How to make dwarf bread

[rachelmanija]

I figured out why my cornmeal cake turned into a blunt instrument. I glanced at the recipe and apparently noted the proportions but misread the amounts of the two types of flour, so instead of using one cup of flour and half a cup of cornmeal, I used two cups of flour and one cup of cornmeal. Oops.

Definitely worse than Yoon's apple crumble disaster, in which she forgot to put in the sugar in the crumble topping, but I salvaged it, or at least made it edible, by adding more sugar and butter and putting it back in the oven. The cornmeal cannonball had to be flung into the dumpster, where it landed with an echoing boom.

Tell me about your worst cooking disasters.

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[coraa.livejournal.com]

The second or third time I made frittata -- I got cocky because the first couple attempts came out well, and didn't pay as much attention as I should have. So I put the veg in the bottom of a (not non-stick, I didn't have any non-stick pans at the time) and then poured egg mixture on top and sprinkled a little cheese on that. And then I went about slicing bread and making salad to go with it.

Meanwhile, the egg ran down around the edges of the vegetables and sealed itself up against the sides of the pan with a nice solid coagulated-protein bonding, and then proceeded to cook itself airtight, along with the cheese, over the vegetables. (There was probably too much egg, in retrospect, and definitely too much cheese.) And the temperature was probably a little too high, and the vegetables were very moist and started to steam, and there was nowhere for the steam to escape around the edges of the egg. So I was cheerfully cutting up cucumbers and then I heard a weird splutter and then it... exploded.

[heyoka.livejournal.com]

(so much contained in one little ellipsis XD)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Best disaster yet!