The dumbest one I've ever been guilty of was simmering a chicken carcass to make stock. I forgot about it and went to bed. In the morning, the bones were nothing but bone shaped ash and the house smelled like burnt death for days.

I switched to the Paleo diet for a bit and made a meatloaf substituting flax seed for the bread crumbs. I asked my incredibly-easy-to-please husband how it was. He said it was "interesting." That should've tipped me off. I took one bite of that stuff and barely managed to gag it down. I asked him, "How on earth did you manage to eat a whole slice of that stuff?" Then I put the rest of the meatloaf in the trash.

I am a recipe tester for a cooking magazine and sometimes they will send one that the instructions are just not right. The worst was for Vietnamese caramel chicken that the temp they wanted the caramel to go to was too high and it burnt. My house smelled like there had been a fire at the marshmallow factory for a week.

At least you didn't take a spoon full and eat it. Gross!

Crumpets with honey instead of butter.

"This is a brilliant idea! I wonder why nobody's thought of it before."

Took one bite...

"Oh. That's why."

Turns out that crumpets need butter to be edible. End of story. No matter how appealing the idea of putting other things on them, they just don't work without butter.

I may give butter and honey a try, though. That sounds like it has potential.

Cooking some fish.
Went to sprinkle on Old Bay seasoning - the top popped off dumping the entire can on.
I managed to save most of the seasoning but that was the spiciest fish to choke down
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Forgot the baking powder in a batch of biskits....heavy, but again, they got ate.

I once made cornbread and actually forgot to put the cornmeal in it.

The first time I made banana nut cake by myself I forgot to put in the baking soda.

Another time was making banana nut cake and could not figure out why the batter was so thick. I finally got it thin enough by putting more buttermilk in it. Only after it was put in the over I realized that I forgot to put eggs in the batter. That was the best banana nut cake that I ever made.

There are others, but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

I am laughing even as I contemplate getting some lunch.

Who hasn't had a food folly? I once made the world's worst borscht - the worst. I excused my guests from even trying to eat it. Years later, I realized my error had been in using pickled beets instead of raw beets. Don't even try to imagine this.

I didn't do this myself, but I dealt with the consequences, lol.

One Thanksgiving we were all going to celebrate at my daughter's house. It would be my chore to cook the turkey she got. So, I'm at the sink ready to cut open the wrapping. I noticed a slight odor, but very faint. So I kept going--sliced open the wrapping. Immediately, everyone in the kitchen started gagging and rushed out to be sick.

Turns out my daughter was using her own logic: If the turkey thaws in 2-3 days in cold water, well, then it should thaw even faster in hot water.

Yes, every day. It's called 'dinner'.