Do Tell: My Food's on Fire! Share Your Biggest Grill Fail to Win a New BBQ

When I thought I could delicately balance bay scallops between grill bars, they fell in, and while trying to fish them out my hair caught on fire!

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I had just bought a new house before Thanksgiving and offered to have Thanksgiving at my house. But, I didn't realize the previous owners had taken the oven rack with them. Who does that!!? So, I grilled it up - even the apple pie in a baking dish. The dish got too hot and scorched while the apples and top pastry layer did not cook.
It was a big mush... so I stirred it all up and made apple cobbler .... really really crappy apple cobbler.

We cooked out for my daughter's baptism party and the brats ended up being non done. I was so embarrassed as everyone had sat through a Catholic mass and then the baptism ceremony afterward and they were hungry. They had to wait for us to cook the brats a second time to get them done.

Pizza falling through the grill.

Did you know salmon falls apart when it's cooked? I didn't. Fail!

I was told to only flip the burgers once so they came out burnt on one side and raw on the other.

a few years back we got our grill out of the shed after a long winter and were going to barbeque up some burgers and hotdogs..when i opend it up i almost peed my pants some mice had made a nest in it for the winter..i was not hungry anymore..lol

Kabobs do not take as long as you think to cook. They do not taste good burned.

Do not go into the house for something and then forget to go back out to the BBQ. This will result in charred food.

Do not try to grill fish on the BBQ. It ends up in the coals. Thanks for the contest.

I had trouble getting the charcoal right, and then it was way too hot and burned the veggies

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My dad always loved BBQ ribs, so once when he was visiting I decided to cook some for him. Those things were worse than eating shoe leather. They were too tough to eat. Never tried those since. I go out for ribs!

For my parents' 50th anniversary, I bought $15.99 a pound filet mignon. I put it on the grill, set the timer, and went out at the halfway point to turn them over. Even though the grill had plenty of gas, the flame had gone out and I couldn't get it started again. I ended up broiling it in the oven, but that's just not the same as grilling it.

wife forgot about the meat and burned it to a crisp.

My husband had to work on the sat of are birthday party for are son jack and I thought I would get the burgers and hot dogs, going but I did something wrong and they were all burnt way to bad to eat my sons birthday is on the july 3rd my hubby had to stop at a few stores on the way home to get what we needed.

Hubby is awesome at making tri-tip, using all different rubs or marinades. One day he used a bunch of whiskey in the marinade to give it a smokier flavor.

It marinated for a LONG time and the center didn't get hot enough to burn off the alcohol. The middle of the tri-tip y=would literally get you drunk!

Needless to say he doesn't marinate big pieces of meat with alcohol any more!

I haven't really grilled but I know I'd probably burn the food if I did

hurricane wilma hit and i KNEW we were out of propane, so for two weeks we scrounged all over the neighborhood for fire wood to cook with on an ancient, rusted- out grill,only to find out that we had a full back-up tank of fuel buried under hurricane debris.

I've always been a bit paranoid about gas grills (keep seeing Wile E. Coyote sized fireballs in my mind....) but when hubby told me he was going to clean out the grates and such on our older gas grill, I didn't think too much about it.

I was in the kitchen doing dishes when I heard a WHOOOOOOSH! and literally saw the flash of orange light as the gas that had accumulated caught fire. Luckily, hubby lost only some hair and his pride, but next time I think he'll be much more careful. Wile E. Coyote would've been proud ;)

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Tanya
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Well, I never got to grill since when we had planned to cook for the first time this summer we discovered a mice nest inside and that took up about 1 hr to move and put the mice in the field. So my appetite suddenly turned for a nice big sub!

Well, my worst failure wasn't with the food. The turkey turned out great. The problem... I burned my hand really bad and nearly ended up in the hospital. I toughed it out, and enjoyed my meal anyway.

The time the grill fell off the deck with loads of chicken and steak on it and caught the grass on fire. I don't think the firemen were amused having to come out on the fourth and not getting anything to eat. garrettsambo@aol.com

My one and only grilling attempt was trying to cook hot dogs . I couldn't get the charcoal going so I kept on adding more and more charcoal fluid. The darn thing got warm enough to cook the hot dogs, but just barely. When I brought them in the house you could smell the fumes! And talk about taste.....I took one bite and was sick for 2 days. :(

I tried to grill chicken one time and it was so dry, I couldn't even eat it.

My biggiest grill disaster was when I tried to grill a nice filet. I burnt the outside and the inside was raw.

I tried to charcoal grill for a cookout at my in-laws many years ago and couldn't get the charcoal to get hot so needless to say it was basically a bust I was embaraced.

I do not have any luck grilling fish. It always falls apart on me.. :)

One day after a BBQ (while the grill was still pretty hot) I decided that I should grill some bananas since we had a bunch (hahah that's a pun!) that had all ripened at the same time. Well, I didn't think I needed to read any recipes or do anything special. I ended up with a burnt blackened sheet of aluminum foil with banana sludge. Gross!

i grilled baby back ribs and they got burned it was a big expensive fail!

