Oh my Goodness!!!!! This thread has me ROTFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!! Keep em comin!!!! I haven't had any yet but I know they are comin!!!!!!! All kinds of other mishaps , just not cake related yet!!!

Well, here's my tip for the day...brownies will not cook properly at 450...no matter how much you insist that you set the temp at 350, your brownies are still burned.

Same thing with dinner rolls.

hehehehe

Rachel

Once I baked a cake, as normal, and when I took it out of the oven, I noticed it was a bit short and sponge-like. This cake was for my 1st class and I had baked cakes ALL the time, but his was strange. My cake was about 1 & 1/2 inch high! I was puzzled for about 20 minutes , then I remembered .... eggs!! I left them out!
Huge brain fart!

Now, everytime I add eggs, I laugh about it.

My Idiot Moment... I had a birthday cake and four other cakes due on Superbowl Sunday. I had them all baked the night before and had one frosted so put it in the oven to finish decorating in the morning. Well, when I got up the next morning I was all excited about the game, forgot the cake was in there and turned the oven on to make something. I didn't notice until I could smell the chocolate cake baking again. It had to be completely redone. Boy, was I mad at myslef. Now I feel better knowing I am not the only one that has had this happen.

Just an FYI... you actually can hard boil that egg in your microwave, you just have to poke a little hole in him first!!!

Oh my gosh! This is hilarious! Of course, it's never funny when your in the middle of it all! I need my husband to read this thread. Then he would know I am not a lone in all my mishaps!

I'm good at catching things on fire. Once I put a pot in the sink, filled it with water, then put in on the gas stovetop. A few minutes later we smelled something burning and discovered that our plastic Pampered Chef scraper had somehow gotten stuck to the bottom of the pot and was melting. We never were able to clean that up
Last December we baked a plastic handled knife with our turkey.
Once I caught a paper towel on fire as I was dumping ground beef into a hot pot of soup. Poof! in my hands - heart attack

not a disaster, but strange
growing up I always set the table, fixed the drinks, but never cooked! One Sunday afternoon I realized I had lost a ring off my finger. The next Sunday as I opened my eyes after the dinner blessing I saw my ring in the bottom of my sweet tea glass. Evidently my ring had come off while getting ice out of the freezer the week before and I put it into my glass that day - totally weird!

Just the other day i was working on my son's 2nd b-day cake when all of a sudden one of the beaters came off my hand mixer. I have always been very careful when inserting them but that day was total chaos. Needless to say, the mixer was set on 3 (medium-high) and when the beater flew off it splattered cake mix all over me and all over my kitchen.

Now here's the funny part.....my 2 yr.old, who loves cake batter more than anyone I've ever met, witnesses this catastrophe from across the living room. So i'm rushing around trying to find towels and such and when I turned around to clean up the mess, my son is face down on the floor licking the batter....at this point all i could do was laugh and join him.

How wonderful to have a thread that is light and silly.

I agree with light and silly!

here's another one that I'm enjoying very much today. If you haven't seen it, I'm sure you'll get a kick out of these stories, too!

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=124781&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0
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I'm sorry, but I can totally see my 20 month old licking batter off the floor. That one really tickled me!! Thanks for sharing that!!

Ok, my idiot moment - I was set to bake banana nut bread to take to a neighborhood gathering. I mixed all the items together and baked it. I noticed when I took it from the oven that it didn't have it's normal glossy look to the top. I made a total of 4 loaves (my recipe makes 2 at a time) so that we could have a loaf for ourselves. I cut a slice and it tasted "off". couldn't figure it out. Finally realized I forgot the SUGAR. At that point it was too late to remake them. I took them any way and said it was a new "diet" recipe. They weren't bad, but not sweet and moist.

Oh Rachel!
We all do silly things, especially when we have too many other things on our mind. How many Mums can say they are 100% focussed on their cakes, there's always children, mess, housework, husbands, the list is endless.
Look at it this way, you'll probably never do that again

So true. THe cake I baked last night - I double checked to make sure there wasn't another cake in the oven before i turned it off. hehehehehe

Rachel

OMG!!! Am I ever so glad I didn't miss this thread!!!!!!!
I am going to print this out so I can read it the next time I turn the oven off, leave the oven on, or let the pan of water boil dry, ruining my BRAND NEW COOKTOP!!!!!! I thought I was the only one that did these things. I feel so much better now.
By the way, did you know that whole gallons of chlorine bleach will freeze solid if put into the freezer?

Eggs will stay fresher if kept in the fridge instead of the cabinet.

And if you have to make cornbread in the dark, make sure the bag says "cornmeal", and not four, or you end up with a big biscuit!
These are just a few among soooooooooo many more!

