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.
I agree, very good icing but in addition to mayonnaise you can't substitute the heavy cream for glue either! They should really add that to the recipe.
Any other whitish liquids that could be used as a substitution? I have a ready supply.
Load More Replies...These persons are why there are warnings to not dry pets in microwaves etc.
I was stocking pet food at work one day. One of the cans had a big label on the back: WARNING: DO NOT FEED CAN TO GOATS.
Load More Replies...I didn't realize frying my tater tots in motor oil would be an issue, and I was devastated. Maybe mention that next time I'm having a stupid.
I've seen it a few times where people have thought mayo was a great substitute for cream, I mean why? You don't put cream on a salad or a sandwich and you don't put mayo in a coffee or hot chocolate 🤢
So here's the math on that one. Frosting = thick, creamy, usually starts white or slightly off white in color, Suger will be added to make it sweet, usually not in most people's fridge. Mayo= thick, creamy, usually white or off white in color, recipe calls for adding sugar, probably in most people's fridge.
Load More Replies...I didn't realize that I couldn't substitute igauna eggs/seaweed/anchovies/beet juice/coffee f or heavy cream. Maybe mention it next time. Other than that, it was delicious.
But, iguana eggs should have worked fine if you separated the yolks and whites and whipped them until soft peaks formed....
Load More Replies...Recipe does only tell me what I should do and not what I shouldn’t! 1/5!!
This reminds me of the time at one school they had huge tubs of rice pudding and vanilla pudding and just let you put scoops of it in your tray, .... only then i went to another school and saw the same kind of tub with "pudding" I was like "yeah! PUDDING" I filled my tray with nothing but "pudding", Sat down, and took a huge bite!...... it was just mayonnaise........... Who the heck put a huge tub of free-standing mayo out? for kids!?
Well, recipes are pretty thorough...if it isn't mentioned it's probably because they don't expect anyone to actually try it.
You also can't substitute the heavy cream for horse pîss......does that help?? smh
I don’t know why someone would think that mayonnaise would taste good in icing. It’s not good on its own. Anyway why would you add it to something that’s supposed to be sweet?!!! At the very least use 1/2 the amount in milk or milk substitute. Like oat, soy, or almond milk
You can also do 1/4 butter and 3/4 part milk and use 1 to 1 for most things that you don't need to actually whip
Load More Replies...Suuuure if there was a mass common misconception about mayo being used for icing.. then I'll "warn" you.
Note - Do not substitute the Heavy Cream with anything but Heavy Cream.
Dear recipe writer, please list everything that would not be good substitutions for all the ingredients in this recipe. It'll make it a lot easier for me and I'm sure everyone else.
I don't understand, I always love a dollop of Hellmann's on my hot chocolate
Who in their right mind would ever think mayonnaise makes a good sub for heavy cream? Dang it, Sharon!
Who the hell sees frosting and thinks - you know what never mind, i see the logic and it's dumb. I've watched enough worst cooks in America to know how their math worked.
"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.
“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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