50 Times People Failed In The Kitchen So Badly, They Just Had To Share Pics Online (New Pics)
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.
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Dumplings From The Hell's Gate
My Crescent Rolls Came Out Looking Like Walruses That Just Can't Anymore
Here Is My Favorite Picture Of My Grandma. She Was Having A Hard Time With The Mixer
Previously, pie artist and baking and cooking pro Jessica Clark-Bojin shared a few great tips and tricks with Bored Panda 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."
Turned My Back For A Minute And She Peed In 20 Cups Of Uncooked Rice
This Was Way Cuter When I Pictured It In My Head
My Bff Just Melted Her Favorite Pot. I Didn’t Even Know That Was Possible
I did that once myself... once. Had water and potatoes in a favorite pot. Left it on boiling so long, all the water evaporated. I noticed when I smelled something strange. The potatoes were burned to the inside and the metal was melted just like in this pic. I think it's the soldering between the pot and the bottom piece they put on the pot for better cooking.
Jessica pointed out that anyone who wants to improve in the kitchen should start by taking some time to think about and picture in their mind all the steps before diving in and starting to bake or cook. That way, you can avoid slip-ups, blunders, and setting your entire kitchen aflame. "Make sure you have all the ingredients you need before you start baking. Work 'mis-en-place' and have all the bowls, spoons, tools, etc. cleaned and out on the counter ready for you. Measure out dry ingredients in advance, and (if called for) portion out wet ingredients to chill in the fridge. Clean up pots and pans while your mixture bakes," Jessica shared.
My Wife Likes To Keep Dog Food Beside Coffee Beans. Guess What I Did At 5:30 Am This Morning
Ahhh, nothing like the fresh aroma of percolating dog biscuits first thing in the morning
You Ever Mess Up Burgers So Bad That Even Your Grill Is Surprised?
New Style Ribs. Introducing: Hell Done
The Way My Pasta Spilled
Making Brownies Didn't Go As Planned
My Sister Tried Making Popcorn At Work Today... Didn't Go Very Well
You Did Your Best, Chef
So We Had Pizza And Tears For Dinner. So Much For That Shepherd's Pie
See Those Eggs? They Are Supposed To Be In The Pies. I Made Two Hot Oily Chocolate Garbage Circles
I'm An Idiot And My Wife Won't Stop Laughing At Me
Having Currywurst In Your Trunk
My Attempt At Baking A Brownie Turned Out Like A Before And After Picture Of An Addiction
Yes, This Was Freshly Made Hot Sauce
My Wife Worked For An Hour On This Peach Crisp And Burst Into Tears Right Before My Parents Showed Up To Our House
Finally Made A Good Lattice Crust Then I Went And Knocked My Cactus Onto It
My Dumbest Injury, I Was Flipping A Steak In A Curved Pan, Like Flat Bottom Wok, And All The Butter Splashed Out
Yikes...my sympathies to this person...that do look to be painful
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
Accidentally Baked A Fly Into My Cookies
Nightmare Lamb Cake
Prepared Cinnamon Toast Crunch In The Dark. It Was Cheeze Its
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
Tell the truth. You tried to flip it, didn’t you? Come on, you can tell me. You tried to flip it like some kind of professional chef, and totally f****d up. Am I right?
What's The Worst Thing To Find After You Took The Last Batch Of Cookies Out? The Real Cinnamon
My Friend's Mother Thought That The Croissants Would Just Roll Themselves Up While Cooking
Do the Jack Daniels bottles have anything to do with her thought processes?
We Had 6 Eggs Left. I Thought I Would Scramble Them For Breakfast. The 6th One I Cracked In The Bowl Was Completely Rotten
For these cases I'm glad the technology is not so advanced!!!
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Thought this was common practise, but in case it’s not (as in this post): Crack your egg into a small cup first. See/smell if it’s okay, then add it to the bowl and crack your next egg into the cup.
Also, if you submerge your eggs in cold water you cn tell how fresh they are. If they float, they are bad. If they sit upright like they wanna float but can't, you should be ok (No promises though lol!) But I do the egg water test if I'm unsure if they are still ok
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So THATS what they look like . . .think of it as a science moment. I've never seen a rotten egg.
