https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:22:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1314441 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:38:19 +0000 BoogieBea 1314441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catlady: I did the same with frozen fish. I baked it though. It was a big mushy mess.</p> <p>When I try to halve or double a recipe, I always forget to halve or double some of the ingredients. I seem to always overcook chicken and pork. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1314416 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:27:06 +0000 HLK208 1314416@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catlady: ...I probably would have done the same!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313697 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:22:49 +0000 MapleMoose 1313697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The first time I cooked a whole chicken I put the gizzards in water for gravy and there was a chicken head in there. I ended up cooking it and serving it to my family and then-boyfriend (now DH). Only after we finished eating and were cleaning up did someone notice the chicken head in the pot. Disgusting!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313652 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:11:18 +0000 catlady 1313652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My biggest cooking mistake is definitely when I tried to pan sear a frozen tuna steak without defrosting it. I have no idea what I was thinking! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313641 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:06:35 +0000 Anagram 1313641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HLK208: generally speaking, Google can get you out of any cooking/baking mess. I didn't have baking soda or powder and was making pancakes--googled and found out I could whip the egg whites seperately to leaven the pancakes. Worked beautifully. Same for the potato/salt trick listed above. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313636 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:05:02 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 1313636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Last week I made my own taco seasoning. I accidentally used cayenne pepper instead of chilli powder. It was soooooo spicey! DH loved it though. Too spicey for me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313630 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:03:12 +0000 Anagram 1313630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hmm...I haven't had a lot of cooking/baking disasters but one thing I can think of to watch how/what you substitute is potato. I didn't know until I was an adult that some potatos are good for mashing or frying and some (like russets) are really only for baked potatoes.</p> <p>I was trying to make these fried potato fritters things once with russett potatoes and couldn't figure out why they wouldn't stay together until my mom told me russetts are too watery and that I needed to use a waxy white potato instead. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313618 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:58:48 +0000 Bookish 1313618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well last night I forgot to spray pam on our skillet and my tilapia stuck to it. Badly. Siiiighhh.</p> <p>I usually let DH cook because when I make a mistake I go kind of bananas over it because I'm very dramatic about my food. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313606 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:55:43 +0000 2PeasinaPod 1313606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: I feel like that's better! You can always add more salt, but it's so hard to take it away! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313594 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:53:25 +0000 hellocupcake 1313594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I under-salt everything too :/ In my defense, I love salt and tend to put too much salt on my plate so I put light salt on everything and salt to taste at the table. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313518 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:31:58 +0000 Cherrybee 1313518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I made mince pies a few Christmases ago and I didn't have any flour left to put on my worksurface to that I could roll out my pastry. On a whim, i used icing sugar (it looks the same). Well the pastry kept soaking up the sugar and I kept dusting and dusting as I rolled to prevent sticking. I don't know what it didn't occur to me that I was shortening and shortening my pasty (duh!) - and, of course, the end was result - once it came out of the oven - was pastry so crumbly it turned to dust when I tried to take the mince pies out of the tin. Honestly, you could have snorted those mince pies. Silly girl!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313517 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:31:56 +0000 Smurfette 1313517@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@2PeasinaPod: DH tells me I don't add enough salt. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313499 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:27:44 +0000 LuLu Mom 1313499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I made honey ginger mahi mahi one time...it was awful! So bad that DH and I ended up ordering a pizza. I refuse to cook with ginger now! haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313495 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:27:07 +0000 looch 1313495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't use a lot of spices or herbs in my cooking, so I tend to rely on things like chicken stock for flavor, which kind of makes everything taste the same.</p> <p>This year, I am changing things up a little. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313492 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:24:42 +0000 Mae 1313492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably my biggest cooking mistake ever was trying to fry onion rings. I'd never deep fried anything and I thought I could try to make my own at home but I had no idea that oil does not act like water. I just put a bottle of oil into a deep pan and turned it on high and walked away, thinking it would get really hot and then I could come back in a bit and fry the rings up. Yea, no. Oil SMOKES bad when it gets too hot. My whole kitchen was filled with disgusting acrid smoke and I had to take the pan outside to dump it. </p> <p>Bonus: The smell was so disgusting I was off all fried food for months following. (And now I know, if I really want something fried, just let the professionals do it) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313482 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:18:33 +0000 2PeasinaPod 1313482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use waaaaay too much salt. I've learned from experience that I need to undersalt rather than oversalt! A good way to try to remedy if you've already oversalted is to put a peeled potato in whatever you're cooking to soak up the salt. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-cooking-mistakes#post-1313429 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:03:56 +0000 HLK208 1313429@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I made a crab dish the other night and I followed a recipe on Pinterest rather than my moms - it called for canned crab even though I've never used it, always fresh crab. Anyway, the recipe is a labor of love and DH hated it!! The canned crab tasted like cat food.</p> <p>I'm not a great cook so in the 8 years we've been together, we choose restaurants over cooking at home, which is expensive and unhealthy. Fill me in, what are terrible ingredients to substitute?! What are your biggest cooking mistakes? </p>