What is your dad’s biggest kitchen blunder? Make us laugh and win a $10 gift card to Boston Market
Maybe you were lucky as a kid and your dad was a gourmet chef or your dad knew his limitations and stayed as far away from the kitchen as possible, but what about those dad’s who attempted to deliver a healthy and edible (meaning not burnt) meal to the table? Do you have a funny story to share about your dad’s biggest kitchen disaster or meal preparation blunder? Just share your story for a chance to win a gift card from Boston Market.
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Just tell us your dad’s biggest kitchen blunder, and why you think he should stay out of the kitchen for your chance to win. Our contest ends Father’s Day, June 15th at midnight, PST.
Comment by Noreen (15 comments.) on 12 June 2008:
This is a story about my husband, my girl’s Daddy. I was on the phone with him one night as he was about to make some spagetti. I heard him getting in the cupbroad and asked him if he was opening a new jar. Silence..”No, I already used it.” I then told him that you have to refridgerate it once it has been open. He then tells me “I did feel a little sick the last few time I had spagetti? Do you think that was why?” After I stopped laughing I told him that from now on once you open a jar or can always put them in the fridge. Needless to say I don’t let him cook for the girls.
Noreen’s last blog post..Strawberry Scones, a Family Favorite
Comment by Louise Brouillette on 12 June 2008:
My father was a world-class outdoor Cajun cook: cochon de lait (roast pig), courtbullion (a Cajun bouillabaise), and anything on the grill. He was not, however, skilled in the indoor kitchen!
Comment by Brian Morin on 12 June 2008:
My dad is actually a great cook and is very comfortable in the kitchen.
Comment by Gina Stratos on 12 June 2008:
Nobody is really sure how it all happened, but my dad did in fact burn over 25% of our kitchen several years ago. He definitely requires supervision.
gkstratos @yahoo.com
Comment by mary l. on 12 June 2008:
My dad is a great cook! My hubby, on the other hand, well, let’s just say he can’t tell the difference between a bottle of cooking oil and a bottle of pinesol floor cleaner! He started to fry porkchops in pinesol and nearly started a fire!
Comment by Carolyn on 12 June 2008:
He boiled eggs and was watching a movie and one egg literally popped out of the pan.
He is a mostly-go-out-to-eat-man and this would be perfect for Father’s Day. Might I add he can grill outdoors. Thanks.
Comment by charline s on 12 June 2008:
My dad was a great cook and so is my hubby and both sons, so I don’t have a dad blunder, Not unless you count the time he made gravy and it look like wall paper paste.LOL
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Comment by Carol on 12 June 2008:
My dad made scarmbled eggs for us when our mom was in the hospital after she had our sister. He got everything right, except he never stirred the eggs, so they came out as an egg pancake.
Comment by Carol Marshall on 12 June 2008:
My dad wanted to make scalloped potatoes for our “bunch”.
All went well until he opened the oven and saw that the plastic wrap he put over the potatoes had melted!
He was so used to cooking in the microwave, that he thought plastic wrap was a standard
cover! lol
Comment by Lauralee Hensley on 12 June 2008:
My Dad’s greatest kitchen blunder was when he made fried corn bread and left to take care of something in the basement. Well it ended up burning and smoking up the house. It was funny mom and us kids came home and we were all running around opening windows and flapping towels to get the smoke out of the house. My Dad came upstairs awhile later and said , “It sounds like a herd of stampeding buffalo up here, what’s going on? ” It was before my folks got smoke detectors installed. We showed him the hockey puck he’d made and he said, “Ahh, well, that’s fine, just scrap the black off it, it’s still good.” Needless to say Mom just threw it out.
Comment by Kristin (1 comments.) on 12 June 2008:
My husband once cooked a fork in the dish. He had no idea it was in there until we began serving it. I have no idea how he missed it.
Comment by Valerie Mabrey on 12 June 2008:
Making scrambled eggs and leaving shells in it
Comment by Margaret Smith on 12 June 2008:
My husband is a really great cook, but one time he had left the neck inside a turkey and we realized it when it was fully cooked. Thanks for this giveaway.
