Cooking mishaps
@1creekgirl (44560)
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?16 people like this
13 responses
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
12 Feb 25
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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@JudyEv (382329)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Feb 25
@SIDIKIMPOLE I guess all cooks have some failures.
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@SIDIKIMPOLE (3480)
• Eldoret, Kenya
12 Feb 25
Very interesting. Sorry for the mishap
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@kaylachan (84823)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Feb 25
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 (84823)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Feb 25
@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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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
12 Feb 25
I guess we've all had cooking mishaps.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
12 Feb 25
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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@Juliaacv (56340)
• Canada
11 Feb 25
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 (44560)
• United States
11 Feb 25
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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@sallypup (69190)
• Centralia, Washington
13 Feb 25
@1creekgirl It's been a long time but I think we figured out another supper.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
12 Feb 25
I sometimes burn items while frying, forget to add salt sometimes nowadays.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
13 Feb 25
@1creekgirl Yes, you are right.
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@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
12 Feb 25
First marriage, draining water off pasta and pouring it backwards onto my stomach. Owie. One my mom did not let me live down as I was a pre teen and made a box mix banana bread, I think it was. I put in too much water, did not double check the instructions. She made it into a federal case because we just could not afford to waste food. It was ages before she would let me make a mix again.I have done things like "too much pepper", and with your pie spice I might have tried to disguise it somehow, like maybe with worstchestshire sauce because of not wanting to waste what was there. I am pretty certain I have done the wrong things from time to time. Not sure I would have enjoyed peppermint sweet potato casserole.
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@snowy22315 (209042)
• United States
12 Feb 25
Hmm, happens all the time to me, I usually forget some ingredient and try to add it after the fact which never seems to turn out too well..
. One time I was trying to make black bean burgers and I didn't drain them enough, and they ended up one big mushy mess!
. One time I was trying to make black bean burgers and I didn't drain them enough, and they ended up one big mushy mess!2 people like this
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
12 Feb 25
I never mess up that I can recall. Too much pepper is yuck lol poor Vickie
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
12 Feb 25
We think there's almost no such thing as too much black pepper, but there was that day!
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
12 Feb 25
I guess it's better to have less salt than too much.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
12 Feb 25
Too much salt or black pepper. Too much flour for my rue. The list goes on.... Happens when you cook most of your meals.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
12 Feb 25
I'm still perfecting cooling gluten free, but so many things that aren't breaded or processed are gf anyway.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
12 Feb 25
I like weird things, but that was a touch too weird for me!
