Cooking Disasters

[Z-Cook]

Do we all have them?
My latest.
Genoise at altitude!
A cake for an occasion.
My Genoise sponge cake - three tries do far. Never had issues before but hey. First was my own fault - thought I'd try a swiss meringue tweak. Rubber. Number 2 rose perfectly. Then sank in the middle. . Never had that before! Even looked at Julia Child. Number 3 was AI's fault. Or mine for following really bad advice. Told me to use a 2" high pan. No higher. Batter overflowed everywhere. I had a go at it for bad advice too. They're programmed to pretend to be sorry.
I rescued the sunken cake. It'll be my recipe challenge entry. The texture was ok. Onto number 4 for later in the week. Not doing Victoria sponge or box mix cake.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Absolutely. If you don't make mistakes, it's because you've never tried anything. (Albert Einstein).
I'm not a good baker. Last week I had to make a lemon vanilla cake (simple, from a packet) and a chocolate cake (also from a packet).
Followed the instructions to a T, and put them both in the oven at the same time.
The lemon vanilla came out looking like a nuclear mushroom. The chocolate cake sunk in the middle.

 

[badjak]

No real disasters recently....
I'll put up my thinking cap for the latest and report back.
My standard is making something, knowing I got all ingredients (but not double checking), then finding I miss something essential.
Which I then proceed to find after I made another plan. And since I live by myself, I can't blame anyone else