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I rounded up 25 of the best stories: 2. "I found a recipe for honey garlic chicken that involved baking the chicken tossed with flour and seasonings, tossing it with the homemade sauce, and baking it again. The picture accompanying the recipe showed the chicken having a deep golden-orange glaze, perfectly coating each piece.
" "Once I took it out of the oven, I knew there was no chance of matching that picture. The chicken had turned into highly unappetizing lumpy blobs of grayish brown, resembling a particularly bad hairball rather than a remotely edible chicken dish . I’m not sure where I went wrong, but I will be avoiding that recipe from now on .
😅 " –Anonymous 4. "Beignets! I love them so much. I get them every time I pass through New Orleans at Cafe Du Monde.
They sell the mix in the grocery store and my mom got it for me for my birthday. THAT WAS THE HARDEST THING I HAVE EVER MADE! They came out so wrong. But I still ate them, lol.
" –icjellyfish17 6. "Saw a spin on roasted cauliflower on YouTube. It said to use parchment paper.
Went to take the pan out of the oven...
paper had caught on fire and burned my cauliflower as well. Never cooked with parchment again." –Chanté L.
, Instagram 8. "Mac 'n' cheese that required a roux. Never mind that I've never made a roux before.
It came out grainy and tasted of flour. In the trash, it went. Ordered takeout instead.
" –Stephanie W., Instagram 11. "Croissants.
You really need the laminating machines that the professional bakeries have. Waste of time and butter!" –Michelle, 54 13. "Chocolate mousse.
Came out like melted chocolate ice cream ." –Terry, Florida, 70 14. "My boyfriend will never let me live down making GUMBO from scratch at midnight.
I found a recipe that said to put flour in a cast iron and wait for it to go dark brown (no oil or butter). Didn't even know it wanted me to make a roux, so after several hours of flour baking in the oven not doing a thing, I decided to continue the recipe. I put the hot flour into the stock with everything else.
It was nasty flour water with shrimp and sausage. It was 3 a.m.
, and I was sleep-deprived, hungry, and defeated — the only thing left to do was to cry. I woke up my boyfriend sobbing, and by some miracle, he was able to fix the flour soup I had made. 10 years later, we still laugh about that night because we both now work in a fine-dining steakhouse.
" – Sleepingdolphin595 15. "Pho. Lots of ingredients, long process.
From now on, I'll just buy it from a restaurant." –Halim T., Instagram 17.
"I made homemade stuffing once, including dicing all the veggies by hand and measuring out the spices...
only to have it taste exactly like Stovetop. All that extra work for something that would only take 10 minutes to do!" – laughingtiger39 19. "Roasted a whole chicken.
I misread the instructions and cooked at 245oF instead of 425o...
Needless to say, we got takeout that night." –Katie E., Instagram 21.
"Baked beans. I bought the wrong molasses — blackstrap instead of fancy! Epic fail; tasted like tar on the first bite. Into the garbage it went!" –Phyllis K.
, Instagram 23. "I tried to make an ice cream cake for my dad's birthday. I used fancy ice cream.
It melted everywhere...
even in the freezer. Such a sad birthday." –Anonymous 25.
"I made oatmeal cream pie bars from scratch using what I thought was a reliable source, but it went very wrong once the marshmallow fluff-based frosting ended up tasting like soap the next day. 😭" –Anonymous Do you have any dishes that belong on this list? Let me know in the comments! Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity..