Same. And I'm glad I can't smell it through internet
Load More Replies... This is why you are meant to crack each one into a separate receptacle before adding to the bowl. Not that I ever do…….but I will now!
In my 32 years of life, I've never had an egg that rotten. Ew. I can't even fathom how it could get that bad.
I often crack them one at a time into a cup and only throws them into the batter once they have passed quality control, when I know I am going to use a lot of eggs. It prevents you from having to throw out expensive ingredience in a situation like that, and it makes it easier to remove the stray eggshells before it mixes in.
How do you not keep track of how old your eggs are? Or was this a case of 1 rotten egg being put in a carton with 11 fresh eggs—-and how would that even happen?
That's why i think it's made up. This is not how a rotten egg looks like.
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And this is why I check my eggs by putting them in water. Don't need to worry about cracking them and risking the stench.
Lesson to be learnt: always crack an egg into a cup before adding to the others - as told to me by my Home Ec Teacher 52 years back
That's why you should crack each one in a small bowl before adding it to the large bowl containing the ones that were okay.
This is rare, BUT my mom, raised on a farm, taught me to always crack each egg in a separate cup just in case. On the farm, you never knew.
THANK YOU. I feel so much less neurotic in always cracking my eggs one by one in a seperate bowl to prevent exactly this outcome.
And what have you learned from this? Better to wash an extra transfer bowl than throw out food.
have done this very badly hungover . Had to hag off the back porch doing the big spit for a long time . Also made me very wary of eggs .
That egg saved you from being soooo sick. If the yolks are flat, as shown, the egg has gone bad.
Ewwwwwww! Well, you know the old saying: "One bad egg spoils the bowl."
Again…. Holy Cow! I’ve never seen an egg this color and consistency no matter how old or rotten it was. And I have chickens!!
I always crack eggs one at a time into a cup, smell and then pour them to bowl :)
And that's why in many cooking classes they teach you to crack the egg into a small bowl first, before adding it to anything else, just in case it's gone off.
I cracked open a bad egg for the first time ever in my 50 years, just a few weeks ago (farm share eggs). It didn't smell like I thought it would - I imagined a sulfurous fart smell - this was more of a bad breath, meets old dishrag, meets decomposing squirrel kind of smell. Very unpleasant and very strange.
Looks like one of those chicks made a s**t before you cracked the egg.
Umm… if you’re really desperate you could try fishing out the uncracked yolks and washing them off? But I mean really desperate. Like starving college student desperate.
That is why you always crack your eggs separately into a small bowl first.
That's why I always crack each one in a separate bowl before adding them.
Always have to bowl : Crack an egg in the first bowl, then put it in the second one if it is good. This way you won't ruin all of them.
Always crack eggs one at a time in a separate bowl then add it to the rest. Always.
My Mum, who hates eggs at the best of times, once cracked an egg into the pan she was cooking breakfast for me and my brother. She screamed and ran out of the kichen - it had a fully formed chicken foetus in it!
Pizza That Looks Like Lava
Moved The Flour Away From The Kid So He Wouldn't Make A Mess... And I Knocked It Off The Counter With My Elbow
Ever Wondered What Happens When You Microwave A Frozen Uncooked Croissant? Wonder No More
Ramen: Microwave For 4 Minutes On High Power. Follow Me For More Great Recipes
I Tried My Grandmother's Donut Recipe And I Have To Admit, It Kinda Stinks
My Friend Writes "Apparently I Bought A Bringing Bag Instead Of A Baking Bag"
Spent 12 Hours Making "Cinnamon Swirl" Sourdough Bread
I Did Not Look Closely Enough At That Label
My Fridge Just Decided To Freeze My Eggs. Have A Nice Day
My Roommate Made Soup
Craving Pizza But Convinced Myself To Get Groceries And Make A Healthy Dinner Instead. Why Do I Even Try?
