17 Things People Cooked Wrong Yet Turned Out To Be Absolutely Amazing

Most of the time, cooking may be a very satisfying experience. Nobody is completely immune from making mistakes in the kitchen, regardless of how experienced they are, whether they are always stuck at the beginning level (hello!) or have their own TV program ("It's fudgin' RAW!").
But the extent of those errors can vary considerably. You have humorous stories about dumb mistakes you've made that you can tell guests when you have them over for dinner on one side of the kitchen scale. On the other hand, there are failures with a capital "F" that are so significant that telling the narrative of how you stunk is comparable to a horror story.

#1 First time I tried to make chocolate chip cookies. To this day I still don't know what the hell I did wrong but they came out the size of dinner plates and were just as hard

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My kids decided it would be fun to throw them like frisbees and ended up breaking the front window....Those inedible, harder than rock cookies cost us about $500 in the end lol.

#2 While making stir fry noodles I somehow forgot that water exists and kept adding soy sauce when the liquid in the pan had evaporated

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It had my wife googling "how much salt can kill you?"

#3 My wife made something called Porcupine Balls

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She rolled up ground beef with dry rice and baked them. The rice didn't cook.

#4 When I first lived by myself I was really craving pierogies and the s**tty grocery store walking distance from my house didn't have Mrs. T's

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Decided I would make them from scratch instead with 0 knowledge of how to make any type of dough or assemble anything resembling a dumpling.
Spent hours making these little lumps of sadness only to watch them all promptly fall apart in the water. Tried to eat the super thick dough and weird boiled filling anyways and it was unfathomingly bad. I also found out a week later that the grocery store did have Mrs. T's and I was just looking in the wrong section.
Luckily now I am pretty good at baking, making various doughs, and make my own pasta and dumplings regularly so it was a nice teaching moment. Still haven't tried pierogies again so maybe I will have to give it a go now that I actually know what the f**k I'm doing.

#5 Box of white rice had a recipe for rice pudding on the side. This was before I knew about egg tempering and the directions assumed you knew about it

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Just cracked the eggs right into the pot and stirred. It was the texture of disappointment.

#6 First time I cooked bolognese. Said to use 3 cloves garlic. I thought a bulb was a clove. Took me hours to cut it all up. U can imagine how garlicky it was lol

Source: Economy-Cut-7355,Surya Prakash

 

#7 "I over-bake drop biscuits. I know I'm putting them in the oven for too long, but I like them extra crunchy...especially when served with gravy."

Source:  u/BBG1308

#8 "I love eating dry oats as a snack. I just put them in a cup and eat them with a spoon. I know this isn't how Quaker intended for them to be eaten, but they taste delicious."

Source: u/KantalopeKat

#9 "One night I was drunk and decided to make tacos, except halfway through cooking I realized we had no tortillas. So I decided to make Sloppy Joe's instead, but I had already added the taco seasoning. I liked it so much that now 'taco Joe's' are a regular meal in my house."

Source: u/chrisguy40

#10 "In any baking recipe that calls for vanilla, I never measure it. I just add whatever amount feels right, which is always more than what's called for."

Source: u/IDoBeLurkin

#11 "Pancakes. My grandpa is a terrible cook so when he makes pancakes they’re always burnt on the outside and basically raw batter on the inside. He thinks they're fully cooked, but honestly, they taste so good that way. Now, my whole family just makes pancakes like that on purpose."

Source:  u/belleandblue

#12 "My mom used to make her own version of fettuccini Alfredo with garlic butter, sour cream, and a lot of that shitty pre-grated Parmesan. It was one of my favorite meals as a kid, and I still make it to this day."

Source: u/rebakong

#13 "Risotto. Julia Child puts it in the oven and this method has never failed me. Every time I try to make it on the stove, stirring and stirring, it doesn't come out right. If oven risotto is good enough for Julia, it's good enough for me."

Source: u/Suitcasesandspatulas

#14 "I intentionally burn my grilled cheese sandwiches. My mom always burnt them when I was growing up, so its become a comforting flavor for me."

Source: u/belac4862

#15 "I love my salad dressing with way too much vinegar in it. I would never serve it to dinner guests, but boy do I love that sour pucker."

Source: u/Clove_707

#16 "I like my salmon with crispy skin and a char on the edges, but under-cooked so that the middle stays warm and pink and just opaque. Even if that's not what the recipe calls for, it's what I try to achieve."

Source: u/eatingissometal

#17 "I drain the water out of my ramen and eat it like a pasta rather than like soup. My partner makes fun of me for love of dry ramen, but I cant eat it any other way. No broth for me, please."

Source: u/Norwelby