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I was finishing a jar of extremely hot peppers (7 pot primos) that I had fermenting on Thanksgiving day. I made a hot sauce with them and cantaloupe. I had them in a pan at a low simmer to meld the flavors. The problem was the steam coming off was potent as hell. It filled the house when everyone was arriving and coughing from the hot sauce in the air, me included. We had to open all the windows, dig out the fans to get it out of the house, freezing everyone in the process.

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[–] Drusas@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I made a ton of jalapeno poppers using spicier than usual jalapenos without gloves. My hands were in excruciating pain for hours.

On a related note, I learned that the most effective treatment for this is lime juice. Not milk.

[–] grimaferve@kglitch.social 2 points 2 years ago

Oh yes. Salt and Pepper chicken without the window open. Once and only once. Soon as the spice went in, I realised my mistake. The kitchen was unbearable for the whole night.

[–] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

added too much salt to my food? does that count and made entire meals inedible.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah I was making fudge brownies for my son and I forgot the eggs.. brownies looked like crap

[–] sour@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

i melted a plastic spatula

[–] pingveno@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not me, but family lore. When my parents had just started dating in their 20's, my mother was housed in "The Beaver Hut" with a bunch of people including her twin sister (my aunt). It was spaghetti night and they were making a homemade sauce. My aunt was putting in salt. Instead of a teaspoon, she put more like a quarter of a cup or more. Everyone else was going to fish it out, but she was like "nah, it'll be fine" and stirred it in.

Needless to say, it was not fine. It was so salty that everyone except my father refused to eat it.

Note: It might have been something else like pizza. With spaghetti, it you screwed up a sauce that much it's easy enough to make a substitute sauce from kitchen staples and odds and ends.

[–] curiosityLynx@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds similar to something my family recounts. We were living in Lima, Perú at the time and had friends from Switzerland or Argentina come visit us. On the way to our home someone noticed a bakery advertising black forest cake and they decided to buy one to mark the occasion.

Well, apparently that bakery had failed to consider that while salted butter may be the default form of butter in Perú, the default form of butter where the recipe was from is unsalted butter.

My parents and their guests (I was probably around 3yo at the time) ended up playing Uno. Whoever lost a round had to eat a piece of this cursed black forest cake.

[–] plactagonic@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Remembered another one.

Friend ask me and another friend, we cook on summer camp together, to cook lunch on his wedding.

He wanted form us to cook meal A we tell him that we didn't cook it so it will be shtshow, but we could cook meal B, C or D. This didn't work so we cooked meal A and it was shtshow.

It all started with "fully equipped professional kitchen" whitch wasn't equipped at all (we were prepared for this). Than few other things go wrong. But the TIFU moment was soup - some miscommunication and bad decisions led to adding the noodles in it too early so you can imagine the porridge it become.

I had a blast afterwards, and too much beer to forget this experience.

My friend then said that it was exactly as he imagined it to be, because his now wife didn't want another meal.

[–] Anomalocarididae@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

Was reheating pizza in a pan when I was 12. Touched the metal bit connecting the pan to the handle on accident. Had a nasty blister on my hand for a while.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A buddy was having a BBQ and I got grill duty. One of the people there was a vegan and I, being dumb, used the same utensils for vegan and nonvegan foods. Looking back it was getting contaminated being on the same grill with nonvegan foods anyway. But I didn't fight it.

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