25 Cooking Disasters From People Who Don’t Belong Anywhere Near A Kitchen

I’m not the best cook, but whenever I want to feel like a James Beard award winner, I just look at some of the worst cooking fails known to humankind on Reddit.

It makes me wonder how many people don’t know the basics of food safety. I can overlook some of the presentation blunders, but I feel like I’m at risk of getting salmonella just by looking at these cooking fails.

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1. “The way my sister thaws her frozen chicken”

2. “Ordered a burger with a bean patty substitute. They substituted the bun.”

3. “My dad calls this ‘cereal’ just cashews and blueberries drowning in milk.”

4. “I fully heated this Hot Pocket and none of the filling spilled out”

5. “This looks like a plate of food aliens who don’t understand human cuisine would give a pet human”

6. “They did the monster mash”

7. “Friend sent me this monstrosity: frozen pizza with imitation crab and whole green olives.”

8. “Went out to celebrate an anniversary. A very fancy menu made this appetiser sound like more than a $28 ham and salami sandwich.”

9. “My wife said if I came up with a bday cake, she’d bake it. Behold, jalapeño hotdog upside down cake. It’s not bad.”

10. “$17 sad ass pizza my friend ordered”

11. “So shitty on so many levels”

12. “Tried cooking sausages for my bf”

13. “‘Steaklet’ chips and beans. Yum.”

14. “Is this a steal for $10?”

15. “Acid battery spaghetti (energy drink and sour gummy strips)”

16. “What in the Cajun hell is this monstrosity?!”

17. “I quirled an egg into my instant noodles and it turned gray.”

18. “‘Charcuterie’ at the brewery. I’ll stick to the beer”

19. “I made bologna tacos with mashed potatoes”

20. “A ‘donut’ with peas, carrots, and sweetcorn (an attempt to get a 1.5 year old to eat veggies)”

21. “My jalapeño poppers look disgusting”

22. “Made some pancake cereal today”

23. “Dominoes took the bbq in bbq chicken pizza too seriously”

24. “Chicken tender and coleslaw soft tacos.”

25. “Bacon wrapped shrimps”