Share your biggest recipe flop!

amother

Holly

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 12:56 pm

amother Gardenia wrote:

Luckily you didn't put gefilte in your fleishig cholent LOL

My husband did.
And since that happened, I've heard about a few others that it happened to.

amother

Strawberry

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 12:59 pm

The lentil and rice dish of sukkos 2011. I was married a few weeks, and this was literally flavorless orange mush in a pot. Memorable.

amother

Jade

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 1:15 pm

I managed to not burn gefilte fish. It was on low overnight. I didn't have more so I served it anyway, totally inedible.

I tried making two bags of orzo at once. You can make orzo in a small amount of water to avoid having to drain, but it just wasn't cooking right so eventually I gave up. I left the pot sitting out for a few days until it congealed and turned into a cake that came out of the pot pretty easily.

amother

Honeydew

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 1:20 pm

Oh this thread had me rolling. Thank you all!!

The first year I was married, I bravely offered to host 5 of dh's single friends for the meal. I was determined to have a gorgeous meal with loads of food. Everything was going off without a hitch until I brought out the main course, Hawaiian chicken. It looked gorgeous, browned nicely on the top. Everyone took it onto their plates and started to eat. Oops, inside was totally raw. I was mortified. Everyone moved it around on their plates, tried to find some more done parts to eat that were a tad more done.

Apparently, when it says to cook for 1 hour covered and half hour uncovered, they didn't mean to put it in the fridge in between. I thought I was all smart, do the first part of the baking in advance then finish it up right before yt so it's a fresh baked taste. Nope, that doesn't work. Lesson learned.

I'm still mortified every time I think about it.

embarrassed

amother

Melon

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 1:25 pm

Shoshana Rose wrote:

forgot to put salt in a potato kugal. when cutting it I realized it because of the gooey texture.

How does salt affect the texture of potato kugel?

mom4many

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 2:18 pm

This is one of the most entertaining threads in a while!

Surprised no one mentioned it yet - I burnt an entire pot of cholent when I had guests over. Only the top inch was barely edible...

amother

DarkGray

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 2:44 pm

I had guests for shabbos when I was fairly newly married. I put my oven on shabbos mode and lowered it to 200°. Put in the challah, wrapped in foil, and the chicken and potatoes. We unwrap the challah by hamotzie and the outside is basically charcoal. We each got a tiny scrap of the very center of the challah that hadn't burnt to a crisp, the rest was just a pile of black crumbs on the table. I ran and took out the rest of the food as fast as I could. Turns out I had accidentally raised the temp instead of lowering it when I was setting it, so it was probably 500° in there... embarrassed

At least my guests were very gracious about it, and most of the rest of the food was ok.

scruffy

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 2:47 pm

I made lemon bars and somehow the crust and filling switched places in the oven. They came out with the crust on top.

Super bizarre.

I googled afterward and apparently it's a thing that can happen if there is a crack somewhere in the crust.

amother

Latte

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 4:32 pm

Once as a teen I was baking muffins and preheated the oven. I carefully poured the batter into the paper cases and when I put them into the oven, I dropped the whole pan because the oven was boiling hot. There was battery goo all over the oven door and my mom was not impressed!

amother

Honey

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 5:51 pm

theoneandonly wrote:

I managed to burn my gefilte fish!
All the water boiled out and there was brown caramelized goo at the bottom of the pot and the whole bottom of the loaf was burned.

If this happens to anyone-try it! Except for the really black parts, we found it to be delicious while fresh and hot straight from the pot/pan.

tigerwife

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 6:07 pm

scruffy wrote:

Lol, this happened to me too!

I think the first time I made zucchini soup I used the long cucumbers instead of zucchini.. it definitely had an interesting taste! Newlywed DH insisted it was delicious but I knew better Very Happy

↑ Shoshana Rose

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 7:12 pm

amother Melon wrote:

How does salt affect the texture of potato kugel?

I never had that gooey texture before; its always soft.

so, back to your question, it affects the texture period

amother

Bone

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 7:16 pm

I made meatballs that called for 2 cups of hot sauce. Didn’t realize I was out of hot sauce. I made the decision to use the sriracha I had. Worst mistake ever. Sriracha is probably 100x more spicy than hot sauce.

On a slight tangent, I spent hours working on an extremely difficult cheesecake for shavuos. As I was carefully transporting it to the freezer, I tripped over my own feet and the entire cheesecake landed facedown, exploded on the floor.

amother

Hawthorn

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 10:16 pm

One of my first days back to work after maternity leave I made myself a bowl of oatmeal and used cayenne pepper instead of cinnamon.

amother

Moonstone

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 10:31 pm

amother Bone wrote:

Dude, that can't be right either!

Please check the recipe before you use 2 c of hot sauce! (Unless it's like a popper sauce, I can't imagine a meatball having 2 c of hot sauce)

I am also really loving this thread... I almost didn't open it because why would I want to read about a flop, but I didn't realize how hysterical this is.

amother

Lightcoral

Thu, Nov 30 2023, 10:49 pm

amother Ballota wrote:

I was making peanut chews, added all the ingredients, but something didn't look right.
Turns out I forgot the peanut butter!

Hey this happened to me too! 😆