Comment by Jennifer M on 12 June 2008:
My dad tried to stir-fry fish sticks. The next week he tried to grill them.
Comment by susan lee wiener on 12 June 2008:
My Dad made pea soup for the first time when mom was at her mother’s because her mom was ill, unfortunately. He put the cover on the pressure cooker, but about a half hour later we heard a big bang. We ran into to see what happened and there was pea soup everywhere - the stove top, walls, cabinets, floors, etc. We tried cleaning it up but poor Dad had a lot of ’splainin’ to do when mom came home.
Comment by Jason Nickolay on 12 June 2008:
My Dad decided to make us all dinner one night when mom was gone. Turned out the food wasn’t that bad. When we got done, he said that since he cooked, it was our job to clean up. We agreed that was fair and went to clean up. When we picked the pans up off the counter to put them in the sink, we realized he had put the pans on the counter without pot holders, and the countertop was burned and bubbled up. After that, Dad was no longer allowed in the kitchen, but mom got new counter tops.
Comment by Mary E. on 12 June 2008:
My step-dad is a great cook, just as long as he doesn’t try to cook a turkey. He cooked a turkey a couple weeks ago and put it in the cooking bag upside down and cooked it that way.
Comment by Susan Smith on 12 June 2008:
I remember one time when my Dad was so proud that be made the turkey but left the neck inside the cavity which we found after he had cooked and served us.
Comment by Catherine copeland on 12 June 2008:
my dad was generally a good cook but his biggest mistake in the kitchen involved trying to teach me how to bake banana bread from scratch. In the middle of putting everything he got interrupted by an important call and by the time he got back to our creation he forgot where he left off. Never one to be wasteful dad just used what we alread had in the bowl. Big mistake. Not only did it not rise (it was barely an inch high) but it had more salt in it than a salt lick. Turns out the my little brother tried to “help” by dumping salt into the measuring cup. Dad thought it was sugar and well the rest is history. Needless to say I did not use that batch when going for the cooking badge in scouting.
Comment by Audrey on 12 June 2008:
Couldn’t boil water, couldn’t wash a dish properly. Best to stay out of the kitchen, then.
Comment by nancy abbott on 12 June 2008:
My dad burnt the badboard on the stove. He put the pan too far over by the wall. He needs to stay out of the kitchen. I think he thought he was a chef in a resturant since he had the burner on high.
Comment by Erica G on 12 June 2008:
He always burns the rice. No matter how many times he makes it, he always burns it to the bottom of the pan!
Comment by Bernadette on 12 June 2008:
My Dad’s only blunder is to forget to put the ingredients back in the fridge or close containers before things go stale.
Comment by susan varney on 12 June 2008:
my husband made tuna fish from can and did not drain it
Comment by Kathy Mullins (5 comments.) on 12 June 2008:
Well, my Dad was a wonderful man, and he actually BELONGED in the kitchen. I can’t remember any blunders on his part, but I remember so many wonderful dishes that he cooked. He was a master at the grill and at the stove/oven. I loved his shish kabobs, tacos, veal piccata and sloppy joes. Dad always knew what to do, and I remember every meal that he made being a delicious treat. What I wouldn’t give to be able to enjoy my Dad’s cooking again. He died in 1986 and I still miss him terribly.
Be sure to appreciate and enjoy your Dad if he’s still alive, regardless of whether he is a kitchen blunderer or kitchen wizard. I miss Dad’s kitchen wizardry!
Comment by Alicia Zemer on 12 June 2008:
They have good chicken
Comment by ADrienne Gordon on 12 June 2008:
he can burn toast like nobodys’ business
Comment by Jill L on 12 June 2008:
Hubby has to be the absolute worst cook. Can there only be one really bad blunder? Let’s just say that last night, we were having a bag of Steamfresh broccoli and he could even get that right. We wound up eating cold, sort of still frozen broccoli.
