Mug cakes are some of the easiest things to cook. You just toss a few ingredients in a mug and put it in the microwave for a little while. It couldn’t be much easier, but someone still found a way to screw it up.

We can at least tell that this was supposed to be Spongebob, thanks to the square shape and yellow body, but really, it’s an absolute disaster anyway you look at it. Even Mr Krabs wouldn’t be able to sell this thing.

Even bad cooks can usually do the simple things like making a cup of coffee or using a toaster. When you can’t even get that right, it’s time to stop.

When you start getting violent with the food you’re making, it’s probably time to leave the kitchen, take a seat, and calm down a little.

It’s bad enough this terrible cook set the spaghetti on fire, but why are they taking the time to snap a photo of it instead of just putting that fire out!?

A girl’s boyfriend wanted to be nice and make dinner as a surprise. She came home to this. At least he made the effort, but it ended oh so badly.

We get it. Nobody (except math teachers) likes fractions, but you need to at least have a basic understanding of how they work if you want to follow a recipe. 1/3 is bigger than 1/4!

Nailed it! A perfect copy! We can’t even tell the difference between the two! Oh wait, yes we can…

Looks like you’re only getting one slice of toast, after all! How disappointing.

It’s hard to know what was going through the worker’s mind when they prepared a take-out milkshake like this! Didn’t they have any cups around? No bottles? Nothing that people usually drink out of? Well, at least they supplied a straw.

Oh Tink! What happened to you!? Without the picture-in-picture, we would never have guessed that this was supposed to be everyone’s favorite fairy.

It looks like this person tried to turn their oven into a BBQ, with a roaring fire and smoke filling the kitchen. And what’s that weird red mess they’re trying to cook?

It’s pretty hilarious that someone broke a bowl and placed it back like nothing happened, but what really wows us about this picture is just how clean that break was. Usually, bowls shatter into lots of randomly-sized pieces, but this one seems to have been sliced perfectly in half!

They say if you look at this hellish bunny for too long, he’ll visit you in your dreams! Quickly, let’s just forget about it and go to the next picture.

This person was just trying to cook some rice, and ended up making a rice cake instead.

You know when you’re hungry, but not all that hungry? Like, you couldn’t exactly eat an entire bucket of fried chicken, but you could still go for a single nugget? It seems like that’s what happened here.

If you walk into a kitchen and see this, just leave. Just walk away and try to erase the image from your mind, hoping that whoever is responsible will somehow clean it all up.

This person is really proud of their ‘yummy smoked ham and cheese bread’. They’re so proud, they added 20 hashtags and shared it for all the world to see. Maybe it really is tasty, but it looks more like those neck pillows you see people wearing on planes.

Imagine opening up a box of candies only to find some stinky tuna pasta inside instead! Such a disappointment…

She looked so happy to begin with, but the final result definitely isn’t what she was expecting! What a disaster.

The first rule of using a microwave is never, ever, under any circumstances put metal inside it! They really don’t like metal at all, and this is what can happen when you break that rule (the choco spread in this picture had a metal lid on top).

Wow. Don’t let this guy in a kitchen, he’ll smash the whole place up! He clearly has anger issues to have thrown everyone’s drinks in the trash just because he found his own there. Most of those drinks are totally innocent!

Maybe they fell asleep. Maybe they got distracted. Maybe they just got forgot. But whoever was cooking these snacks and fries clearly made a big mistake.

This cook just couldn’t help themselves. They pea’d all over the kitchen floor! It’s going to take a while to clean up all that mess.

Okay, the guy who responded could have been a little more polite about it, but the person posing the question should really have known better. To make a recipe without nuts, you simply don’t add the nuts!

This weird meatloaf baby was never a good idea and will never be a good idea! Nobody wants to eat a bacon diaper, especially when it’s wrapped around such an ugly little creature.

You know you suck at cooking when frying pans start exploding right in front of your eyes! This probably happened because the lid was too big and the glass was in contact with the heat.

The whole of Mexico just shuddered at the sight of this awful plate of crackers and cheese trying to pass itself off as ‘nachos’.

This poor lady must have spent a long time preparing that tasty tomato sauce. At least the cat is having a good time!

They were expecting to make delicious fried mozzarella bites. Instead, they got a tray filled with melted, sticky cheese. It’s probably still pretty tasty though.

It’s usually pretty easy to tell if someone isn’t very experienced in the kitchen, especially if they do something really stupid like this! What did they think would happen by dumping a huge piece of brocolli in a pan like that?!

Imagine putting a pizza in the oven and getting hungrier as you smell the melted cheese filling the kitchen. Then, you open up the door of the oven and see this looking back at you! Instead of a delicious pizza dinner, you now have no food at all and a huge clean-up job to take care of.

