Food got burned!

That does happen from time to time. It happens to me every once in a while. I will be making instant potatoes in a pan and I am waiting for the water to boil. I turn my head for just a second, the next thing I now the pot is overflowing with boiling water. It doesn't take long to lose track of your attention and next thing you know something is burning!

well since the time i got hooked to cooking and responding to mylot almost at the same time. i think you probably know what took my attention and forgot that i'm cooking.lol. doing mylot and cooking at the same time is not such a good idea. lol. have a good day dhangski.

I always seem to burn the potatoes nothing else just the potatoes and it's usually because I'm on the computer which is in another room and foget about the food on the stove.

I remember last Sunday, we are all busy that time. My wife was preparing for lunch while she was doing the laundry. The menu for the day was "sinigang na baboy" (pork in sour soup with veggies). She already put the pork in the pot, pre-cook it in small amount of water to tenderize. While doing the laundry, she asked me to take a look at kitchen and take charge of the cooking. Kids are playing, the youngest kid was so naughty so I had a good time watching them. Suddenly, my wife was yelling: "honey, there's something burning!". OMG, the pork had almost burnt. So I continue and finished the cooking. Wow, this lunch is great (sinigang na baboy na sunog). Everybody in the house had a great meal. KEEP SMILING=> NEIL

LOL! My kids will call that shadow! I seldom burm our meals nowadays, maybe I learned my lessons. The thing is I always burn our rice! I am not really good at that but luckily, my daughter is our officil rice cook!

..I could remember the time when I was still in college and I was cooking for dinner and at the same time watching the a television program. I was cooking a 'Nilagang Baka' - it's a beef dish with a soup stock. I got hooked on the TV program I was watching that I completely forgot that I was cooking and I just remember about it when I smelled something got burned in the kitchen. Imagine a dish with a soup stock and got burned... Too good the kitchen didn't caught on fire, but I have to eat a canned goods then because I burnt my dish.

Hi dhangski,

Good that he was able to stop the fire soon!
That happen to me one time and I even posted a topic about it 4 months ago..LOL!
I was putting some food in the microwave for my hubby's breakfast and leave there then iron his clothes..I was trying to accomplish 2 things fast..LOL!

I didn't notice that instead of pressing 2:50 minutes, I did it for 22:50! Oh my God, I was so confident ironing and the kitchen started to have some smoke and smells fire..Good thing my husband was able to save it right away! I was really scared!

Yes I cooked things where I forgot about them but it never set the smoke detector off thank god. I was makeing a tuna helper meal and I set it on low to let it cook slowly. I came back into the liveing room and got into ansering e-mails and forgot the tuna helper was on the stovetop. I think it had been about fifteen minutes and I smelt something like it was burning. It then dawned on me I had something on the stovetop cooking. I jumped out of the chair and went running into the kitchen and the stuff was all stuck to the bottom of the pan. I thought that seeing I put the cooking temp on low I would have a few minutes to respond to my e-mails. Nope apparently I didn't and I have learned to not take my attetion away fom things when I am cooking it. It's a good thing your husband saw that and did something about it and quick.

My fiance and me were making burgers the other night in the bottom bolier . Things get done much fast down there . We dont use it all that often, and it is rare and are food was burnt . We still ate it though, because all we did was cut off the patches that were burnt

Yes I have that experience when I am cooking Chicken and Pork Adobo when my stomach ache and I need to rush to the comfort room and I forgot to lessen the fire on on the stove. When I'm done doing my pee, My Adobo turns into Uling... LOL!!!!