Sometimes, you just feel like whipping up something spectacular in the kitchen. You look for the perfect recipe, prepare all the ingredients, only to be lured into believing you can effortlessly make homemade meals in just a few steps. Some creations, well, they don’t always turn out as planned.

No matter how many times you’ve made a specific dish or how skilled of a cook you are, no one is immune to the occasional slip-ups. Some are minor, some are major, and some are straight-up dangerous. Today, this post is all about dreams of delicious bites that ended up being completely butchered by charcoal brownies, dropped pies, and shattered dishes in the oven.

Bored Panda has compiled this list to showcase some hilarious kitchen fails that might make you feel a bit more confident about your abilities. Continue scrolling and hit upvote on the ones that made you laugh! And when you’re done with this post, you might want to take a peek at our older ones full of funny cooking accidents right here and here.

#1 Gingerbread Hominem Est In Forum

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#2 Wanted To Help Make Her Own Birthday Cake

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#3 My Mother Was About To Make A Pie, She Was Away 5 Minutes

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#4 Sliced Homemade Sourdough Bread Topped With Creamy Light Brie Cheese. Preheat Oven To 350 And Bake For 11 Hours. Enjoy

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#5 My Dad Burnt A Pancake So Bad It Camouflages With The Black Pan

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#6 Our Employee Overcooked The Brownies, So We Turned Them Into A Coffee Table. Taking Christmas Pre-Orders Now

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#7 Fell Asleep While Heating Up Some Mac And Cheese

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#8 Decided To Try Deep Frying Oreos But I Forgot That Oil And Water Don’t Behave The Same Way, Let It Get Too Hot And Melted Part Of My Kitchen

Always keep an eye on your oil and use a thermometer.

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#9 I Was Boilling The Egg But I Forgot To Turn Off The Stove

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#10 This Egg Spilled Out Of A Crack While Cooking And Looks Like A Little Duck

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#11 Eggplant Curry With Reading Glasses

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#12 Don't Boil Eggs With Red Rice, Just Don't

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#13 Forgot The Cheese Part In My Grilled Cheese. So This Is A Grilled. Yep, 2 Ingredients And I Messed It Up

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#14 It's Just Egg On Toast. Why

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#15 Friend's Dad Made Some Cayenne Rolls From Scratch Tonight. He Thought He Was Using Cinnamon. The Rolls Had No Cinnamon

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#16 Sandwich Uses Camouflage To Avoid Being Consumed

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#17 Housemate's Dog Got Into My 6-Hour Butter Chicken. No Dinner For Me Tonight

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#18 Forgot My Plastic Spatula In The Oven While Heating Up My Lasagna

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#19 My Friend Was Cooking A Frozen Pizza

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#20 To Make A Smoothie

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#21 My Pork Ribs Dinner. Unsure If Stress Causes Short Term Memory Loss But I Put Ribs On, Logged Into Work And Here We Are Two Hours Later With Grill At Full Blast

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#22 "Mommy There's Green Goo Coming Out Of My Waffle" - My 6-Year-Old Son

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#23 My Boyfriend's Attempt At Flipping A Pancake Didn't Go Too Well

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#24 My Cooking Teacher Pinned This Poor Pizza To The Blackboard

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#25 When Your Kids Are Half Way Around The World And Still Cause Accidents. Self Reminder, Check If There Is Anything In The Oven Because You Have Kids

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#26 Tried Making Rice Since WFH Is Usually Slow. Got Pulled Into A Meeting And 3 Conversations Before I Could Add Water

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#27 The Cheese Won

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#28 When You Set The Oven Way Too High While Letting Your Pizza Dough Rise. Yeah, That’s A Melted Bowl, Baked Dough, And A Burned Kitchen Towel

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#29 So This Just Happened. Now We Have To Find Take Out At 7 PM. On Christmas Eve

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#30 Little Crispy

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#31 Kitchen Disaster, But It Might Be Good For The Skin

