"Still Gives Me Shivers When I Think About Them" - People Are Sharing The Worst Meals They've Ever Made

"It's not a difficult thing to do successfully, but this time I made some key mistakes:I added red cabbage without adding additional acid, like vinegar or lemon juice. I added too many noodles. It was edible enough on the first night, but by the next day, the noodles had absorbed all the water, and it was more of a solid sludge than a soup."

"lemon juice. I added too many noodles. It was edible enough on the first night, but by the next day, the noodles had absorbed all the water, and it was more of a solid sludge than a soup. By the day after the alkalinity had turned the red cabbage blue. By the last day, I was eating an electric blue mound of soup-flavoured mush."

A leftover-fridge soup was made but suffered from key mistakes that ruined its texture and appearance. Red cabbage was added without any additional acid such as vinegar or lemon juice, leaving its pigments vulnerable to pH changes. Excessive noodles soaked up the broth over time, transforming the initial soup into a dense, solid sludge by the next day. Continued alkalinity altered the cabbage pigment, turning it blue. By the final day the dish had become an electric-blue mound of soup-flavoured mush with diminished palatability.

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