Well considering I don't have a real grill yet. My biggest fail was with my george foreman. Lets just say not easy to make scrambled eggs on it.

I remember one time when I burnt everything on the grill... it was a mess !!

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I didn't know that you were supposed to boil them before cooking. All the grease caught on fire and needless to say no brats for dinner.

The first time I BBQ'ed chicken, I was unaware of the trick involving par-boiling! Needless to say we ended-up with a nice bon-fire!

I am a freak about undercooked meat. My husband usually does the grilling, but I decided to help one night & cook the burgers on the grill. I started reading an article, forgot about the burgers. They turned into little black hockey pucks. The kids ended up having PB&J for dinner that night :(

My husband found a recipe for cooking a whole chicken on the bbq. Unfortunately, he lost the recipe, so I sort of improvised on what he told me....resulting in a horribly undercooked chicken.

i like grilled corn on the cob

sausages on a chacoal grill = major fail

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Okay so I'm a grilling fanatic, I live in a rainy area with little or no summer but I still grill year round, I mean I think it's the best! So one year I decide to throw a turkey right on there, no I'm not kidding! Needless to say it caught on fire and it had been burning for awhile when I noticed it...I barely put out the fire before it burned down our house, I got pretty lucky with that one! The turkey was 'a little' black and the grill was 'a lot' black lol!

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We drove 6 hours, and then spent about 2 hours bringing are things to our campsite--the start of a 5 day camping trip. The kids wanted to swim in the lake before it got dark, so I took them to the lake while my husband started dinner---while we were swimming we started to smell a horrible toxic chemically smell--it was so bad it made us sick. we went back to our campsite and found the the source of the smell. My husband had purchased a hibachi and he decided to set it on top of our giant plastic igloo cooler full of all our food. He had never used a hibachi before, and didn't realize---it would get hot---and that hot things melt plastic. It was a disaster!

Hubby tried exactly once to do chicken on the grill. He remembered hearing/reading/seeing somewhere that it goes better if you wrap the chicken in foil. Well... the foil stuck to the chicken like glue! Trying to open the foil afterwards resulted in either shreds of foil sticking to the chicken, or the chicken tearing apart! He's never attempted it again! (But he does make one heckuva bbq burger!!) ;)

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We went to clean our grill. We had to bring it down the deck stairs so we could pressure wash it. We wound up dropping the grill and denting one of the legs! We had wanted to get a new grill anyway...so this made it easier on our minds.

Once, my husband threw some kabobs on the grill without soaking the wood skewers in water first. The skewers caught fire, so we ended up dismantling the kabobs and cooking the chicken and veggies in the kitchen on the stovetop instead. Lesson learned. :)

I tried to make pizza on the grill and all it ended up tasting like was burnt bread. FAIL!

My first attempt at "Cooking out" on the grill was summer of 1989... Mike and I were newly engaged and we thought we'd do chicken and corn on the cob for dinner.

It started out with me pouring half a bottle of lighter fluid on the coals. Coals that did not require a starter... bad move. Nearly blew up the grill.

Threw the corn (still in husk) on flaming grill without soaking the corn over-night. Burned corn.

Then put the chicken on and immediately lathered it in sauce.

The chicken looked nicely crisp and done in about 10 minutes.

Yeah. It was raw. But I must say, the Kung Bao Chicken and Shrimp toast from the Hard Wok Cafe was lovely...

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I tried to make grilled zucchini. Stupid me didn't brush the slices with oil, but just put them right on the grates. They stuck SOOOO hard. It was a total, horrible mess.

I'm a total klutz when it comes to grilling. I stay away from it now as I'm sure I will burn the entire neighborhood down sooner or later, so I leave it to my hubby now. However back in the day I singed of my eyebrows being a grill idiot. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.

I once was heating up the grill and forgot about it. When I came back the entire inside of the grill was on fire!

I thought you would put boneless chicken on the grill for the same amount of time you would bone-in chicken. Apparently this is not the case as my boneless chicken tenderloins turned into jerky.

i may or may not have forgotten to soak the wooden skewers before bbqing some shrimp one summer... :: blushes ::

lesson learned.

We had just moved into a base house and I wanted my husband to be proud of me. I invited everyone from his unit for a BBQ and put on some chicken wings, hot dogs and hamburgers. I was so proud of myself flipping those burgers and decided to try and flip one through the air. The burger fell into the coal so I took it out and flipped it. It flipped alright, along with a burning coal. I looked in horror as it went onto the roof, caught some dry pine needs and in a flash caught fire. Two fire trucks and one fire chief later, the fire was out and I wished with all my heart that I could crawl into a hot dog roll and shrivel away.