Nothing makes human beings happier than a nice freshly cooked meal made with love and effort (skill optional). So no wonder so many of us are putting on the aprons and rocking our inner Gordon Ramsay back at home.
And while many succeed in cooking something that ends up on their Instagram feed, others are not so fortunate. So this post is about hope and failure, failure and hope: kitchen edition, where dreams of tasty bites get shattered by the reality check of burned, overcooked, weirdly shaped and very unappetizing (in)edible artifacts.
Scroll through some of the best of the worst ones below and be sure to check out our previous cooking fails here, here and here.
#1 My Crescent Rolls Came Out Looking Like Walruses That Just Can't Anymore
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#2 Dumplings From The Hell's Gate
#3 Turned My Back For A Minute And She Peed In 20 Cups Of Uncooked Rice
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#4 My Wife Likes To Keep Dog Food Beside Coffee Beans. Guess What I Did At 5:30 Am This Morning
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#5 You Ever Mess Up Burgers So Bad That Even Your Grill Is Surprised?
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#6 New Style Ribs. Introducing: Hell Done
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#7 Here Is My Favorite Picture Of My Grandma. She Was Having A Hard Time With The Mixer
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#8 Making Brownies Didn't Go As Planned
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#9 Having Currywurst In Your Trunk
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#10 So We Had Pizza And Tears For Dinner. So Much For That Shepherd's Pie
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#11 I Forgot That My Sister Baked Salmon And It Looked Like A Scorching Salmon, So I Just Took A Picture Of It, So It's A Memorial Service
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#12 My Sister Tried Making Popcorn At Work Today... Didn't Go Very Well
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#13 Spent 10 Minutes Looking For The Drip Tray For The Forman Grill, After I Turned It On
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#14 This Was Way Cuter When I Pictured It In My Head
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#15 Failed Baked Bread, May I Ask If I Underbaked It, Over Fermented It, Or Had Too Much Yeast? I Ate 3 Of Them In Anger
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#16 So How Is Your Morning Going?
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#17 Pizza That Looks Like Lava
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#18 The Way My Pasta Spilled
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#19 See Those Eggs? They Are Supposed To Be In The Pies. I Made Two Hot Oily Chocolate Garbage Circles
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#20 My Friend Writes "Apparently I Bought A Bringing Bag Instead Of A Baking Bag"
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#21 My Attempt At Baking A Brownie Turned Out Like A Before And After Picture Of An Addiction
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#22 I Did Not Look Closely Enough At That Label
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#23 What's The Worst Thing To Find After You Took The Last Batch Of Cookies Out? The Real Cinnamon
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#24 We Had 6 Eggs Left. I Thought I Would Scramble Them For Breakfast. The 6th One I Cracked In The Bowl Was Completely Rotten
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#25 You Did Your Best, Chef
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#26 Craving Pizza But Convinced Myself To Get Groceries And Make A Healthy Dinner Instead. Why Do I Even Try?
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#27 I'm An Idiot And My Wife Won't Stop Laughing At Me
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#28 Pizza Is Ready
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#29 Tried To Make Strawberry Mochi Without A Recipe And Now They Look Like Boiled Kirbys
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#30 I Tried My Grandmother's Donut Recipe And I Have To Admit, It Kinda Stinks
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#31 My Pepper Grinder Broke This Morning
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#32 Melted Fork, Yummy
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#33 Boyfriend Cooked Fish Cakes And Sweet Potato Bites For A Perfect 11 Hours. Whole House Stinks Of Fish
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#34 My Knife Broke When I Tried To Cut The Watermelon I Just Bought, Just To Find Out That It Went Bad
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#35 Hmm, I Don't Remember Keeping Marshmallow Fluff In My Oven
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#36 Shout Out To The Baker Missing Their Nail. I Chewed On It Twice Thinking It Was A Clove Of Garlic Before I Made The Horrific Realization It Was A Fingernail
It’s garlic and rosemary sourdough.
