34 Hilariously Dumb Comments People Left On Internet Recipes That Got Called Out By This TikToker
InterviewMost people we know have a love-hate relationship with internet recipes. They tend to enjoy the ones that get straight to the point and make the instructions extremely easy to follow. On the flip side, they absolutely loathe recipes that have several pages of fluff and ‘lore’ at the beginning. But you can easily scroll past that. However, have you ever scrolled down even further, into the comment section? It can be… quite an experience.
TikTok content creator and vlogger Lucy, aka @lucyloves_, has a fascinating video series about ‘recipe ruiners.’ She features some of the weirdest, stupidest, and most insane comments that people leave on internet recipes. They are beyond hilarious, and a few of them might short-circuit your brain (trust us, we’ve been there).
Check out the strangest comments below and don’t forget to upvote the ones that made you do a double-take, Pandas. Oh, and be sure to follow Lucy’s socials if you enjoy her content!
Bored Panda reached out to Lucy and she was kind enough to answer our questions about the video series and why people write such peculiar comments online. She also shared a bit about herself as a content creator with us. You'll find our full interview with Lucy below, so be sure to read on.
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Lucy has a funny and weird video series about people who post utterly bizarre internet comments
You can watch her very first TikTok in the series right over here
@lucyloves_ The comment sections of internet recipes are WILD | Also, help me name this segment? #ididnthaveeggs #cooking #recipe #recipes #recipesubstitution #internetrecipes #foodblogger ♬ original sound - Lucy ❤️
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We were interested to find out what inspired Lucy to start the 'recipe ruiners' video segment on her account in the first place.
"I kept seeing them around the place and just thought they were so funny and figured there must be other people who also found them as funny as I did," she told Bored Panda that her primary motivation was to make others laugh.
"This is a recipe for Thanksgiving stuffing."
In the content creator's opinion, it doesn't matter all that much how specific or well-written a recipe is, "people either don’t read it correctly or change things then blame the author."
She shared that she has seen people who "burn things then get into an argument with their boyfriend and blame the author… no amount of good recipe writing can save you from that!" Alas, even the very best recipes writers will have to deal with bizarre comments underneath their posts. It's a question of 'when,' not 'if.'
"As a creator, I mostly focus on sharing parts of my life that I think will help people and sometimes just make them laugh!" Lucy told us.
"I’ve had an unusual journey in life that means I am able to help other people starting down the infertility path themselves to navigate the system and handle its unique challenges and just know they aren’t alone. I think TikTok makes people feel less alone in a way other platforms just haven’t captured."
Sorry did the OP expect the cooker range hood to actually suck up huge splashes of hot oil?? I get she's got hurt and injured but that's Entirely her own fault 😮🤦♀️
The beauty of Lucy’s ‘recipe ruiners’ series is that it gives a whole different perspective to the sometimes mind-boggling world of food. If you thought that only decent, polite, and rational people cook at home, well, you were wrong.
We sometimes see maniacs who use mayonnaise instead of heavy cream… and then boast about it online. Then there are those who substitute flour with salt and think it’s the recipe’s fault when they don’t get the expected results. That’s the kind of eldritch knowledge that can break your mind, H. P. Lovecraft-style. Whether you’re religious or not, you might be likely to agree that those people need Jesus in their lives, just as a broad precaution against culinary sins.
While there is an interesting philosophical point here - at what point does a recipe for one thing become a recipe for something completely different - he’s replaced all the main ingredients and still hasn’t noticed it’s a different dish altogether. Impressive.
Generally speaking, baking is a science while cooking is a form of art. That’s not to say that bakers can’t be creative or that precision and discipline aren’t valued in cooking.
Far from it. It’s just that it’s far more essential to follow the instructions to the letter when you’re baking a pie or a cluster of cupcakes. Meanwhile, if you’re frying something up, you can allow yourself a bit more freedom to ‘jazz’ things up.
In other words, cooking allows for more freedom than baking when it comes to substituting some ingredients for others.
For instance, you may have run out of a specific spice, or fruit, or vegetable that the recipe calls for. No worries, you can still avoid the hassle of running to the shop by using what you have at hand in the pantry as a crutch.
However, this simply does not work if you substitute things based on just how they look (e.g. mayonnaise and cream), instead of their flavor profiles.
Yes, aesthetics are important, but we don’t just eat with our eyes. Your baked goods and dishes have to taste well, not just look more or less like the pics in the recipe.