Comment by Janice Cafarelli on 12 June 2008:
my dad was always a strict man and hated to be shown to be wrong about anything.. One Sunday Dad who thought he was better in the kitchen than my mom grabbed a stick of what he thought was butter to put in mashed potatoes. He thought the color and consistancy was off but gave it no further thought. When we sat down to dinner and took a taste none of us could eat the potatoes.. Mom got up to check to see what was wrong with the butter and found that Dad had put a stick of pie dough (yes they came in sticks in the 1960’s) in instead of butter. Dad all blustery said eat it anyway.. Many years later my brother had emergency heart surgery. Dad called from Florida to check on him and to lighten the mood and not let Dad worry my brother said you know what they found in my veins when they operated Dad. When Dad asked what my brother responded PIE DOUGH !!
Comment by Erica C. on 12 June 2008:
Whenever he makes pudding, it always comes out half-liquidy…it’s very gross!
Comment by Candace on 12 June 2008:
When I was 11 my mom went back to work and had to leave town for a conference. This was during the time when microwaves (the huge honkers that were the same size as a regular oven) gained popularity in the household. My father, who is definitely NOT a cook, thought he could make a chicken dinner for four kids, no problem.
He took a frozen whole chicken, stuck it in the nuker for 10 mins and Voila!
Frozen chicken.
Needless to say, McDonald’s was around the corner and Pizza Hut was on speed dial.
Comment by JRG on 12 June 2008:
Being a good father, cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving last year, but could not figure which end was which. Decided the giblet bag was left out, but only because I was looking at the wrong “end.” Anyway, cooked it up and, lo and behold, there was the white giblet bag, seared with the stuff inside 3 hours later. Took a picture for my mother, who got a great laugh out of that one……
Comment by Yolanda Ray on 12 June 2008:
My poor dad couldn’t even reheat food properly. Once my mother made a big pot of Spaghetti and my dad tried to help out by reheating the leftovers the next day. We got home and I looked in the pot at this pot of soup. My dad had added enough water to transform the spaghetti into his very own spaghetti soup. My mother was so mad. This was after the invention of the microwave, so he easily could have just done that.
Comment by Margaret on 12 June 2008:
No problem, Dads idea of the kitchen is $5.00 little ceasers pizzas…….
Comment by Meredith Peters on 12 June 2008:
Dad cooks his eggs burned on one side and raw on the other,
If you want your eggs edible,you better go get your Mother!
Comment by Tina Nichols on 12 June 2008:
My father should stay OUT of the kitchen. He once tried cooking stew in a pressure cooker and blew up the pressure cooker! Green beans were stuck to the ceiling and everything. It was a mess. We had to eat McDonalds that night. He is certainly a far cry from Martha Stewart.
Comment by christopher h on 12 June 2008:
my dad tried to make a fancy meal in aspic, and all of we his children referred to it as “jelled meat”
still do to this day
Comment by Carol Ezovski on 13 June 2008:
As far as cooking goes, unless it involves a BBQ, he can’t boil water. In fact, he tried that once (boiling water for eggs), forgot about it and destroyed the pan! He should definitely stay out of the kitchen!
Comment by Megan B. on 13 June 2008:
One time after soccer practice me and my mom came home to find no one home, but a pool of blood on the outside steps, in a line leading to the car…then nothing. We went outside and found more blood in the kitchen. But no dad. My mom just about had a heart attack, I think. I was scared out of my mind. Turns out that my dad almost chopped off his whole finger cutting vegetables, tried to wrap it in a towel, and drove to the hospital himself. Thank God the doctors reattached it. All of this would have been fine, except for the fact that he didn’t call us (he thought he’d get home before us) so we came home to a veritable crime scene, and no one answering their cell phone. He was trying to do us a good deed by making us dinner for the first time - we did takeout after that. I wonder how a man who is so good with tools and power saws can’t cut vegetables without hurting himself.
Comment by Brenda on 13 June 2008:
Setting a small kitchen fire was enough to keep him out of the kitchen forever after.
Comment by Kathy Scott on 13 June 2008:
My dad is the master of the grill, but he could use a little help elsewhere.