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#37 No Caramel For My Ice Cream I Guess
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#38 My Fridge Just Decided To Freeze My Eggs. Have A Nice Day
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#39 Guess I'll Order Out Tonight
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#40 The Cake I Spent 1 Hour To Make. At Least I'm Sure It's Not Too Dry
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#41 Ramen: Microwave For 4 Minutes On High Power. Follow Me For More Great Recipes
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#42 Never Bake Cookies In A Crop Top
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#43 My Wife Worked For An Hour On This Peach Crisp And Burst Into Tears Right Before My Parents Showed Up To Our House
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#44 Got Over-Confident With My Cooking And Tried To Make Cookies
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#45 Ever Wondered What Happens When You Microwave A Frozen Uncooked Croissant? Wonder No More
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#46 My Mom Broke Our Oven Cooking Chicken
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#47 I Do Consider Cooking An Art Form
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#48 Nightmare Lamb Cake
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#49 Forgot Apple Pie Was In The Oven
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#50 I Saw A Recipe For Protein Powder Pancakes And Decided To Try Protein Waffles With A Waffle Maker I’ve Never Used Before
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#51 I’ve Been Cooking For A Decade, But You’d Never Know It
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#52 My Pepper Shaker Broke Mid-Shake
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#53 Homemade Pizza For Dinner
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#54 My Dumbest Injury, I Was Flipping A Steak In A Curved Pan, Like Flat Bottom Wok, And All The Butter Splashed Out
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#55 Fell Asleep With The Pizza In The Oven
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#56 This Is What Happens When You Forget To Poke A Hole In Spaghetti Squash And Then Attempt To Cut It After It’s Baked. It Explodes In Your Face
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#57 I Just Made A Cheesecake And When I Wanted To Put It In The Fridge The Bottom Fell Out Of The Mold
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#58 Tomato Soup - It's On The Ceiling, Too
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#59 The Steak My Brother Cooked Me
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#60 Accidentally Baked A Fly Into My Cookies
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#61 This Medium Rare Sour Bread My Mom Made
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#62 Finally Made A Good Lattice Crust Then I Went And Knocked My Cactus Onto It
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#63 My Roommate Made Soup
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#64 My Friend's Mother Thought That The Croissants Would Just Roll Themselves Up While Cooking
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#65 Today I Learned - Half-Cooked Eggs Can't Be Cooked Further In The Microwave
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#66 Yes, This Was Freshly Made Hot Sauce
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#67 My Younger Brother, Who Moves Out In 2 Weeks, Tried To Make A Pizza
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#68 My Left Airpod Fell In The Oven And I Didn’t Notice Until Well Baked 20 Minutes Afterwards
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#69 Melonpan?
