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.

#1 A Lightbulb Moment

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#2 I Spent An Entire Day Baking Challah Bread, Only To Have It Stolen

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#3 I Ran Out Of Food Coloring While Making Cookies And Now The Dough Looks Like A Transplantable Organ

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#4 My Favorite Genre Of Social Media Post Is “People Screwing Up Food To A Diabolical Extreme And Then Going “Oopsies!” As If It’s Nothing”

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#5 Fiance Accidentally Left A Pot Of Simple Syrup On The Stove To Burn And Made An Asteroid

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#6 My Mixer Took Its Own Life

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#7 My Rat Cookies Definitely Didn’t Turn Out Terribly Awry

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#8 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.

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#9 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.

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#10 Do You Think My Lunch Is Done?

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#11 My Boyfriend Made Croissants This Way

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#12 Housemate Heated Up Meatball Spaghetti In A Microwave And Left It There For 3 Weeks

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#13 Rex “Helping” With The Baking

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#14 Forgot I Was Heating Oil For French Fries

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#15 How Not To Cook Spaghetti Squash

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#16 Made My Mom A Birthday Cake From Scratch, Only To Trip When I Got To The House

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#17 I Baked You Cookies

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#18 Someone Posted A Croissant On Fire A Year Ago, Here’s My Unfortunate Contribution

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#19 I Tried To Boil Some Eggs

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#20 I Was Really Looking Forward To This Homemade Quesadilla

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#21 I’m Gonna Say I Misread The Package As 350 Minutes Instead Of Degrees, Not That I Got High And Fell Asleep On The Couch

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#22 This Is Why I Don’t Cook

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#23 Accidentally Left Bagels In The Oven For Five Hours

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#24 My Girlfriend Tried To Cook Lasagna For The First Time

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#25 My Sister Tried To Bake Brownies Using Her Own Recipe. She Said The Recipe Included Flour, Eggs, Skittles, Nutella, And Butter. All Random Amounts

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#26 I Think They’re Done

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#27 Always Check Your Oven Before Turning It On, Kids

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#28 A Liquorice Cake I Made For My Husband 3 Years Ago And I’ll Never Hear The End Of It

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#29 My Roommate Was Trying To Keep The Bacon Warm

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#30 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

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#31 My Microwave Lunch Jumped Up And Flipped

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#32 There’s This New Recipe For Black Curly Fries

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#33 I Made Eggnog Last Night From Scratch. I Woke Up To This Monstrosity

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#34 Put My No-Bake Cookies In The Oven To Cool Overnight. Forgot And Didn’t Tell The Wife But I Sure Remembered When She Started Preheating The Oven For Breakfast Pizzas

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#35 That’s How Crooked My House Is

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#36 I Tried To Make Bread Using Only Flour And Water

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#37 Fell Asleep While Cooking A Pizza, Leaving It To Cook For Over 10 Hours

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#38 Well… Today I Found Out That The Bottom Of My Blender Is Detachable

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#39 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

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#40 I Was Out Of Milk For My Mashed Potatoes So I Used Chocolate Milk

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#41 Forgot To Clean The Rice Cooker, Opened It 2 Months Later To See This. Can I Salvage It?

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#42 Just Wanted A Coffee. Now I Have To Paint My Wall

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#43 My Potato Exploded

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#44 My Friend Said She Makes Perfect Steaks

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#45 A Picture That Speaks A Thousand Words

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#46 Was Searching Google Maps For Coffee But Found This Abomination Instead

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#47 Smoker’s Lung? Nope. Alcoholic’s Liver? Nah. My Teriyaki Chicken? Yup

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#48 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

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#49 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.

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#50 I Have Never Made Burgers Before

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