A new museum dedicated to the common cooking mishap
This specimen is proof that Red Lobster is not training their tiger shrimp grillers properly.
With grilling season here and folks like us studying the bbq guides in an urgent attempt to compensate for our vegetarian boyfriends and husbands' inabilities, I just want to issue this warning: if you don't let the coals burn down, your shish kebabs will burn. This and other cooking mishaps are brilliantly documented on The Museum of Burnt Food website. It's the website for all of us who've experienced this culinary disaster.
The toasted bagel disaster could happen to any of us...or is that a donut? [from the Museum of Burnt Food]:
Bagel, gift of the "Benveniste Carbon Dating Service"
This beautifully preserved specimen tells it all: a beloved food, object of gustatory desire, placed in the oven with the best of intentions -- and yet, as so often happens, preoccupation with life's ephemera leaves the beloved alone, neglected, ultimately its heart (and in this case everything else as well) turned hard as stone.
Comments
I need help with my science fair project. I am going to find out what happens if you leave out certain ingredients in a cake. Any suggestions on what will happen or where to find info on the chemical reactions of basic ingredients like baking powder, eggs, oil etc.
Posted by: nika | January 26, 2006 10:04 PM
I don't know what will happen, but if you take photographs, document your findings and send me the results, I publish them on cakehead.
Posted by: cakehead | January 26, 2006 11:39 PM