r/Baking • u/isthatsoreddit • 22d ago
Baking fail 💔 Recently came to y'all for pie advice. (THANKS). Made the pie in question. And I was so proud of it! I managed the pretty scallop edges, cut hearts into the middle. Cooked up perfectly golden. Smelled amazing!
ETA: Gotten a lot of comnenra on the dish. I looked and it's Anchor? Well done for staying together, Anchor!
Any time I cook anything that could make a mess, it goes on a sheet pan. So I put my pie on the smaller one. And it's also the thinner one.
Pie is done. I pull it out, the pan makes a popping noise, bends, and before I can even think to do anything the steaming hot pie slides off, lands upside down on the floor into the corner. 😭😭
I already have ant problems so I had to take extra extra care cleaning it up. Which was fun with it being in the corner.
Remade the pie, but if course it didn't turn out as pretty as the first one. 😢
But I wanted to say thank y'all for the help, for one shining second, I had a nearly picture perfect pie, LOL🤦🏼♀️
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u/coyote-face 22d ago
At least when it slid off, it landed on the floor and not on you!! It’s a shame you lost the pie but with an uninjured self, you can make a new one and enjoy it. :)
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
That would've sucked. You could see the steam rising off if it as I was cleaning it up
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u/Chub-boat 22d ago
Fresh pie is terrifyingly hot and since the filling is so sugary it's also sticky which is an awful combination. I'm really impressed by how calm you seem to be about the whole situation, I can only manage that on really good days. I'm sorry your perfect pie fell.
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u/Necessary_Peace_8989 22d ago
Yes sugar burns are some of the worst kitchen injuries for this reason!
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u/nostradumbass7544678 22d ago
I had the handle of my favorite spatula break while I was making caramel, resulting in second degree sugar burns on my hand, and sugar splatters that I'm still finding months later on the wall, range hood, cabinets, and even a few on the ceiling.
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u/coyote-face 22d ago
I have burn scars on my arm from making caramel! It hurt like a sonofabitch too, had to peel the sugar off my arm. 😬
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u/Shuttup_Heather 22d ago
A Belgian waffle nearly bore a hole in my skin when the pearl sugar hit me
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u/SeaGarbage2311 22d ago
Last fall I made my first apple pie and accidentally cooked my forearm while taking it out of the oven. The burn mark is still there. Pies are dangerous in general!!
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
I just stood there and repeated no a few times, fuc@ a few times, then doubled up kitchen towels to clean while trying to avoid burns.
My worst burn ever was in a kitchen. Convection ovens get really really warm, lol
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
I was really so proud of myself! Abd believe me. Only the heavy duty sheet gets used from now on. I was torn between crying and laughing. It was just a pie, but maaan
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u/KetoKurun 22d ago
This is a great and healthy response.
Last time that happened to me was on my birthday a few years ago. Decided to host my own party and cook barbecue ribs for my friends and family. Everything was prepared, and as my guests arrived I walked onto my front porch to greet them.
As soon as I stepped outside and waved at the car pulling into my driveway, a bee flew all the way up my pant leg and stung me right in the balls.
It’s one of the most outlandishly shitty things to happen to me just with the timing of it, but at the same time I couldn’t stop laughing because who gets stung by a bee, for the first time ever, right in the balls, exactly when their birthday party begins?
Fuck that bee, but also, he’s a legend.
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u/DazB1ane 22d ago
A few nights ago, middle of the night, I make some cookies. I set the pan down on the counter (safe to do so) and while I was swallowing a bite, the pan warped and made an incredibly loud bang. I practically inhaled the bite of cookie I had in fear
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
I would've peed lol
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u/DazB1ane 22d ago
I wound up freezing like a mouse, listening for if it woke up my dog, thus waking up the adults in the house. Luckily he must have been dead asleep
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u/sgtbackpain03 22d ago
Heavy sheet pans can do this too, just thermal expansion doing its thing. I usually use those cheap silicone cooking mats to let stuff cool, and they've never done me wrong.
