Culinary disasters of the famous
February 2, 2015 by DarcieWe’ve all experienced kitchen disasters – burnt roasts, boil-overs, mistaken ingredients, equipment malfunctions, stock poured down the drain, and so on. It can be comforting to know that we’re in good company, as The Guardian shows us in its story on culinary disasters of famous food writers and other celebrities.
In the article, the stars often relate their embarrassing experiences in their own words. Gwyneth Paltrow recounts an incident involving undercooked aubergines: “I didn’t know that when you cook eggplant, you first have to sweat it to get all the bitter juice out, and I didn’t realise that you also have to bread eggplant parmesan and fry it before. So I put slices of raw eggplant with jarred tomato sauce and mozzarella. And everyone threw up.”
Chef José Pizarro recounts an incident with a mixer that most bakers will probably understand. “The first time I made chocolate cake, I put everything into the mixer and it exploded,” says the chef. “It turned out the lid wasn’t on properly.” Heat and timing, not equipment, were factors in Jay Rayner‘s cooking disaster. He was making pork scratchings in the oven before a dinner party. Says Rayner, “They just burned, literally carbonised – it was a black, gluey mess.”
I’ll admit to carbonising caramel on more than one occasion, leaving a mess that took days to scrape out of the pan. Are you willing to share your embarrasing kitchen moments?
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