At the same time, we shouldn’t be blind to the fact that culinary fashions come and go. The aesthetics can change wildly, but they tend to rely on flavor profiles that people have enjoyed for very long stretches of time. That’s why it’s so important to get the flavor combos right.
"This one is on a recipe for Yorkshire pudding. The only ingredients in Yorkshire pudding is flour, eggs, milk, and oil."
A while back, Professor Nathalie Cooke, from McGill University, illuminated Bored Panda about vintage party food recipes from the 1950s. She noted that, as strange as the dishes might look, the “basic flavor combination is something that reaches across the decades.”
“[The vintage recipes] may seem very odd to us in the 21st century, but the taste combinations—savory and sweet (tuna waffles, ham and bananas) or sweet and sour (mayo with lime) are surely very familiar,” she said during an earlier interview.
“There were ‘fads’ at mid-century: think of cookbooklets demonstrating how to decorate one’s ham with slices of canned pineapple, topped with the bedazzling red of a maraschino cherry, for example! And you don’t mention the jaw-dropping recipes incorporating marshmallows in main course dishes, recipes that were brain children of corporate marketing departments,” Professor Cooke told us.
Please check which ingredients are available to everyone across the planet before you post recipes on the WORLD WIDE WEB.
Was someone forcing Barbara to make this? I don't understand why she is so butt-hurt by a recipe. I hope she's okay. Can someone check on her and update us on her status? Smh
Load More Replies..............So I guess I am the only OTHER person in the world who hasn't heard of mushroom powder.
I have never heard of mushroom powder. I've heard of mushroom stems, mushroom caps, face powder, talcum powder, baby powder, and onion powder, but never mushroom powder.
Load More Replies...So you can access a recipe on the internet, but you can’t find mushroom powder on Amazon?
If you put dried mushrooms in a blender and give them a few good spins, you get mushroom powder. Really good combined with salt, which can be used to add final touches to the dish.
I've never heard of mushroom powder either! But since I, like the OP am posting On the Internet I can Google what it is and what is the right substitute if any for it 🙄
As a Wisconsinite i cannot wait til we get a Trader Joe's! But why can she not order it online or make her own? Also reasonably certain that Woodman's would have it, they have everything.
I sort of get the frustration, here. I also sort of don't, because there certainly are places for recipes that call for obscure ingredients, and I feel like the internet is one of those places. But generally speaking, I do understand the frustration. I have this cook book full of beautiful looking recipes that call for all sorts of outlandish stuff, and it annoys the c**p out of me. Oh, you want a specific herb that only grows in one part of France? Oh, you want the spleen of a canary killed at midnight under a full moon? I recall there was some Roman big shot who said something like, "You haven't lived until you've had flamingo tongue," and there's just something so hoity toity about it, it rubs me the wrong way. It's a little like that. I really need to toss that book, but the recipes just look too good. What if I ever get my hands on that specific herb from France?!
Then don't buy that recipe book if it's going to make you feel bad about yourself.
Load More Replies...Maybe read the recipe, look at the ingredients, compare that with ingredients available to you, then MAKE SOME TOUGH CHOICES, KAREN.
We have a Trader Joe's in Madison. It definitely exists in Wisconsin 😆
Load More Replies...Holy s**t, wokeness has hit recipes now? This recipe isn't f*****g inclusive enough? I seriously can't handle people anymore.
Not sure where any social justice was in the recipe or the post. Seems the only place is in your own comment where you are upset about other people being allowed to be "woke" though you prefer them to not be. Sounds like a "YOU" problem not a recipe problem.
Load More Replies...Have to admit, i've never even HEARD of 'mushroom powder' before this. And, now, in a way, i'm a bit sorry that i have.
I mean I get annoyed when that happens but I wouldn't b*tch at the recipe author about it. I would however get EXTRA annoyed if they say "common ingredients you already have" and it's stuff that's like $10 an ounce at a store I'd have to drive four hours to get to.
Barbara looks like the exact kind of person who would post a comment like this.
to be fair, i don't think many people have mushroom powder available to them...
Had a recipe that called for mushroom powder once. Which does not exist in my uncultured part of town. What does exist however, were several varieties of dried mushroom which I ended up crushing by hand in a mortar because i couldn't find the blender lid. Just because an ingredient is inconvenient doesn't mean it's unobtainable. Now if they are calling for luxury ingredients like foie gras then maybe the recipe isn't for you.
Depends on where you live in Wisconsin. Their website says there are three Trader Joe's in Wisconsin. A little closer than Mars.
