You must have a bubble proof seal on your washer, because I did it once, and it was the disaster.
Yeah, my sophomore year roommate did that when we ran out of dishwasher detergent. The bubbles in the kitchen were waist-high and rising when we fought our way through the kitchen to turn off the dishwasher.
When the recipe calls for self rising flour, use self rising flour or you’ll get what my family referred to as hard knock cupcakes.
If you do not add sugar to pumpkin pie, it “tastes like death”.
If you’re easily distracted, use the popcorn button on the microwave, even if the bag says not to. That is, unless you enjoy a smoke-filled kitchen and a microwave that smells bad for days afterward.
A little bit of oregano goes a long way.
It works just fine if you only use a little bit. We’ve had to do that in a pinch and nothing had to be rewashed.
Not a whoosh at all. I was very proud to know that baking soda (Bicarbonate of soda) and cleaning or washing soda (mono carbonate of soda) are two redically different things. But I was fuzzy on the difference between baking powder and baking soda. I really thought they were the same thing. For instance, if I would have sprinkled baking soda on a carpet to eliminate bad smells, I might have thought that baking pwder would have done the trick, too. But in that case, I wound not have realised that two thirds of the weight of baking powder can be the acidic stuff.
The reason self-rising flour works is because it has baking powder and salt already in it. So if all you have is AP flour, throw about a tsp of baking powder per cup of flour and a dash of salt and everything should work out fine.
+1 My meatloaf recipe called for evaporated milk; I didn’t realize I’d bought sweetened condensed milk. Imagine sweet meatloaf.
I think everybody’s tried putting liquid dish soap in the dishwasher, and wound up with suds all over the floor.
I think this error is the “winner”: I did that too, with mac & cheese. It was gooshy cheesy candy.
(I took it to the picnic along with the correctly made stuff, for amusement value; even the dogs wouldn’t eat the candied cheese.)
Chili with habaneros is nice. It takes a long time to make though. Masturbation is not a good way to kill time immediately after putting the pot of chili on the stove.
Oh god that burn 
Thanks, but I’ll give the sweet meatloaf a pass. 
(I don’t care for combining sweet with meat, and my meatloaf recipe doesn’t use milk anyway.)
I’m seriously considering the dish soap in the dishwasher thing to clean my kitchen floor. 
In all seriousness, an inexperienced housekeeper once washed my ceramic tiled kitchen floorwith dish soap. It was slippery as whale snot for weeks afterward, snd through several rinsings. Argh!
I cleaned a hardwood floor with Pledge once when I was a kid. Oops.
If the recipe calls for blanched almonds, don’t substitute hickory-smoked salted almonds.
When I was a kid, my brother and I left out the flour when we made oatmeal cookies with butterscotch chips. What we got wasn’t cookies, but it was very tasty.
When you drop something sharp, or heavy, or breakable, it’s better to jump back than to try to catch it with your hand or foot. My doctor told me the next day how many hours you have after you catch the shattering 1 quart measuring cup, before suturing won’t do any good. I don’t remember how long, but I waited too long.
Check the oven gloves before using them. If they’ve accidentally got water on them they will not provide the required level of insulation.
It only happened once …
Don’t spray a dish with Pam (or any other non-stick cooking spray) over a tile floor. It was ugly. (I remembered it while doing my response to the teach a 19 yr old to cook thread.)
Wet pot holders get hot fast.
ETA: holy cow, I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, finally do and apparently got ninja’d two posts up.