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6 CommentsI enjoy hearing about kitchen experiments gone wrong, so I thought I would share one of mine in hopes that it inspires you to post one of your's!
When the day came that my Mukka pot arrived for testing I was giddy with excitement. Make coffee on the stove? What a novel concept (LOL). So I quickly shed it of its protective clothes and clean it up.
The instructions were deceptively simple, that should have been my first warning sign. For those not familier with a mukka pot this is what the unit looks like. Its basically a cross between a percolator and a pressure cooker, the poor man's espresso maker if you will.
So I loaded up my coffee and water, and added the milk to the top (this model lets you make a cappuccino on one fell swoop. And fired up the store. After about 5 minutes I heard the pop as the pressure was released and up from the belly of the beast came the coffee.
What it was supposed to do was then super heat/foam the milk and stop at the top. And while it did succeed it also boiled over and onto my stovetop with wanton abandon. My wife cast a critical eye, but I assured her I just might have had the measurements wrong.
So I setup again, and tried it once more... again, same results. Third time was the charm (had to put less water and milk in). I happily poured the coffee/cappuccino in a mug and noted its decidely different taste. My wife was not a fan.
Two weeks later my Mukka experiment gave us an added bonus... my wife was pulling up the stovetop drip trays and was greeted by dark carmelized/burned on coffee residue... It would seem my cursory cleaning of the top of the stove was a bit too lackadaisical much to my wife's displeasure.
SO.. if you have any kitchen horror stories, I'd love to hear them.
cooper
Written May. 14, 2007 / Report /
No, but I hear just seeing me in the kitchen is enough to give some people nightmares.
revbennyd
Written May. 15, 2007 / Report /
Just a few weeks ago I was trying to bake bread and the loaves rose to a size that was too big for my stone. As I was trying to rectify the situation, the stone broke. I was fit to be tied. Not very spectacular.
But have you ever seen the Tracy/Hepburn movie, "Woman of the Year?" Toward the end of the movie Katherine Hepburn does a briliant bit of comedic acting in a kitchen disaster scene. The rest of the movie is depressing, but I recommend the movie for that scene alone.
estarla
Written May. 15, 2007 / Report /
My ex-roommate unwittingly left the toaster oven on and my personal size blender was on top of the toaster oven. I wish I had taken a picture of the melted plastic that WAS my blender.
Cappuccino
Written May. 16, 2007 / Report /
About a month ago my wife and I planned to make some quesadillas, we had tortillas, refried beans, tomatoes, avocado, the works. Something called my wife away from the kitchen and I suddenly had a great ideas.
Instead of using the metal skillet, I decided that the pizza stone placed directly on the burner should give amazing results. I innocently turned the burner on full bore, it was stone after all.
When my wife returned she viewed my idea with the eyes of a skeptic, but after the first perfect quesadilla came off her concerns quickly faded.
So there we stood, admiring my creative use of a pizza stone when a cracking boom emanated from the stove and we watched in horror as our beloved pizza stone cracked into three pieces.
Last week we received our new pizza stone, happy and a little bit wiser.
revbennyd
Written May. 16, 2007 / Report /
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has wacked a pizza stone. I'm still in denial, placing both pieces together in the oven, pretending like I didn't destroy it by throwing water in the oven to get a better crust.
Tyme
Written May. 16, 2007 / Report /
My Mom used to cook with a pressure cooker. She was cooking cooking string beans and had done it a many times. Mom and I were sitting at the kitchen table talking. I guess this time Mom put too much in the pot (too much pressure in the pot) and the top came off...flew across the room. Missed me by about 3ft. To this day, pressure cookers scare the crap out of me although I have used one a couple of times (and I was anxious the entire time).