Cooking Fails!
Man, what's wrong with me lately?
I made a cake and measured wrong when I was doubling the recipe. The cake rose in the oven and spilled over the pan, dropping a huge glop of batter on the oven floor. I was alerted when the smell of burning sugar filled the house. The cake was a loss, and the batter had welded itself to the oven. I had to run the self-cleaning program. And the recipe uses four eggs to boot! (I swear the loss should be covered under my homeowner's insurance.) Fail!
I made chocolate mousse and THREE eggs screwed me up. One of them was stuck to the bottom of the carton and self-destructed when I tried to pick it up. It got egg all over its neighbors, so I had to remove all of them, clean them, and put them into another container. The yolk on the second egg fragmented during separating and yolk contaminated the whites. It took me several minutes of fishing with a shell fragment to get it all out. The third one cracked badly when I was separating it, creating a tiny, shallow side of shell and a huge, deep side of shell. The yolk immediately plopped into the tiny side and overfilled it, threatening to contaminate the whites yet again. I grabbed at it to change to the finger-separating method but didn't quite make it. Yolk everywhere. I had to abandon the entire batch and start over. Expensive egg fail!
I made M&M cookies with my lovely new hand-held mixer. I put the cookies into the oven and set the timer--incorrectly, as it turns out. The cookies didn't burn, but they came out crunchy instead of chewy. Fail!*
I swear I must have done something to offend the kitchen fairies.
*Though it must be said that Darwin loves them crunchy, so this one's really a semi-fail.
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I made a cake and measured wrong when I was doubling the recipe. The cake rose in the oven and spilled over the pan, dropping a huge glop of batter on the oven floor. I was alerted when the smell of burning sugar filled the house. The cake was a loss, and the batter had welded itself to the oven. I had to run the self-cleaning program. And the recipe uses four eggs to boot! (I swear the loss should be covered under my homeowner's insurance.) Fail!
I made chocolate mousse and THREE eggs screwed me up. One of them was stuck to the bottom of the carton and self-destructed when I tried to pick it up. It got egg all over its neighbors, so I had to remove all of them, clean them, and put them into another container. The yolk on the second egg fragmented during separating and yolk contaminated the whites. It took me several minutes of fishing with a shell fragment to get it all out. The third one cracked badly when I was separating it, creating a tiny, shallow side of shell and a huge, deep side of shell. The yolk immediately plopped into the tiny side and overfilled it, threatening to contaminate the whites yet again. I grabbed at it to change to the finger-separating method but didn't quite make it. Yolk everywhere. I had to abandon the entire batch and start over. Expensive egg fail!
I made M&M cookies with my lovely new hand-held mixer. I put the cookies into the oven and set the timer--incorrectly, as it turns out. The cookies didn't burn, but they came out crunchy instead of chewy. Fail!*
I swear I must have done something to offend the kitchen fairies.
*Though it must be said that Darwin loves them crunchy, so this one's really a semi-fail.
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