50 Of The Funniest Kitchen Fails Ever

Some people are born with a great talent for cooking; others, well, they're glad about the invention of pre-made meals. Even those who are clearly not meant to be five-star home chefs try their hand at cooking at least once in a while. While their attempts make them wish for pizza delivery, their cooking fails surely to make us laugh.

So you are a disaster in the kitchen? Well, don't worry, because you're probably not as bad as you think. Check out this hilarious list of hilarious cooking fails, for example. Compiled by Bored Panda, it's sure to make you feel much better about your own home cooking inadequacies. Some of these kitchen fails are minor, some are major, and some are downright dangerous; from messed up cakes to Pinterest recipe disasters, we've gathered them all. Don't forget to vote for the funniest, and feel free to add to the list with your own culinary nightmares!

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Bread's Curse

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541points

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Scarlet Cordero 7 years ago

I love this fail... I want them for halloween

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So A Friend Of My Girlfriend Made A Cake For Her Daughters Birthday Party. One Of The Kids Started Crying Because It Was So Ugly

Final score:

525points

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Rin Rin 7 years ago

I kinda like that horror writing on the side of the cake that looks like someone was murdered and tried to write last words with own blood.

181points

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Pressure Cooker Nightmare

Final score:

471points

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Cat Meow 7 years ago

If I had ever wanted a pressure cooker, I no longer want one.

248points

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What Are the Common Mistakes to Avoid in the Kitchen?

While we all agree that these cooking fails in our article are beyond hilarious, sometimes (well, most of the time), we’d wish to avoid them when preparing a nice dinner for ourselves. Surely, these funny cooking fails are also partly magic and are not influenced by any reasonable actions, but we found some tips on how to avoid the common mistakes in the kitchen that might be useful to you:

Read the recipe thoroughly. This might sound like something Captain Obvious would advise, but admit it: There probably have been instances when you neglected to read the full instructions and ended up with a bona fide cooking fails.

Don’t overcrowd the pan. Striving to cook everything all at once might seem like a stellar idea, but overcrowding might lead to some pieces burning and others staying pretty much raw.

Try to find the balance in seasonings. Underseasoning might be the lesser evil here since you can season a bit more once you’re done, but overseasoning might ruin the beautiful taste you were hoping for. Again, reading the recipe might help here!

Avoid opening the oven door too often. We get it—it’s beautiful to watch a cake bake or the cheese on the pizza melt and bubble. However, opening the oven door too often might cause the temperature inside to fluctuate, which might affect the cooking process. This, in turn, might be responsible for some pretty hilarious cooking fails.

Of course, there are plenty more useful things to know before you start cooking your delectable meal, but these are a good starting point. For now, though, let’s go back to our selection of cooking fails and memes to satiate our need for laughter!

Oh God, Please Kill Me

Final score:

470points

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Anna Brandigi 7 years ago

It looks like the recipe called for the souls of the damned

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My Eggs With Rice This Morning

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464points

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Anna Brandigi 7 years ago

When you turn on your phone at night

151points

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I Forgot I Was Making Caramel At Work. It's A Tad Overcooked

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447points

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Anna Brandigi 7 years ago

I love how you aren't even concerned about the fact that you HARNESSED THE F*CKING SUN

504points

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Baker Lost Something. Wonder If He Noticed Or Not

Final score:

444points

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Amanda Panda 7 years ago

Evidently, not a wizard at baking, Harry

131points

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Monkey Business

Final score:

403points

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Yvonne Bernal 7 years ago

They're only one.... they'll never notice. Next year we try making cookies instead

109points

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Wife Came Home To This

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341points

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Vanessa 7 years ago

it's like a piece of art... I love it!