My Sister Toasted Bread With Jelly In My Brand New Toaster. She's 31
Spent 10 Minutes Looking For The Drip Tray For The Forman Grill, After I Turned It On
Tried To Make A Cake. Not Sure What Went Wrong
This Medium Rare Sour Bread My Mom Made
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
Pizza Is Ready
Forgot Apple Pie Was In The Oven
Tomato Soup - It's On The Ceiling, Too
The Cake I Spent 1 Hour To Make. At Least I'm Sure It's Not Too Dry
For anyone that doesn't know, you can check a cake is cooked by pushing a metal skewer (or thin bladed knife, but a skewer obviously does less damage) into the middle. It should come out basically clean/lightly oiled - if it has cake mix on it you're not there yet. Make sure your oven's really well pre-heated, too...
Call Me The Bread Weaner. I Mean, Winner
He Fell Off The Tray In The Oven, But He Still Smiling
These Pretzels Taste Worse Than They Look
After Making My Own Bone Broth, Reducing Red Wine And Slow Cooking In The Oven For 5 Hours I Finally Got To Taste Beef Bourgognion This Christmas
So How Is Your Morning Going?
Cute Christmas Profiteroles... Looking Like Dog Poops
In fairness the ones on the left look like poops too, only more festive.
Guess I'll Order Out Tonight
Tried To Make Strawberry Mochi Without A Recipe And Now They Look Like Boiled Kirbys
This Is What Happens When You Forget To Poke A Hole In Spaghetti Squash And Then Attempt To Cut It After It’s Baked. It Explodes In Your Face
Today I Learned - Half-Cooked Eggs Can't Be Cooked Further In The Microwave
Boyfriend Cooked Fish Cakes And Sweet Potato Bites For A Perfect 11 Hours. Whole House Stinks Of Fish
Buddy Sent Me This. Cast Iron Pan That Decided It Was Tired Of Their Stuff
Made Some Cookies. I Think I Nailed It
Well That's Not The Soy Sauce
Chicken And Broccoli Smothered In Melted Rubber Lid
I Just Made A Cheesecake And When I Wanted To Put It In The Fridge The Bottom Fell Out Of The Mold
The Steak My Brother Cooked Me
I’ve Been Cooking For A Decade, But You’d Never Know It
Forgot I Was Proofing Bread Dough In The Oven And Then Set The Oven To Preheat
A Hot, Fresh Lasagna In My Favorite Dish
Melonpan?
I Poured Beef Broth Into The Crook Pot As The Last Ingredient For My Homemade Chili And Out Came Mold
My Knife Broke When I Tried To Cut The Watermelon I Just Bought, Just To Find Out That It Went Bad
Tried Cooking Dinner For The First Time After Weeks Of Takeout
This is mostly because the lid is not the size of the pan. It got overheated and the glass was not made for that kind of temperatures. I'd suggest not using glass lids for frying at all.
When You Come Home And Your House Doesn’t Smell Like Pot Roast
Had a friend who just could not cook. She tried to make a turkey at Thanksgiving when she was first married. She prepped it and put it in the oven, then went to greet her guests, who were bringing the other side dishes and all. Like a Thanksgiving pot luck. Several hours went by, and it was finally time to eat. Guests had been wondering why there was no smell of turkey baking, but were too polite to ask. My friend went to get the turkey out of the oven. That’s when she discovered she had put it in the oven but not turned the oven ON! Needless to say, it’s a mercy it was a pot luck. They had a side dish Thanksgiving that year, and her husband has cooked the turkey every Thanksgiving since. Luckily he’s good at it.
My Mom Broke Our Oven Cooking Chicken
Never Bake Cookies In A Crop Top
Eggs À La Poivre
I Wasn't Trying To Make A Glossy Iron Plate. I Tried To Make A Panque
Taking My Food To Bed Was A Bad Idea
My Pepper Grinder Broke This Morning
Got Over-Confident With My Cooking And Tried To Make Cookies
Recipe: Place Pizza Rolls And French Fries In The Oven. Then Promptly Take A 3 Hour Nap
Done that with eggs boiling. Sat down to read for the 20 or so minutes they needed, fell asleep for about an hour or so, woke up to a loud popping noise. Did you know eggs can explode if you let the water boil away?
