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#1 2012-03-18 15:18:31
I can't make pancakes even with a pre-made mix.
So my sister and I had a box of pancake mix in the cupboard and today we were all "yes we should eat pancakes just because." so we made them.
how did we mess up.
it's a mix. you just put water and eggs then put a small amount per pancake onto the frying pan. anyway to sum it up, it tasted nasty.
now to make this topic on-topic because i seem to see this everywhere:
discuss cooking failures/horrible disasters here.
or talk about how wonderfully you cook.
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#2 2012-03-18 15:24:26
Re: I can't make pancakes even with a pre-made mix.
Lawl. I fail at cooking too
I can make stuff from a box though!
Not that my mom trusts me to without continually glancing over her shoulder...
Which is why I do it at friends' houses! >:{D
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#3 2012-03-18 15:35:09
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Wickimen wrote:
Lawl. I fail at cooking too
I can make stuff from a box though!
Not that my mom trusts me to without continually glancing over her shoulder...
Which is why I do it at friends' houses! >:{D
hahaha the microwave is my friend.
i bet the friend's mom is in the living room and then the kitchen blows up and they're all "WHAT JUST HAPPENED"
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#4 2012-03-18 15:41:31
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Once I made muffins only I didn't have enough butter so they ended up really dense and slightly undercooked.
Other than that, I'm OK, not very good but I make good chocolate chip cookies.
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#5 2012-03-18 15:46:08
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Re: I can't make pancakes even with a pre-made mix.
sonatina wrote:
discuss cooking failures/horrible disasters here
Here's just one of my cooking fails (although depending on how you look at it it wasn't actually a fail)...
I was making a lemon cheesecake :DDD The recipe served four though, and it only had to serve two, so I halved the quantities of all the ingredients.
But I forgot to halve the sugar 
That was the sweetest cheesecake I've ever tasted B)
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#6 2012-03-18 16:02:52
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Re: I can't make pancakes even with a pre-made mix.
Pre-made stuff often doesn't end up as tasty or look as nice because the companies often fail to tell you that you should add other stuff to the mix.
In the case of the pancacke batter disaster, using milk instead of water would be better. Perhaps some sugar might be needed also.
Everything is better when you add a little cheddar, because when you have cheese your life is at ease
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#8 2012-03-18 16:48:11
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Re: I can't make pancakes even with a pre-made mix.
I can make a mean bowl of cereal
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#9 2012-03-18 20:05:41
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I consider myself a pretty good cook [/bragging]
Although, there was the rice incident where my mom already opened one end of the box of rice, then I picked it up and all the rice spilled out
I ate it anyway, because cooking kills germs 
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#10 2012-03-18 20:08:57
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RedRocker227 wrote:
sonatina wrote:
discuss cooking failures/horrible disasters here
Here's just one of my cooking fails (although depending on how you look at it it wasn't actually a fail)...
I was making a lemon cheesecake :DDD The recipe served four though, and it only had to serve two, so I halved the quantities of all the ingredients.
But I forgot to halve the sugar
That was the sweetest cheesecake I've ever tasted B)
I bet that was DELICIOUS
I really like my cakes to be sweet, so sometimes I add the amount of sugar plus an extra half amount of sugar, so really when a recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar I add 1 1/2 cups sugar c:
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#11 2012-03-18 20:25:12
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Re: I can't make pancakes even with a pre-made mix.
Me = awful cook because my mom won't let me. xD Like, seriously, only my dad trusts me enough to cook on a stove. xD
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#13 2012-03-18 20:43:33
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luiysia wrote:
Once I made muffins only I didn't have enough butter so they ended up really dense and slightly undercooked.
Other than that, I'm OK, not very good but I make good chocolate chip cookies.
Once I made chocolate chip cookies on Christmas, and my entire family got diarrhea.
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#14 2012-03-18 20:45:20
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sonatina wrote:
luiysia wrote:
Once I made muffins only I didn't have enough butter so they ended up really dense and slightly undercooked.
Other than that, I'm OK, not very good but I make good chocolate chip cookies.Once I made chocolate chip cookies on Christmas, and my entire family got diarrhea.
:OOOOOO
What on earth did you do to the cookies?
Recipe?
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#16 2012-03-18 20:51:08
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cheddargirl wrote:
Pre-made stuff often doesn't end up as tasty or look as nice because the companies often fail to tell you that you should add other stuff to the mix.
In the case of the pancacke batter disaster, using milk instead of water would be better. Perhaps some sugar might be needed also.
That's not what the box said. //mutters gloomily
Darn companies.
