Kitchen Fails

[badjak]

Just remembered another fail.
I made pickles as usual by using equal amounts of vinegar & water, boil it with spices, salt and optional sugar, then adding cucumber and whatever
So this time as well
Except I had used my empty vinegar bottle some time before for water when some needed adding to a dish
I didn't empty it out.
So this time I boiled the spices in equal amount of water .....
Not clever

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Just had an annoying fail.
Looked for a faster gluten free pizza dough recipe and found this one with over 900 five star reviews
Easy Gluten Free Pizza Recipe

I thought hmm cups, they are not good for measuring flour. Weight is a much better way to measure. But I thought I’d give it a go anyway, it all looked much easier than getting the scales out.
WRONG

It actually broke my food processor (it’s fine now, it just overheated) so I had to decant it into the bread machine to finish the kneading. It was absolutely solid. The author says it should be whipped as the air helps to give a good end result. Mine was like tough concrete.

So I added more water (a heck of a lot of more water) but the dough was so hot from the poor food processors exertion that I suspect it will have killed the yeast.
I’ve left it to prove anyway because Gluten free Caputo flour is £8 a bag. So fingers crossed.

Then I realised of course it’s an American recipe that uses American cups so I had put in way more flour than I should have.
Quite annoyed with myself!!!

 

[medtran49]

Just remembered another fail.
I made pickles as usual by using equal amounts of vinegar & water, boil it with spices, salt and optional sugar, then adding cucumber and whatever
So this time as well
Except I had used my empty vinegar bottle some time before for water when some needed adding to a dish
I didn't empty it out.
So this time I boiled the spices in equal amount of water .....
Not clever

Craig did similar to me once. He had used all the chicken stock in the box and then put water in the box to rinse it out, but forgot he had done that and put it in the refrigerator. So, next evening when i was cooking dinner I wanted chicken stock, I grabbed the box and added water...