What was your worst cooking disaster

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My grandmother has a delicious recipe for chocolate mousse, and I wanted to learn how to make it. So I make it at her instructions while writing everything down. First step is to melt the chocolate. This is done "au bain marie", where you put a pan with what you're trying to heat into another pan with cooking water in it (note that I had never heard of it before). So I start heating the water and breaking the chocolate and when I'm done, my grandmother tells me to throw in the chocolate.

So I throw the chocolate into the water.

Durrrrr.

I've been lucky that I haven't had any real cooking disasters, considering how little cooking experience I had when I moved out and that I've been on my own for almost a whole year now. I always make a mess whenever I make anything with cocoa powder. I'm not sure why, I haven't had trouble with powdered sugar, or flour, or anything else that likes to go poof all over the place, just cocoa powder. One time I was making pumpkin pie with my grandma, and we were taking turns adding ingredients, and somehow, neither of us ended up being responsible for adding the sugar... . Luckily it was easy enough just to mix it in after it had cooked.

Pizza soup

Say no more

go xkcd.

I didn't dare put one near my mouth. I fear what would've happened if I had...

Well today was my second worst cooking disaster, Chrissyrun shared an excellent frybread recipe with me, but unfortunately frybread never goes well when its done by the wrong hands, which would be mine , right now theres Oil all over my stove top dripping down my walls, and i cooked the frybread for too long to the point where my dog wont even eat it . thanks chrissyrun for sharing the recipe, im sure its a great recipe but with frybread you need to have the magic touch, and based on the disaster in the kitchen i dont have the magic touch

i have cooked a number of disappointing dishes, but the worst decision i ever made was to add 1 cup of port wine to a scrambled egg mixture i was going to cook.

i had seen TV shows where the chefs use red wine to enhance the dish, and i learned that the "alcoholic" taste of the wine is evaporated away, but there is left a pleasant tasting residue sans the alcohol.

it did not work at all with the scrambled eggs. it almost "put me off" scrambled eggs for life.

At least you can't say you never tried to cook it.

True , i love the positive attitude , ill try explaining that to my mom when she starts giving me the whole im gonna burn the house down lecture, or. im working her to death from all the messes i make lecture

Oh, I'm sorry, I probably should have said that it is best to have someone (like a parent) there the first time to help.[I know my mom sorta helped the first time]. How did it end up all over the stove top? And why didn't you take them out when they were light brown?

EPIC.

Well, i just now realized I accidentally used bakind soda instead of powder, so that may have been a problem to begin with , and my main problem was that i would splatter oil everywhere when i would go to flip it. Ive noticed i have this thing where i could never fully read directions so ill remember next time to make sure its baking powder and not baking soda and yeah probably should have flipped with when it was light brown, because the first one was black and my mom said it was so hard you could throw it through a window

That wold make a difference I guess. I should have specified as well...it is not literally flip..it's turning over.

Cooking pasta with underripe avocado... bitter and gross

Cooking is always like this for me. I can't cook anything without spilling part of it on the floor, on the stove, down my shirt, etc. I undercook things (potatoes, ew), overcook things, burn things... Sometimes I go to sprinkle something and end up accidentally dumping half the container in the food (chili powder, eep!). I've destroyed pans, melted handles and utensils, put dishes with bits of metal on them in the microwave... I've cooked and eaten food that was off because, "Hmm, this smells, I'd better eat it so I don't have to smell it anymore." Genius, I know.