Have you ever unleashed your inner chef after binge-watching cooking shows? Charged with the new found knowledge, you get ready to whip up a culinary masterpiece. But instead of a delicious chicken vindaloo, the dish turns out to be a total disaster.
But hey, before you rate your dish a 1 out of 10, give yourself some brownie points for trying. After all, you don’t learn unless you try. So we at Bored Panda have collected some cooking misadventures that will make you chuckle and serve up a lesson or two on what not to do in the kitchen.
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A Lightbulb Moment
Made My Mom A Birthday Cake From Scratch, Only To Trip When I Got To The House
I Spent An Entire Day Baking Challah Bread, Only To Have It Stolen
I Ran Out Of Food Coloring While Making Cookies And Now The Dough Looks Like A Transplantable Organ
My Favorite Genre Of Social Media Post Is âPeople Screwing Up Food To A Diabolical Extreme And Then Going âOopsies!â As If Itâs Nothingâ
Fiance Accidentally Left A Pot Of Simple Syrup On The Stove To Burn And Made An Asteroid
My Mixer Took Its Own Life
My Rat Cookies Definitely Didn't Turn Out Terribly Awry
Stole Sausages While Cooking A BBQ
Our Grey ran to where we had the meat on a plate and he managed to grab a packet of sausages. Saw my girlfriend trying to grab them from him as I sat back and took a photo.
I Forgot To Put Water In My EZ Mac. Stepped Away To Change The Laundry While It Cooked For 3 Minutes
When I came back, the microwave was on fire and definitely gave me 6 different types of cancer.
Do You Think My Lunch Is Done?
My Boyfriend Made Croissants This Way
Housemate Heated Up Meatball Spaghetti In A Microwave And Left It There For 3 Weeks
Must've never actually turned on the microwave, they'd figure out right quick with the fork in the plate đł
Rex "Helping" With The Baking
Forgot I Was Heating Oil For French Fries
How Not To Cook Spaghetti Squash
I Baked You Cookies
Someone Posted A Croissant On Fire A Year Ago, Here's My Unfortunate Contribution
I Tried To Boil Some Eggs
I Was Really Looking Forward To This Homemade Quesadilla
Iâm Gonna Say I Misread The Package As 350 Minutes Instead Of Degrees, Not That I Got High And Fell Asleep On The Couch
This Is Why I Don't Cook
Accidentally Left Bagels In The Oven For Five Hours
My Girlfriend Tried To Cook Lasagna For The First Time
My Sister Tried To Bake Brownies Using Her Own Recipe. She Said The Recipe Included Flour, Eggs, Skittles, Nutella, And Butter. All Random Amounts
I Think Theyâre Done
Always Check Your Oven Before Turning It On, Kids
A Liquorice Cake I Made For My Husband 3 Years Ago And Iâll Never Hear The End Of It
My Roommate Was Trying To Keep The Bacon Warm
Had A Big Party This Past Weekend. While I Was Greeting Guests I Forgot About The Ribs On The Grill. The Ribs Caught Fire And I Had To Put It Out With A Fire Extinguisher
My Microwave Lunch Jumped Up And Flipped
There's This New Recipe For Black Curly Fries
I Made Eggnog Last Night From Scratch. I Woke Up To This Monstrosity
Put My No-Bake Cookies In The Oven To Cool Overnight. Forgot And Didnât Tell The Wife But I Sure Remembered When She Started Preheating The Oven For Breakfast Pizzas
Thatâs How Crooked My House Is
I Tried To Make Bread Using Only Flour And Water
Fell Asleep While Cooking A Pizza, Leaving It To Cook For Over 10 Hours
Well... Today I Found Out That The Bottom Of My Blender Is Detachable
I Used To Work At McDonald's. Came In For The Overnight Shift And No One Told Us Pies Were In The Oven. Checked 6 Hours Into The Shift And Found These
I Was Out Of Milk For My Mashed Potatoes So I Used Chocolate Milk
Forgot To Clean The Rice Cooker, Opened It 2 Months Later To See This. Can I Salvage It?
Just Wanted A Coffee. Now I Have To Paint My Wall
My Potato Exploded
My Friend Said She Makes Perfect Steaks
A Picture That Speaks A Thousand Words
Was Searching Google Maps For Coffee But Found This Abomination Instead
Smokerâs Lung? Nope. Alcoholicâs Liver? Nah. My Teriyaki Chicken? Yup
I Was Really Craving These Frozen Dumplings And Cooked Up Our Last Few For My Husband And I. Got A Credit Card Fraud Notification And Had To Call My Bank. Promptly Forgot About The Dumplings
Saw A Weird-Looking "Chicken Piece" And Took A Closer Look
Always check your oil before reusing it... This guy must've fallen in overnight because I (stupidly) didn't place a lid on the pot, and I tried to push him out of my kitchen window the night before.