How to deal with failed trials

so i think this discussion is awesome and now to the answer. i think it really depends on the level of failure like once i made a cake and read the recipe wrong and used the powdered sugar that should of been in the icing in the batter. when i tasted the batter it was not sweet at all and so i added more sugar untill it wasnt icky but once i baked it it turned out to be hard as a brick i tried to eat it but eventually gave up. though i can say since then i have had much more sucess with cakes as a whole. now my other example is a time not so long ago i was experimenting with differnet spices to put into hamburgers which i often do and usually turns out great though this time i accedentally put way too much sage in and they turned out like sausage instead which didnt bother me that much though i would never do it again but my fiance was horribly put off by the flavor and couldnt eat all of his. i think thats more due to the fact that hes a picky eater and that ill eat almost anything than anything else though. hope you had fun reading this! :)

Cooking is a simple thing anyone can learn. My first attempt at cooking was to throw some pieces of chicken into a pan with hot oil without any seasoning at all. I found it tasted good and ate all of it. Since then I learn by asking other people who cook, reading recipes on the net and listening when others talk about cooking. Its fun and well worth it. I'm not a truly good cook at all but I know enough to do better than a lot of my friends.

I am a pretty experienced cook so I don't fail very often every once in a while something may not be as good as I expected it to be but still completely edible and too terrible. the worst thing I ever did was start a kitchen fire with the juice from a turkey, but after we put the fire out and got the oven cleaned i continued to cook the turkey and it was very good. If I made something really aweful though I would not expect any one to eat it nor would I eat it.

Hi OrangJuice, I agree with you that every cook has a story of failure. When I read your post I started to think about mine. I love cooking and my friends and family love how I cook. I like to make diners for them that start with wonderful appetizers to begin with. Once I decided I was going to make a light dip fpr cauliflower for a friend who was on a diet. It was to have fresh light cheese (mashed), chives and plain yogourt to hold it together. At the super my eyes failed me and instead of buying plain yogourt I bought a vanilla one. Not only it had vanilla, but also a sweetener. I never saw it until I tasted it when my friends were there. It was awful! I went to check in the garbage can and saw clearly the word "vanilla". I threw it away, and put some mayo and in another plate some olive oil with oregano. I felt very stupid. Take care!

I like to make "fried rice", because in my opinion, make fried rice does not require a complicated recipe, simple and practise. Whatever your cooking spices, fried rice remains fried rice . one time, in the morning, I made fried rice with spices black pepper, and taste it... woow, really bad. I give a chance My wife and my kids to taste, and their reaction is the same as I expected, they did not like. Rather than discarded, better I eat and the last it be my menu breakfast is 2 plates of fried rice black pepper spice that I spend alone

too many failures to list. Most recently was bread pudding without the sugar. it did have a very unique flavor. My husband, I love him, he doesn't have the heart to tell me when it's bad but I can tell when he doesn't like it, he just starts picking it apart and asking questions about what's in the dish and how I made it. I like to cook a lot of new things so about every two week's we are substituting carryout for a botched meal. Once, diner didn't even make it to the table, I was making a Moroccan seasoned Cornish Hen, I knew they were going to be bad just by looking at them. Didn't even bother serving them.

Hi there OrangJuice! You're right. Well, there were times when the food that I cooked was a failure but not too bad to eat either. The one that I remember was when I cooked chicken adobo and had put too much vinegar on it. I tried to balance the taste by adding more soy sauce and the chicken end up swimming because there's just too much vinegar and soy sauce. I think I might have added water on it even. That's it, and my father-in-law teased me about it but still ate some, and also my husband. I'm not really adventurous when it comes to cooking so that's the only one I remember now.

OrangJuice, In cooking, I feel that we will always need to pay attention to the various aspects when you are cooking a new dish. 1. Heat/Flame control 2. Preparation of appropriate garnishing for your dish 3. Seasonings Like your fried rice, I do not know why you chose duck eggs over chicken eggs and I guess you must be one who likes duck eggs. I feel that you can still avoid the odd scent if you could beat up the egg first, add 2 teaspoons of light soy sauce and a teaspoon of chicken essence. Then, fry a clove of minced garlic to fragrant before pouring in your beaten duck egg. Once, the egg is cooked, you can then put in the rice to stir fry with the rest of the ingredients and seasonings. Just before the dish is done add a little amount of fine cut spring onions. Fry a while and then you can scoop it up and serve. I hope this will help you with the next duck egg fried rice. Bon appettit!

Hi,OrangJuice,I don't often cooking myself because I have no time in day life mostly,but I very like cooking myself in fact,it's very interesting for you to search a best way to make a best dish,every time when I try to make a mew dish,I'd prepare a small quantity of material at first,then do it step by step according the method which study from TV,book or internet.So even though I made an failed dish,I can eat it quickly or through it away with no pity.Oneday if I cooking dishes with the natural quantity of material,it indicated that I have find the best way to cooking.

Experimenting with food can be a great learning experience. I used to experiment a lot in my younger years. Sometimes it was a success and sometimes not, but like you I always learned from it. Take for instance the time I made rice and mixed in tuna fish. Doesn't sound so bad, right? Well, I then added mayonnaise, bbq sauce, and ketchup. Sounds gross, but it was tasty to me. You see I needed a quick meal that would fill me and give me a high quality protein. Cooking chicken or meat would have taken too long and all you have to do with tuna is open the can, drain it, and pour it on to the rice. The rice, which was minute rice, only took a minute. Just plain rice and tuna would have been to bland and I needed something to spice it up. These three condiments is all I had with me. Later on I added a bit of lemon to the mix, which made it taste even better. What do you think of my experiment?