What has been a recent meal- or food-related disaster or disappointment?

Mine is tool related. I get a lot of take and bake pizzas. So I noticed that it started to be a little raw in the dough when it looked crispy on the outside. It eventually started slipping and got more raw even at the same temp setting. And generally I stick the pizza in the fridge and them bake it later that night. So I played with leaving it out for different amounts of times bringing the dough up to room temp.

After about ruining about ten pizzas I bought a oven thermometer. Turns out my oven when set at 425º was actually at 580º. Now my pizza is good enough.

Last night I put my microwavable rice dish in the microwave. I followed the instructions, but it exploded anyway. As it was all I had, I had to scrape some off the microwave dish, just to have something to eat… It sucked….

Had steak. Was a shoe sole.

Try drinking a Coke, after haven’t done so for about a year and a half….
Disgustingly sweet and involuntarily jaw muscles stretching yuk.
I was really looking forward to it, on a hot, sunny day.

Same goes, for me anyway, for eating salted crisps or peanuts when you are eating saltless for years prior.

I bought a packet of mixed frozen veg from my supermarket recently. The picture on the packet was very colourful and enticing while inside was a bland assortment of bits of vegetable that looked likely to turn to mush when cooked. Very misleading and disappointing.

I spent over an hour in the kitchen laboring over a Mexican rice recipe that I’ve made several times before with great success. I took it out of the oven only to find the rice was underdone and crunchy despite doing everything the same way I always do it. I was so upset I had to do everything to keep from angrily throwing the entire thing in the garbage and tearing up the recipe. I managed to eat it by adding more water to every bowl and microwaving it, but it ended up being gummy and did not have the texture that I had to come to love. Needless to say, I’m not making it again for a while. Pretty discouraging.

I ordered a vegetarian burrito from a new place. Turns out that this burrito was all vegetables EXCEPT for beans and cheese, which is kind of the definition of a burrito (as opposed to a vegetable wrap or whatever). There were no beans and no cheese. Oy vey!

We went to a friend’s house on a ballgame night last year for a chile dinner complete with cornbread. When we got there the house didn’t smell like chile. Well, our dinner was made with venison. No way no how. They apologized when I only had corn bread for dinner. I told them it never occurred to me to ask, but I will never take beef in chile for granted again. :)