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“Kylie Jenner Ramen ‘Recipe'”: 30 Stupid Food Trends Started On Social Media, According To Folks Online
Whenever you go on social media, there's a big possibility you'll be greeted with some kind of food-related bit of content. And it's not surprising - after all, these platforms have become the perfect space for foodies, influencers, chefs and regular peeps to showcase their culinary masterpieces, try out viral trends and share helpful hacks. Sounds great, right? Well, it might not always be the case.
The Reddit user u/MsVibey went online to ask fellow community members to share the worst, weirdest or the most dangerous cooking and culinary-related 'crimes' that are perpetuated on social media.
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#1
The fact that when you click on a recipe, you have to scroll down through adverts and rubbish telling you all about the food, when you just want the recipe!!
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#2
Most of the responses here are just bad taste, but bad taste isn't criminally negligent.
The crimes are coming from some of that viral tiktok s**t. People are deep frying with a pot 90% full of oil, dropping thing into the oil towards themselves, and pulling it out dangerously under cooked. I saw a woman the other day say "if you like rare steak, you'll like rare sausage."
Some of those videos, man, if you follow them to the letter you're going to get 2nd degree burns and salmonella poisoning. But these f*****s present themselves as some kind of experts. They are, in a legal sense, actually criminally negligent.
#3
Wearing giant fake nails in the kitchen. It's disgusting and you'd be thrown out of any commercial kitchen if you showed up wearing them.
sturmwesen 2 years ago (edited)
my neighbour used them to get the intestines out of tiny fish -.-
#4
Less about food or food preparation itself, but about how food videos are titled. I'm at a point where I unsub from cooking channels once they start resorting to shi*baity video titles like: *This Romanian casserole is my DAILY DRIVER* *I can't STOP eating this boiled Norweigan dessert* *I'm OBSESSED with this South Pacific second breakfast treat* *This Appalachian raw horse foot literally SAVED my summer* *Watch as this single Afghani pea made me CUM and SEE CHRIST* I'm looking at you, Chlebowski and Yeung Man Cooking
Sky Render 2 years ago
Blame the YouTube algorithm making video titles that read like supermarket tabloid headlines into a trend.
#5
I hate when people make something just to troll. Just for rage clicks. Including super expensive or really indulgent. You know the food is just getting wasted. I don’t mind tossing a mistake. But intentionally f*****g it up for clicks is so “spoiled rich kid with no empathy.”
#6
The lie that onions can be caramelised in 5-7 minutes of frying.
InfiniteZeek 2 years ago
Hmm definitely not 5-7 mins, but you can get it done in 15-20. You will need to watch the heat like a hawk, and you will also need a pinch of sugar, salt, and a bit of water.
#7
Anything that is titled "food hack"
#8
Putting onions and garlic in the pan at the same time...
#9
That cover-the-whole-table-top with nachos, spaghetti, whatever gross food they dump out over the surface for everyone to dig in at once. That should be reserved for seafood boils only.
Any of those wanna-be charcuterie boards where cream cheese (or icing, butter, hummus, etc) is spread over the whole tray and topped with stuff for everyone to just dig in and get their fingers on everything.
#10
Trying to use appliances in a way they're not meant to be used.
Saw this one video on Facebook a while back of someone making a full breakfast in a toaster. Yes, including the bacon and eggs.
I've also seen a couple posts of people trying to cook salmon in the freaking dishwasher.
You. Have. A. Stove. Use it!
#11
That crazy lady who made mashed potatoes out of potato chips. I'm 99% sure she's a troll but it still makes me deeply sad.
#12
How often I see extra virgin olive oil used to fry or sauté items. It surprises me how many otherwise (seemingly) well-seasoned home/internet “chefs” pour really high-quality, visibly green EVOO in a med-high skillet and start cooking meat or veg in it. What a waste, and it usually ends up burning the oil obviously. Edit: To be clear, I’m not saying regular or light olive oil are a problem for high temperature cooking. But **extra virgin** has more particulate left from the olives and has a much lower smoke point than more filtered versions. Personally I use light olive oil or avocado oil for high temp cooking.
