Funny cooking experiences

[Glassylicious]

Originally Posted by henry_yew

I hereby name Glassylicious as the Queen of Culinary Disasters.

You ought to change your title to "Queen of Culinary Disasters" or something on that line.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll consider that. =P

Originally Posted by eve88

Actually, the cheese bubbles thing is quite common - there's a top-thin-layer of cheese that bubbles up - if timed properly (turn to golden brown), its one of the best parts of cheese-on-toast.

(im assuming the top "wall" of the bubble is something like paper thin)

To be honest I don't really like my cheese bubbling like that. T_T Why can't it just melt like a good slice of cheese should...

After the incident, I no longer toast my grilled cheese "open bread" style. Closed sandwich all the way for me! Prevents unwanted bubbling.

Coming up in the next post...exploding potatoes, as well as the consequences of baking/roasting too many different things in the same tray. -_-;;

[Glassylicious]

Five minutes ago the egg I was frying on a pan exploded with a loud popping noise for no apparent reason. It didn't actually blow up in my face; the egg, for most part was still intact, but the loud, sudden noise startled me. At least it wasn't as bad as the time my potatoes exploded in the oven, because I stupidly forgot to pierce the skin with a fork.

I know that many of you are probably thinking that there is surely no way one can blunder so much in the kitchen, but I swear I'm not making any of this up.

[nickvl]

Haha...I remember the time when my dad insisted something could be microwaved in its package so my mum did it....next thing there's a fire starting inside the microwave

Meat turned out still edible...

Another time was...
Though no cooking involved, it had something to do with food. I was carrying a plate of fried noodles when I tripped over a fruit that had rolled from its corner on the floor. Not just any fruit, mind you. It was a durian! Needless to say...transportation of food can be perilous and involve some bloodshed too

[henry_yew]

Glassy! Where's your exploding potatoes post????

[Restl3ss]

About the microwave oven, I remember the first time my mom tried to use the oven to reheat some bread. Since I had taught her how to use it, I let her be. After 5 minutes, I spotted a fire in the microwave and I immediately turned the power off. The white bread had turned to charcoal with smoke coming out of it. After confronting my mom, she told me she pressed 13 minutes with high heat to reheat a small piece of bread, when it was supposed to be 12 seconds only......

[Glassylicious]

It's time for another episode of...Glassy's Insanity in the Kitchen! What madness will she cook up today?

P-p-p-poppin' Potatoes!

Three small potatoes. Salt and pepper. An oven. What could go wrong?

1. I decided to make some jacket potatoes for lunch. They were relatively easy to make. Wash thoroughly, season with salt, pepper, a dash of rosemary and a drizzle of olive oil, pop them into a preheated oven for 45 minutes and they're good to go, especially with butter/cheese.

2. I did some random stuff while waiting.

3. About 15 minutes into the oven, I began to hear noises. At first I shrugged them off, but then they increased in frequency...and in loudness. And then I heard a really loud "BANG" and I jumped, startled.

4. Good lord. My potatoes were exploding! And it was just then I realized what I had forgotten to do: Pierce each potato a few times with a fork! The air under the potato skin expands as the potato bakes. What happens when you attempt to blow a balloon past its capacity?

5. That's right, it pops. Loudly, might I add. So the same happened to my potatoes. It was like Chinese New Year all over again in my oven. So I quickly took them out, stabbed the firecracking things to put an end to their [and my] misery, and shoved them back in to roast some more. There were thankfully no further explosions, and I was rather glad the potato did not blow up in my face [by virtue of compressed air rushing out] when I sliced it open.

That sums up yet another one of Glassy's misadventures! Stay tuned for the next episode! ;)

[henry_yew]

Now that is something that you learn through experience!

[WeiYun]

... I thought exploding an egg in the microwave was bad but this is... Wow.

[iKoMetaga]

sigh i had a bad cooking experience last week. I was grilling homemade salisbury steak (minced beef mixed with spices, egg etc then shaped to look like a steak) for the members (close to a 100) at the coop I stay at. I used a hot plate grill (like the ones they use at ramli burger stalls, only larger) and of over time the grill got really hot, even when I lowered the heat. So I was stuck to make an impossible trade-off: cook the steak well through the center but with an extremely burnt exterior, or serve it a little pink in the center but looking alright on the outside. I of course choose to do the latter, since using beef gave me some allowance to health concerns. Needless to say I got super stressed out, especially when someone complained about the pink centers.
Halfway through I finally reached a solution, turn the steak every 30 seconds or so, instead of allowing each side to rest for minutes at a time on the grill.
It seems that prior to this a-little-too-late revelation, I always had this preconceived notion that in bbq, there exists this one cardinal rule: never turn the meat more than once, or twice at the most. Well, I learned a lesson that day: that sometimes using your head is better than blindly following cooking recipes.

[CelineD]

Originally Posted by Glassylicious

4. Good lord. My potatoes were exploding! And it was just then I realized what I had forgotten to do: Pierce each potato a few times with a fork! The air under the potato skin expands as the potato bakes. What happens when you attempt to blow a balloon past its capacity?

5. That's right, it pops. Loudly, might I add. So the same happened to my potatoes. It was like Chinese New Year all over again in my oven. So I quickly took them out, stabbed the firecracking things to put an end to their [and my] misery, and shoved them back in to roast some more. There were thankfully no further explosions, and I was rather glad the potato did not blow up in my face [by virtue of compressed air rushing out] when I sliced it open.

That sums up yet another one of Glassy's misadventures! Stay tuned for the next episode! ;)

Haha Glassy, I'll definitely stay tuned...this is insane! Well if the potatoes did blow up on your face...LOL!

As for my funny cooking experience, during the first time I learned to cook pasta with white sauce, I didn't thoroughly wipe the stainless steel pot that I used for the sauce dry after rinsing it, so when I on the stove before putting in the oil, the pot suddenly made a loud popping sound and it startled me so much that I literally let go of the pot (good thing it was on the stove!) and CRIED!

Moral of lesson: every time I made pasta after that, I always wiped the pot dry and put the oil first before turning on the stove...