Kitchen Misadventures

I've been cooking regularly for almost two years and while I've cooked several dishes that didn't quite make the grade or what I consider disasters, I've had a couple of what I consider kitchen misadventures. Twice, I cooked rice in a rice cooker, only to discover after an hour when the chime goes off that I didn't put water with the rice, ie I made toasted rice. Thankfully, I usually cook rice early enough to be able to rectify the error and have cooked rice ready in time for dinner. My other misadventure of recent past is making a vegetable dish and just before serving it, I tasted it and realize that instead of adding cornstarch, I added baking soda, which made the dish very bitter.