83points

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#10

Pizza Fail

Final score:

332points

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Amanda Panda 7 years ago

Quickest way to burn 2,000 calories

322points

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#11

Tried To Make Chocolate-covered Bananas

Final score:

316points

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Cat Meow 7 years ago

I'm absolutely sure these would be a hit at a hen's party

118points

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#12

This Is What Defeat Looks Like

Final score:

273points

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Amanda Panda 7 years ago

This is what Success looks like ... for the cat

168points

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#13

Meatloaf Baby From Your Nightmares

Final score:

269points

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Omg! My Thid! 7 years ago

What the what the?

126points

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#14

Brownie Out Of A Cup - Level: Hiroshima

Final score:

258points

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Richard Prentice 7 years ago

Love the little sploop in front.

65points

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#15

Got Drunk, Got Hungry, Fell Asleep

Final score:

255points

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Anna Brandigi 7 years ago

Happy meal for emos

188points

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#16

We Ran Out Of Cooking Chocolate For The Cake For Mother's Day, We Improvised, I Felt Like A Monster

Final score:

255points

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Lu Karina 7 years ago

The bunny is enjoying the hot bath!

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#17

The Snowman Came Out A Little Differently Then Expected

Final score:

238points

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Hans 7 years ago

From snowman to Jabba the Hut

200points

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#18

Slight Kitchen Mishap

Final score:

234points

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Cat Meow 7 years ago

I am... I mean, HOW?! The lid doesn't even look like one from a pressure cooker

105points

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#19

Nuclear Lunch Detected

Final score:

227points

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Lucia Lintnerová 7 years ago

lol heard the star craft voice

59points

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#20

A Friend Of Mine Made This. The Eyes Slid Mid-Way Through Cooking The Thing

Final score:

225points

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Tanya Bara 7 years ago

I didn't think this one was half bad!

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#21

Pancake Goals

Final score:

215points

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Hans 7 years ago

Nailed it

29points

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#22

Maybe We Should Buy A Rice Cooker

Final score:

207points

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.gas. 7 years ago

It's a rice-pop!

59points

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#23

Sushi Chef Level: Beginner

Final score:

206points

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Tereza Hrbáčová 7 years ago

42points

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#24

Cthulhu Pie Crust. Nailed It

Final score:

198points

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Kjorn 7 years ago

in fact... it's more frightening so... good job

105points

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#25

This Is Why I Don't Cook

Final score:

195points

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Benny Lava 7 years ago

How on.....???

76points

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#26

Happy Birthday

Final score:

195points

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Rin Rin 7 years ago

Spongebob's less famous brother methsponge martin.

226points

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#27

My Lasaga

Final score:

164points

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Anna Brandigi 7 years ago

The misspelling only makes it funnier

143points

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#28

I Thought It Was Glass

Final score:

163points

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Yvonne Bernal 7 years ago

You shouldn't even be in the kitchen if you can't tell glass from plastic lol

179points

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#29

How I Know My Girlfriend Was Cooking Today

Final score:

160points

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Yvonne Bernal 7 years ago

Well at least she didn't burn it.

41points

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A Great Way To Start The Day

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159points

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Hans 7 years ago

Spice up your life!

95points

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#31

Cooking Level: Broke But Creative

Final score:

155points

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Flora Polvado 7 years ago

Like it

40points

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#32

Cookie Monster Cupcakes Gone Wrong

Final score:

147points

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AcousticGString 7 years ago

Looks like the cookie finally fought back! lol

57points

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#33

First Time Trying To Fry Buffalo Wings. I Think It Went Pretty Well

Final score:

146points

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Hans 7 years ago

Did they taste?

28points

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#34

Cutting Skills

Final score:

145points

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Yvonne Bernal 7 years ago

What was he using - an axe?

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#35

It's An Electric Kettle, ELECTRIC

Final score:

144points

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Kjorn 7 years ago

i thought it'd go faster that way

37points

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#36

My Wife Steamed Hotdogs

Final score:

141points

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Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago

Mmmm, offal and chemicals!

50points

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#37

Pro Tip: When Cooking, Don't Remove All The Spice Lids At The Same Time

Final score:

139points

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Hans 7 years ago

Pro Tip: when cooking, have a basic idea which herbs looks like which. :P

227points

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This Is Fine

Final score:

137points

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Cat Meow 7 years ago

How? Serious question here

41points

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#39

Gluten Free Skeleton

Final score:

137points

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Hans 7 years ago

Got some meat. :)

58points

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#40

Spinach Baby

Final score:

131points

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Megan Spainhour 7 years ago

It kinda looks like a deranged smurf

50points

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#41

Melted Minon

Final score:

121points

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Skunk Drunk 7 years ago

Friday night VS Saturday morning be like...

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#42

Poor Ariel

Final score:

114points

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Jace 7 years ago

At least the flower has the right number of petals and almost the right color. The rest... seriously, it's not even in the most remotest realms of resemblance.

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#43

One Of My Roommates Tried To Make Pasta One Night

Final score:

112points

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Marcos Zamarripa 7 years ago

wow, he made stalagmites.

95points

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#44

My Son Refused To Eat It And Said, 'Why Is The Plane Broken?'

Final score:

112points

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Fernando Fumero 7 years ago

The first one is too realistic to eat it

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#45

I Got A Bread Maker For Christmas. This Is How My First Loaf Came Out

Final score:

110points

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Benny Lava 7 years ago

The famous fungi bread

67points

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Hopefully These Deviled Egg Chicks Have Had Better Days

Final score:

110points

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Kjorn 7 years ago

they killed each others

42points

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#47

Expectations Vs. Reality

Final score:

109points

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Marcos Zamarripa 7 years ago

No matter the mold, it matters to be original and different.

27points

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#48

Note To Self... Don't Cook When Drunk

Final score:

108points

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Yvonne Bernal 7 years ago

I thought it was a gigantic Oreo

60points

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#49

Artisan Creates Bold Re-Imagining Of Classic Book Cover

Final score:

106points

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Laurie Hasnip 7 years ago

Moisturise me 84871342-5...e2ccb2.jpg

96points

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#50

I Cooked The Sh*t Out Of These Sweet Potatoes

Final score:

102points

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jacluckycat 7 years ago

Oh boy it looks like a dog shat on some very baked potatoes

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What do you think ?

kat lia 7 years ago

it is dangerous to cook when you are drunk.

9points

Cassie 7 years ago

Sometimes even when you're not!

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SarahScouse 7 years ago

I love how many of these there are, makes me feel so much better about my kitchen fails!

Daria B 7 years ago

For me it's the opposite. They make me sad because I know how much time and effort you put into.... A failure..... TT_TT

5points

Happy Ghost 7 years ago

I don't really cook myself. The biggest fail that ever happened to me was when I made eggs with sugar instead of salt

7points

Jami Russell 7 years ago

Look, I don't care that the instructions for the frozen pizza says to put it directly on the rack. PUT IT IN A PAN OR ON A COOKIE SHEET! The instructions are stupid. You wouldn't have a mess in your oven if you had just put it on a cookie sheet at the very least!

1point

Tammy 7 years ago

They really should start teaching basic cooking skills in high school.

Lyone Fein 7 years ago

They used to. It was called Home Ec.

0points

Pi... 7 years ago

How ironic, I was almost thru laughing at this list when I poured boiling hot water on my pointer finger. I failed at water. :(

varwenea 7 years ago

Suddenly, I feel pretty good about my own cooking, however simple they may be...

Some of these burn me up! I'll leave..

Thank you so much for this post! Laughed so much at other peoples kitchen fails. I am not ashamed of my cooking setting off the smoke alarm, when other people just cremate the f0:)k out of their cooking and sometimes half the kitchen as well.

RandomHumanBean 3 years ago

reminds me of the time I was looking through the bad reviews (dont ask, its something i do {after i make it ;)} and someone gave this cinnamon roll recipe i had made 6 times (it was amazing btw) a 1-star review because.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... get this: their oven set on fire..........................................like, um i think thats ur fault not the recipe

Kimberly Pilkington 7 years ago

If you substitute ingredients or don't use them at all, what do you expect? C'mon, short cuts and hacks don't always work. Also, I agree, no under the influence cooking...er, burning.

Julia Carrenz Diaz 7 years ago

How the heck did you set the pasta on fire??!!

Phredd Wieser 7 years ago

Okay, I may be easily amused, but I laughed way too hard at some of these. If you get as far as number 35, I actually have a houseguest do that to me one time. You think the cord would've been a dead giveaway...

JoAnne Ferguson 7 years ago

that was too funny for anything. thanks for the laugh.

Rats Kishna 7 years ago

😂😂😂

Erisa Desu 7 years ago

1st why to they drink and cook and 2nd why everybody killing noodleS?

Too many folks use the wrong ingredients for all those failed cake pictures--using squeeze tube "frosting" instead of the stiffer stuff from the cans. Or using frosting instead of fondant. Using cheap readi-whip instead of whipped cream. etc.

Ellie Constable 7 years ago

#87 is beautiful tho 😂😂😂

Reijo Faaler 7 years ago

Nice I lowe it

Katinka Min 7 years ago

I kinda regret not taking pictures of my kitchen fails. the most spectacular was when I forgot to put the sieve inside an old-school espressomaker. the kitchen was freshly renovated - which we were celebrating with dinner. And then with a lengthy clean of the coffee covered kitchen. I still remember my friend shaking the stuff out of her hair...

Lisa-Marie Saunders 7 years ago

Do any of these people actually bother reading the recipe or the instructions on the cooking equipment?

50 Of The Funniest Kitchen Fails Ever

Bread's Curse

So A Friend Of My Girlfriend Made A Cake For Her Daughters Birthday Party. One Of The Kids Started Crying Because It Was So Ugly

Pressure Cooker Nightmare

What Are the Common Mistakes to Avoid in the Kitchen?

Oh God, Please Kill Me

My Eggs With Rice This Morning

I Forgot I Was Making Caramel At Work. It's A Tad Overcooked

Baker Lost Something. Wonder If He Noticed Or Not

Monkey Business

Wife Came Home To This

Pizza Fail

Tried To Make Chocolate-covered Bananas

This Is What Defeat Looks Like

Meatloaf Baby From Your Nightmares

Brownie Out Of A Cup - Level: Hiroshima

Got Drunk, Got Hungry, Fell Asleep

We Ran Out Of Cooking Chocolate For The Cake For Mother's Day, We Improvised, I Felt Like A Monster

The Snowman Came Out A Little Differently Then Expected

Slight Kitchen Mishap

Nuclear Lunch Detected

A Friend Of Mine Made This. The Eyes Slid Mid-Way Through Cooking The Thing

Pancake Goals

Maybe We Should Buy A Rice Cooker

Sushi Chef Level: Beginner

Cthulhu Pie Crust. Nailed It

This Is Why I Don't Cook

Happy Birthday

My Lasaga

I Thought It Was Glass

How I Know My Girlfriend Was Cooking Today

A Great Way To Start The Day

Cooking Level: Broke But Creative

Cookie Monster Cupcakes Gone Wrong

First Time Trying To Fry Buffalo Wings. I Think It Went Pretty Well

Cutting Skills

It's An Electric Kettle, ELECTRIC

My Wife Steamed Hotdogs

Pro Tip: When Cooking, Don't Remove All The Spice Lids At The Same Time

This Is Fine

Gluten Free Skeleton

Spinach Baby

Melted Minon

Poor Ariel

One Of My Roommates Tried To Make Pasta One Night

My Son Refused To Eat It And Said, 'Why Is The Plane Broken?'

I Got A Bread Maker For Christmas. This Is How My First Loaf Came Out

Hopefully These Deviled Egg Chicks Have Had Better Days

Expectations Vs. Reality

Note To Self... Don't Cook When Drunk

Artisan Creates Bold Re-Imagining Of Classic Book Cover

I Cooked The Sh*t Out Of These Sweet Potatoes

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