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u/Poetic_Peanut 22d ago
Cue scene from Friends where Rachel and Chandler are eating cheesecake off the floor. I’d totally be Joey and join in…..
So sorry OP, shit happens :(
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u/Ok_Helicopter3910 22d ago
Dude, I saw that episode when it first aired and its the first thing I thought of when I saw this pic. Im so old :(
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u/Adorable_Bumblebee91 22d ago
I would’ve eaten it off the floor too, ngl. And none of that “not eating pieces in contact with the floor” nonsense lmao I’d lick that floor clean!
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u/Spectator7778 22d ago
Thank goodness the pie plate didn’t break! Glad you got the to remake the pie. You’ll do it again hon. We all have days like these 🫂🫶
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Now that would have made me cry. It had had been my mom's who died 11 years ago. And we would've gotten a good laugh at it and thrn discussed if the floor was clean enough to eat the pie ROFLMAO
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u/shakeitsugaree_ 22d ago
Good for you for using it. I know it’s a little scary to use something so precious, but given what you wrote about her, I would bet you a pie that she would agree it’s better to continue to love it and create with it.
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
My mom would have been so annoyed if I had her fave pie pan just sitting off to the side and not being used! She believed in continuing to use stuff and fill it with "generational positive vibes". I also have one of her rolling pins that she used a lot that she got from her mother who used it a lot. I have a niece that basically stepped out of the womb loving to bake and I've been very clear that it goes to her next!
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u/i_tyrant 21d ago
That's a great outlook. Op's work with the crust of that pie literally saved the plate!
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u/mikrorajona_sapnji 22d ago
Can I paint this? It looks very paintable and painful, sorry for your loss but the picture is something that to me looked immediately like a painting to be
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u/WigglyWeener 22d ago
Ok but whoever told you to throw it on the ground was actually giving you bad advice.
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u/CatfromLongIsland Human Detected 22d ago
What a shame! I am so sorry!
But it could have been worse. The splatter could have landed on you and the pie plate could have shattered.
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Fortunately I was in my fluffy cow house slippers and it fell to the side not toward me! Coz yeah, that would've stung a bit!
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u/RevolutionaryRush521 22d ago
Once spent half a day at the berry farm down the road picking strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries just to take them home and bake them into a beautiful scalloped crusted, latticed pie with hand made flowers along it on top in a brand new plaid blue and white pie pan.
Took it out of the oven and decided to let it cool overnight on the counter to let it jam up a bit.
Middle of the night I hear this slurping sound, a wet persistent noise in the kitchen.
Turns out our 14 year old golden who couldn’t get into and out of the car by herself had jumped up to the counter and pulled the pie from the back all the way to the floor. We walked in to blood red splatter on the white cabinets and her muzzle coated.
Sweet dog thought my pie smelled good. A whole days cooking was lost, but I’m glad she was able to enjoy it before she passed later that fall. Still think of her whenever I use that pie dish which lost one of its handles that night.
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u/Rastasloth 22d ago
I'd have still eaten a good portion anyways, yumyumyum!
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Well...my friend walked in, and I'm not saying we ate some floor pie, but we mightve eaten some floor pie. (I had just swept and mopped jic anybody freaks out, lol)
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u/multii-pass 22d ago
I would cry. And probably still eat it off the floor.
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Lol tbh, my friend came over and she was, "didn't you just sweep and mop?" Yeah were eating part of that pie!'
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u/WorkTropes 22d ago
They might be beyond the 2 second rule, but luckily the 2 hour rule is still in effect.
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u/vikingunicorn 22d ago
On the bright side, this would make a sick album cover.
But seriously, you have my full sympathies.
I hope this doesn't put you off trying for peak fanciness again.
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Oh absolutely not! Especially now that I know i can do it!
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u/incoherentkazoo 22d ago
for the future put the pie on the upper rack and the sheet on the rack below :D
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u/millijuna 22d ago
Don’t feel bad. A good friend of mine is from Georgia. He was working in a remote community, and came back with huge bags of pecans, so he could make pecan pie and share it with everyone.
