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I once made a quiche in a pyrex dish and put it on top of the cooker but accidently turned on the ring instead of turning the oven off, fortunately I wasn't in the kitchen when it exploded showering the kitchen with quiche and broken glass.

Left my hubby in charge of the Cauliflower cheese, his quite good with plenty of instructions, on my returning home from work I found him staring into the oven. He said this doesn't look right. I said I'm sure it will be fine just dish it up. How wrong I was he had used icing sugar instead of the cornflour to make the sauce. They are very similar looking. He ended up blaming me for keeping them in similar jars!!! But its something I always remind him of.

I once bought some conga eel steaks, which looked rather like chunky cod steaks. Being newly married and an inexperienced cook, I decided to poach them and keep checking for tenderness. Well, they got tougher and tougher as time went on, and the smell was disgusting! Not even the cat would eat them after I eventually gave up. I have not seen them for sale since.