Cooking—it’s that optional thing that we do when we don’t want to look like lazy good-for-nothings eating cheese and salami straight out of the pack and munching on raw vegetables instead of making a salad. Even cavemen and barbarians were able to cook things well. But even with the help of modern technology, we sometimes end up absolutely butchering our meals and making mega cooking fails.
Prepare your stomachs, dear Readers, for Bored Panda has baked up a feast of the most incredible cooking fails for you to enjoy. Upvote your fave pics and leave a comment about the times you messed up while cooking. Psst. We’ve got more epic cooking fails for you to taste right here, here, and here. Remember to chew well and take your time. Patience and focus have a lot to do with success in the kitchen (and in life, but that’s another story). If you’re distracted or running around like a headless chicken then odds are, you’ll make a ton of mistakes. Before you know it, your spaghetti’s on fire. Or worse—it’s fallen straight inside your shoes. Don’t believe us? Scroll on down.
Pie artist and baking and cooking pro Jessica Clark-Bojin was kind enough to give Bored Panda a few great tips and tricks to help all of us out in the kitchen and prevent massive disasters from happening. “Kitchen ‘mistakes’ can range from the catastrophic, ‘I forgot the pot roast in the oven and now the kitchen is on fire’ to the more benign, ‘I accidentally put paprika in the cookies instead of cinnamon’, but in most instances, they stem from the same thing: distraction and a lack of preparation.” Read on for her delicious insights into avoiding kitchen mistakes.
#1 We Tried To Make “Ladybug Rolls”
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#2 Tonight Was Foreign Culture Night In My House So I Decided To Cook A Traditional Dish From Pompeii
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#3 Sausage Rolls
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#4 I Was Making Home Made Chicken Stock. After Simmering For Hours, The Recipe Said To Pour It Through A Strainer. God Damn It
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#5 Yikes
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#6 My Friend Made A “Hedgehog” For Her 14-Year-Old Son’s Birthday
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#7 Husband Tried To Make A Dolphin For My Cocktail. It’s The Cutest Eel I’ve Ever Seen
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#8 My Sister Made Some French Fries
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#9 Creepy Pancake
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#10 Someone Left A Bread Pudding In The Back Of The Oven For 5 Days. So Here Is My New Pet Rock, Charlie
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#11 My Apple Broke The Apple Cutter And Now I Have A Weapon
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#12 Friend Sent Me This. Composition: “Dad Tried To Make Wine”
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#13 My Night After Work
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#14 Found The Spoon, Honey
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#15 Go To Make Pasta, The First Pot Slips And I Pour It All On The Ground. Make A Second Pot And The Handle Straight Up Breaks And My Pasta Goes Everywhere. Didn’t Eat; Had A Lil Cry
Not to mention that firstly I came home late from work and drop my open sandwich in the parking lot.
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#16 Boiled An Egg This Morning And I Think Something Went Horribly Wrong
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#17 I’ll Never Be Someone’s Bride
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#18 Thought You Guys Might Like This Pie I Baked
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#19 So My Wife Grilled Corn Tonight. For 2 1/2 Hours
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#20 This Sums Up My Day. Why Isn’t My Stock Simmering… It’s Been Over An Hour
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#21 I Baked Some Strawberry Cakes In Cat-Shaped Pans, Then Iced Them. They Came Out Looking Like Burn Victims
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#22 5 Minutes Before Closing After A 12-Hour Shift
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#23 I Tried To Bake
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#24 This Cake
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#25 I Was Told You Guys Might Appreciate This. Made A Pie Today. Dropped A Pie Today
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#26 Bake Bread They Said. An Overnight Rise Will Taste So Good They Said. Put In The Fridge They Said. It’s So A Rewarding Hobby They Said
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#27 Happy Thanksgiving From My Little Sister’s First Ever Turkey
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#28 Guess I Cut It A Little Too Hard
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#29 Broiled Sids
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#30 Apparently Using A Syringe To Inject The Filling Of A Jelly Bun Doesn’t Work That Well
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#31 My Sister Made My Brother A Birthday Cake
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#32 My Submission For Dumbest Way To Injure Yourself: I Burnt My Hand Taking Tomato Soup Out Of The Microwave. The Toast I Was Making Popped Up And It Scared Me
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#33 Tried Cooking A Sweet Potato In My New Air Fryer Today
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#34 Attempted To Make Flower Pancakes For My Wife As A Mother’s Day Surprise But They Ended Up Looking Like Corona Cakes
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#35 This Is What Defeat Looks Like
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#36 Me: This Tin Should Be Big Enough. Banana Bread: Freedom
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#37 Making Some Spaghetti
#38 I Tried To Make A Cake With A Lobster Shaped Dish
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#39 When All I Want To Do Is Make Spaghetti, But All Signs Point To It Not Happening
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#40 Well I Tried
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#41 Birthday Cake Attempt This Weekend
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#42 I Was Making Thai Basil Chicken Then I Turned Around For A Minute And My Brother Put Blue Food Dye In It. He’s 19
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#43 Forgot To Set A Timer Boiling Eggs. The Sound Of Them Exploding Reminded Me
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#44 Still Looking For An Answer On How This Happens
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#45 What My Brother Was Trying To Make vs. What He Actually Made
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#46 A Beast Cheesecake
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#47 Asked My Boyfriend To Bake The Croissants For Our Dinner
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#48 Black Bean “Burrito” My Roommate Made With Rice Paper. He Was Out Of Tortillas And Said “I Didn’t Think It Would Look Like That”
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#49 My Mom Wanted A Cherry Pie. After Making One From Scratch I Dropped It On My Way To Deliver To Her Porch
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#50 My Own Invention: Eggplant With A Side Of Melted Knife
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