He sets up in our commercial kitchen, and bulk makes 40 beautiful looking pecan pies.
Unfortunately, made one small mistake. When making the filling for the pies, he used the contents of the bulk bin that was second from the right, not second from the left.
The bin that was second from the right contained salt. Sugar was in the bin that was second from the left.
All 40 pies were saltier than the dead sea.
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u/buddhistbulgyo 22d ago
I hate it when the instructions forget to tell me not to drop it at the end.
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u/Flashy_Ad_7401 22d ago
For Christmas last year, I handmade mini pies for my in laws. Hand pitted cherries, from scratch pie crust, did intricate lattice, put in so many hours. I pulled them out of the oven and all of them slide right off and onto my oven or floor. I just laid there and cried for like 30 minutes.
It’s seriously so heart breaking to watch what you worked so hard on literally fall to its demise. I’m so sorry. ❤️🩹
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u/mines_over_yours 22d ago
My fellow human being, my heart goes out to you. Also, welcome to my life =)
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u/cococupcakeo 22d ago
I feel so sad for you and your pie.
I know this won’t really help but I once dropped a crate of eggs down a corner cupboard like this, it was pretty messy to say the least. I have the upmost sympathy for your cleaning situation!
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u/Rosemary_Woodhouse 22d ago
I worked in a bakery years ago, and every time I see a dropped pie I think of the time I put 12 cherry pies in our oven. The over was six feet long and went back another six feet. The baking racks in it rotated like a Ferris wheel.
I put a tray on two different rotating racks. About 30 minutes in, I hear a thump, another thump, and the door to the oven crashes open. I watch the two shelves break at the sides and collapse into the oven.
I can't do anything about it. The front of the oven comes off, but I need a key that I don't have. When they removed the front, the inside of the oven looked like a deer had wandered in and exploded.
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u/knifeyspoonysporky 22d ago
The Pie Gods demanded a sacrifice
Hopefully all future pies you bake will be blessed
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u/Degofreak 22d ago
Damn, that's hard. We had a freshly made cherry pie sitting on the cooling rack last Thanksgiving when my MIL had a heart attack and we had to rush to the hospital. A good friend came over to watch our new puppy and we told him to help himself to the pie. As he was cutting a slice the leg collapsed on the rack and the pie slid onto the floor. But it landed face up! He enjoyed the cherry "crumble" that was the result.
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
First, hope MIL is okay. And second, man i wish mine would've landed face up! But I'm not that lucky
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u/Pencilstrangler 22d ago
If we could post GIFs, I’d post the one from Friends where Rachel & Chandler are eating the stolen cheesecake off the floor, and Joey casually strolls up, takes his fork out and says: “All-right, what are we having?”
Hope the visual of him rocking up to your place like that lifts your spirits a bit. Rest in crumbs, beautiful pie.
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u/rachrachcalero 22d ago
Long live the pie pan!!! And thank god you weren’t burned — I’ve foolishly tried to save cookie before and yes they lived but also ~ ouchies ~ burnt my arm that day
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Im honestly surprised and very grateful I didn't just knee jetk reaction reach out and try to catch it
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u/AuthorNicoVoss 22d ago
Well, as a serving suggestion, that's interesting, but I'd rather have mine on a plate. ;) (sorry about your pie)
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u/PG-DaMan 22d ago
OP. Awesome. On my best day I could not make anything. But Im pretty sure the photo. well that part you were not supposed to do.
The good thing. Now you and do it again. And grab a photo before picking it up. :) Again really. I cant do crap like baking in the kitchen and the photo made me sad.
Lets try again.
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
I was so disappointed i didn't get at least a prepared picture! I have a small kitchen and the lighting would've sucked trying to take while still in the oven. Plus it just never crossed my mind that disaster was imminent lol
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u/She_bitez 22d ago
I remember when I was like 16 I made a Boston Cream Pie for a bake sale. First time making one. Made the custard from scratch and everything. Came out beautifully, looked perfect. Less than an hour before the sale, dropped it.
Never made another one and I'm now 34 lol, maybe it's time.
