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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Sept 5, 2008 10:46:06 GMT
I'm very sure that most of us, either through trial and error or via mistakes, have created "culinary disasters". Today, I learnt a few rather valuable lessons while cooking porridge for dinner: 1) never put too much rice(I ended up with enough to feed 3 people) 2) never let the food burn, keep stirring the pot (ack... the pot is like BURNT!) 3) don't keep adding liberal amts of soy sauce and sesame oil I thus present today's culinary disaster(How about yours?):   |
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 5, 2008 14:07:40 GMT
...I wonder if we need a 'Horror' section? ;D
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Post by cleglaw on Sept 5, 2008 14:28:00 GMT
Rice should not be stirred. As soon as it comes to a boil lower the flame way down or even turn it off all together; then cover the pot and wait until all the water is gone.
Toasted sesame oil is delicious stuff. But add it at the very end of your cooking -- otherwise the flavor tends to be killed off.
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Sept 5, 2008 14:57:14 GMT
...I wonder if we need a 'Horror' section? ;D C'mon, Elliot, my good man, it isn't as bad as it looks.  Rice should not be stirred. As soon as it comes to a boil lower the flame way down or even turn it off all together; then cover the pot and wait until all the water is gone. Toasted sesame oil is delicious stuff. But add it at the very end of your cooking -- otherwise the flavor tends to be killed off. Interestingly, that's how porridge is cooked in Singapore: keep stirring it until it's done, to prevent sticking of the grains to the pot. But I guess I could try your way too. ;D Mmmhhh that explains why the porridge tasted kinda yucky especially with the sesame oil swirling in there for a long time. Of course, it didn't help that I accidentally threw in dark instead of light soy sauce. |
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Post by cleglaw on Sept 5, 2008 21:02:17 GMT
...I wonder if we need a 'Horror' section? ;D C'mon, Elliot, my good man, it isn't as bad as it looks. Rice should not be stirred. As soon as it comes to a boil lower the flame way down or even turn it off all together; then cover the pot and wait until all the water is gone. Toasted sesame oil is delicious stuff. But add it at the very end of your cooking -- otherwise the flavor tends to be killed off. Interestingly, that's how porridge is cooked in Singapore: keep stirring it until it's done, to prevent sticking of the grains to the pot. But I guess I could try your way too. ;D Mmmhhh that explains why the porridge tasted kinda yucky especially with the sesame oil swirling in there for a long time. Of course, it didn't help that I accidentally threw in dark instead of light soy sauce. We make oatmeal by stirring it, but never rice. The ratio of water to rice is 2:1 btw: 2 cups of water to one cup of rice. |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Sept 6, 2008 2:57:49 GMT
Oh! oops... I think what I was trying to cook should be called "broth" but here, we call it "porridge".  |
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 6, 2008 3:01:44 GMT
I have other terms, after looking at that picture... |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Sept 6, 2008 3:09:34 GMT
I have other terms, after looking at that picture... Pray tell, do enlighten us.  |
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 6, 2008 3:14:20 GMT
Noooo.... I don't think half the planet is far enough away... ;D
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Post by peterh on Sept 6, 2008 18:49:28 GMT
Damn luce, that looks like the stuff they'd serve in hell!  |
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Post by Alrik on Sept 6, 2008 21:16:09 GMT
Noooo.... I don't think half the planet is far enough away... ;D Vomit. Say it. ;D My own disasters ... Well, once I put too much salt onto something ...  At another time I put too much Maggi Sauce onto something ... Yuck ! Recently, at one ill thought, I tried to kind of recycle the rests of peanuts (only a tiny bit kind of powder was left in the can) as an ingredient into my coffee ... I forgot that the can had contained salted peanuts ... |
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Post by LaFille on Sept 7, 2008 1:07:23 GMT
Peanut-flavored coffee... interesting. ;D I once mistaken soy sauce for syrup to go on sweet pankakes in the middle of a restaurant; wasn't very good either, but I must confess it looked less alien than what I see up there... ;D Most of my culinary disasters aren't in the pot or plate, though; they're more around...  |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Sept 7, 2008 8:36:31 GMT
Noooo.... I don't think half the planet is far enough away... ;D Now you make me want to hear it.  Out with it or I'll personally find you and force that same concoction down your throat. xD |
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Post by Hildor on Sept 7, 2008 8:43:16 GMT
Me, hating the taste of diet coke, wanting to sugar it up. Resulting in the kitchen covered with sugared up diet coke. Never heard of the effect of adding particles to sparkling fluids (the mentos+coke effect).
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Sept 7, 2008 9:53:51 GMT
Damn luce, that looks like the stuff they'd serve in hell! Pfftt... I know that in hell, they serve you fresh and raw blood, sweet and succulent. ;D So my meal isn't that bad. |
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 7, 2008 15:19:08 GMT
Noooo.... I don't think half the planet is far enough away... ;D Now you make me want to hear it. Out with it or I'll personally find you and force that same concoction down your throat. xD Oh, what, you mean I actually have to think of a description for that vile looking devil's brew, now? I'm not sure my vocab is good enough... ;D |
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Post by Hand-E-Food on Sept 8, 2008 0:54:21 GMT
Oh! oops... I think what I was trying to cook should be called "broth" but here, we call it "porridge". Are you thinking of "congee", rice poridge? |
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Post by killerzzz on Sept 10, 2008 23:10:26 GMT
Lucifiel, that looks awsome. Delectible. Anyhoo... I've got a good culniary disaster. ;D But why tell it, when I can sing it? Oooooooooooooooh... 'Twas a drink that I mixed, back wheeen I was six. I put milk in a cup, and fiiilled it up. Put some juice from a pickle, and leeeet it trickle, and some water in too, oh I knew just what to do; with some sugar for good measure, for a surely sweeter pleasure. Down it went and up it came, and I suggest that you never ever ever EVER do the same. ;D Killerzzz |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Sept 11, 2008 8:21:53 GMT
Damn luce, that looks like the stuff they'd serve in hell! Yoohoo, PeterH, I've got some special broth for you. You'll try it, won't you? Killerz: that sounds interesting. Not that I'd try it. Btw, this was what I put into my broth: onions, rice + water, egg, carrot cubes, tomato, egg, soy sauce(I accidentally added in dark soy sauce instead of light), lots of pepper, lettuce, chinese cabbage, mushrooms and clout's ears. |
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Post by Hildor on Sept 11, 2008 8:40:13 GMT
Bravo! Bravissimo! [clapity clapity]  |
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