A couple of weeks ago, for my birthday, a friend of mine gave me a funnel cake kit:



Today, I attempted to make a few funnel cakes, to take to the Super Bowl party I was going to later in the afternoon.

I filled a regular frying pan halfway up with oil (inside a ring that came with the mix), and waited for it to heat up. Then, I put some of the funnel cake mix in, and as soon as the mix hit the oil, it started going everywhere. Soon, a grease fire had erupted, from the oil that got into one of the eyes of the stove.

I was in shock and couldn't help but laugh for a few seconds, while my roommate ran and got the fire extinguisher. Then, he put out the fire (roommate #2 is taking the pictures, not me):



...and turned off the stove:



he ended up emptying the extinguisher while spraying our stove, and it turned into yellow dusty stuff after a few minutes:



after the smoke cleared out of the apartment, we regrouped, and i packed everything up to try again some other time:



i think my roommate (guy holding funnel cake dispenser to my head) was kind of pissed off about the whole thing. i have a pretty bad headache, and my lungs and throat feel shitty, but i guess it was kind of funny.

i'll try again sometime, at someone else's house.

I hope youre better at oral sex than cooking.

Holy shit.

the picture on the box looks like intestines. what did you expect out of a box like that?... besides an evil demented funnel cake out to kill you.

btw take a close look at the box in the last picture, there is a big lots sticker...this thing cost $4.99. at least she threw in an extra mix packet with it that she got from another box. some poor schmuck is going to buy a funnel cake kit, take it 30 miles out to his home in bum fuck, Alabama, and won't even be able to enjoy a seasonal treat.

Just like at the county fair, y'all!

Dude leave the funnel cake making to the professionals.

You've obviously never had intestines with powdered sugar on them. They kick ass!

lol... should have come with a don't try this at home unsupervised warning..

I will, funnel cakes aren't even that great when someone else makes them.

your story reminds me of the time i tried microwaving a donut.

only less retarded.

What a fine story that is! Everybody needs a few of these "homemaking gone wrong" stories to share. I don't have any real exciting food ones. My worst involved me trying to get my whites extra white with ammonia and bleach!

Good thinking to chronicle it with pictures!

Yeah, the pictures add additional layers of drama & pathos.

My worst story happened long ago. My husband & I had returned home after an evening of partying 75 miles to the south. It was 3 a.m. but we had the munchies and decided to cook some french fries. As soon as the spuds were sizzling, we sat down to watch tv & wait.

About 90 minutes later, I awoke to a house filled with black smoke. My husband was still sawing logs. If I'd taken a picture of what remained in the skillet, it would've looked something like this:

best chuckle I had all day.

no food ones for me, though one semi laundry-related, like yours.

There was the time I stuck a pair of washed shorts in the oven in hopes of getting them to dry them quicker, as I needed to wear them for the day. What I failed to realize was that clothing, like food, turns crispy when you cook 'em.




Is this code for "taking a dump", or was he actually gathering wood after 3 AM?

huh? He was in a deeeep sleep. I cleaned up the carbon shards, then woke him up.

yes, I'm sooo sure he was in a "deep sleep". What you didn't know was he had just upped your life insurance policy earlier that afternoon. You foiled his sinister plot without even knowing it!





sorry. I think I've watched one too many movies on the Lifetime cable.

update: i tried to make funnel cakes again today, and it still didn't work

no fire or pictures this time though

This thread was really underappreciated the first time around, IMHO.

i finally threw this box out last week. the mix would have been nearly two years old when it was bought at big lot's, which sells mostly expired or close to expiring goods.

thought about going out with a big bang, and try to make a funnel cake once and for all, but decided better of it when i realized that ripping the fire alarm out when i first moved in violated my rental contract, so i would probably be held responsible if i burned this place down.

yes. the tales of pinkerton's retardedness never fails to highly amuse.