Is there anything you're not allowed to cook anymore?

[firecat88]

Story from my mom's childhood- One time, a neighbor of my mom's gave my grandmother some capybara meat (my mom is from Venezuela, if I've never mentioned that before). No one in my family had ever cooked the stuff before, so they had no idea what to do with it. Now, I don't know if this is normal, but capybara apparently smells *really* bad when it's cooking. Bad enough that, according to my mom, the pot it was cooked in was ruined and had to be thrown away. They never tried cooking it again.

[MoonCat]

I don't know what spornge is, but I love the name

And firecat88, I have to tell you, I literally screamed when I read "capybara meat."

I mean, it's a giant rodent....

[firecat88]

I literally screamed when I read "capybara meat."

I've never tried it myself, but apparently it's quite common there.

[Kit-Ginevra]

So the capybara bothers you,but the mole,that's fine? :P

If I cook one of my pasta experiments,it's when there are no others in the room to complain about the noxious vapours. Hey,I just fling in pasta,sauce,Worcestershire sauce, mayo,mustard,soy sauce,raisins,chutney,anything else that's in the cupboard that will do.
The result has been likened to some sort of chemical weapon...
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[Aragarthiel]

Hey,I just fling in pasta,sauce,Worcestershire sauce, mayo,mustard,soy sauce,raisins,chutney,anything else that's in the cupboard that will do.
The result has been likened to some sort of chemical weapon...
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Reminds me of what we called "Fear Factor" (because the show often had contestants eating gross things) in elementary school. Someone would mix everything from their lunch together, including the milk and often containing mustard, and everyone else would gather 'round and watch the kid chug it and try not to

[Racket_Man]

When we had a coffee maker in the office, I stopped making coffee because apparently coffee that takes wallpaper off at 30 paces is not everybody's favorite

There is a guy at work who makes coffee this way. We call it jet fuel. Je takes at least 3 or 4 pouches of coffee and starts the brew cycle. THEN when the water is first starting to come out of the basket he fills his cup. NOTE if I remember correctly 70% of the coffee is leached out in the first 30% of the water.

I accidentally drank some and got the jaggies and shakes really really bad. I keep kidding him as to WHY he had NOT had a massive heart attack yet. and to add to that he might add a couple of tea bags AND cool it off with Mountain Dew

My oldest son is not allowed to make grits after he set a pan of grits on fire. And by "on fire", I don't mean burned or charred. I mean literal flames in the pan.

My daughter was in the same situation. As a teenager she decided to make some hard boiled eggs. put water in the pan. put the eggs in the pan. turned on the burner and then had a OHHHHHHHHH SHINNEY THING moment and went off and did not pay attention to the stove. My Ex found the aluminum pot on the stove MELTED to a pile of slag.

[WishfulSpirit]

Rice. The rice cooker apparently hates me, or knows I have Sicilian blood (pasta is the starch of choice in southern Italy) and retaliates by turning my rice into a hockey puck. I swear I do the same thing as Hubbs and his comes out perfect.

[Erinesque]

MoonCat, spornge is basically just bacon, eggs and toast, scrambled up together. When made correctly, it's downright amazing. (my dad used to overcook the eggs)

[Ironclad Alibi]

So the capybara bothers you,but the mole,that's fine? :P

I think the mole referred to is the sauce, not the animal.

[Kit-Ginevra]

Well I dunno what strange roadkill they grill up down in the desert now do I?

[Trixie]

I live alone now so I make whatever the hell I want though I do have history with bad grilled cheese sandwiches. But back in the day my mother would leave the house whenever I start to bake stuff for the holidays. I used to burn things and then get mad. Took awhile it took a long time for me to realize what I was doing wrong.

[MoonCat]

MoonCat, spornge is basically just bacon, eggs and toast, scrambled up together. When made correctly, it's downright amazing. (my dad used to overcook the eggs)

Ah, got it! I'll have to try that!

[Kittish]

I think the mole referred to is the sauce, not the animal.

Yes, I was talking about the sauce. FWIW, our ceiling in the kitchen is something like 10 feet up. I walked away for less than 5 minutes, and came back to a CIRCLE, a good 4 feet in diameter, of splattered sauce. All over the stove, all over the wall behind, all over the vent hood, all over counters to either side of the stove, on the CEILING for crying out loud. Then, to add the final insult, the stuff was inedible.

[Gizmo]

Not strictly cooking but after tripping and impaling one into his chin a good friend of mine is not allowed near plastic camping spoons...

[Shangri-laschild]

Um, I'm not allowed to "cook" candle remnants in the toaster oven because I set my dad's on fire and nearly burned the cabinets above.

Along those lines, I'm no longer allowed to cook hair gel or at least not in the winter and possibly not without telling an "adult" first so someone knows what I'm doing