What's your description for a failure cooking?

Dried fish and tofu? Did she use meat stock? if she put too much dried fish, it would spoil the taste! Using dried fish to make soup, the quantities must be correct. It should be used as a condiment rather than a main ingredient when making such soups. I guess she is experimenting some new recipe and never expected it to come out like that.

If I burnt the only food that we had in the house and there was no food for my family to eat until pay day or grocery day, then that would be failure cooking. Eating Ramen instant noodles when I can easily cook a gourmet meal on my grilling machine is a failure at cooking. Allowing my spouse to eat a sandwich which he has made and surely taste terrible is a failure on my part. I love to cook and practice it whenever possible. Be well! Your friend, BeautyQueen

Fish is sometimes tricky, especially for me. I baked some fish one night for dinner and it stank so bad, lol. My husband came home and smelled and suggested we eat out that night.

You were only rubbing salt in the wound she already had.

i dont cook, i just wait for it to get cook. harharhar. i think a failure comes from how the recipe smells while it was cooking. a good food smells good. from the start you will know if the food taste good because of the smell. the smell of calling you makes you hungry. harharhar

Failure cooking means you end up in bad cooking. THis can occur because of various reasons like, if you have very less time to cook, or if you are dieting or somebody who eats your food keeps irritating you by finding fault with your cooking style and / or ingredients, etc...

well, for me failure cooking is when i burnt the food that i cook until it can't be eaten anymore... fortunately, it doesn't happen really often... but it happens couple of times to me and unfortunately, i have to throw the food away... i know it is a waste... but it is completely burnt and nobody will want to eat it anyway... take care and have a nice day...

Had your mother tried a new recipe? Had she made this before and had it turn out good. From what you said it was a bad dish. This wasn't a failure. It can be eliminated form her list of dishes to fix. Sometime we try different combinations and they don't work so this combination didn't work.

a failure cooking is something, where you wanted to cook some good thing, but at last it is not at all good. many times i had failures.. some days back i wanted to make a recipe with expensive fish. it was just ruined.

Oh, no. I wish that you had not said that to your mom. I hope that she was ok with your comment on the dry-fish-and-tofu soup. You do not like it, but it does not mean that your mom does not like it. Maybe she enjoys the flavor of the soup and was just happy for you to taste. We cannot expect all the dishes to match our taste. Anyway, you could make some suggestions for your mom to make some improvement in making the soup she likes. Thanks a lot, dear youless.

May be she is getting old and can not cook very well any more. So try to take is easy with her when ever she cook anything.

youless I think we all goof at cooking some times. Perhaps your mom just did not have the right ingredients and tried to subsitute, and it of course did not work too good. I bet the next time she cooked it was again really delicious.

Cooking is a form of art. One needs a great deal of concentration, imagination, creativity and the passion to be able to come up with a great dish. If you love cooking, and you love the people you cook for... no matter how simple it is... your dish will always taste terrific. However, accidents happen. In that case, no matter how good a cook you are... you can come up with a bad dish. It also depends on the ingredients... on how you mix and match them and by the way you process the food. Experimenting with food is a good way of discovering your potential. You will learn through the process which food ingredient is not good with another. A failure cooking for me is not only when a food taste bad... but when is prepared hastily and without passion. Food tastes bad also when the ingredients are not fresh.

i know you hear about "anyone can cook- only if you believe it" my mom motto is anyone can cook only they have the creativity, good tasting and the ingredients. to sum up its really true. dried fish and tofu. i think the possible is fried fish and tofu. we tried that before and its really tastes good. well in fairness we do have different taste.

That just about describes me, I am hopeless in the kitchen department and anything I try to cook either gets burnt, underdone or is totally inedible. The amount of times that I have tried to cook something for myself it has burnt! Good job I don't have to cook for anyone, the results would be appalling and everyone would be excusing themselves from tasting my food, which I can hardly blame them! I can muck up the simplest of foods.

You said that to you're mother? Mine would have backhanded me and I am in my 40's. If *no one* likes my cooking I do not consider it a failure. I am a terrific cook and I have had people not like the food that I had cooked. If you do not *try* to me that is failure.