Experiments gone bad.

[splitshot]

We have all had them...

Chili burger with anchovies:



Not bad, but would I do it again? Hell No...

 

[packetstormin]

That don't look so good but probably tasted good. I had an epic failure at smoking a brisket the other day. I have never smoked a brisket before and ended up burning it and drying it out. Looked almost like jerky. I have never had a problem with my smoker before as I have done ribs and chicken and even pork butt but for some reason I screwed the brisket up.

 

[Rhinoliner]

Why would you put cat food on your chile burger? I will eat almost anything, but I hate anchovies.

Oh, and by the way, that looks really good and it looks like a big plate full of heartburn. I'd eat it, but I would pick off the cat food. I would also douse that with a bunch of Tabasco sauce. You are making me rethink today's menu.

 

[splitshot]

Left overs from the pizza the night before (which I may add, cat fud is excellent with)...So far, pizza and ceasar dressing are the only things they work with imo.. The wife is out of town, I was craving salt..

 

[Trollhole]

I tried smoking a butt with hickory nut shells. Epic failure.

 

[BrotherRob]

Put peppers, garlic, tomatoes, basil and olive oil in the wok to make some flavored oil. Used too much heat and burned it. The oil was still pretty good but the veggies were charred beyond recognition.:whoops:

Tossed it with ravioli, it tasted like it had been roasted on the grill.

 

[splitshot]

Lol, reminds me of my buddies home brew idea; smoke the hops over mesquite. Tastes like you can blow smoke rings after the first swallow. We call it "Campfire in the mouth beer"..

 

[rusty_tlc]

Basil liqueur
The first batch had a strong swampy odor, I let the basil sit in the Everclear for way to long.
The current batch is doing much better, still need to let it sit for a while and see if I need to infuse more basil into the Everclear.

The recipe is simple;
750 mL of Everclear
a big bunch of basil
3 cups water
1/2 pound sugar

Make a simple syrup out of the water and sugar.
Steep the basil in the Everclear. After my first fail I did this overnight then strained off the booze, mixed a small sample with the simple syrup and tasted.

I repeated this three times before I was starting to get a faint swamp odor. After aging for a week that went away. I'll taste again in a week or son and maybe steep one more time before the basil in our garden gets frost kill.

 

[BrotherRob]

Basil liqueur
The first batch had a strong swampy odor, I let the basil sit in the Everclear for way to long.
The current batch is doing much better, still need to let it sit for a while and see if I need to infuse more basil into the Everclear.

The recipe is simple;
750 mL of Everclear
a big bunch of basil
3 cups water
1/2 pound sugar

Make a simple syrup out of the water and sugar.
Steep the basil in the Everclear. After my first fail I did this overnight then strained off the booze, mixed a small sample with the simple syrup and tasted.

I repeated this three times before I was starting to get a faint swamp odor. After aging for a week that went away. I'll taste again in a week or son and maybe steep one more time before the basil in our garden gets frost kill.

You drinking this or using it for cooking? I love fresh basil, but that sound kinda nasty.

 

[bigndn]

You drinking this or using it for cooking? I love fresh basil, but that sound kinda nasty.

Good questions. I can't imagine drinking Basil Liquer..... :barf:

 

[Yukon LX]

Rusty, This is off topic, but is that morse code your HAM radio AD7NW?

 

[rusty_tlc]

You drinking this or using it for cooking? I love fresh basil, but that sound kinda nasty.

drinking

Good questions. I can't imagine drinking Basil Liquer..... :barf:

not what you would expect

Rusty, This is off topic, but is that morse code your HAM radio AD7NW?

yes, that's my call sign

 

[Combat Chuck]

Left overs from the pizza the night before (which I may add, cat fud is excellent with)...So far, pizza and ceasar dressing are the only things they work with imo.. The wife is out of town, I was craving salt..

You coulda gotten away with cooking the little runts into your chili or some other sauce. I've found that Anchovies work as a great salt replacement in many sauces, not to mention my white wine base for steamed clams.

Generally, my bad experiments are dessert-related. Not into that whole "exact measurement" crap.

What else?
Grapefruit juice into a cherry smoothie. That was all bad.

 

[Shahram]

Chicken breasts stuffed with olive and pistachio tapenade, grilled over an open fire. All my wood was wet inside. Had to bellow the fire a lot, which spread the ash all over the chicken, then the fire got super hot, which burned the outside and left the inside raw. Bloody burned chicken with crunchy ash crust....DONE.

Also, most of my attempts at baking have ended in pure fail.

 

[splitshot]

Chicken breasts stuffed with olive and pistachio tapenade, grilled over an open fire. All my wood was wet inside. Had to bellow the fire a lot, which spread the ash all over the chicken, then the fire got super hot, which burned the outside and left the inside raw. Bloody burned chicken with crunchy ash crust....DONE.

Also, most of my attempts at baking have ended in pure fail.

LOL, I would bet most of us have cooked ashen raw chicken at least once.

 

[Combat Chuck]

LOL, I would bet most of us have cooked ashen raw chicken at least once.

I know I have. Before I figured out how to finesse my charcoal grill, I had some crunchy products.
Also, using soft woods for a cooking fire really screwed up some good leg/thighs once. Not an experiment per-se, just a brain fart on my part.

As a 12-year old, brand new Scout, I burned up my first dutch oven pizza really bad because I tried to ramp up the heat by burying the DO in match-light charcoal.
It took me three years to really try using DO's again after that.

 

[agomez]

damn...

 

[redsands]

this one time, i added the yogurt to the masala too early, and it curdled.

 

[BrotherRob]

Also, most of my attempts at baking have ended in pure fail.

Baking involves to much chemistry, that means you have to follow directions. Everyone knows that men don't follow directions.

 

[Yukon LX]

I was cooking chili this weekend and somewhere along the way got hammered. I put a whole container of greek yogurt by accident thinking it was sour cream and an entire bottle of "the ghost" hot sauce in it. Never had chili that was so hot with a vanilla aftertaste before. Still ate it out of principle. It actually wasn't as bad as it sounds. Next time i will lay off the power drinking until the chili is ready for its long slow simmer.