I once entered a candy cooking competition. I found an English Toffee recipe to tweak. It was my first time making candy and it called for getting butter up to a certain temperature. Well, it started burning before I reached that temp, but I wasn't throwing all that expensive butter away. I proceeded with the recipe and entered it as English Burnt Butter Toffee. I could hear the judges commenting on how well the burnt taste came through! If I hadn't changed the name, I'm sure they would have wrinkled their noses and said, "Ooh! This butter is burnt! Ugh!" By the way, I won the contest! Because of this, I have allowed myself to try more things, be more adventurous in cooking and in life. Hey, if it doesn't turned out like the way you planned, you didn't lose, you only re-invented! So go out and be adventurous