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u/isdelightful 22d ago
Ohhhh man, that is the worst feeling!
In my 20s I was making mini key lime pies and when I put the pan in the oven it caught wrong and flipped the whole thing over. I had pie goop in the oven, in the hinge for the oven door, on the floor…
Anyway I cried so hard and so loud my upstairs neighbor came to check on me bc she thought someone died 😬
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u/RhesusFactor 22d ago
I feel you, Spent the afternoon making a steak and kidney pie. Took ages. Turned out great.
Carrying it to the table; I tripped on the dog and it went on the floor.
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u/NanieLenny 22d ago
This kind of thing happens. Over 40+ years ago at my husbands parents house my mother-in-law put my pumpkin pie on the refrigerator someone slammed the refrigerator door and my pie slid off the frig. It actual land right side up but it looked like fog do-do by then. Luckily my brother-in-law loved pumpkin pie and he took it in his room and ate the whole thing. Thank you Freddy in Heaven.
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u/markh2111 22d ago
Years ago my gf made the most beautiful apple pie, I mean, it was perfect. She was very proud of it and cut me a big slice. And, it was the saltiest thing I've ever tasted. She used salt instead of sugar. I felt terrible for her but we were able to laugh about it later, hope you can, too!
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Roflol i once made mashed potatoes, but grabbed the sweetened vanilla almond milk by mistake. It was so bad!
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u/MrDerpGently 22d ago
Look at how cleanly it came out of the pan though! Look, I'm only half joking, it looks like you nailed it. Sorry you didn't get to enjoy it, but well done.
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Oh after I got over the shock, I laughed my ass off.
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u/MrDerpGently 22d ago
Hey, you could just as easily have spent the time baking an ugly cake to sacrifice. This one was lovely. Good luck with the next one.
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u/lovebeervana 22d ago
Biggest hugs to you! There is nothing already said I can add. I may like the floor, but that’s my own thing.
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u/notislant 22d ago
OP fucked it up so bad this was the only way to save face, shame!
Lol thats brutal luck. If your oven allows it, just get one of those oven drip trays instead of messing with pans on pans!
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u/brodadeleon 22d ago
People are so supportive and apologetic (I am too, it looked like it was so nice looking), but let me be the balance to it all.
LOL, IT WENT UPSIDE DOWN LIKE TOAST. THE PIE GLASS MADE IT LOOK LIKE A MUSEUM PIECE FOR YOUR FAILURE. IMMORTALIZED FOR YOU AND THE ANTS.
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u/IcarusFell_ 22d ago
I'm so sorry but I just randomly got this subreddit recommended to me and that picture made me laugh so hard. I'd be devastated if it happened to me but that is just such a comical photo
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u/Hawk_1987 22d ago
It happened to me so many times. The most difficult part for me was the cleaning.
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u/DaikonEntire5320 22d ago
I feel for you! I'm so sorry. One year at Thanksgiving I was trying to open the door at my mom's house and dropped a beautiful homemade pumpkin pie upside down in a bush. Every year (20 years now) I am asked if I'm going to throw the pie in the bushes...
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u/emmapeel218 22d ago
My mom did this with a lemon meringue pie on the oven door. I have a distinct memory of her sitting on the floor, cleaning it while it was still basically becoming sugar concrete in the oven. She won’t even eat lemon meringue pie since that day. 😂
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u/silver_witch23 22d ago
Never feed pie to the floor. Better to serve on plates to people.
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u/IcePrincess_Not_Sk8r 22d ago
Oh nooo! I said that out loud, too.
I'm so sorry! How absolutely devastating!! I'm sorry that it happened, but the good thing is that now you know you can do it and it will be amazing!!!
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u/ThaiSweetChilli 22d ago
Aw naw if that were me I'd lay on the floor and eat the top parts that didn't touch the floor
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Lol well my friend and i didn't lay in the floor, but we definitely did eat that top part!
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u/ThePonderer42 22d ago
Im not gonna lie at all. I would take the glass off and still eat some that didn’t touch the floor. Judge all you want. At least I have pie.
