My neighbor once attempted to make a soufflé. He didn't whip the egg whites properly. So when it went into the oven, instead of rising beautifully, it just sort of slumped to one side. It was like a sad, deflated balloon. He was so disappointed, but it was really funny for the rest of us to see.
My grandma once mistook salt for sugar while making the pumpkin pie. Let's just say it was not a pleasant taste at all. We all had a good chuckle when we saw her reaction after taking a bite herself.
One time my wife was trying to make a simple pasta dish. She accidentally put salt instead of sugar in the sauce. It was so salty that we couldn't eat it at all. Another time she burned the cookies because she got distracted by a phone call.
My cousin once tried to make a cake but accidentally added salt instead of sugar. The look on everyone's face when they tasted it was hilarious.
Sure. There was a story where a novice cook was trying to make cranberry sauce from scratch. They misread the recipe and added way too much vinegar. The result was a super sour and almost inedible cranberry mess. Everyone at the table made the funniest faces when they tasted it.
I recommend "Super Food Empire" and "Super Culinary God System" to you. They are both fantasy novels with food as the theme. In these novels, there were elements such as eating qi and reiki. The protagonist became a world-class gourmet master with his own cooking skills. I hope you like my personal recommendation. Muah ~
A possible disaster is when the parent is cooking lasagna and the baby crawls into the kitchen and knocks over a pot of boiling water that was meant for cooking the lasagna noodles. This can cause serious burns to the baby. It's a nightmare scenario for any parent.
There was this time when my sister was attempting to make mac and cheese from scratch. She misread the amount of milk and added a whole gallon instead of a cup. The result was a soupy mess that overflowed the pot and made the kitchen look like a dairy disaster area. We had to mop up the floor and laugh about her cooking blunder.
My mom once tried to make a stir - fry. She accidentally used the wrong kind of soy sauce, a really strong and bitter one. The whole dish tasted so off that we couldn't eat it. She was so embarrassed but we all found it hilarious in the end.
One funny story is about the time my aunt tried to make a pumpkin pie from scratch. She accidentally added salt instead of sugar. When we took a bite, it was the saltiest thing ever! We all had a good laugh and ended up ordering a proper pie from the bakery.
I think the key is the detailed descriptions of the cooking processes and the emotions of the characters involved. It makes you feel like you're right there in the kitchen.