoes to be mashed for too long...way too long. I made pasted potatoes. My dad laughed so hard at me for that meal!

[Jollyjo]

I think we all have them - sometimes several in a row. My worst was in college when I was learning to cook. I was making calzones and the recipe called for a clove of garlic. Who knew a clove was just one piece of a head and not the whole thing? I cut up at least a dozen cloves and was getting tired of it, so I figured that was enough. Well, it was enough, to say the least. I swear I could see garlic fumes coming out of my skin, not to even mention my breath!

[Little Bit]

Just today I tried to make a poundcake, but managed somehow not to cook it completely. Turned it onto a rack to cool, only to come back later and find that it had cracked in several places. Nice, wet batter was oozing all over the counter top. *sigh*

[rosie_one]

heheheh...

happens to the best of us doesn't it?

My favorite of many humbling kitchen moments was a cheeseburger pie that DH and I slaved over way back when we were the ripe old age of 21. We didn't have a real pie plate, so used a disposable foil tin and the thing folded on us as it came out of the oven. It was one of those slow motion moments where we just watched in horror while pasta, cheese, and hamburger flew through the air and "shlopped" in the middle of the floor. We were SOOOO crushed. We scraped it off the floor and ate it anyways as we literally had nothing else in the apartment, HA, now that is desparation! Never could bring myself to try anything in that genre again. I'm scarred for life.

But now I have this hankering for banana bread...

[tbear1923]

Ahh I know exactly where you guys are coming from. I have too many to tell but one good one was when I reached in the oven to pull out my freshly baked muffins.......without a hotpad. Yes. I still have a red scar along my thumb trying to heal. I have left out whole sections of recipes. Luckily never with company coming- thank god. Although I know it is bound to happen some time or another. Cheers and just know we are all in the same boat....and I just thought it was the color of my hair

[AmyO26]

I am also guilty of the "Whole Head of Garlic = 1 clove" fiasco!

[LaraW]

I made the Molasses Banana bread yesterday, and had a bit of a train wreck. The recipe turned out OK, but I managed to drop a beater on the floor and spray batter all over the place, couldn't find my bottle of molasses at the time I needed it, that kind of stuff. The bread got a little too brown around the edges and stuck a bit in the pan, so when I took it out of the pan, large chunks stayed in. Oh well, DH ate it anyway.