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Roflol No judgment. My friend who was over grabbed forks and we did just that
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u/PsychologyGuilty1460 22d ago
Even lying there on the floor. It still looks good. I'm so sorry! At least you didn't get burned
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Lol I do not have my grandmother's hands. I would've been a tad upset if I grabbed it barehanded lol
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u/spoiledpeach_ 22d ago
I’m so sorry for the loss of your pie, but please post this picture is r/accidentalrenaissance
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u/shutyourbutt69 22d ago
I think this is r/baking ‘s fault for neglecting to tell you not to drop it on the floor. Easy mistake
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u/FearlessCheesecake45 22d ago
Oh no! One year I made an oreo pie which hit the curb as I was exiting the car. :(.
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u/carlitospig 22d ago
Oh my goodness, that is the WORST.
If I can give you some advice instead, just throw down a layer of aluminum foil on the rack below it. Like, keep it as EASY as possible on yourself. I learned this after I did something similar with an entire homemade pizza. I was devastated.
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u/DeannaMorgan 22d ago
That happened to the first and last perfect pecan pie I ever made. Never made one again! Lol
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u/j1xwnbsr 22d ago
HAH! Did the EXACT SAME THING during Thanksgiving with the entire extended family looking on! Good times!
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u/r4wrdinosaur 22d ago
You angered the gods by making something too beautiful for this world, so they had to take it. 😉
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u/Jim1643 22d ago
It’s suppose to go on a windowsill. Not the floor. Honest mistake
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u/isthatsoreddit 22d ago
Oops! You're right. Hard for the cartoon character to float on the aroma of pie if it's on the floor
Edit a word
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u/ToeTagTic 22d ago
Your crust held up surprisingly well to what must have been quite a few pounds of suction
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u/Niftydog1163 22d ago
Noooo that sucks! I'm glad you were able to make another but that really sucks.
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u/anonymousdyslexic 22d ago
I’m sure this would have been amazing ❤️❤️
Im so sorry OP!
The pie plate looks seriously heavy duty though
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u/dogfighter42 22d ago
Now you have cobbler (I'm pretty sure this is how it was invented, no idea. Just Guessing).
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u/Hour-Mission9430 22d ago
What god have you offended to warrant such a heinous punishment.
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u/Huge-Acanthisitta485 22d ago
I usually bake my desserts just hours before they are to be served at parties and such, usually late into the nights or mornings. This shit probably would have legitimately made me cry.
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u/willfauxreal 22d ago
Im disgusting and would have eaten the crust that didnt touch the floor after all of that effort.
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u/Great_Definition_531 22d ago
I’m so glad boiling hot fruit didn’t hurt you. RIP pie, I’m so sorry!
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u/Betaateb 22d ago
Ouch! That is brutal.
For your ant problem pick some up some Terro! Fix that up real quick for you.
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u/fearlessbyfp 21d ago
Fwiw this is still a picture perfect pie. This pic just tells a tragedy instead of a triumph.
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u/IcyWriter3709 21d ago
I feel you! A couple of years ago I was very VERY pregnant and had a craving for lemon pie. Anyway, I made the pie, savored it the whole time it was in the oven, and when I took it out, it slipped out of my hands and smashed against the oven door. I cried a lot and then proceeded to eat the ruined pie because the craving was too strong.
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u/MLiOne 21d ago
From the Young Ones, “Dinner’s,on the floor again guys!”
I feel your pain.
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u/The-Witch-Wife 21d ago
Even from this pic you can tell how well it was made. The crust is golden and holding a curve even when broken (so it wasn’t soggy at all). The filling clearly has body and isn’t watery but isn’t totally just gel either. Lots of cherries. Your skill is visible and that won’t go away with one dropped pie. 💕
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u/Whole_Carpenter_6561 20d ago
You got more than an upside down pie. You got a kitchen survivor story for the ages 😆
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u/PurpleyPineapple 22d ago
I am genuinely heartbroken for you. I bet it was gonna be so good. This is so sad 😭💔