30 Cooking Brain Farts That Led To Catastrophic Results

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“in my early days of cooking, I learned what a ‘clove’ of garlic is the hard way. I wanted to make rigatoni alla vodka for my girlfriend. The recipe called for four cloves of garlic, but since I was 19, I didn’t know WTF a ‘clove’ was. I figured it was the unit that loose garlic is sold in, so I chopped up four heads of garlic — probably around 65 cloves — and started the sauce…

“As soon as I started sautéing it, the apartment started to fill with a tear-inducing gas that literally scorched the inside of our nostrils. We both had to go outside to get some air, and it took six weeks for the smell in my girlfriend’s apartment to go away.”

—u/NotSure2505

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/rossyoder/cooking-brain-farts