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 Dumplings From The Hell’s Gate
#2 My Crescent Rolls Came Out Looking Like Walruses That Just Can’t Anymore
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#3 Here Is My Favorite Picture Of My Grandma. She Was Having A Hard Time With The Mixer
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#4 Turned My Back For A Minute And She Peed In 20 Cups Of Uncooked Rice
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#5 This Was Way Cuter When I Pictured It In My Head
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#6 My Bff Just Melted Her Favorite Pot. I Didn’t Even Know That Was Possible
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#7 My Wife Likes To Keep Dog Food Beside Coffee Beans. Guess What I Did At 5:30 Am This Morning
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#8 You Ever Mess Up Burgers So Bad That Even Your Grill Is Surprised?
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#9 New Style Ribs. Introducing: Hell Done
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#10 The Way My Pasta Spilled
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#11 Making Brownies Didn’t Go As Planned
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#12 My Sister Tried Making Popcorn At Work Today… Didn’t Go Very Well
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#13 You Did Your Best, Chef
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#14 So We Had Pizza And Tears For Dinner. So Much For That Shepherd’s Pie
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#15 See Those Eggs? They Are Supposed To Be In The Pies. I Made Two Hot Oily Chocolate Garbage Circles
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#16 I’m An Idiot And My Wife Won’t Stop Laughing At Me
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#17 Having Currywurst In Your Trunk
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#18 My Attempt At Baking A Brownie Turned Out Like A Before And After Picture Of An Addiction
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#19 Yes, This Was Freshly Made Hot Sauce
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#20 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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#21 Finally Made A Good Lattice Crust Then I Went And Knocked My Cactus Onto It
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#22 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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#23 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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#24 Accidentally Baked A Fly Into My Cookies
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#25 Nightmare Lamb Cake
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#26 Prepared Cinnamon Toast Crunch In The Dark. It Was Cheeze Its
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#27 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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#28 What’s The Worst Thing To Find After You Took The Last Batch Of Cookies Out? The Real Cinnamon
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#29 My Friend’s Mother Thought That The Croissants Would Just Roll Themselves Up While Cooking
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#30 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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#31 Pizza That Looks Like Lava
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#32 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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#33 Ever Wondered What Happens When You Microwave A Frozen Uncooked Croissant? Wonder No More
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#34 Ramen: Microwave For 4 Minutes On High Power. Follow Me For More Great Recipes
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#35 I Tried My Grandmother’s Donut Recipe And I Have To Admit, It Kinda Stinks
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#36 My Friend Writes “Apparently I Bought A Bringing Bag Instead Of A Baking Bag”
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#37 Spent 12 Hours Making “Cinnamon Swirl” Sourdough Bread
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#38 I Did Not Look Closely Enough At That Label
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#39 My Fridge Just Decided To Freeze My Eggs. Have A Nice Day
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#40 My Roommate Made Soup
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#41 Craving Pizza But Convinced Myself To Get Groceries And Make A Healthy Dinner Instead. Why Do I Even Try?
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#42 My Sister Toasted Bread With Jelly In My Brand New Toaster. She’s 31
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#43 Spent 10 Minutes Looking For The Drip Tray For The Forman Grill, After I Turned It On
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#44 Tried To Make A Cake. Not Sure What Went Wrong
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#45 This Medium Rare Sour Bread My Mom Made
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#46 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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#47 Pizza Is Ready
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#48 Forgot Apple Pie Was In The Oven
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#49 Tomato Soup – It’s On The Ceiling, Too
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#50 The Cake I Spent 1 Hour To Make. At Least I’m Sure It’s Not Too Dry
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