Is the person who made this pizza from another dimension? Do they live in the ‘Upside Down’ from Stranger Things? Why would they possibly try to cook a pizza with the toppings facing down like that? So many questions and so few answers.

Plastic and high temperatures don’t usually work well together, as this poor guy found out. At least he made the effort to write an apology.

Looks like this person’s fiancé was really in the mood for cookies. They didn’t have any in the house, so they scooped out the little bits of cookie dough from some ice cream and made these super small cookie bites.

We don’t know about you, but we’d be scarred for life if we were innocently trying to make a smoothie and then this happened! How did the top of the Nutribullet end up in the ceiling like that?

At least this person did their best. And that’s just about the only good thing we can say about this awful monkey cake. Someone needs to just eat that thing as quickly as possible so we don’t have to look at it.

This dreadful cook was trying to make banana ghost pops. It’s a pretty simple recipe, honestly, but it still ended badly, with a plate full of banana mush as the ghosts all melted into each other.

It’s always frustrating when you can’t find a can opener, but there are a few different ways you can improvise to still get the can open and access the tasty goodness inside. This isn’t one of them. We hope whoever did this was super careful when touching that can. They turned it into a deathtrap!

Many people accidentally drop things into their cake mixes and cookie doughs, but it’s usually little things like an earring or bracelet, not a huge pair of glasses!

A guy’s girlfriend decided to cook some mac ‘n’ cheese for dinner as a treat. Unfortunately, she got it all wrong, making some kind of mac ‘n’ cheese cake instead!

We’ve all encountered a tough jar from time to time, with one of those lids that just won’t seem to move no matter how hard you try. It feels like even the Hulk himself couldn’t open it, and desperate times call for desperate measures…

We’ve heard of chocolate lava cake, but this is really going one step too far! Someone needs to turn off that oven and throw that thing in a bucket of ice.

Believe it or not, that bowl is filled with guacamole! The ‘chef’ thought it looked a bit yellow, so they decided to add some green food coloring to brighten it up a little. Now it just looks like ectoplasm.

It’s getting easier and easier for vegetarians and vegans to find great food in restaurants all over cities great and small, but it looks like this girl walked into the wrong place! All they could think to offer her as a vegan birthday cake was a single slice of banana!

Someone was just trying to make some fried eggs, but they wound up discovering extraterrestrial life right on their plate! Who would want to eat something that looks like that

You often see ‘life hack’ lists saying that a spoon balanced on top of a pot will prevent the water from overflowing. This person tried it, with no success!

Oh dear… This is why it’s always so important to read the label of everything you eat! Otherwise, you might end up like Dan here, chowing down on a beef-flavored doggie sundae.

This one started off nicely! The little chick heads were super cute to begin with, but then the oven just turned them all into one gigantic, mushy monstrosity.

Looks like someone has never seen a mango before! Somehow, they put a picture of an avocado on the mango flavor ice cream.

We have a feeling that this evil little thing probably isn’t exactly what the cook intended to make when they set out. They were probably hoping for a cute little hedgehog. Instead, they made something from a horror movie.

Here’s one more pizza disaster for the road! This person almost got everything right, but forgot the cutting board while putting the pizza in the oven, leading to molten plastic pouring all over the place.

It looks like an earthquake struck this kitchen, but it’s actually just the work of a very bad cook who should never be allowed in there ever again.

Oh dear… The intentions were good from this awful cook. They just wanted to make some cute smiley faces. Instead, they wound up with a plate of doomed souls from the pits of the underworld.

Cooking is a learning experience. The first time you try it, you’re probably not going to make a world class meal, but you slowly learn more and more from each new recipe. This lady, for example, learned a valuable lesson about not leaving knives (or any kind of cutlery!) in her pastry while making a strudel.

Looks like someone totally missed the point of what a hard boiled egg is supposed to be! They ate the shell too and naturally found the whole thing pretty ‘disgusting’ until someone pointed out their mistake.

These birds aren’t angry, they’re just disappointed. They were supposed to be cute and beautiful, but they turned out ugly and awful!

Some of these food failures should be thrown away and never thought of again, but some of them are still perfectly edible. Sure, these chocolate-coated kiwi slices don’t look great, but they’re probably still quite tasty.

How did this possibly happen!? This awful cook seems to have broken the rules of physics entirely. It must have taken a long time to clean up this chaotic mess.

Maybe we’re a little too ‘traditional’, but we believe mac ‘n’ cheese should be yellow. It should never, ever be rainbow-colored like this awful monstrosity! That’s just gross. And there’s way too much sauce too.