Comment by Heather on 13 June 2008:
My dad thought he was great at grilling..but he always burns the outside of stuff. I don’t know if he doesn’t turn the meat enough or what..but there is always a kind of black char look to all the meat..lol
Comment by Evelyn on 13 June 2008:
He must (by some male law) dirty every dish he possibly can. When he’d done cooking (which the thought is sweet) you would think he cooked for a basketball team.
Comment by Denyse on 13 June 2008:
My husband’s biggest blunder is: He forgets he’s cooking and not only burns the food, but the pots and pans too!
Comment by dianne on 13 June 2008:
My Dad’s been gone for a LONG time. Funny though, I don’t ever remember him in the kitchen.
Comment by Tricia Andrews on 13 June 2008:
My father tried to help my mom one year with her long list of Christmas cookies (she is like Martha Stewart and does like 8 different kinds of cookies, and dozens of each). He decided to make the peanut butter blossoms, the peanut butter cookies with the Hershey’s Kisses on top. As he was about to put the cookies into the oven I noticed the dough didn’t look right…..he hadn’t put the peanut butter in! So I stopped a cookie nightmare from happening just in the nick of time! From that day on he was not allowed to “help” with the Christmas cookies.
Comment by Michelle L. on 13 June 2008:
MUSTARD EGGS!
My husband was in charge of cooking breakfast one morning for our 3 kids. He decided to make scrambled eggs. When we realized that we were out of butter, he decided to substitute mustard! (It’s a condiment, right?!)
The eggs–according to the kids–were horrible. Three years later, whenever Dad is in the kitchen the kids always comment, “I hope it’s better than those mustard eggs!”
Comment by Sundi (3 comments.) on 13 June 2008:
My dad likes his meat super well done, and he loves grilling. There is a running joke among all the family members that we are going to have “hockey pucks” — the charred, round, hard-as-rocks pieces of meat he calls hamburgers. We all secretly laugh and crunch away, and he remains blissfully unaware!
Sundi’s last blog post..Thrifty Thursday: June 12, 2008
Comment by Barbara Fox on 13 June 2008:
I’m sure it’s not his biggest, but just last night I asked him to stir the spaghetti sauce and he totally burnt it to the bottom of the pan!
Comment by Desmond on 13 June 2008:
He once chopped right through the cutting board; the man’s a menace.
Comment by tim brown on 13 June 2008:
pepper on everthing
Comment by Amir on 13 June 2008:
My Dad had no blunders as far as I can remember. My Mom never let him NEAR the kitchen. Wether they were old fashion or she knew something I didn’t, I’m not sure.
Comment by Monique Rizzo on 13 June 2008:
My hubby tried to thaw hamburger by putting it in the oven STILL WRAPPED on 200 degrees…needless to say we all got a good laugh and it was days before that horrible burnt plastic smell was out of the house!
Comment by Sharon Jones on 13 June 2008:
Mom spent a good chunk of the day making homemade chicken soup and she made the horrible mistake of asking dad to drain the broth…she forgot to tell him to put another pan under the strainer. DOWN went the soup…right down the drain…all that was left was the chicken and some veggies…UGH
Comment by Patricia Schraier on 13 June 2008:
My husband put a pizza in the oven to re-heat -
still in the box. Two firetrucks later, the pizza was done.
Comment by BILL HOFF on 13 June 2008:
They still us my homemade biscuits as doorstops
Comment by Alicia Zemer on 13 June 2008:
Left turkey on table and dog ate it
Comment by Nico Bonvouloir on 13 June 2008:
My father in the kitchen is never a good thing. The man takes whatever left overs are in the fridge and just throws it all in one saucepan- once I saw him put pasta, mashed potatoes and meatloaf all in one pot. But on the other hand is not too particular on what he eats- you put it in front of him; he will eat it without much of a compliant; which is good my step mother is just as bad as a cook
Comment by Linda Lansford on 13 June 2008:
My husband’s biggest blunder is he made vegetable soup with no meat or bullion base and couldn’t figure out why it tasted like grass.
Comment by M.A. on 13 June 2008:
Daddy cooked the ramen noodles until all the liquid boiled out and the noodles welded themselves to the pan!
