The awkward moment in life when you decide to tackle the kitchen and prepare a meal to enjoy, even though you don’t have much cooking experience. It can result in some funny cooking fails photos, like the ones these Reddit users posted.
Cake Requested vs Cake Received
Reddit user HimminyBimminyBroo revealed: “My son wanted a skeleton head on his birthday cake so he drew a little picture that we gave to the bakery. We wanted it to be a skeleton head and this is what we received.” The user StandardDeluxe3000 replied: “The bakery could only lose if they tried a skeleton. She must have thought ‘This looks like a skeleton but totally different from what I expected’.”
My Kid Cried
Reddit user SlugCatt confessed after preparing this so-called breakfast for kids using an egg mold and bacon to form the ears of the supposed dog: “Literally it’s a monster and wouldn’t even sit at the table with us so long as it was there.”
Soup
When Reddit user CRYPTIC_SUNSET decided to have French onion soup for a meal, he was drawn by the advertisement of this box, and we don’t blame him. But the outcome was terrible and not even close to the photo. Some Reddit replies mention that that’s gruel, while others noted that the plastic spoon adds a nice finishing touch.
The Trick With Frozen Food
This box of chicken enchiladas looks gorgeous with Spanish rice, white meat, and tomatoes inside a corn tortilla with herbs, but the reality is quite different. You can’t even tell what the dish is unless the packaging tells you. Reddit user [borrado] replied: “It looks better than most cat food, I hope you enjoy it!”
A Cake For My Father’s Birthday
Reddit user weryou91 explained that he ordered this cake, the one at the top, for his father’s birthday, but he received the other one at the bottom. He also mentioned that the speedometer on the cake was supposed to be pointing to his age, 54. At least they didn’t mess that part up. Reddit user SpiceyBrains replied: “This looks like the clock-drawing test doctors use to test for cognitive impairment.”
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Slow Roasted Steak & Potatoes
It seems unreal that a company can display that image as ‘marketing in a box’, yet the reality of this slow-roasted steak and potatoes with gravy turns out to be completely different. Reddit user mntpanda commented: “I was about to say you should not expect much from a microwave meal like that, but you could certainly expect a little more than whatever that was.”
Not Expected Breakfast
In another instance where expectations and reality fail to align, we see Reddit user _TadStrange who ordered breakfast from a shop, meaning he didn’t even have to cook or prepare it in his own kitchen, yet the result is, once again, disastrous. Reddit user _TadStrange revealed: “The secret to doing that technique is to get a creamy scramble, not a cat litter mixed with vomit.”
Peanut Butter Cookie Brownie
Some of the comments in this Reddit post from TheAlb4tross mentioned that the user was at fault in this funny cooking fails. Reddit user tortsnhoes remarked: “You did it wrong. You are supposed to swirl it up before baking with a knife or fork. I’m sure it says that on the box.”
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Toast Pizza
When you buy a pizza at the low price shown on the box like Reddit user laaaabe did, you might not expect a premium meal, but you certainly wouldn’t expect to end up with a piece of toast topped with cheese and a bit of pepperoni like one of these funny cooking fails. Reddit user SonnyRose94 replied: “That’s what you get when you microwave.”
Texas Gumbo
The finished dish that is supposed to appear in the pan on the right is a Texas Gumbo with sausage, chicken, shrimp, and crawfish, but at least in terms of appearance, it is no different from the food you might serve your pet. If this image doesn’t scream one ‘funny cooking fails’, we don’t know what does. Reddit user DandelionPrince commented: “It comes pre-digested for your convenience.”
McDonald’s Moment
Hardly any fast-food restaurant depicts its food in marketing advertisements exactly as it is actually served to customers, but this is something diners have come to accept. So you somehow expect one of these funny cooking fails. Reddit user [borrado] observed: “If that cheese in the image is not real, I bet it’s like plasterboard painted yellow.” But also mentioned that he would still eat that burger.
Chicken Tenders
Reddit user najib1312 revealed: “I ordered the golden aroma chicken tenders from Grab and this is what I received.” Reddit user Fatal_Furriest added about these funny cooking fails that the prices have doubled in recent years with the new owner taking office.
Not The First Time Doing This Cake
Reddit user _miminana revealed: “I really don’t know what happened, I did this cake/recipe a dozen times but this time it just… didn’t go well. For some reason, my oven was too hot when I first put the cake in it so instead of baking properly, it just burned.” Some users just mentioned one of these funny cooking fails looked like a cookie or that she should just turn it into brittle.
Failed Meatloaf With Mushroom Gravy
Reddit user Independent_Mix6269 asked: “I have a weird aversion to cardboard and cannot stand those bowls! I wish they would do regular plastic. Why does it look like a meat pop tart tho?” Some other users mentioned about one of these funny cooking fails that the user should look for other healthy choice products like cauliflower rice bowls.
KFC Double Down
Reddit user YONAKA_AMBER from Puerto Rico revealed that besides the appearance of one of these funny cooking fails, the food doesn’t match the advertisement, “it was good after all”. While user imbetweendreams offers an explanation: “I think they let the chicken get overcooked dry and cold, when traveling outside the mainland states it feels like everything is precooked and then re-warmed.”
Natural Lunch Bowl
Reddit user sven_tertainment revealed about one of these funny cooking fails: “It actually tasted pretty good, a bit bland as expected from a microwave meal but it’s a nice mix.” And other Reddit users mentioned that the picture on the product looks like it would be a little dry. It could be worse!
Matcha Bites
Reddit user JankGloriousJank revealed that the matcha bites made in Taiwan tasted surprisingly bland in one of these funny cooking fails: “I was expecting better of matcha and adzuki. A cake would be far tastier than a mochi of disappointment.”
Not As Advertised
Reddit user EnigmaticAnomaly312 explained: “It wasn’t a bad tasting burger, it was just average, but why the ads made it look so much better than it actually was. Not so much. There was no cheese abundance, no sizzling skillet, no melty goodness. And also when you picked one half, all the cheese on the plate came with it!” It’s definitely one of the funny cooking fails from the business part.
Square Pan Pizza
Some of the Reddit users like curiosityasmedicine confessed about one of these funny cooking fails: “I absolutely love these. The four cheese and mushroom truffle ones are both excellent. The crust is phenomenal, with a soft, bread-like texture and a crispy exterior.” Perhaps it’s just a matter of appearance, which doesn’t look appetizing.
Conclusion
If there is one thing we can learn from these funny cooking fails, it is that these examples show that frozen and fast-food meals often don’t look as advertised, because the actual product won’t look like what is advertised. On the other hand, what really matters is the taste, if customers keep buying them, then the objective has been met.