I too am glad I read this thread. In the 37 years I have been married I have done almost all of the above. The worst being setting a damp dishtowel near a simmering pot on the gas stove with a window open. Thank heaven for the best Cairn Terrier in the world he smelled the smoldering towel and got me to follow him to the kitchen. All we had was charred spot on the formica.

Did you know a flower nail can pierce the casing of a garbage disposal? Really did a job on the mechanism too. After we replaced the disposer I too have a trap in my sink to keep cake decorating items from falling into the disposer.

Thank you all for this wonderful post. I have learned to always put a small hole in an egg before you microwave it, check the oven before turning it ON or OFF, keep a mesh trap in the sink at all times for they are cheaper than a new disposal, make sure all finished cakes are locked away, and do all of my baking when no one else is around. This will cause a huge laugh for a long time around. (My 7 year old is thinking I am retarded right now)

LOL

I'm glad my humble crap on myself thread could be of so much use to you all!

Rachel

It's always comforting to know that we're not alone in our idiot moments!

oh well i guess ill join the club , many years ago (like 7) i was about to bake a cake , so i turned on the oven before i started (preheated) .and i couldnt find my hand mixer i looked every were for it with no luck .finally after 15 to 20 minutes had gone by and i gave up ,but all that time it smelled like something was burning i guess i was in such a hurry to find it i didnt stop to see what was burning ,i thought it was just the oven (sometimes little droppings fall )well finally i gave up and turned off the oven and opened the door and there was my mixer inside a baking pan (melted ) yes i said baking pan
my naighbor had borrowed it and the pan too ,so when she brought it back i wasnt home my sister in law was .she took it and put it where she puts her stuff in her house , in her non working oven . she never thought id bake the darn thing. after that the mixer and the pan where one ,and like one they went to the garbage together .

i bake in the middle of the night too
linda

omg, linda! i'm sorry but that made me laugh!!

I must say, Linda, that is one that I have not thought of. I guess it was just an automatic reaction for your friend. How does she get by without an oven???

I do remember putting a large sheet pan into my oven with some brownies that I didn't want my kids to eat. Turned on the oven to preheat(back when I had a gas stove) and about 10 or 15 minutes later the house was filled with a very bad smell. Dispite what you might think, burning chocolate does not smell good!! And it is even harder to clean!!

My jelly roll pan in permanently pock marked with black. Apparently the oils from the brownies found a way to burn into the pan, like the baked on look from years of use, only sped up! Oh well, the lesson for me was to never rely on my oven as a storage unit, and to hide stuff in my room, that I don't want eatten right away! I have a big walk-in closet that often gets used as a storage for my goodies! I have to admit, I do dip into the stash myself sometimes when I am up watching a late night show once in a while! Hey, I'm intitled, I did make them after all!!

Oh, one quick story I just remembered:

Some months back my son(who is 14 and has a head full of "mush" ) decided to heat up some soup in the microwave. (Now keep in mind that we have had the "what not to put in the microwave" talk about half a million times in our house, as we have 5 kiddos, 4 of them teens. ) I was at the computer working in the next room when out of the corner of my eye I see something flash, and a loud pop noise! My son suddenly throws open the door to the microwave and just stands there looking. I knew immediately that he had done something stupid.

I jumped up to investigate. In the microwave was my grandmothers last remaining stainless steal ring handled 2 cup mixing bowl(she passed away a few years back, and it's all that is left of her wonderful kitchen), with my plastic spatter guard on it.

Without thinking, I reached in and grabbed it out. Not realizing just how hot it was, or just what damage had been done. I burned my hand, (my own stupidity), and realized that the metal ring had adhered itself to the spatter guard. I pulled up the plastic guard and it came off. A perfect plastic cover had completely melted over the metal ring, and a long slit was left in the spatter guard. I eventully got the plastic off the bowl, which was ok mainly. By some miracle the microwave was ok too. It sure did stink and make alot of racket though! My son has not used that bowl since for any reason! Of course getting grounded from his x-box for a week helped too..........LOL

With all the silly things that the kids do at times, and my own occasional mishaps, it's a wonder we haven't burned down a house by now!!!

By the way.....did you know that if you put a potato in without punching at least one hole in it, it will blow up????? And it's not a fun clean up job either!!!

OK I took the "tip in the disposal" a step further.....
I just finished a cake for a small party at my house. I was cleaning up, and I lost a tip in the disposal. I put my RIGHT hand in to fish it out, but couldn't get it. I thought, "I need light" and reached up to flip on the light above the sink with my LEFT hand. Just so happens that the disposal switch is right there too....guess which one got turned on?
Yes - my had was still in the disposal when it came on. I screamed and jumped back from the sink expecting my hand to be hamburger - but it wasn't!! I had one cut on my pinky, and I ran up to the doctor to see if I needed stiches. No stiches, but a tetnious shot to be safe. Came home and had the party without further incident....LOL