Dinner Is Served (Yes, I Almost Burnt Down My House)
Tried To Make Spooky Mac And Cheese
I Saw A Recipe For Protein Powder Pancakes And Decided To Try Protein Waffles With A Waffle Maker I’ve Never Used Before
Melted Fork, Yummy
Turned On The Wrong Burner And Cooked My Cell Phone, Case Looks Cool But The Camera Is Toast
I Cooked Pasta After A Long Week, Attempted To Pour Some Oregano, And Part Of The Shaker Decided To Get Stuck In There
Did this with worcestershire... opened the cap and proceeded to shake about 5 oz of sauce into my food as the shaker cap came off with the lid.
2020 New Year's Eve Cheesecake
I Turned The Wrong Stove Burner On And Exploded My Made From Scratch Pumpkin Pie
Shout Out To The Baker Missing Their Nail. I Chewed On It Twice Thinking It Was A Clove Of Garlic Before I Made The Horrific Realization It Was A Fingernail
It’s garlic and rosemary sourdough.
It’s disgusting. Agreed. But what’s really gross is how nasty that fingernail looks. How can anyone with nails like that be around food prep?
The Dinner My Husband Was Cooking For 3 Hours
You sure you don’t actually mean the LAST dinner your husband will ever cook?
My Younger Brother, Who Moves Out In 2 Weeks, Tried To Make A Pizza
My Mom Burnt Some Pasta And Now There Are These Marks Stuck To The Bottom
No Caramel For My Ice Cream I Guess
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Forgot About My Dehydrated Lemons In The Oven And Proceeded To Preheat It For Some Chicken Tenders. Was Left With This
Homemade Pizza For Dinner
Fell Asleep With The Pizza In The Oven
$50 Tri Tip From Seaside Market. I Forgot About It On The Grill... For Two Hours
Broke A $300 Pasta Machine By Accidentally Dropping A Spoon Inside
A While Back, I Shared My Pitiful Attempt At Frozen Pizza. Today, I Present To You, My Friend's Pitiful Attempt At A Corn Dog
Hmm, I Don't Remember Keeping Marshmallow Fluff In My Oven
Thinking About Burritos All Day. Come Home From Work And Microwave My Last One. Completely Hollow
My Pepper Shaker Broke Mid-Shake
That’s a shame. That chicken and rice—-chicken a la king, maybe?—-looked really tasty.
Guess Which One I Accidentally Put On My Yogurt This Morning
Today On Cooking Catastrophes
Yep. Gotta make sure of how high a temperature the container can stand.
After A Busy Day Running Around With Kids Back To School And A Million Other Things To Arrange, Having No Breakfast And Barely Any Lunch, I Was Cooking Dinner And It Needed A Touch Of Salt
Niece Is Trying Her Hand At Baking For The First Time. She Forgot To Add 2 Cups Of Flour To Her Chocolate Chip Cookies. This Was The Result
Thought I'd Make Some Pasta With The Last Of My Homemade Tomato Sauce From My Garden Last Summer. Guess I'd Better Think Again
WTF? In over fifty years, I've never had a tempered glass lid shatter, but I've seen at least four of them in this post.
Preheated My Broiler To Make A Delicious Tomato Sausage Gnocchi. Totally Forgot That I Had Bread Dough Rising In The Oven
My Left Airpod Fell In The Oven And I Didn’t Notice Until Well Baked 20 Minutes Afterwards
Decided I Wanted A Midnight Snack And Fell Asleep. Cooked At 415 For 10 Hours
8-Year-Old Remembered To Take The Foil Flavor Packet Out! She Forgot To Add Water
I Do Consider Cooking An Art Form
What's wrong with this? I find it hard to buy for and cook only a single portion at a time. While I usually keep it in the fridge for the next day I sometimes make a big batch and portion freeze it.
Sweet Potato And Yams Lightly Baked With Marshmallows
OK, but I like burnt marshmallows. They taste caramelized. Am I the only one?
