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20 Truly Awful Yet Hilarious Cooking and Baking Fails

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It’s been said before, but it needs to be said again. Cooking is not for everyone. Of course, some people can turn ordinary food into mouth-watering masterpieces. But then they are some who can turn a piece of bread into a pile of ash. These are some hard-workers that really tried their best at making creative culinary delights but instead ended up with a big ol’ plate of disaster.

1. “Mom, come here quick! Something’s gone horribly wrong with the spaghetti!”

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Pot with uncooked spaghetti in it on fire

(Bored Panda)

2. No, this is not how boiled eggs are supposed to look.

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Boiled egg with streams of yolk and white coming out of the top

(Reddit)

3. “It’s been over an hour. Why is it not boiling?!”

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Pot with water and veggies on a stove next to a flame

(Imgur)

4. Some poor kid is going to be shocked by his “Hedgehog” cake

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Bad hedgehog cake

(Reddit)

5. How to make a traditional Pompeii dish… with extra heat.

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Blackened and burnt food item on a plate

(Reddit)

6. Whoever said “making french fries is easy” lied.

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Room covered in burnt food and ash

(Imgur)

7. When your bread pudding turns into your pet rock.

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Blackened piece of bread pudding

(Reddit)

8. This isn’t a black and white photo. That’s just the color of the corn.

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Blackened corn on a grill

(Twitter)

9. Wine-Making is best left to the professionals.

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Kitchen covered in red goop

(Facebook)

10. “I was wondering where the spoon went.”

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Spoon sticking out of a baked loaf

(Imgur)

11. Cooking Tip #77: Do not use syringes to fill jelly buns.

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Transparent jelly bun with purple jelly fluid inside

(Reddit)

12. These strawberry cakes look more like straw-burnt cakes

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Cat shaped strawberry cakes look like burnt flesh

(Reddit)

13. Sewing the cake back together with icing. It’s ingenious

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, White broken cake mended with icing

(Reddit)

14. When you leave it to rise overnight in the fridge, and instead it over-rises

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Big dish with dough overflowing in the fridge

(Reddit)

15. “The Thanksgiving turkey looks a little bit different this year…”

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Black thanksgiving turkey in a dish

(Reddit)

16. “There seems to be some glass in my spaghetti… Maybe no one will notice.”

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Spaghetti sauce with glass saucepan lid broken into the sauce

(Imgur)

17. When the Blueberries turn on us… Literally

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Blueberry smiley face pancakes flipped over looking creepy

(Twitter)

18. The bread batter made a mad dash for freedom but couldn’t beat the heat

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Bread in a pan with some dough baked out of the pan

(Reddit)

19. And we call these beauties… Croissants? Really? Are you sure?

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Flattened triangular baked bits

(Reddit)

20. And the Grand Prize goes to... The genius that cooked the cooking pot.

Hilarious cooking and baking fails, Pot on stove melted

(Twitter)

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