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#32 Girlfriend Wanted To Make Some Bread Dough

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#33 "I Don't Know What Happened To The Brownies" My Partner Said

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#34 Sienna Came Home From Nursery, There’s No More Soup

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#35 Made German Chocolate Cake From Scratch. Tastes Better Than It Looks

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#36 Made Some Cookies And Then Wondered What The “Film” Was Over Them. Upon Closer Inspection Realized I Forgot To Take Off The Plastic Wrap That Was Covering Them

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#37 I Accidentally Put Mayo To The Freezer

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#38 Krispy Kreme Christmas Donuts

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#39 Made Banana Bread. Forgot The Flour

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#40 I Made Cute Little Cat Pizzas To Please Our Toddler. This Is After They Baked. They Look Like Burn Victims

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#41 My Kids Had To Double A Brownie Recipe That Called For 1/3 Cup Of Oil. Somehow Her Math Yielded Out 2 And 2/3 Cups. The Mix Was Boiling In The Oven

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#42 My Boyfriend Put Salt Instead Of Rice In The Rice Cooker, Been Wondering For An Hour Why It Was Taking So Long To Cook

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#43 Wife Likes To Store Things In The Oven. I Don’t. That's Why I Don’t Check Beforehand

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#44 My Mom Set Her Oven On Not Remembering That She Had Silicone Rack Guards In There

Fun fact if heated high enough silicone vaporizers and does this to your oven. And the family's coming for Thanksgiving today

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#45 My Wife's Attempt At Making Vegan Waffles

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#46 Memo To Myself: Microwave Poached Egg It Is A Damn Bad Idea

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#47 Never Use A Chef Knife As A Hammer. Well At Least It Didn't Flew

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#48 Hopefully Everyone’s Thanksgiving Was Less Eventful Than Ours. I’m Pretty Sure I’ve Never Browned Marshmallows On The Top Of Our Sweet Potatoes Without Burning Them

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#49 Today I Was Only About A Dropped Lasagne Away From A Near Mental Break

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#50 Was Cooking Dinner When My Stove Top Randomly Exploded

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#51 My Oven Exploded After I Wanted To Cook Chicken

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#52 My First Ever Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream. Unfortunately, The Recipe Didn't Call For 150g Salt And A Pinch Of Sugar

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#53 Invited My Parents For Dinner, They Rang The Door At The Worst Possible Moment

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#54 And What Good Happened To You Today?

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#55 Nailed My Christmas Donuts

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#56 I May Have Overestimated How Much Red Wine My Risotto Needed

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#57 My Wife Named The Dish - Infernal Fish. Why? I Don't Know, But You Can Guess

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#58 I Love My Wife , And She Loves To Leave Things Open After She Uses Them. Luckily We Both Love Pepper. Like A Lot

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#59 Blackened Pepper Chicken, DM For Recipe

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#60 Ummmm. Oh No

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#61 Making A Pancake

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#62 My Roommate Said She Knew How To Make Pancakes I Said I Wanted To Try Her Pancakes And This Is What I Got

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#63 So My Kid Wanted A Spider Donut. Expectation vs. Reality

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#64 No Avocado Salsa Tonight

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#65 Finished Heating Up A Bowl Of Rice, Opened The Cabinet To Get A Glass It Fell And Shattered Inside My Fresh Bowl Of Rice

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#66 Expectation vs. Reality, Merry Christmas

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#67 Touched My Hot Glass Stovetop With A Microfiber Towel. It Won’t Come Off

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#68 Well, I Guess There Will Be No Pork And Sauerkraut To Start Out The New Year

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#69 Blender Exploded As I Was Making A Smoothie

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#70 Tried Making A USA Pizza

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#71 It's Burger Time

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#72 Extra Crunchy Rice, Courtesy Of My Roommate Resting The Glass Lid Over A Hot Burner For A Few Minutes By Accident. 1/10 Flavor, 10/10 Pain

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#73 A Cheesecake I Tried Making For Christmas

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#74 Proofing Dough In An Oven

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#75 This Is What Happens When You Try To Cook And Wash Dishes At The Same Time. It's A Grilled Cheese

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#76 Don't Ask Me About My Cooking Skills, Because They Are Gorgeous

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#77 The Real Question Here Is Was I Hungry Enough To Eat One Off Of The Floor?