Sky Render 2 years ago
What the hell. Who seriously fries with EVOO? That stuff's almost thick enough to sub in for motor oil!
#13
Touting food such as the Kylie Jenner ramen “recipe” as some kind of magnificent amazingly weird and unique thing. People have been doing that for a long time and there is absolutely nothing special about it.
#14
Adding stupid amounts of cheese to everything. Sure, cheese is tasty, but I want to be able to taste the food, not just mask everything with the taste of melted cheddar.
Also, for some reason, the algorithm seems to insist on showing me "clever" ways to cook eggs that mostly just involve frying an egg in a less convenient way that makes more mess than just cracking an egg into a hot frying pan with a bit of oil
#15
Those ladies who dump like 15 raw ingredients into an aluminum pan, including whole logs of Velveeta and raw pasta, and mix it all together and throw it in the oven with a caption that says "I learned this in Texas" or some stupid s**t. You know it's literally going straight in the trash because whatever is coming out of the oven is completely inedible. It's just a blatant waste of food for Tiktok views.
#16
This is specific to bread, but when they take a loaf of bread fresh out of the oven and it's still steaming hot and they cut it in half to show you the inside. They just ruined that loaf of bread, it needs to rest!
#17
Making cooking seem way more complicated than it really is. It turns people off from actually cooking themselves. Like measuring each spice separately into a tiny bowl
Hey! 2 years ago
All my recipes are in a spreadsheet and the columns are the aisle at the grocery store, the rows are my recipes with the list of ingredients in each aisle. I chose the menu for the next 15 days and copy/paste those lines and print to bring to the grocery store. That list becomes my menu for the next two weeks. There's a code on the recipe name that tells me where the recipe is. I always do a mise en place before I start cooking anything. When the food is cooking, I start cleaning up the kitchen. The recipe is scratched from my list and I'm ready for another day (or the day after if it gives me food for 2 days).
#18
For me it’s the addition of sugar, or sugary ingredients, to savoury dishes. No, you don’t need to ‘balance flavours’ by adding all 4 (or 5) to everything. Some dishes are supposed to lean towards acid, or bitter. And many foods have plenty of natural sweetness in them already.
#19
I hate all the f*****g rage baiting. They're just destroying and wasting food. And thousands of people are watching them, and they're making money off of it.
#20
Washing chicken.
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
I'll only wash a chicken, outside, after I kill, gut and pluck it.
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
Do they mean like washing the raw meat? That's common practice in the Caribbean though.
Angela C 2 years ago
It may be common but that doesn't mean it isn't also gross and unsanitary
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Onyx the potato 2 years ago
My chicken always gets a bath as well as a full skin care routine and a pedicure/j
Sue From Michigan 2 years ago
I don't understand why anyone washes meat, you're cooking it (hopefully) at hot temperatures, everything bad on it will die.
OtterNaut 2 years ago
This question came up on BP before and someone said that they have to clean off the bone chips when they get meat from their butcher.
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MichelleDonut 2 years ago
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was taught to always wash poultry. As an adult, I decided that it was too much trouble. Still alive.
Zaineb Bookwala 2 years ago
It's a common practice in all of Asia. I didn't even know that not washing chicken was a thing before widespread internet. Literally never had a problem with food poisoning in home cooked food.
Shashonie 2 years ago
See above. The bacteria gets splashed around your kitchen sink. Also, in the Carribean,a citrus wash (lemon or lime juice) does the trick without cross contamination.
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#22
When they start rolling their eyes back like its the MOST AMAZING!! thing theyve ever eaten. And its only like a pasta with cheese and marinara
Lady Miss Pie 2 years ago
Well, coming from a house of Italian-Americans, I can safely say sometime pasta with marinara & cheese really is THAT GOOD. Especially my dad’s. It’s so delicious, it like a hug in a bowl.
#23
All of it. This thread has summarised it well.
