Cooking mishaps
@1creekgirl (42296)
United States
February 11, 2025 5:38pm CST
For those of you who have been cooking a long time, I'm sure you'll relate to this.
The other day I had just finished frying some pork chops and was ready to make the gravy. I poured a can of Campbell's cream of chicken and mushroom soup into the frying pan, sprinkled some black pepper, then sprinkled what I thought was sage.
Turned out to be pumpkin pie spice. So I had to dump the whole pan of gravy and start again. I didn't have the yummy bits of drippings from the pork chops, but it was still good.
A while back Dale fried some white perch (fish) for dinner. The next day I went to use the tin of black pepper and realized he had left the can open to the large hole. Lots of black pepper came out.
I cook with black pepper in almost everything, but that was too much even for me. I managed to scoop most of it out.
Our daughter Tammy always makes the sweet potato casserole at Christmas. One year by mistake she used peppermint extract instead of vanilla.
We all ate it, but it was definitely not the best she's made.
I've been cooking for over 50 years, so I'm sure there were many other mistakes.
If you've cooked a long time, what were some of your cooking mishaps?
I've been cooking for over 50 years, so I'm sure there were many other mistakes.
If you've cooked a long time, what were some of your cooking mishaps?9 people like this
8 responses
@lilacskies (1279)
• United States
10h
I am a poor cook so I made my share of mistakes. Is that you in the picture?
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@1creekgirl (42296)
• United States
10h
Yes, that was recently when I sang at our church.
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@lilacskies (1279)
• United States
10h
@1creekgirl You are very beautiful! Classy!
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@1creekgirl (42296)
• United States
9h
That's so funny!
I made something one time with eggplant that was so awful, our dog wouldn't eat it, either.
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@allknowing (140375)
• India
10h
We have several 'dals' in our pantry - gram, black gram, tur and green gram. There have been occasions wrong dal for a particular recipe has been used.
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@kaylachan (74652)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
That doesn't sound like a huge mistake. Well I've started my share of literal fires, I'be burned my fair share of food and I've poured peper in the mash tatos, so it looked like a pile of peper.
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@kaylachan (74652)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10h
@1creekgirl My mother made burnt food an art form. I still can't grill chease without burning at least one side, sometimes, two.
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@Juliaacv (52061)
• Canada
13h
I have done that very thing.
Now I keep my spices in little containers, baking spices separate from cooking spices separate from various other spices such as dried onion and parsley.
I remember when I was a child I made brownies and mixed up the measurements for the salt and sugar.
Those were the saltiest and worst brownies ever! 
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@1creekgirl (42296)
• United States
12h
That's so funny, but I bet it wasn't at the time.
Years ago I made a dessert at my mother in law's in Arkansas and used salt instead of sugar. But in my defense, she kept the salt in a ceramic container (like a big sugar dish.) She never let me live that one down.
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@LooeyVille (38)
• United States
4h
I can't think of any right now. Oh, wait, YEARS AGO I was making cheeseburger hamburger helper and it called for 1/4 cup of milk, which I added, but it was vanilla milk and it did not taste well with hamburger. That's all the milk I had in the house at the time.