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#78 Cooking Advice: Keep The Cover On The Blender Until It Is Unplugged

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#79 Tried To Make My Kids Mickey Mouse Pancakes

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#80 Went To Cook A Frozen Pizza When The Oven Said No

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#81 My Partner Doesn’t Like Meat Or Cheese (Likes Corn). Here’s Her Take On A Vegan Gluten Free Pizza (Cooked)

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#82 Under A Tight Deadline, I Had To Stop Everything To Post My Wife's Dinner

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#83 Spaghetti And Garlic Bread But I Forgot I Was Making Garlic Bread

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#84 I Thought Pancakes Were Just Flour And Water

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#85 I Left My Son's Switch On The Cooker... He Got This For Christmas

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#86 The Tomatoes Just Needed Two More Minutes

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#87 Forgot To Lock The Blade Holder

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#88 Second Time Today Our Dad Almost Burned The House Down

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#89 Found Out I Had Covid Right Before A Friendsgiving. Was Gonna Treat Myself To The Mac And Cheese I Had Made, But Put The Dish On A Burner I Didn't Know Was On

Apparently, pyrex explodes when exposed to direct heat.

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#90 My Husband Baked Me A Cake For My Birthday And Put It In The Oven So Our Dogs Couldn't Get It. I Was Not Aware And Turned On The Oven

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#91 My Wife Put Hot Dogs In The Oven And Forgot About Them

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#92 I Tried To Make Fried Rice

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#93 Made Some Delicious Mashed Potatoes

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#94 Anyone Want To Guess What Vegetable This Used To Be?

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#95 By The Way, This Is The "Super Simple And Delicious Low Carb Zucchini Pizza Crust That Never Goes Wrong"

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#96 It Was A New Form (And The Handle Was Not Heat Resistant)

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#97 The Time I Mistook A Cutting Board For A Silicone Baking Sheet. We All Start Somewhere On Our Culinary Journey

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#98 I Thought The Pan Was Oven Proof. I ⁣⁣⁣Guess Not

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#99 My Husband's Definitely Not With Me For My Cooking Skills

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#100 Think I’ll Use Scissors Next Time

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#101 My Mom Cooking Walnuts. For Some Reason

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#102 Was Cooking Sunnyside Eggs In A Cup Intl The Microwave But It Exploded All Over My Shirt And Hand As I Grabbed The Handle

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#103 Cooking

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#104 Breakfast Went Wrong

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#105 Gordon Ramsey Would Be Dissatisfied With This Dish

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#106 When You Come Home Late From Work And Husband Announces He Might Have Had A Little Accident Making Dinner

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#107 I Sliced The Tip Of My Finger Off Making Sweet Potato Chips And Then I Burned The Chips

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#108 Went To A Forest To Harvest Baby Pine Cones. Do Not Take A Bath While Simmering Them In Syrup

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#109 Well There Goes My Breakfast

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#110 I Left A Knife On The Tray When I Baked Tater Tots

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#111 Cooked Them Too Long

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#112 Glass Pan Plus Cold Air Equals Kitchen Disaster

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#113 Cauliflower Pizza Cook It Directly On The Rack, They Said

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#114 Anyone Here Like Pancakes Without Syrup?

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#115 I Tried To Make A Breakfast Casserole For Hosting The In-Laws. The Food Wasn’t Cold Potatoes Were Browned And Hot And Dish Was Supposed To Be Oven Safe

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#116 I Like To Season My Food With Salt But I Think I Over Did It

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#117 I Hate Cooking

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#118 Just Wanted To Try Canned Soup For The First Time

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#119 Turned On The Wrong Burner

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