Comment by Linda Pinto on 13 June 2008:
My husband had to make dinner so he made some chicken. Only chicken. I guess salad and veggies etc didn’t occur to him. I needed the help so I was very happy to have the chicken. It was a recipe of his own devising and not half bad.
Comment by David L on 13 June 2008:
My dad screwed up instant pudding. It only takes water, powder and time. How hard can it be?
Comment by MIldred Perez on 13 June 2008:
I would love to win this prize.
Comment by judy brittle on 13 June 2008:
my husband was boiling potatoes to make potato salad but when he woke up the potatoes were gone and so was half the pan. i guess i’m lucky i still have a husband- i guess
Comment by kiyana on 13 June 2008:
Dad sticks to what he’s good at, the microwave! So no disasters unless it was the pre-microwave era which I don’t remember or wasn’t born yet!
Comment by Elizabeth M. on 13 June 2008:
My dad did none of the cooking, none of it. All he did in terms of the kitchen was to bring home fast food occasionally when the oven timer didn’t work and the roast beef hadn’t cooked. (Those were my favorite days–I hated roast beef).The only thing I remember him goofing up was dropping the bucket of Chicken Coop chicken on the floor and all of the pieces spilled out onto the floor. Does that count?
Comment by Noelia Gutierrez on 13 June 2008:
just making a bad meal or burning it, haha.
Comment by Deanne S on 13 June 2008:
My dad NEVER cooked in the kitchen, not one single time! My mom had to be hospitalized for 3 days once and we ate out every day.
Comment by Janet F on 14 June 2008:
My dad invited my brother and his new wife over to eat his homemade Chicken soup.
The look on my brother’s wife face was priceless when she started picking chicken neck bones and skins out of her soup bowl.
He made the soup with two packages of chicken necks and he left all the bones in the soup!
Comment by Kari Follett on 14 June 2008:
I set my daughter’s birthday cake on fire when she was 2. : / For real.
Comment by Bes on 14 June 2008:
I think toast and coffee is the most cooking dad’s done, and so far he hasn’t burned the house down yet!
Comment by Brenda Robinson on 14 June 2008:
He tried to make macaron and cheese with no butter. It was so dry… no one dared to complain!
Comment by Linda Moeller on 14 June 2008:
Doesn’t know baking powder from baking soda and seems perplexed at the idea of doing the dishes!
Comment by Kelly on 14 June 2008:
Has to be when he boiled water and forgot it on the stove until all the water evaporated and he scalded the pan…
Comment by D. on 14 June 2008:
He bakes wonderful bread with a poppy seed topping—but drops poppy seeds everywhere!!! (Ah well, sweeping up seeds is a really small price to pay for what we get in return!!!)
Comment by Sylvia Belle on 14 June 2008:
my husband used to help me by making the dinner salad but that didn’t last too long because it took me longer to clean up from him than make a salad for the whole family
Comment by NINA CRESPI on 14 June 2008:
I had just baked a pound cake for my mothers mah jongg group. After sliding it out from the oven, I applied the icing…and because it was my 1st cake I ever baked…forgot to let the cake cool off first. The icing sunk into the cake, giving it a drizzled look. I served it, calling it ” Pond Cake Surprise” !
Comment by kathy pease on 14 June 2008:
my hub is a big slob i dont even want him in my kitchen..he takes things out of the fridge and leaves them out..he cant throw empty things away he just leaves them on the couer..GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Comment by hazel hunt on 14 June 2008:
He made the soup with two packages of chicken necks and he left all the bones in the soup!
Comment by Scott Jensen on 14 June 2008:
He pulled some bananna pudding from the fridge shelf and the front was empty so the back was heavy.
When it cam out it spilled, down onto the dog whom happend to be right under him at the moment.
After this, we called the dog puddin….
I’m not sure we should ban him from the kitchen for this though; He is still a good cook…
Comment by Christine E. on 14 June 2008:
Well, mine is a winner. My dad was always pretty frugal and one year he decided he would heat the house with a kerosine heater. We had one heater that was supposed to heat the entire house and froze every night. Well to top it all off, he decided one day that he could also slow cook a ham on top of the heater to also save money instead of using the gas stove. Well, he thought he was supposed to cook the ham on the heater for 3 days and that he did. Unfortunately, he was supposed to cook it for three hours. Can I say gross?