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#70 I Wasn't Trying To Make A Glossy Iron Plate. I Tried To Make A Panque
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#71 Spent 12 Hours Making "Cinnamon Swirl" Sourdough Bread
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#72 I Turned The Wrong Stove Burner On And Exploded My Made From Scratch Pumpkin Pie
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#73 Prepared Cinnamon Toast Crunch In The Dark. It Was Cheeze Its
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#74 I Poured Beef Broth Into The Crook Pot As The Last Ingredient For My Homemade Chili And Out Came Mold
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#75 My Mom Burnt Some Pasta And Now There Are These Marks Stuck To The Bottom
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#76 Cute Christmas Profiteroles... Looking Like Dog Poops
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#77 Turned On The Wrong Burner And Cooked My Cell Phone, Case Looks Cool But The Camera Is Toast
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#78 Forgot I Was Proofing Bread Dough In The Oven And Then Set The Oven To Preheat
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#79 8-Year-Old Remembered To Take The Foil Flavor Packet Out! She Forgot To Add Water
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#80 The Dinner My Husband Was Cooking For 3 Hours
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#81 A Hot, Fresh Lasagna In My Favorite Dish
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#82 Well That's Not The Soy Sauce
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#83 Taking My Food To Bed Was A Bad Idea
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#84 My Sister Toasted Bread With Jelly In My Brand New Toaster. She's 31
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#85 My Pizza Stone Cracked After 12 Years Of Use. Devastated
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#86 Thought I'd Make Some Pasta With The Last Of My Homemade Tomato Sauce From My Garden Last Summer. Guess I'd Better Think Again
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#87 Tried Cooking Dinner For The First Time After Weeks Of Takeout
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#88 Thinking About Burritos All Day. Come Home From Work And Microwave My Last One. Completely Hollow
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#89 Moved The Flour Away From The Kid So He Wouldn't Make A Mess... And I Knocked It Off The Counter With My Elbow
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#90 Today On Cooking Catastrophes
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#91 I Cooked Pasta After A Long Week, Attempted To Pour Some Oregano, And Part Of The Shaker Decided To Get Stuck In There
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#92 Chocolate Chip Cookies
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#93 These Pretzels Taste Worse Than They Look
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#94 Call Me The Bread Weaner. I Mean, Winner
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#95 After Making My Own Bone Broth, Reducing Red Wine And Slow Cooking In The Oven For 5 Hours I Finally Got To Taste Beef Bourgognion This Christmas
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#96 After A Busy Day Running Around With Kids Back To School And A Million Other Things To Arrange, Having No Breakfast And Barely Any Lunch, I Was Cooking Dinner And It Needed A Touch Of Salt
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#97 2020 New Year's Eve Cheesecake
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#98 Niece Is Trying Her Hand At Baking For The First Time. She Forgot To Add 2 Cups Of Flour To Her Chocolate Chip Cookies. This Was The Result
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#99 $50 Tri Tip From Seaside Market. I Forgot About It On The Grill... For Two Hours
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#100 Preheated My Broiler To Make A Delicious Tomato Sausage Gnocchi. Totally Forgot That I Had Bread Dough Rising In The Oven
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#101 Chicken And Broccoli Smothered In Melted Rubber Lid
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#102 Eggs À La Poivre
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#103 Sweet Potato And Yams Lightly Baked With Marshmallows
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#104 Recipe: Place Pizza Rolls And French Fries In The Oven. Then Promptly Take A 3 Hour Nap
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#105 Forgot About My Dehydrated Lemons In The Oven And Proceeded To Preheat It For Some Chicken Tenders. Was Left With This
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#106 Dinner Is Served (Yes, I Almost Burnt Down My House)
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#107 He Fell Off The Tray In The Oven, But He Still Smiling
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#108 Made Some Cookies. I Think I Nailed It
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#109 Decided I Wanted A Midnight Snack And Fell Asleep. Cooked At 415 For 10 Hours
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#110 Tried To Make Spooky Mac And Cheese
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#111 Tried To Make A Cake. Not Sure What Went Wrong
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#112 I Just Wanted A Little Black Pepper On My Pizza. Stupid Plastic Grinder Top Malfunction
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#113 Guess Which One I Accidentally Put On My Yogurt This Morning
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#114 When You Come Home And Your House Doesn’t Smell Like Pot Roast
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#115 My Bff Just Melted Her Favorite Pot. I Didn’t Even Know That Was Possible
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#116 Broke A $300 Pasta Machine By Accidentally Dropping A Spoon Inside
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#117 Buddy Sent Me This. Cast Iron Pan That Decided It Was Tired Of Their Stuff
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#118 A While Back, I Shared My Pitiful Attempt At Frozen Pizza. Today, I Present To You, My Friend's Pitiful Attempt At A Corn Dog
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#119 I Was Very Excited To Try To Make French Omelette This Morning. It Was Going Well Until It Quickly Went From Omelette Au Fromage To Omelette Au Floormage
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#120 Well This Just Happened
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