50 Cooking Fails That Are So Awful, They Might Just Permanently Ruin Your Appetite

    Well, look at that... I'm no longer hungry.

    Liz Richardson
    by Liz Richardson

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. These over-fried fried Oreos:

    2. This fried chicken that's so undercooked, it physically hurts to look at it:

    a hand holds up an undercooked piece of chicken
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    3. This literal ice cream sandwich that should be a crime:

    4. This homemade jello that belongs in a lab:

    a jar of jello
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    5. These dumplings from hell:

    6. This licorice cake that, unfortunately, does not resemble a cake at all:

    7. This clay bread:

    8. This terrifying brick oven pizza:

    9. This deconstructed spinach omelette:

    10. This rib-eye that had no business being in the microwave:

    11. These, uh, gingerbread cookies with icing:

    12. These spring rolls that simply didn't turn out OK:

    13. And this spring roll that's BEEN THROUGH IT:

    14. This nightmare fuel clown cake:

    15. This avocado toast that definitely should not be $7:

    16. This accidentally NSFW roast chicken:

    17. This burger patty that's so tiny, it's disrespectful:

    18. This Easter loaf hodgepodge featuring Spam, gelatin, and hard-boiled eggs:

    19. This baked potato that sprung a leak:

    20. This banana bread that resembles some sort of meat brick:

    21. This *fancy* charcuterie board:

    22. This mug cake that kinda imploded in the microwave:

    23. This grilled steak that went through days of torture:

    24. This hot sauce catastrophe:

    25. This VERY stuffed swan:

    26. This questionable teriyaki chicken:

    27. This garlic bread that's unrecognizably burnt:

    28. This cheese-wrapped pickle:

    29. This grilled cheese sandwich — without the cheese:

    30. The saddest-looking pancakes you'll ever see:

    31. This gingerbread house that might be haunted:

    32. This actual brick of pasta:

    33. This alien flatbread:

    34. These liquefied mashed potatoes:

    35. These air-fried chickens that are straight-up RAW:

    36. This steak that became ✨one✨ with the grill:

    37. This mac 'n' cheese attempt:

    38. This bun-less hot dog that I wouldn't want to eat at midnight:

    39. This Steve Harvey cake that's so bad, it's good:

    40. This fried rice that came out just a liiiittle mushy:

    41. This pasta-in-a-cup invention:

    42. This hard-boiled egg that gave birth to an entire human:

    43. These burgers that remind me of the Nasty Patty from SpongeBob:

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    side-by-side pictures of the burgers and the Nasty Patty
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    44. These very dangerous baked (read: ironed?) beans:

    45. This pizza that may *actually* have too much cheese:

    46. These creepy potato skins:

    47. This fancy-schmancy RED BULL cheese:

    48. This meme pizza that's kinda impressive but still terrifying:

    49. This pork shoulder taco that's, like, 50% sour cream:

    50. And finally, this pâté and hard-boiled eggs ✨specialty✨: