21 Jokes About Being Bad At Cooking That’ll Make You Laugh Over The Sound Of Your Smoke Alarm

For some people, the prospect of placing a raw protein or vegetable in a pan over an open flame for an extended period of time is so daunting that it literally makes them flop sweat. These people subsist on cereal and frozen dinners, they know their local food delivery workers by name, and they may or may not use their stove for shoe storage.

If you, too, identify as a “bad cook,” then this may sound rather familiar.

Here are some jokes for all the folks out there who would rather eat sandwiches into infinity than attempt to boil, bake, roast or braise a single food item. Because, in the paraphrased words of Maria Bamford, “People always talk about how easy cooking is … but it is not as easy as not cooking.”

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My Cooking Teacher Pinned this Poor Pizza to the Blackboard from funny

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My wife tried cooking Thanksgiving dinner for us and actually burned the cook book. from funny

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So I asked my girlfriend to cook macaroni and cheese last night… from funny

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My wife is out of town and was worried I wouldn’t be able to cook for myself. Just sent her this pic. from funny

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How i cook. from funny

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