Milwaukee and Madison might even have Whole Foods!
Load More Replies...Please check with me first before you start putting ingredients in your recipes. Sometimes I just don't have the time to go to Mars.
Yeah…so, everywhere sells dried mushrooms…just make them into powder :|
As a matter of fact, lots of groceries (or Amazon!) deliver to Wisconsin if your local grocery doesn't have what you need.
Jesus Christ on a tricycle, Barbara. You could have easily googled replacement for mushroom powder.
I'm in Wisconsin and can get mushroom powder at any one of a dozen Asian markets nearby. :/
I don't know where you live but I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life and it's beautiful here. Sorry if you've had a bad experience.
Load More Replies...Maybe you could buy it online and have it shipped to you. Ever think of that?
“But if we were to create one of today’s favorites from scratch, say Pad Thai, we would start from the same basic taste combinations you describe in what at first glance seem like bizarre plate partners,” she noted.
“Cooking bitter tamarind with water, raw sugar and fish sauce will build the basic foundation (sour, salty, and sweet). To that one would add the requisite green onions, bean sprouts, and noodles—and likely some additional flavor notes such as shallot, garlic, and perhaps dried turnip (salty and sweet) to deepen the flavor,” the professor said.
Which of these internet recipe comments are going to haunt you in your nightmares, dear Pandas? Did any of them shake you to your culinary core, as they did us? What's the very worst recipe comment you've ever read online? And what do you personally value the most when it comes to online cooking and baking instructions? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments. We can't wait to see what you have to say!
So basically, I threw away the food without cooking it, much less tasting it, and that's your fault.
O ok.. pork eggrolls have diferent tastings compared to shrimp... so the ingriedients wers meant for pork not the shrimp... who on earth removes mushrooms??
Here's what some TikTok users said after watching Lucy's hilarious videos
i don't like vowels so i replaced all instances of a, e, i, o, & u in your comment with the letter x, but it's unintelligible! i'm rating this comment 0/5 stars.
Load More Replies...What a terrible post! I mean, I didn't read it because I wasn't in the mood, so I read today's news instead, and it put me in an even worse mood, so I really can't recommend this post that's about...uh...whatever it's about.
I've found great tweaks and advice in comments for online recipes. And then there is this.
I honestly didn't realise there were so many ignorant ppl on this planet 🤦🏼♀️
Reddit has a whole sub dedicated to terrible recipe reviews like these. It's r/ididnthaveeggs and it's one of my favorite places to go for a wholesome laugh.
Load More Replies...Thank you. I suddenly feel I need to appreciate my kitchen efforts more.
I love the person who one starred a review and said "Haven't tried yet"
I don't really like hazel nuts so I used metric nuts instead. Now crunchier than I like. 3 stars
these are funny, but do we really need the tiktok in the beginning & the tiktok comments at the end?
Didn't like the TikTok framing so substituted with malicious compliance story. Texture not what I expected
Load More Replies...So basically the crux of the problem is people didn't bother to read the recipe and can't be arsed to google for proper ingredient substitution.
Head to r/ididnthaveeggs on Reddit. It's an entire sub dedicated to these types of recipe reviews and it's beautiful. I'm almost 100% sure that's where this TikToker sourced their content lol.
I am stunned that the 'bakers and cooks' who tried wild substitutions haven't ended up in the hospital yet, or worse. I wish we could have asked some of the commenters for an explanation. I'd really like to know the reasoning behind a can of cream soup being substituted with mayonnaise, mustard, milk and cranberry sauce. And the one that seemed to make a smaller amount by removing the same measurement of all the ingredients and wondered why it was awful. Jeez. I feel so sorry for the families of these 'cooks and bakers'.
Thank you! This is one of my pet peeves--people that leave asinine comments on recipes.
This proves my theory that people are stupid and only survive by luck.
The Toast had a hilarious article parodying recipe blog comments (some of them sound like the actual comments here: https://the-toast.net/2014/09/04/eighteen-kinds-people-comment-recipe-blog/
I wonder which type of 1 star review must be more infuriating to the recipe creators - the I don't like your recipe though my entire family loved it and I'm not happy they are all fans review, or the I substituted all the main ingredients and for some reason don't like it review.
None of these were my personal (least) favorite and that's the comments from people who haven't made the dish or whatever but want everyone to know "it looks amazing and surely delicious!"