Comment by Anne G (2 comments.) on 14 June 2008:
(Story by my son Frank)
One time when I was around 5 my mom was sick and unable to make me dinner so my dad took over making one of my favorites, French toast. Soon he served the well cooked slices of French toast but I complained due to the lack of large amounts of powdered sugar covering the meal. So my dad entered our pantry full of Tupperware encased ingredients and came out with the right sized box of white powder. Soon I had sugared up my meal and began eating, but before I had swallowed the first bite I knew something had gone terribly wrong. I complained that the meal didn’t taste right but my dad insisted it was fine and I should eat it. A few agonizing bites later I cried out again and my mom came and tasted the dish. She too recognized a horrendous error had been made. She took the box of powder and turned it around revealing the label of baking powder… just one word off from the correct topping.
Comment by Marly (3 comments.) on 14 June 2008:
My mother used to make a very simple salad that consisted of fruit cocktail and Cool Whip. My brother and I loved it! So, one night, while my mother was out, my father decided to make the salad for us. Excited for the treat, I took a large helping, and shoveled a huge spoonful into my mouth. Imagine my surprise when I realized that, instead of the Cool Whip, my father used Miracle Whip! Eeeeewwwww!
It’s been almost thirty years, and we still tease him about it.
Comment by Shar on 14 June 2008:
He tried to make a cake and was a disaster with frosting it.
Comment by Heather C on 14 June 2008:
His biggest blunder involved frying a turkey. Too much hot oil and a bird that still has somem water on it is not a good mix, but hey, at least he didn’t burn the house down! Yea!
Comment by Pamela White on 14 June 2008:
My dad wanting a baked potato put one in the microwave and not knowing how long to cook the potato for guessed 1/3 time and nuked it for 20 minutes. It smoked up the kitchen, melted the plate it was on, cracked the door. The potato was ash.
Comment by Veronica Garrett on 14 June 2008:
My husband used a frying pan with a wooden handle in the oven. You can imagine how the whole house smelled.
Comment by Tara Hill on 14 June 2008:
Ok, it isn’t what he cooked, but it was a “kitchen disaster”! My dad is not a handy man at all, but he decided to replace the fan in the kitchen. Somehow he managed to get the fan to hang, but it wobbled every time it was on. One day we heard a loud crash and went running into the kitchen! There was the fan laying on the table in pieces! Good thing we weren’t eating! Needless to say that was the last thing he tried to fix!
Comment by Alicia T on 15 June 2008:
About 5 years ago, my dad decided that since he was Chinese, he was qualified to teach a Chinese cooking class at the local adult school. This is despite the fact he had never really cooked in the last 68 years.
For the first class, he was going to teach them how to roast a duck. So what did he do? He went to a nearby restaurant & ordered a duck. And took that to class.
Needless to say, less than half of the people showed up for the 2nd class, and none for the 3rd class. And he was asked not to offer to teach cooking again.
Comment by Danielle Formella on 15 June 2008:
My dad decided that it wouild be a good idea for me to open a can of Jumex(Mexican juice- old style can with a tab that was vacuum sealed) with my teeth. Well my lip got sucked in and resealed, we had to cut the can with a screw driver. Awful!!
Comment by Janet on 15 June 2008:
Charred bake potatoes in the microwave. Left a permanent stain in the microwave. lol ty 4 the conteSt!
Comment by Dawn Johnson on 15 June 2008:
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Comment by susan p on 15 June 2008:
my hubby likes to burn the chicken but undercooks the steaks!
Comment by SAM W (1 comments.) on 15 June 2008:
he actually did a pretty good job in the kitchen, self-proclaimed chf, and all… but maybe cut his finger once or twice trying to impress, like the way the pros slice up scallion on celery real fast!