Those ten second recipe shorts with 3000 cuts at light speed are my personal bugbear. I've no idea how they're of any benefit to anyone.
The biggest issue is that people see the cooking genre as a means of advertising themselves or their 'brand'. They try to create entertainment rather than useful tutorials. We've got lives, messy kitchens, a shortage of time and space and we're stressed out. The last thing I need is Sam 'the cooking guy' waffling on and on for fifteen minutes about nothing in particular whilst I look for the (blink and you'll miss it) recipe step.
Also this modern trend of combining sweets/pastries whatever and acting like you've created a new dish. Cronuts, cruffins, brookies. Give me a break.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
As an experienced home cook, I like the recipe shorts. They're like previews in that they provide sufficient information for me to know whether I want to bother watching the full video.
#24
15 minute instant pot recipes. It takes that long for the damn thing to even start pressure cookinh
Jeremy James 2 years ago
I once ran an entire professional kitchen out of a converted storage closet with just 2 Instant Pots, (the kind that also pressure cook,) a hot plate, and a convection oven. Those things are versatile.
#26
Seriously, the guy on this sub a few hours ago asking if he could serve precooked burgers that were kept warm for hours in a slow cooker at the cookout.. for real .. that guys the real villain..
#27
People who get a full meal of ingredients that do not pass together at all and then make a 20 minute video of themselves saying "omg you're not gonna believe how good this comes out," while cooking, for example, macaroni in a pan with a block of Velveeta, a few eggs, a head of broccoli, chunks of steak and strawberry marmalade, and probably f*****g chewing gum too, so that at the end they can act like they've made some gourmet meal... I guess it's supposed to be satire? Idk I've never understood it and it literally makes me angry to see those videos.
James Edwards 2 years ago
You know if they add chewing gum it's going to take 7 years to digest/s
#28
Fake recipes. There are some low effort sites that crank out weak recipes and people put in a lot of effort at get togethers that are important to them and are highly disappointed. Never serve a first attempt at a recipe to friends or at an important event. *Test your recipes before you serve them!*
Edit; Well, you can serve first attempts to friends... as long as they know they are crash test dummies.
#29
I'm an admin for a cajun recipe group on Facebook with over 375K members so I've seen it all. My personal pet peeve is food left in the "danger zone" between 40° and 140° People will post asking something like this " My husband left a whole pot of gumbo out on the counter last night and we didn't notice it until this morning. Is it still good to eat?" and the amount of people commenting yes, it's fine, we do it all the time etc just blows my mind. Let's me know where not to eat lol. It's obvious none of them have ever worked in a professional kitchen to learn proper food handling techniques. And that's a big reason why I don't like to eat at pot lucks. You have no idea what goes on in their houses..
#30
Making some things without sautéing aromatics
Jeremy James 2 years ago
I saw a woman the other day show off her chili cook-off trophies, then dump a bunch of raw onion into a pot of sizzling beef. There's no way those onions could develop any flavor in all of that wetness.
#31
Bacon weave, cheese, Doritos, block of cream cheese, more cheese, bacon weave. Bake. OMG soooo good. FML
#32
Gordon Ramsey always [angers me] because at some point he says “ throw it in the oven for x amount of time”. At what temperature a*****e!
Sky Render 2 years ago
The old rule of thumb with vague recipes is 350F/175C if not specified.
#33
Literally jack scalfani’s entire channel (cooking with jack). Take any video. Choose randomly. It doesn’t matter which one you pick. It will be the worst thing you’ve seen all day. From what can only be described as “great depression food” to “a skilled veterinarian could bring that back to life” to dishes literally missing the primary ingredient… it’s all a train wreck.
He’s been at it 15 years. If he’s trolling, he’s in it for the long haul.
#34
If you go on Instagram you’ll have an entire encyclopedia of cooking crimes.
Absolutely no reason to put Mac and cheese, burger patties, French fries, bbq pork, and chicken nuggets in a giant tortilla and batter the entire thing and deep fry it
Lakota Wolf (she/her) 2 years ago
As a secondhand Mexican (I'm white af, but was adopted at birth into a Mexican family) I cry inside (and sometimes outside) at the food crimes people commit and then call "burritos".