My Pizza Stone Cracked After 12 Years Of Use. Devastated
I Just Wanted A Little Black Pepper On My Pizza. Stupid Plastic Grinder Top Malfunction
The amount of people, who forgot they had something on their stove/in their oven for hours... is disturbing.
I'm the type of person to do that...which is why I always set an alarm or stay in the kitchen until it's done.
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It surprises me how many shattered glass lids there are. How does that happen? (Not judging, just wondering. I use glass lids, too, and never had anything like that.)
Yeah...If this thread has taught me anything it's that I might have to stop using my glass lids.
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Sometimes, little scratches or nicks that you may or may not see, from washing or storing, overheat and then shatter. If the temp changes too fast, like putting cold water on the lid, that of course happens. Sometimes there are tiny bubbles or flaws in the glass from manufacturing that you might not see, and wear or age will cause that weakness to snap. Also, putting a glass lid directly on a cook top, if the cook top is still warm, can cause suction - pulling the lid down and then breaking the glass.
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Use your fingers or measuring spoons to add seasoning. Don't pour directly from the storage container onto your food.
Agreed. My mom taught me as a little kid, never add or measure ingredients or break eggs into your pot; it's too easy to mess up and dump too much or have the lid come off, and the eggs you break into a bowl to make sure they're good and you didn't get any shell. She taught me to use a measuring spoon or my fingers, away from the pot. As for a single dish seasoned at the table, I guess there isn't much you can do but buy good pepper mills and check your shaker's tops I guess.
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I"m sorry, but when I smell something even remotely burning on the stovetop/in the oven, I'm immediately up and checking on it, even if it's just a drip in the catch plate. Also, no smoke detectors????? Set an alarm on your phone if you're that tired so you'll at least wake up from that unplanned nap before your house burns down.
I have a friend that poured a bag of uncooked rice down the garbage disposal. He thought that was ok. It wasn’t.
I once messed up at making mug cakes because I forgot to mix the powder, and I was wondering why it tasted so grainy. The amazing thing is that I had just made bruschetta in my culinary arts class a few hours earlier.
I can't help wondering how many people were on their phones whilst they were cooking. Just sayin
The amount of people, who forgot they had something on their stove/in their oven for hours... is disturbing.
I'm the type of person to do that...which is why I always set an alarm or stay in the kitchen until it's done.
Load More Replies... It surprises me how many shattered glass lids there are. How does that happen? (Not judging, just wondering. I use glass lids, too, and never had anything like that.)
Yeah...If this thread has taught me anything it's that I might have to stop using my glass lids.
Load More Replies... Sometimes, little scratches or nicks that you may or may not see, from washing or storing, overheat and then shatter. If the temp changes too fast, like putting cold water on the lid, that of course happens. Sometimes there are tiny bubbles or flaws in the glass from manufacturing that you might not see, and wear or age will cause that weakness to snap. Also, putting a glass lid directly on a cook top, if the cook top is still warm, can cause suction - pulling the lid down and then breaking the glass.
Load More Replies... Use your fingers or measuring spoons to add seasoning. Don't pour directly from the storage container onto your food.
Agreed. My mom taught me as a little kid, never add or measure ingredients or break eggs into your pot; it's too easy to mess up and dump too much or have the lid come off, and the eggs you break into a bowl to make sure they're good and you didn't get any shell. She taught me to use a measuring spoon or my fingers, away from the pot. As for a single dish seasoned at the table, I guess there isn't much you can do but buy good pepper mills and check your shaker's tops I guess.
Load More Replies... I"m sorry, but when I smell something even remotely burning on the stovetop/in the oven, I'm immediately up and checking on it, even if it's just a drip in the catch plate. Also, no smoke detectors????? Set an alarm on your phone if you're that tired so you'll at least wake up from that unplanned nap before your house burns down.
I have a friend that poured a bag of uncooked rice down the garbage disposal. He thought that was ok. It wasn’t.
I once messed up at making mug cakes because I forgot to mix the powder, and I was wondering why it tasted so grainy. The amazing thing is that I had just made bruschetta in my culinary arts class a few hours earlier.
I can't help wondering how many people were on their phones whilst they were cooking. Just sayin