Comment by sarah woods on 15 June 2008:
my dad’s biggest blunder was when for Thanksgiving he had been saving his smoker given in October as a birthday present to cook and present ot family the “perfect bird”/turkey; then as he sat and smiled with glee at the beautiful brown basted turkey; it was raw; no one had mentioned it was only a smoker/not a cooker. many thanks SW
Comment by Renee Turner on 15 June 2008:
My dad tryed to make blueberry pie one time. The recipe called for 1/4 cup sugar and he put a 1/4 cup salt instead. All of us took one bite and almost gagged. He should stay out of the kitchen or he might end up killing us.
Comment by Samantha Pruitt on 15 June 2008:
he made this duck for x-mas, and it was so greasy that it just caught on fire and burnt to a crisp, ahaha~
Comment by Mary B on 15 June 2008:
My husband (and kids father) is a great cook but boy does he make a mess. i have never seen anyone destroy a kitchen as fast as he does when he cooks.
Comment by Vicki Wurgler on 15 June 2008:
my Dad was going to cook a turkey for Mother’s Day, only he did not realize how long it took the turkey to thaw in the fridge. He planned on using the grill. The frozen turkey got real brown on the outside but the inside was still pretty raw. instead of having turkey for dinner, we had a sandwich and had turkey for supper
Comment by Ed Nemmers on 15 June 2008:
Cheetos and Milk Duds is an example of one of his meals. He eats as if HIS parents have gone away for the weekend: a non-ccok.
Comment by Margaret on 15 June 2008:
My dad decided to make a cake for my mother’s birthday. I, being the only daughter offered to help. Dad insisted that he knew what he was doing! All went well until the frosting. He used granulated sugar instead of powdered sugar!. The warmth of the cake (he didnt cool it before frosting it) softened the frosting and created what we now refer to as “The Bubble Gum Cake. When the knife was placed on top of the cake to slice it to serve, the knife stuck to the frosting and lifted the entire top off of the cake. Hilarious!!
Comment by Carolyn Moxness on 15 June 2008:
When I was in the hospital having our first baby, my husband fed himself nightly from a 3 pound hunk of ground beef. Each night he’d rip off a piece of meat and fry himself a hamburger in the same unwashed pan. I had some baby delivery problems, so I was hospitalized for 5 days. When I got home there was a small part of the poorly wrapped package of brown raw meat in the fridge. I guess our son was lucky his father had survived his birth.
Comment by Melissa Neece (1 comments.) on 15 June 2008:
My dad forgot to drain the noodles for the macaroni and cheese. He stood over the stove for 15 minutes trying to make it congeal. Then he put it into bowls, and told us it was cheesy soup.
Comment by Ann B. on 15 June 2008:
When the microwave oven first came out, we were one of the first to have to luxury of owning one. (It was 1/2 the size of the fridge,LOL)
Anyway, Dad decided he was cooking Thanksgiving dinner and ….you guessed it, in the new microwave.
It came out looking like it went in…all white and rubbery looking..it was really gross…none of us wanted to eat it.
Comment by Barb Wild on 15 June 2008:
my fathers biggest blunder in the kitchen when he decided to make a cake for his anniversary. He made icing and put so much food dye in the icing he made bullet gray icing and could not fix it any way he tried.
Comment by Kristen Hendricks on 15 June 2008:
Many years ago when I was about 9 or 10 years old my dad was cooking pork and wasn’t paying enough attention to the pork while it was cooking. It ended up starting to burn and practically the whole kitchen ended up getting filled with smoke. The fire department even had to be called. It was very scary and definitely a big blunder on my dad’s part. Fortunately he has learned to pay attention to food while it is cooking since then. But I will never forget that day and hope something like that doesn’t happen again.
Comment by Rosanne Morrison on 15 June 2008:
Putting a bowl of pancake batter on the edge of the sink and having it land all over him
Comment by Sarah Lehan on 15 June 2008:
My dad made the best scrambled eggs. However, for some reason he could not fry them. Something was always wrong with them so after a while he stopped trying and just went with scrambled. thanks for the contest. (boston market - YUM!)
Comment by Phyllis Jenkins on 15 June 2008:
Daddy popped popcorn without a lid on the pot.