Jun 22 2008
The Next Food Network Star - Win a Food Network Prize Pack
Do you dream of being the next Food Network Star? Or do you just like to watch all the scrumptious food on the show and are the type to have more kitchen mishaps than successes? If you fit the latter category, you’re riding shotgun next to me in the same boat. I bet you even have some great cooking disaster stories.
What’s Hot On TV is holding a contest sponsored by The Next Food Network Star, featuring a prize package that includes
1. Cookbook - “Bobby Flay’s Grill It!”
2. Food Network Keychain
3. Next Food Network Star Poster
4. Next Food Network Star Postcard
5. Next Food Network Star T-shirt
And what do you have to do to win this? Just detail below in the comments area your worst cooking disaster ever. All entries will then be combined in a hat, and the winner will be chosen randomly. Be sure to include your email so that you can be contacted in a winning situation.
I’ll even start you off with a few of my own cooking disaster stories.
One year after the family gathered to decorate the Christmas tree, I retired to the kitchen to cook a spaghetti dinner. The large pyrex that I used to cook the sauce in the microwave got too warm, and when I was pulling it out of the microwave, it slipped from my hands and fell. The problem was it didn’t just hit the deck. It literally exploded all over my kitchen. I had spaghetti sauce on the floor, counters, walls, and ceiling. I dragged the step ladder from next to the tree to the kitchen and tried to clean the ceiling as best as I could, but I still couldn’t reach a few areas, and it waited until we completely redid the kitchen, ceiling and all, last winter.
Maybe holidays just aren’t my thing. Another disaster happened on Thanksgiving and this time involved fake Pyrex. My husband cooks the turkey out on the grill by stuffing aluminum foil and bacon inside. It makes for terrific gravy and a moist bird. While waiting for the bird to finish, he brought in some of the drippings inside in the fake Pyrex so I could get going on the gravy. I placed it on the stovetop to warm it up to add the flour, water, etc., and within a few minutes it exploded. Apparently cheap glass isn’t meant for stovetop. It blew out drippings all over the kitchen, and the problem was, it blew glass all over as well. It flew into the stuffing, so we had to throw that out and do without stuffing or gravy and wait quite awhile to get the kitchen cleaned up. Our next Thanksgiving was in Acapulco and much nicer.
Surely some of you have some similar, if not worse, horror stories from the kitchen.
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I am glad to know I am not the only one who is Pyrex-challenged!
My kitchen disaster story doesn’t even really have anything to do with cooking - well, not technically. I had washed a Pyrex 8 x 8 glass casserole dish and put it on the stove to dry. I decided to make some tea, so I turned on the back burner and put the tea kettle on it. About 5 minutes later, my hubby and I were in the living room when we heard this big kaboom. Went in and as it turned out, I had not turned on the back burner, but the front burner where the Pyrex dish was sitting. There were little shards of glass all over the kitchen (but I am sure I don’t need to tell you that!).
I am convinced that my hubsand, who is a Marine, thinks blowing up the Pyrex dish is the coolest thing I’ve ever done
OMG, that is so … I don’t want to use the word funny, but awfully coincidentally funny, that you blew up Pyrex too!
Well so many to choose from exploding eggs left on the stovetop, melting teapots metal everywhere hmmmmm which one.
Ok picture this, lol, 9 years old, mothers birthday (single mom), make a cake for her to surprise her. Gather all ingredients put in bowl, turn on mixer. Mix mix mix. ouch.. scream scream scream! My nice long hair gets caught in the mixers, brain reacts slow in freak accidents. By the time my brain told my hand to unplug the mixer my hair was completely twisted around the mixers, the beaters were hitting my head cutting my scalp and there was chocolate cake mix EVERYWHERE.
Ran across the street to my best friends house, lol, in the freak panic of it all I didnt disconnect the beaters from the mixer so I ran across the street with the entire mixer attached to my head.
My friends mom took one look at the chocolate cake batter / blood mixture running from my head and we had to go to the er, she did however remove the mixer from the beaters. My mom was called and she spent her birthday in the ER with me.
Oh there was the time I splashed boiling water down my leff when it hit the draining lasagna noodles that fell out of the pot first and I ended up with a baseball sized water filled blister… lol..