Readers respond: What is your biggest screw-up in the kitchen?
We asked our readers what their biggest disaster in the kitchen was, and it turns out not everyone can be a culinary expert!
From microwave explosions to inedible ingredients, here's just a few of your biggest cooking mishaps.
Scolie Simpson - Years ago a lady and I were talking about our first microwave disasters and and she told me that when they got theirs she need to do quite a few boiled eggs for some party thing .So she put either a dozen or 2 in the microwave and went to watch TV.
All of a sudden they heard an almighty bang and when she looked the door had blown off and there was egg in every part of the kitchen. The friend next door couldn't stop laughing and said that she should have pierced each egg. She went back to just boiling them.
Pamela Crowe - First married, home from work, put oil in pot, turned on hot plate, forgot to buy mince. Went to butchers. Got back to flat, apparently the oil exploded - black ash over every surface.
Gay Sharran Gold - I decided to whip up egg whites for a pavlova. I had put the beaters in the mixmaster in reverse unknowingly!
I turned it on full throttle and stood there within seconds with egg white through my hair, in my eyes and down my face, sticking to the curtains, dripping down the window and all over the cupboards and floor!!
Heather Widjaja - Put chicken bones on the stove to make stock. Forgot to turn the burner off and went out for six hours!!!! Came home to a house full of smoke, disgusting smell and luckily just a ruined saucepan, but a house still standing.
Maureen Ivan Notsch - Cooked a chook with the plastic bag with giblets still inside it.
Roula May - Sprayed chicken Kiev with fly spray instead of oil!
Chook Milne - Used Mr Sheen instead of canola spray on my cake tin.. lucky everyone survived.
Vicki Newbury - Made tuna patties and used what I thought was plain flour to roll them in, turned out it was actually custard powder, didn’t realise until they were cooking in the pan, needless to say the whole lot went into the bin.
Dawn Croft - When microwaves were brand new I reheated a tuna pasta. It was great. I commented that everyone said that you couldn't get crispy topping in the microwave but my cheese was great.
Didn't realise till I went to wash up my Tupperware container that my crispy topping was the plastic from my Tupperware. I survived!
Sue Anderson - Made gravy with drinking chocolate instead of Gravox… thought it looked a bit funny so added Parisian Essence. First bite of the roast was a bit exciting for all.
Kaye Brown - Making toffee. Everything including the pot was thrown out, after we’d convinced the neighbours and the fire brigade all was fine.
Cheryl Millard - Melting chocolate In the microwave. Not knowing that the chocolate doesn’t lose its shape so kept zapping . No bottom left in bowl but chocolate still in its squares.
Michael L Carrigg - Entering the kitchen, told to stay out as a youngster and has kept me in good stead ever since, except to make coffee.
Gail Fredericks - Forgot to put yeast in the bread maker. Ended up with a very nice brick.
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