#35
Wait what’s wrong with putting chicken breast in a slow cooker? I didn’t even know that was a social media thing but I’ve put a few breasts in with chicken stock, seasonings, maybe a little oil, something acidic, and a few hours later I have healthy pulled chicken that’s great for tacos, enchiladas, etc
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
I have a slow cooker with a 'warm' setting. My thermometer says it stays at 180f. Not ideal for sou vide but close enough if I keep an eye on it.
#36
Those nacho table things where people roll out foil and just pour everything on top 🤮
#37
That you have to wear black gloves to cook
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
Unpopular opinion, but gloves are not neccessarily more hygienic than bare hands (except for jewellery and fingernails). I WASH my hands when they're dirty, and I FEEL them getting dirty. Gloves that don't get changed several times a day get just as dirty as skin does, but not washed half as often, because you don't notice the dirt as much.
#39
Putting caviar and duck liver into literally everything to make luxury dishes.
#40
It’s fine when you want the chicken shredded. I do this a lot in big batches and use the meat for things like salads, enchiladas, chicken and dumplings, etc.
#41
I mean chicken breasts covered in bbq sauce in the slow cooker really isn't too bad. I've done it a few times
#43
I just followed a recipe for boneless, skinless breasts in the crockpot and they were terrible. The sauce and flavors were decent so I'll try again with thighs as a starting point.
#44
The crock pot meals with a block of cream cheese.
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago (edited)
Hey hey hey hey wait a damn second. Depending on the recipe it might be amazing! My dad has a potato soup recipe that calls for a block of cream cheese and it's heaven!
#45
Those cake-in-a-cup type things you see sometimes taste fine, but they are a nightmare to clean when you are finished.
Weird insane carb on carb combinations like mac n' cheese grilled cheese. Seriously? you're going to put a bunch of noodles between two pieces of bread?
What do you think ?
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Any "recipe" that involves combining a bunch of overly processed c**p. Rolling up premade cookie dough inside refrigerated cinnamon roll dough isn't cooking.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
No, that's not cooking, that's "recombinant cookery."
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Jeremy James 2 years ago
There is one "viral" recipe that I love. You put a block of Feta in a baking dish with a bunch of cherry tomatoes, garlic cloves, shallots, thyme, and olive oil. Then you roast it until the Feta is golden and the tomatoes are blistered, mash it all up with a fork, and serve it with egg noodles.
Beth H 2 years ago
Yesssss! In my house my kid's call it "tik tok" pasta because it was big on there. It's actually delicious. I've made similar recipes with goat cheese and asparagus or boursin and they are also great.
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SadieCat17 2 years ago
For those of you that like video recipes, korean channels are usually concise and high quality, and most have good subtitles. I've made some of the best deserts from those sorts of videos and they usually don't have much talking which is nice. You'll need a kitchen scale or good conversions if you're american though.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
Thank you BP, you took the overly long ridiculous posting that people had commented on, then you shortened it and now we can't access the posts. Thanks for notifying me.
Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
My favourite cooking channel for great quality food is Kay's Cooking !/s
Scarlett 2 years ago
Would this be the same lady Daz was trying to give cooking advice to in one video?
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Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
I liked the one on TikTok where they put an egg in the air fryer and then take out a roasted chicken. I tried it but it didn't work.
GirlFriday 2 years ago
Anytime the cook says the recipe is "Amish". No, Amberly, an elderly Amish lady did not show you how to cook chicken in a crock pot.
Jason Doakes 2 years ago
I can't recommend this channel enough times: @Howtocookthat, by Ann Reardon, Food Scientist
Adam Belaire 2 years ago
Uncle Roger needs to do more videos. He makes all those horrible videos fun!
Lauren Wilder 2 years ago
That one Thanksgiving recipe where they made Macaroni and cheese with carrots and brussel sprouts. So now its just vegetables and noodles. Stop changing classic recipes and thinking its good.
