Recipe tryouts that ended in epic failure

When young adults decide to deal with this daily chore, well - you don’t expect things to go nice, do you?
But anyway, it also means that a vast variety of new food break into the monotony of a rice-and-curry menu. Those are the days when we look forward to the mealtimes. But on the other hand, it doesn’t always go the way you plan.

Here are 4 delicious foods that ended up in a hilarious and epic disaster.


The potato chips

Our usual potato chip recipe is just deep frying slices of potato. But that could hardly be posh, can it? It looks nothing like the ones from the shops!

Well, here comes rescue in the form of a new potato recipe. For this recipe, instead of frying the whole thing, we’re going to bake it with some oil and seasoning. Let’s get to work!

We decided to go with two flavours - plain and chilli.
So the potato sliceS are put in two bowls. Both get a good soak of vinegar and salt, but one gets the chilli powder as well. Now they are to be left in peace as they soak up the flavourings.

The chilli flavoured one gets the first ride.
All of them are spread in an oiled baking tray and put in the oven.

After it is taken out, in goes the tray with the plain slices.


Ok. Now this sounds nice, doesn’t it? Just wait for it - you only get to know the bad side once it’s in your mouth.

Well, the seasoning had soaked up enough. But I think I won’t be able to swallow it. It is almost impossible to chew the slices and break them!
Those thin slices are so stiff that you feel like chewing on a sheet of plastic (the kind that is flexible).

There, there. I guess the normal deep fry is five star rated compared to this.


The butter nut squash pie

I know, you can’t expect first time’s to be perfect, but this time, we had so much hope.

My sister and I went to work with the specially reserved last butter nut squash. The thing is, this time, it all went so well until the very last minutes.

But to be honest, it was a very sorry looking pie left to be baked. We had taken only a little amount of floor, so our dough was the size of a palm of a hand. We had a lot of squash to go with that, but we could use only little.

My sister set the oven and now all we had to do was wait. When the time was finally up, we found out that the pie wasn’t baked at all. So we put another ten minutes. This time I poked it with a fork, but it was still raw. My sister came and inspected it, and put it for another five minutes.

Then we went on our way, and we’re completely absorbed in our work.

When the right time is up, the oven turns itself off, right? But when we came about fifteen minutes later, the oven was still on and the pie was a thin circle of black crust.

So much for taking eyes of the thing for several minutes.



The butter nut squash pancake 


My sister made pancakes out of the remaining squash mixture made for the pie.

I did not eat it. But later on the same day I saw my sister’s plate containing a weird looking unfinished glob of a food. That was obviously the pancake. Judging by the size of the leftover, I guessed it didn’t bring out a success to the day’s cookery.




The pita bread 


One morning my sister took out the self rising flour and plunged once again into bread making. Whoa! In a little while she produced a round little pita bread. What a success!

That evening we planned to make pizzas. We got everything ready. I felt inside the fridge and took out the flour. The packet was nearly empty, so we put some from another pack.

Then we proceeded with making pita bread.

How on earth?
Instead of staying soft and crunchy, the whole thing had gotten hard like a steel slab!

We immediately suspected the second package of flour, which didn’t have a label.

Since it was too late to make dinner from scratch, we just piled up the sauce, the meat and the cheese, and baked the hard bread into pizzas and ate.

Later that night we discovered how wrongly we had judged the second pack of flour. My mother looked at the label of the empty packet as she went by, and it was she who pointed out that all 5his time we had used string hopper flour instead of the self rising one!

That makes it my fault that we were attacking a thick slab of super hard flatbread for dinner.



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