Maybe you accidentally used salt while beating the batter for your cheesecake. That's a flop in the kitchen alright, but it certainly doesn't taste good (I would know - I've done it). However, there are kitchen "accidents" that resulted in some of today's most famous foods and dishes. The Chicago Tribune lists some of the best mistakes we've ever made, and includes recipes.
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten "invented" the molten chocolate lava cake in 1987 while trying to make 300 small chocolate cakes for a party
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We all know the birth of chocolate chip cookies when Ruth Wakefield thought Nestle Toll House chocolate chips would melt into her cookies
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Gooey butter cake is a coffee cake that went wrong in St. Louis
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When the Tatin sisters forgot to line a pie dish for apple pie, the Tarte Tatin was created

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4-29-2006 @12:38PM FJK said... Don't know if this is the kind of thing you mean, but once my grandmother burned the onions she was frying while making her brisket. The resulting taste was so flavorful that we always asked her to "burn" the onions when she made the dish!
I once had a creme catalan that wouldn't firm up. I served it as a caramel dessert soup.
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