Northern Breeze 2 years ago
There's a page on Youtube called Cooking With Kate... That British lady is so nice that one cannot help watching all her cooking videos. However, on top of her skills being very limited in culinary arts, it seemed to me that her knives were abysmally dull and her stove seems to have only 2 "speeds", which is Max or Off. Everything ends up overcooked or worse... She hasn't posted since a few years; I still miss her show...
Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
Some of my friends genuinely like pizza with ketchup chips on top.. and also chocolate dip that was intended to be used for strawberries….
Aiden Brough 2 years ago
My bug bear? These "MasterChef" competitions where they have a dozen middleclass tickboxers who make appear in half a dozen episodes and then end up owning restaurants or a dozen ghostwritten books about some poncey food no-one has every heard about. What about those who toil 18 hours a day sweating for 20 years in an actual kitchen to rise to the rank of buggerall? Sorry, but gurning green grocery Greg has a lot to answer for...
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Any "recipe" that involves combining a bunch of overly processed c**p. Rolling up premade cookie dough inside refrigerated cinnamon roll dough isn't cooking.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
No, that's not cooking, that's "recombinant cookery."
Load More Replies... Jeremy James 2 years ago
There is one "viral" recipe that I love. You put a block of Feta in a baking dish with a bunch of cherry tomatoes, garlic cloves, shallots, thyme, and olive oil. Then you roast it until the Feta is golden and the tomatoes are blistered, mash it all up with a fork, and serve it with egg noodles.
Beth H 2 years ago
Yesssss! In my house my kid's call it "tik tok" pasta because it was big on there. It's actually delicious. I've made similar recipes with goat cheese and asparagus or boursin and they are also great.
Load More Replies... SadieCat17 2 years ago
For those of you that like video recipes, korean channels are usually concise and high quality, and most have good subtitles. I've made some of the best deserts from those sorts of videos and they usually don't have much talking which is nice. You'll need a kitchen scale or good conversions if you're american though.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
Thank you BP, you took the overly long ridiculous posting that people had commented on, then you shortened it and now we can't access the posts. Thanks for notifying me.
Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
My favourite cooking channel for great quality food is Kay's Cooking !/s
Scarlett 2 years ago
Would this be the same lady Daz was trying to give cooking advice to in one video?
Load More Replies... Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
I liked the one on TikTok where they put an egg in the air fryer and then take out a roasted chicken. I tried it but it didn't work.
GirlFriday 2 years ago
Anytime the cook says the recipe is "Amish". No, Amberly, an elderly Amish lady did not show you how to cook chicken in a crock pot.
Jason Doakes 2 years ago
I can't recommend this channel enough times: @Howtocookthat, by Ann Reardon, Food Scientist
Adam Belaire 2 years ago
Uncle Roger needs to do more videos. He makes all those horrible videos fun!
Lauren Wilder 2 years ago
That one Thanksgiving recipe where they made Macaroni and cheese with carrots and brussel sprouts. So now its just vegetables and noodles. Stop changing classic recipes and thinking its good.
Northern Breeze 2 years ago
There's a page on Youtube called Cooking With Kate... That British lady is so nice that one cannot help watching all her cooking videos. However, on top of her skills being very limited in culinary arts, it seemed to me that her knives were abysmally dull and her stove seems to have only 2 "speeds", which is Max or Off. Everything ends up overcooked or worse... She hasn't posted since a few years; I still miss her show...
Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
Some of my friends genuinely like pizza with ketchup chips on top.. and also chocolate dip that was intended to be used for strawberries….
Aiden Brough 2 years ago
My bug bear? These "MasterChef" competitions where they have a dozen middleclass tickboxers who make appear in half a dozen episodes and then end up owning restaurants or a dozen ghostwritten books about some poncey food no-one has every heard about. What about those who toil 18 hours a day sweating for 20 years in an actual kitchen to rise to the rank of buggerall? Sorry, but gurning green grocery Greg has a lot to answer for...
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