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#17 2012-03-18 20:52:48
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Mokat wrote:
Dinoclor wrote:
I tried to make a grilled cheese sandwich in the microwave once...
How'd that work out?
The cheese melted but the bread went soggy.
I still ate it.
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#18 2012-03-18 20:54:43
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Dinoclor wrote:
sonatina wrote:
luiysia wrote:
Once I made muffins only I didn't have enough butter so they ended up really dense and slightly undercooked.
Other than that, I'm OK, not very good but I make good chocolate chip cookies.Once I made chocolate chip cookies on Christmas, and my entire family got diarrhea.
:OOOOOO
What on earth did you do to the cookies?
Recipe?
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe4/index.html
as you can see, it's very simple yet i somehow managed to make them harder than rocks.
"This is such an easy chocolate chip cookie. No special equipment, no creaming -- a perfect cookie to do with kids. We love how versatile this dough is, too. It makes an awesome rocky road bar cookie." i shouldn't be near a kitchen.
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#19 2012-03-18 21:05:23
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sonatina wrote:
Dinoclor wrote:
sonatina wrote:
Once I made chocolate chip cookies on Christmas, and my entire family got diarrhea.:OOOOOO
What on earth did you do to the cookies?
Recipe?http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe4/index.html
as you can see, it's very simple yet i somehow managed to make them harder than rocks.
"This is such an easy chocolate chip cookie. No special equipment, no creaming -- a perfect cookie to do with kids. We love how versatile this dough is, too. It makes an awesome rocky road bar cookie." i shouldn't be near a kitchen.
That looks really easy- probably the eggs went bad or something.
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#20 2012-03-19 00:27:45
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sonatina wrote:
Dinoclor wrote:
sonatina wrote:
Once I made chocolate chip cookies on Christmas, and my entire family got diarrhea.
:OOOOOO
What on earth did you do to the cookies?
Recipe?http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe4/index.html
as you can see, it's very simple yet i somehow managed to make them harder than rocks.
"This is such an easy chocolate chip cookie. No special equipment, no creaming -- a perfect cookie to do with kids. We love how versatile this dough is, too. It makes an awesome rocky road bar cookie." i shouldn't be near a kitchen.
Here's my recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alto … index.html
If your family got diarrhea, it was probably one of the ingredients, especially if they turned out hard as rocks. The recipe I had was really easy, but the temperature they have is a little too high for me - I usually lower it to 350. Also, I didn't turn the sheets.
One time, my sister made brownies, only we didn't have actual chocolate so she used extra-dark. And then I guess she wanted to be classy or something so she DIDN'T PUT ENOUGH SUGAR IN. She ended up having to eat them herself, with ice cream because they were so bitter.
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#21 2012-03-19 00:29:48
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Dinoclor wrote:
I tried to make a grilled cheese sandwich in the microwave once...
At the end of the year, my Girl Scout troop was going to go out and roast smores, but it ended up raining so they had to make some in some sort of microwave-thing. They barely even melted the marshmallows, though they still tasted good.
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#22 2012-03-19 01:20:09
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Pancakes are actually quite easy if you do NOT use premade mixes, you just mix some eggs, milk, flour and sugar and fry in butter/oil/whatever.
My greatest cooking failure was when I (by accident) put baking soda into a cake, thinking it was sugar...
My favourite thing to cook is savoury cake. You put ham, cheese, sweetcorn, sweet pepper, flour, eggs, salt etc. into a tin and bake, and it comes out extraordinarily nice.
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#23 2012-03-19 09:20:56
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trinary wrote:
Pancakes are actually quite easy if you do NOT use premade mixes, you just mix some eggs, milk, flour and sugar and fry in butter/oil/whatever.
My greatest cooking failure was when I (by accident) put baking soda into a cake, thinking it was sugar...
My favourite thing to cook is savoury cake. You put ham, cheese, sweetcorn, sweet pepper, flour, eggs, salt etc. into a tin and bake, and it comes out extraordinarily nice.
Reminds me of the Venezuelan food Pan de Hammon, literally Bread of Ham. It was pretty good, I think I'd like it better though if it was just ham and bread, maybe some cheese. The one we had had raisins and olives in it as well.
I am really good at cooking eggs. That's about it, though! XD
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#25 2012-03-19 10:58:37
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I'm pretty sure that even without pre-made mixes, I would poison my family.
Oh yeah! The reason why my cookies tasted like the Devil's vomit was because I used brown sugar that expired like three years ago. It was super hard which was why the cookies were hard. c:
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