Calling All Chefs Who Suck
Here's an ethical dilemma for you. If you know a cook so inept he or she could burn water on an unlit eye, you have until June 30 to nominate the poor sap for the title of America's Worst Cook. By so doing, you could make the victim eligible for "a culinary makeover trip-for-two to New York," courtesy of the American Egg Board. But is it worth outing a friend, family member or (shudder) spouse as a culinary serial offender, just to get an expense-paid trip to the Big Apple? We say: only if the nominee invites you along.
I would nominate myself, but I don't really have any cooking disaster stories. Well, except for the time I caught a skillet of bologna on fire and set off my apartment building's smoke detectors. Or the time I didn't wash the fresh-picked spinach for my spinach lasagna, providing my sweetie with a romantic dinner of triple-layered grit. Or the time my Pyrex dish of broiling salmon literally exploded in the oven. Or the time my brother dangled eggs from the rotors of our kitchen ceiling fan and hit top speed. Or the time....
On second thought, gimme that form.
Comments
This isn't really a cooking disaster, but a friend of my mom's once thought a box of instant mashed potatoes was detergent and poured it all over the clothes in her washing machine.
Posted 06/17/2008 at 10:48:33 AMI often confuse spuds for suds.
Posted 06/24/2008 at 02:50:15 PMI entered my friend "Trudy" in the contest, because she's legendarily awful, and because one of her major disasters involved eggs. That had been in the fridge for a year, just waiting for the right moment. Which turned out to be breakfast for a new beau. Except that the eggs were, er, toast. So to speak. Thanks for the tip Pink.
Posted 06/25/2008 at 01:10:10 PM