Cooking Failures

[davidn]

I don't visit the LJ homepage very often, only finding myself there when I've accidentally logged out. But somehow I was on it the other week, and saw - below the birthday reminders that I always forget about - a community that was completely made for me in the Spotlight section. Cooking Failures is a place to share adventures in the kitchen that have gone horribly wrong.

It's not the site's most active community, but as I have particular expertise in this field I've been contributing with a couple of posts, the latest of which was a story from a year in student halls that I don't think I've mentioned here before. If anyone else has similar tales of disaster, do come in and join the revelry in our own (or other people's) incompetence.

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[kytheraen.livejournal.com]

My favourite had to be the dude who, upon reading the instructions on a packet of pasta n sauce, emptied all the ingredients into the hall's kettle and taped the button down so it continuously boiled for ten minutes.

Also a yah girl I used to do OTC with, who was most definitely one of these living out of daddy's wallet types, I met in Tesco one day filling her basket with sandwiches and cold chicken and crisps and... just things that you could eat straight out the packet. Upon questioning her strange shopping collection, it was discovered she doesn't cook. At all. Not even toast.

"So, do you not cook pasta or anything? That's really easy to do."
"But... don't you, like, have to, like, boil the water and stuff?"

Poor dear was missing her housekeepers.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

I am considering joining. I could probably add a post about when I made purest grey.