I saw a recipe years ago that included beer and a young lady commented that she might try it with root beer (she was wearing a head scarf in her photo so I assume this was for halal reasons). I had to break it to her that since root beer was a soda she would have a very different experience if she heated it up.
These must be the people who do Instacart substitutions! One of my friends ordered agave syrup and received not stevia, cane sugar, corn syrup or even splenda, but coconut milk! 🤢 In what world is that the same lol.
Why was this a tiktok thing? It was a lovely article. Why add the tiktok stuff when it's so dangerous to its users? Why give a tiktok person credit for stealing content from the internet?
BP didn't "add" the ticktock stuff. They were giving credit to the person who compiled this list. That's no different than giving credit to Instagram or Reddit when BP takes stuff from those sources. And how does compiling a list from the internet constitute "stealing?" Would you consider it stealing if BP had compiled it directly? You liked the article but you object to anyone compiling this information? How then would you have an article to read in the first place? And if you don't like Ticktock then boycott and downvote the article.
Load More Replies...i don't like vowels so i replaced all instances of a, e, i, o, & u in your comment with the letter x, but it's unintelligible! i'm rating this comment 0/5 stars.
Load More Replies...What a terrible post! I mean, I didn't read it because I wasn't in the mood, so I read today's news instead, and it put me in an even worse mood, so I really can't recommend this post that's about...uh...whatever it's about.
I've found great tweaks and advice in comments for online recipes. And then there is this.
I honestly didn't realise there were so many ignorant ppl on this planet 🤦🏼♀️
Reddit has a whole sub dedicated to terrible recipe reviews like these. It's r/ididnthaveeggs and it's one of my favorite places to go for a wholesome laugh.
Load More Replies...Thank you. I suddenly feel I need to appreciate my kitchen efforts more.
I love the person who one starred a review and said "Haven't tried yet"
I don't really like hazel nuts so I used metric nuts instead. Now crunchier than I like. 3 stars
these are funny, but do we really need the tiktok in the beginning & the tiktok comments at the end?
Didn't like the TikTok framing so substituted with malicious compliance story. Texture not what I expected
Load More Replies...So basically the crux of the problem is people didn't bother to read the recipe and can't be arsed to google for proper ingredient substitution.
Head to r/ididnthaveeggs on Reddit. It's an entire sub dedicated to these types of recipe reviews and it's beautiful. I'm almost 100% sure that's where this TikToker sourced their content lol.
I am stunned that the 'bakers and cooks' who tried wild substitutions haven't ended up in the hospital yet, or worse. I wish we could have asked some of the commenters for an explanation. I'd really like to know the reasoning behind a can of cream soup being substituted with mayonnaise, mustard, milk and cranberry sauce. And the one that seemed to make a smaller amount by removing the same measurement of all the ingredients and wondered why it was awful. Jeez. I feel so sorry for the families of these 'cooks and bakers'.
Thank you! This is one of my pet peeves--people that leave asinine comments on recipes.
This proves my theory that people are stupid and only survive by luck.
The Toast had a hilarious article parodying recipe blog comments (some of them sound like the actual comments here: https://the-toast.net/2014/09/04/eighteen-kinds-people-comment-recipe-blog/
I wonder which type of 1 star review must be more infuriating to the recipe creators - the I don't like your recipe though my entire family loved it and I'm not happy they are all fans review, or the I substituted all the main ingredients and for some reason don't like it review.
None of these were my personal (least) favorite and that's the comments from people who haven't made the dish or whatever but want everyone to know "it looks amazing and surely delicious!"
I saw a recipe years ago that included beer and a young lady commented that she might try it with root beer (she was wearing a head scarf in her photo so I assume this was for halal reasons). I had to break it to her that since root beer was a soda she would have a very different experience if she heated it up.
These must be the people who do Instacart substitutions! One of my friends ordered agave syrup and received not stevia, cane sugar, corn syrup or even splenda, but coconut milk! 🤢 In what world is that the same lol.
Why was this a tiktok thing? It was a lovely article. Why add the tiktok stuff when it's so dangerous to its users? Why give a tiktok person credit for stealing content from the internet?
BP didn't "add" the ticktock stuff. They were giving credit to the person who compiled this list. That's no different than giving credit to Instagram or Reddit when BP takes stuff from those sources. And how does compiling a list from the internet constitute "stealing?" Would you consider it stealing if BP had compiled it directly? You liked the article but you object to anyone compiling this information? How then would you have an article to read in the first place? And if you don't like Ticktock then boycott and downvote the article.
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